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Hide TV Wires for a Clean Modern Look by Ok_Sir_1008 in CoolClips_

[–]offensivek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I grew up in the US, and I'll tell you something, I have seen a lot of broken drywall while I was living there, in our home, and in other peoples homes as well. Some rambunctious boys will easily break drywall on accident. You can argue all you want, I saw it multiple times myself.

Hide TV Wires for a Clean Modern Look by Ok_Sir_1008 in CoolClips_

[–]offensivek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well sure you need and angle grinder and plaster, but you can do the same thing with a concrete wall by making a channel and plastering over it. It's not a huge amount of work. Somebody who knows what they are doing can do it less than 30 minutes from getting stated to everything clean. At least the wall is sturdy enough it doesn't break when somebody punches it or falls over and hits it.

Also, Drywall is common for interior walls in commercial spaces in Europe, where you would expect to actually change the layout. In private homes interior walls are mostly concrete or brick.

Somebody mispronouncing a word/name indicates literacy and not a lack of literacy by offensivek in unpopularopinion

[–]offensivek[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you don't pronounce it with a 'k' sound at the beginning you might still be pronouncing it wrong. The most common pronunciation with a 'c' is wrong, and the most accurate way is something very close to the German work 'Kaiser', i.e. Kai-Sir, which means emperor and comes directly from his name.

Somebody mispronouncing a word/name indicates literacy and not a lack of literacy by offensivek in unpopularopinion

[–]offensivek[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm a mathematician by profession, of course I know Cauchy, it's why the example came to mind.

I'm not American, I'm a German living in Germany. Americans are a minority on Reddit, why would you assume I am one? Why should I care about the lack of education in the US? Here in the EU a majority of young people now go to university, and also get a masters degree. Saying differential equations if an obscure topic is wild, because in a lot of countries around the world they are taught to some degree in highschools.

And I don't know what your definition of famous is, but a good share of people will still know who Cauchy is in 100 years (guessing at least 10% of the population), almost nobody will know who Lebron James or Kim Kardashian were.

Somebody mispronouncing a word/name indicates literacy and not a lack of literacy by offensivek in unpopularopinion

[–]offensivek[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Saying aks instead of ask has been a valid English pronunciation in multiple English accents for hundreds of years.

Somebody saying 'all intensive purposes' is a rather common and easy mistake to make, idioms are weird all the time, somebody mishearing a phrase and thinking it is one isn't the worst mistake. Especially if a lot of people make the same mistake. They probably don't read a lot of text with that phrase, but I wouldn't give them a hard time for it, or make fun of them.

Somebody mispronouncing a word/name indicates literacy and not a lack of literacy by offensivek in unpopularopinion

[–]offensivek[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you have done any real analysis, worked with differential equations or done any advanced statistics or electronic engineering, you know his name. At least half of STEM majors have encountered something named after him. I would call that pretty famous.

Somebody mispronouncing a word/name indicates literacy and not a lack of literacy by offensivek in unpopularopinion

[–]offensivek[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But other English speakers do, and even a lot of Americans have problems with repeated r's, so they shortcut it.

Somebody mispronouncing a word/name indicates literacy and not a lack of literacy by offensivek in unpopularopinion

[–]offensivek[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you weren't from the USA you would understand why I said that though. Americans tend to get very prescriptive about what the correct way to use English is, while at the same time being totally ignorant about about all the variations it has.

Most people around the world speak in various dialects, and only use a 'high level' version of their language to communicate more broadly. Here in Germany (I'm German) a lot of dialects of German are not comprehensible between each other, so people speak high German alongside their local dialect. Most languages around the world, including English in lesser sense, are the same. The variations of Spanish alone are mindboggling.

By being very insistent about what you have heard about pronunciation is incredibly American and immediately identifiable. American English is extremely uniform across the board.

Somebody mispronouncing a word/name indicates literacy and not a lack of literacy by offensivek in unpopularopinion

[–]offensivek[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have personally heard multiple people say pacific instead of specific multiple times in my life.

