EPTWords Gamers Mispronounce - Page 7
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GreEny K
Germany7312 Posts
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MadVillain
United States402 Posts
On September 19 2010 23:29 Swede wrote: Or you could exercise some self-control and respond to his post WITHOUT going off at him. Until then your credibility is on the line. If you want anyone that's educated to think that you, too, might be educated, well, you should get your head out of the sand and show us why you are right. Otherwise you too could just be spouting misinformation. Good post. Chex Mix you need to explain yourself like Zoroth. As far as I can tell you expect people to take your information as the set-in-stone standard. Zoroth gave some reason as too why you're wrong and you need to either: shut up, or explain your argument. You're just a glorified troll right now. | ||
alffla
Hong Kong20321 Posts
On September 20 2010 01:22 GreEny K wrote: How the hell does Nony turn to noony? Im sticking with No-knee no matter how much it pisses you off. yeah and how is tyler teeler man. should bel ike tyler durden and stuff . | ||
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FiWiFaKi
Canada9859 Posts
On September 19 2010 18:15 grobo wrote: I swear half of the SC players said Statis instead of Stasis. Holy shit, that's mind games right there. That was a nice one. | ||
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Seltsam
United States343 Posts
English actually does follow a pretty strict set of phonetic rules, strictly speaking. The only reason there are "accepted alternate pronunciations" is because so many people mispronounce them that it's actually easier just to change the rules. Of course, that means that there are all kinds of crazy exceptions now because everyone just pronounces everything however they want. Of course, names and things are kind of subjective (Nony, Tyler, etc.) but things that are actual words (like "zealot") should really follow the rules of pronunciation. | ||
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keV.
United States3214 Posts
I always try and pronounce things correctly. My mom always had a massive vocabulary that I envied and messing up a word in front of her always led to embarrassment. I'm a little surprised by aegis. The etymology, if you will of "ae" is confusing. Blame the vikings. | ||
]343[
United States10328 Posts
"progammer" / "programmer" (though the latter provides much lulz) for progamer "zelot" / "merine" etc. etc. "pheonix" "phyton / pythong" on iccup LOL | ||
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Subversive
Australia2229 Posts
–noun 2. a person who overemphasizes rules or minor details. 3. a person who adheres rigidly to book knowledge without regard to common sense. | ||
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Metalwing
Turkey1038 Posts
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King K. Rool
Canada4408 Posts
Wow. Aegis just became a lot less of a legendary word and much more toilet humoured. | ||
Excalibur_Z
United States12248 Posts
On September 19 2010 17:39 Chex Mix wrote: Centrifugal Pronounced: [sen-trif-uh-guhl], [sen-trif-yuh-guhl] Commonly mispronounced: [sen-tri-fyoo-guhl] From: StarCraft 2 Melee Pronounced: [mey-ley] Commonly mispronounced: [muh-lee], [mee-lee] From: Lots of games Contributed by SUSUGAM. I've heard British and Aussie players say "centrifyoogal" and "muh-LEE", it's just a dialect issue and not wrong as long as you're not transposing dialects. | ||
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Recidivist
United Kingdom62 Posts
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Ghostcom
Denmark4783 Posts
On September 20 2010 01:50 keV. wrote: Good thread, though I think it has a more "You're dumb" vibe as opposed to a "Do better" feel. I always try and pronounce things correctly. My mom always had a massive vocabulary that I envied and messing up a word in front of her always led to embarrassment. I'm a little surprised by aegis. The etymology, if you will of "ae" is confusing. Blame the vikings. The word stems from Greek, the vikings aren't to blame for that one... | ||
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Cel.erity
United States4890 Posts
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SiguR
Canada2039 Posts
And i'm not referring to the nony/tyler inside jokes. For example, If you want maelstrom pronounced as maelstrum, put the accent over the o. Maelstrom without the accent is pronounced mayl-strohm.. A few of the others ones are off as well, and some come down to dialect. | ||
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SONE
Canada839 Posts
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Zerksys
United States569 Posts
On September 19 2010 18:12 Chex Mix wrote: I am aware that most people on either side of the Atlantic pronounce centrifugal incorrectly, including you. Pronunciations vary from region to region. CentriFUgal is how everyone pronounces it around my region. It may be different where you live, but again don't tell people what is the proper way to pronounce things. | ||
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Reason
United Kingdom2770 Posts
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R0YAL
United States1768 Posts
The tee-lur one made me laugh  | ||
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semantics
10040 Posts
=p Language is language although one can argue that the mispronunciation of these words leads to a degradation of a language, i rather say that it leads to the evolution. Words change over time in meaning and pronunciation as long as people understand what you mean in the end i say it counts. There are also accents to take into account, given the differences between American and Queens English alone there are quite a few differences. If you throw in the diverse background of everyone in this thread in the end as along as we can all communicate our points nothing is lost, but only everything is gained. | ||
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