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.
Everything looks good from here... Yes. Yes, this is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... 'This Land.' I think we should call it 'your grave!' Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal! Ha ha HA! Mine is an evil laugh! Now die! Oh, no, God! Oh, dear God in heaven!
Wash ,'Serenity'
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.
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)
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.
Jesse - Mar 23, 2011 11:24:42 am PDT #29904 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I also mispronounced a lot of British words but that's their fucking fault. "Gloucester" is Gloster? Fuck you for tricking me on purpose, England! "Worcestshire" is Wurstersheer? WTF?
I totally argued with javachik on the spelling of Gloucester. I was like, "It's totally pronounced the way it's spelled!" which it sort of is, if you agree that "glouce" would be pronounced "gloss."
DavidS - Mar 23, 2011 11:26:48 am PDT #29905 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
if you agree that "glouce" would be pronounced "gloss."
Finishing putting on your lip glouce and we'll talk about it.
Jesse - Mar 23, 2011 11:28:10 am PDT #29906 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I'm just saying!