Stop Embarrassing Yourself
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- čas přidán 5. 06. 2024
- We all do things every once in a while that make us feel pretty freaking stupid. I put together a video to help decrease the number of times we do that in our lives.
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I'm Welsh and I can confirm the punching thing.
April Cave Its so annoying because people still think Ireland is part of the UK so whenever I say I'm Irish people always say "oh what's its like living in England?"
+Michelle Ginnane so...how is it living in England?
We even have our own language to prove it
+Michelle Ginnane
I think your should say you shouldn't say you're irish but that you are from the Republic of Ireland.
If someone came up to me and said:
-I'm irish.
I would reply
-Northern irish or irish irish?
+April Cave Punching is a bit weak more like a beating
"I'm not thinking about the game. I'm thinking about the failure of the American Education system"
This especially works in modern times.
+Mistergamer9892 Uh...huh? That's kinda what he was going for, mate.
That was like 5 years difference between the video and your comment
7 years later and I can tell you that this especially works in modern times as well
An intelligent reader knows that Frankenstein is not the monster.
A wise reader knows that Frankenstein is the monster.
This is deep stuff
As popular as that sentiment is to hold, it is false. Frankenstein made mistakes, but was not a monster.
Bobby H. this comment was copied. Check top comment.
Not really, you do not need to be an intelligent reader to know that the monster has no name because.... well that is what is written in the book.
This quote is usually given as:
Knowledge is knowing that Frankenstein was not the monster. Wisdom is knowing that Frankenstein was the real monster.
Whether this quote is true or not, is another matter entirely.
Affect= Action
Effect= End result
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Hallalujah
it's leviOsa not leviosA
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you are my favorite person right now.
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The thing about Alanis Morissette's 'Ironic' is that it's ironic because it is not ironic.
... BRILLIANT!
Then it is ironic now, so it is not not ironic so now it isnt so ironic.............and my mind hurts
@@simonelastname5182 Yeah, but most oh the lyrics aren't dramatic/situational irony either. Like, where's the irony in rain on your wedding day or a traffic jam when you're already late?
I'd like to ask 2010 Hank Green what he thinks of nauseous vs nauseated, because 2015 Hank Green thinks people who make that distinction are prescriptivist douchebags.
+Rob Mckennie what video was that?
HorseGirlSherr it was an episode of the podcast, I don't remember exactly which one. You might be able to skip through all the episodes to find where they talk about it, but I can't be more specific than that, I'm afraid.
+Rob Mckennie you have the brothers confused its John who said it didn't matter
Taylor Carmen I'd have to relisten to be sure, but I believe it was both of them. If you can give me the timestamp I'd be happy to go and listen over it again, but even if Hank said nothing about it, he certainly didn't tell John he was wrong.
Hank had asked him what the difference was between the 2. John was the one who says anyone who corrects you on that is just being a jerk and so on
I love that in another video he says that is doesn't matter how you pronounce GIF.
Also, remember language is fluid and changes. The most important thing is, that the other person understands you.
and grammar can change sentences.
Byro And punctuation.
Kim Hanson it is all confusing to me! Except programming syntax.
Actually, languages don't change, the words those languages use do. If languages changed, then NO ONE would understand you. If words change, then it's harder. But, words don't just change over a short period of time. It is supposed to take years and years of people using a word differently for it to change. Just using a word differently or making up a new word and using it for ten or so years IS NOT words evolving, it's just that person not caring to correct themselves. For example, the word "bad" used to be a word meaning "homosexual". However, after about 100 years of saying it, the word came to mean just anything that is unpleasant. Just like Darwinian Evolution, it isn't just a couple years and *BOOM* it's changed, it's MANY years and it's changed.
Languages do change... The words they use change faster, but grammar also changes and sometimes languages create new baby language or die out or influence each other. But yeah, to your point: a few people using something differently will be perceived as wrong. The majority using something differently consistently will result in that being considered right.
AND DON'T FORGET:
LIBRARY. I ALWAYS HEAR LIBARY, AND IT DRIVES ME UP THE WALL.
ME TOO I HATE THAT!!
I HATE UNNECESSARY CAPS!
