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Jesse - Mar 23, 2011 9:44:44 am PDT #29823 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

inchoate Mamet(As in David) Talking about David Ma*may* was way more embarrassing cause I actually said it out loud and thought I was slick, besides.

I still don't know how to pronounce "inchoate"! Luckily, I don't know how to use it in a sentence, either. And I'm not sure about Mamet, but I've definitely done that kind of thing with other people/words.

Polter-Cow - Mar 23, 2011 9:46:01 am PDT #29824 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

I still don't know how to pronounce "inchoate"!

in-KOH-ut

lisah - Mar 23, 2011 9:47:16 am PDT #29825 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate

It's totally in-KOH-ate in my head.

hippocampus - Mar 23, 2011 9:48:04 am PDT #29826 of 30001
not your mom's socks.

So, which words did you mispronounce and how embarrassing was it when you were corrected?

Schuykill, Conshohocken, Bala Cynwyd, Manayunk, Gladwyne... growing up in Philly will mess you up.

Fell's Point was hard too - Thames Street is pronounced with a "Th".

Jesse - Mar 23, 2011 9:48:16 am PDT #29827 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Yeah, I'm still 90% sure it will never be anything but like at the prep school in my head. In Choate!

Atropa - Mar 23, 2011 9:48:48 am PDT #29828 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Oh and "macabre." Ultimately you need to watch a lot of overblown horror parodies until you've heard "Master of the Macabre" to get it right.

In my head, it's still mahCAHbrah. Still.

Zenkitty - Mar 23, 2011 9:51:12 am PDT #29829 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

I would probably have said "David Ma*may*" too, erika!

Allyson - Mar 23, 2011 9:52:53 am PDT #29830 of 30001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

The book I'm reading right now, Being Wrong

Holy crap, I'm reading this: [link]

We should compare notes.

It struck me after watching Phil Plait's Don't Be a Dick talk, where he asks, "how many of you were ever convinced you that you were wrong about something by someone who called you a moron?"

And I thought, "I am guilty of this all day."

I keep trying, and failing, to be more like Jilli.

Sue - Mar 23, 2011 9:53:57 am PDT #29831 of 30001
hip deep in pie

Apparrently I've been pronouncing inchoate wrong all these years. But I have never heard it pronounced the way y'all claim it is.

ETA: Okay, Cambridge dictionary says "in-co-ate". Phew, I'm good. [link]

mahCAHbrah

Is that wrong? I'm starting to think I don't know how to pronounce anything!

Consuela - Mar 23, 2011 9:56:34 am PDT #29832 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Allyson, that's so funny! I picked it up because I discovered this blog [link] that the writer was posting on Slate, and it looked pretty cool.

I just started it, and so far it's mostly been philosophy and the history of science: I hope it gets more entertaining soon.

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