My favorite is Chartres because everyone wants it to be pronounced the French way.
Do you know Kara refused to call Saban SAY-bun? It was SAH-bahn.
You'd never make it. I'd rip your spine out before you got half a step. Those little legs wouldn't be much good without one of those.
Glory ,'The Killer In Me'
Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Daisy Jane - Mar 23, 2011 11:10:51 am PDT #29894 of 30001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Polter-Cow - Mar 23, 2011 11:10:52 am PDT #29895 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Right, on Mad Men? "Sinjin"?
More like, in Jane Eyre.
§ ita § - Mar 23, 2011 11:11:40 am PDT #29896 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
St. John Ffeatherstonehaugh. Now, that's a name.
Nora Deirdre - Mar 23, 2011 11:11:59 am PDT #29897 of 30001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
My favorite is Chartres because everyone wants it to be pronounced the French way.
To be honest, I'm still unclear on that one. I tend to mumble it if I need to say it.
lisah - Mar 23, 2011 11:12:30 am PDT #29898 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate
Right, on Mad Men?
Jane Eyre!
hippocampus - Mar 23, 2011 11:13:04 am PDT #29899 of 30001
not your mom's socks.
Jane Eyre!
lord I love me some buffista brains.
Frankenbuddha - Mar 23, 2011 11:14:13 am PDT #29900 of 30001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Jane Eyre!
Pronouced Eye-ray.
Or Throatwarblermangrove.
Daisy Jane - Mar 23, 2011 11:14:36 am PDT #29901 of 30001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Char-ters, but usually once you've factored in the accent it tends to be more along the lines of CHAW-das.
Burrell - Mar 23, 2011 11:15:44 am PDT #29902 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
The name St. John only made sense to me when I imagined the speaker Francophiling it.
le nubian - Mar 23, 2011 11:22:40 am PDT #29903 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
When I was in grad school, I was a participant in a linguistics grad student's study. I don't know how it came out, but I essentially had to talk to her for an hour and she asked me where I was from and where my parents were from.
I am certain I had (have?) a set of fucked up pronunciations because I speak in part slang/part west coast/part southern/part east coast. And my slang is all over the place from different ethnicities (I literally will say "bomb diggety" and "chisme" in the same sentence).
I guarantee I'm pronouncing stuff wrong and probably do so on a daily basis.
My favorite word to mispronounce?
allegory. I know how to pronounce it, but I will mispronounce it like nobody's bidness. All the time.