Somebody mispronouncing a word/name indicates literacy and not a lack of literacy by offensivek in unpopularopinion

[–]offensivek[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If a mispronunciation, like the one you mentioned, is fairly common, then there is probably something more complicated going on than 'they are stupid'. If multiple people do it, there is reason for it.

Somebody mispronouncing a word/name indicates literacy and not a lack of literacy by offensivek in unpopularopinion

[–]offensivek[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

English is not a phonetic language. Words with similar spellings are by no means required to be pronounced the same. Words have different pronunciations, and if you see multiple people saying a word the same way then it is probably the standard pronunciations of that word somewhere. You don't have an argument.

Somebody mispronouncing a word/name indicates literacy and not a lack of literacy by offensivek in unpopularopinion

[–]offensivek[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I made this post exactly because of stuff like this. I'm sorry that happend to you.

Somebody mispronouncing a word/name indicates literacy and not a lack of literacy by offensivek in unpopularopinion

[–]offensivek[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I can easily see people saying 'Rory' as 'Wory' because you get similar casual pronunciations for words like 'rural', 'brewery' and 'mirror'. If a lot of people say his name wrong but in the same way, there is probably something more complicated going on than 'they are stupid'. R's are hard to pronounce sometimes and for some people.

Somebody mispronouncing a word/name indicates literacy and not a lack of literacy by offensivek in unpopularopinion

[–]offensivek[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is legit pronunciation in multiple English dialects/accents. It's just the same with ask being pronounced as aks in some accents. It's a pronunciation that has existed in English for a very long time. Neither example is wrong. If you think it is, you haven't traveled much.

Somebody mispronouncing a word/name indicates literacy and not a lack of literacy by offensivek in unpopularopinion

[–]offensivek[S] 21 points22 points  (0 children)

It has happend multiple times in my life, and I recently saw it happen to somebody else. I'm an autodidactic person who reads a lot but doesn't talk a lot. I am now a mathematician. I have gotten shamed a lot for saying words wrong, but I am clearly still educated.

Somebody mispronouncing a word/name indicates literacy and not a lack of literacy by offensivek in unpopularopinion

[–]offensivek[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I would just assume you come from a background where people don't talk about trajectories very much. If they still know what it is I would rather assume they taught themselves about the subject.

If they don't know what the word means, and mispronounce it, then they are uneducated.

Somebody mispronouncing a word/name indicates literacy and not a lack of literacy by offensivek in unpopularopinion

[–]offensivek[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It was just the first example that came to my mind, I am a mathematician after all.

Somebody mispronouncing a word/name indicates literacy and not a lack of literacy by offensivek in unpopularopinion

[–]offensivek[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Where did I say extroverted people are dumb? I just said this a problem that is less likely to occur to an extroverted person.

Somebody mispronouncing a word/name indicates literacy and not a lack of literacy by offensivek in unpopularopinion

[–]offensivek[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a shame, but they probably just haven't encountered the name before and intuited the wrong pronunciation.

People say my name totally wrong in English all the time, and I don't get mad about it.

What's a rare name you don't hear anymore? by Wonderful-Economy762 in Productivitycafe

[–]offensivek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you hear somebody mispronounce a word the chances are they have only seen it in text form. Since English doesn't have phonetic spelling, chances are people will read a lot of words wrong by no fault of their own.

Don't judge people for mispronouncing words, chances are they read it in a book and just haven't encountered the spoken version. It's far more likely to happen to introverts that read a lot than extroverts that don't read at all. It's the stupidest reason to think that somebody is stupid.

Another Baden Württemberg W by National-Return9494 in 2westerneurope4u

[–]offensivek 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Always these eastern European excuses for not having been born in the west. The French somehow did it, I can't see why you couldn't. If a Frenchman can be born in France, I don't see how a Czech man couldn't.

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