Burt Rey That's fine and dandy, but no one told you to like or even comment on the post. Imagine that. :O
rip in peace
PISSES ME OFF
RIP in peace is actually a meme. But there are probably some stupid people out there who actually believe that it's correct.
chill man, it's a joke
*****
You mean like Deja vu all over again?
nilloc93 dude... it's a joke
Conversely, getting punched in Scotland requires much less effort and faux pas.
Something I've noticed is that on occasion, both John and Hank will get the "someone and I" thing wrong. Like for example, Hank might say "and that makes things extremely difficult for John and I" and I'm like, NOOOO, if you took John out of the sentence, you'd be saying "that makes things extremely difficult for I" which doesn't make any sense. It should be "me and John" or "John and me" in this case. The fact that both of them make this mistake quite regularly has made me think that maybe my understanding of the rule is wrong (because they're pretty smart and usually know about stuff like this) but I can't find any evidence of that...
Tom Makes Videos No, you're absolutely correct. This is the best trick to figuring out if you should say "I" or "me." But yes, too many people think that the only way to speak about another person + themselves is to use "I," and that's just not the case.
It is, if the two of you are the subject in the sentence. But in the example by Tom Norman you are not, therefore it should be "blank and me".
I'm Asian. I have to mispronounce things to fit my stereotype.
"If its to any constellation" I'm so glad I checked with google before I replied with that to my boss...
COULD CARE LESS MAKES ME SO MAD
ME TOO
Couldn’t care less
But really! I could care care less about your comment, but I couldn't.
You do NOT pronounce the "S" in "Illinois"!!!!!!
That is all.
Remus Lupin MOONY HELLO how are you??
Illinoisssssssss
Remus Lupin
When I was little and learning my state capitals, I pronounced Des Moines "Des Moan-es" and Arkansas "Ar-kan-sass" on purpose, just to annoy my parents.
also what is up with kansas and arkansas
I used to think epitome was pronounced like that, but after hearing people say it I understood.
One day, I volunteered to read To Kill a Mockingjay in class. I pronounced assuage as "a sausage".... My teacher laughed so hard she cried, and the rest of my class kept bringing it up the next day. :/
mocking bird
SASSAGE!
ffs I did not mean to type that... -__-
I often use the phrase 'could care less' however there is a reason; whilst theoretically I do mean 'couldn't care less', practically speaking, the fact that I feel it necessary to tell you how much I care means that, even if it is barely noticeable, I do in fact care a little bit, and so to say 'I couldn't care less' would be incorrect. Also, by saying 'could care less' I can often shift the subject of conversation away from the thing I care little for and on to grammar and technicality,which I will invariably enjoy more than whatever I didn't care much about...
That's an interesting way to think about it
When my sister and I read the HP series, both of us called Snape "snap".
Man, that snap was so mean....
You'll probably never read this Hank, but this would definitely take away the facade embarrassment. So my technology teacher in middle school had us do oral presentations at the end of the year in 8th grade. My friend had gotten a lumbar fracture in her back from dance, so she could not be in school for the last few weeks, when we were presenting. So my teacher did her presentation for her, so we could know what she had found out in her research. My friend had done her project on dance, and somewhere in the script she had written the word "forte." Probably one of the most embarrassing moments ever for my teacher, she said it as "fort" rather than "fortay." Unfortunately for her, she was presenting to a very smart and nerdy class of kids, who immediately, without thinking, all muttered in unison "forte, or it's forte not fort." At least you were a student making the mistake rather than a teacher Hank! :P
DFTBA!
Actually, it IS pronounced "fort" if she was referring to a strength or talent ("dancing is not my forte") instead of the musical term: czcams.com/video/xc6cfJztR8A/video.html
I don't know if she was actually aware of this or if it was an accident, but she wasn't wrong :/
@@junkemail585 yeah, I just looked it up too
@@junkemail585 I've just followed that link, then done some looking up of my own. The musical term Hank mentions means loud but came from the same Italian word that originally meant 'strong' with strong sound being, pretty much by definition, loud. The strong part of the sword is, well, strong. And your talent is also something you are, you guessed it, strong at. In other words it's really all one word from one origin, the latin 'fortis' meaning 'strong'. Whilst the talent/sword defintion came via the Middle French 'forte' and the musical term from the Italian 'forte', I can't see anything to show that Hank is correct in asserting that 'correct' English (or US English) requires different pronounciations for the slightly different types of 'strong' the word can convey.
@@MrDannyDetail Thanks for doing the research! My understanding was that even though, yes, the words have the same latin origin, since 'forte' evolved specifically from Middle French, not Italian, we should defer to the Middle French pronunciation: hence, 'fort'. But full disclosure, I've done a 180 from "insufferable pedant" to "hardcore linguistic descriptivist" in the four years since I made that comment, so I absolutely agree that 'fortay' can't be called 'incorrect'.
If the word forte was referring to a strength rather volume of music, then her pronounciation was correct and the classroom full of smart, nerdy kids was obnoxiously confident and wrong in judging her.
I thought the *ch* in _character_ was pronounced like the *ch* in _check_ for YEARS until How I Met Your Mother corrected me. God.
How I Met Your Mother can do that
So what you are saying is when you loose the game you release it into the atmosphere for others to catch, and thereby lose the game.
My grandmother would always pronounce Persephone as "Percy-phone" instead of "Per-seh-phon-ee". Similarly for Penelope, she would say "Penny-lope" instead of "Pen-ell-o-pee".
"Vica Versa!" I hate this one! It is VICE Versa! Gah that annoys me
Skip6235
Same!!!!
Ahhahhhahhh
As a joke, I spelled proficiency, "profishinsea" on a group powerpoint.
I forgot to take it out, but man that presentation was something else...
Fluxie I have done something like this before as well. Aishh it still stings.
As a Scotsman I thank you, Hank, for explaining one of the most annoying things we face when we are referred to as England by the USA. If we win independence I wonder if people would stop calling us England? probably not...
Over here it feels like the entire UK is "London". When I went to the UK for 21 days, 5 of which were spent in London and the rest in 5 other cities in England and Wales, and the focus of the trip was Birmingham, people back home asked "how was London?" meaning "how was your trip?"
So England? Scotland? Britain? First they need to distinguish a single city from the entire UK...
Actually, more countries refer to The UK as England (except, in their own languages) and that's why it's really annoying, since even people who translate movies/series into your native language they translate "I'm from the UK" as "I'm from England"
ailaG Or to make it more confusing: You talk about London or "The City of London" Wich is a City in a City in a Country (England) In a Country (the UK). As well there is Britten, great Britten, the UK of great Britten and Northern Ireland. (Forgot when it is called what, depending if The Canal Islands and the Colonies are counted in or not....)
Scotland, England, Wales, and Northern Ireland are the countries in the United Kingdom of Great BRITAIN not 'Britten'. the Republic of Ireland has been independent from the united kingdom from about 1922-1949 depending on how you look at it. Northern Ireland is still a part of the UK. London is the capital of England as well as the UK but each country has its own capitals such as Edinburgh in Scotland, Cardiff in Wales, and Belfast in Northern Ireland. The United Kingdom is NOT a country, it is a joining of the four countries under one monarch due the union of kings (house of Stuart) which was when the Scottish monarchy were heirs to the English throne. The house of Stuart is extinct now and we now have our monarchy descended from Hanover (house of Windsor/Saxe Coburg) which replaced them. Britain is more of the name of the entire island, it is in no way a name of a singular country. I don't know if North Americans know this, but Scotland is seeking its independence from the UK which will be decided in a referendum this year. If we win, please give us the common decency of acknowledging our existence. Actually, do so anyway!
Númenórean Daimyo Excellent summary. The only things I would add are that Britain does not contain ALL of Scotland, England or Wales, each constituent country having extra islands as part of their territory (e.g. Orkney, Bardsey, Isle of Wight).
Don't feel alone, Hank! I was two months into a graduate degree program at Harvard when I was finally corrected after saying "intensive purposes" for the first 24 years of my life. I so wish someone had been kind to me earlier in my lifetime. But alas... earwax.
I used to think "orgy" was pronounced with a hard "g"
Man, was I laughed at when I found out how wrong I was.
I mispronounce a lot of things but that's because I read more than I speak, so I know a lot of words that I've never had to say before.
I learn most of my words from reading, so it happens ALL the time...
My sister usually calls me out on it. Mispronounced 'wafted' once.
As embarrassing as it is, thank you for enlightening me about 'epitome'. I've been saying, "What the hell is this word?" for about two years now.
you should have said the difference between then and than
+Marcus James
Great point... Drives me nuts!
Absolutely!! That one drives me crazy when ppl use it wrong!
The Los Angeles Angels translates to the the angels angels.
YOU UNDERSTAND MY PAIN ABOUT AFFECT AND EFFECT OMG I LOVE YOU EVEN MORE.
I always said colonel as "Colon-L". My life is a lie.
Seriously. XDDD
Thank you. I am not sure if anyone else wax taught this way, but I was originally taught to read phonetically. So I read words as they are spelled. Unfortunetly I speak english. A language in whitch at least half of out words come from another language or dont follow our own rules (which were made up after they picked the spellings they liked. Thank you Webster). So I constantly miss pronounce words.
One of the many many reasons I hate public speaking.
Beacuzz Which witch is which?
You are not _allowed_ to spell _allowed_ as _aloud_
No silence here. It's not aloud.
Pronounced 'famine' like 'fame-mine' as both of those words are normally pronounced, but I was 7 and reading scripture in church and everyone definitely thought it was adorable.
The RAS syndrome strikes again!
The Redundant Acronym Syndrome.... syndrome.
I think in general people who mispronounce words should not be made fun of, because it means they learned words doing their own reading.
Should have mentioned "lay" vs. "lie". I've been surprised at how many literate seeming people who can use the right "your" and "there" screw this one up.
Ive been binge watching all hank and john's videos and its absolutely amazing how much they have both changed & grown while also ceasing to change. Theyve definitely both grown and im so happy for them and their families. Its truely beautiful that from their recent videos all the way to this one and even earlier videos, 8 years difference, their fundamental personality hasnt changed very much, but they have learned and grown so much with the trials of life.
To Hank & John:
Im so grateful for both of your presences here on CZcams. Im very thankful for all the knowledge and lessons you fine gentlemen have tought me through the years. Really.. Thank you!
Affect is the Action, Effect is the End result is how I remember it.
What about those comments on comedic videos?
"I can't breath!"
Breathe- the action of breathing, or taking a BREATH
Breath- a varying capacity of air
I try not to be judgmental when someone mispronounces a word. I assume that they learned it reading, like I have with many words, and how could that be a bad thing. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
"I dont know what 'Intensive purposes are" after TWELVE FUCKING YEARS I still hear that in my head every time someone says it
I spent a big part of my life thinking that "Beatrice" was pronounced beat-rice. I've had better days.
Omg yes!!!
I have a friend who mispronounces stuff all the time. Usually, it's a word that actually has two pronunciations with different meanings. We correct him every time, and he forgets anyway, which just makes him the butt of many jokes. He takes it in stride.
The funniest I have was done by my brother. So we were at my french grandmother's house when she gave him the glass of wine she'd just poured. Trying to be polite, he meant to say "Merci beaucoup" (pronounced mercy bough - coo) meaning thank you very much, but instead said "Merci beau cul" (kinda pronounced like Q but not? Idk how to describe it) cul means ass. So he basically told our grandmother that she had a nice ass. X)
Thank you, beautiful ass.
And THAT is how you get blotted off the family tree. Or if you marry a muggle-born.
Bree Bailey ......Or just make a bunch of half drunk relatives laugh and bring it up at later parties...
Bree Bailey At least he didn't say "mercy buttercups" as I've heard in Texas.
steve cannon Whoa, that's a thing!? _Dammit, Texas!_
I hate when people say literally when they mean metaphorically you are not "literally dying" unless your heart has stopped pumping and your brain is dead you are "metaphorically dying"
You couldn't care less = It's not possible to care less than how much (or in this case less) you cared = It's the nadir of caring.
We used to piss off our 10th grade English teacher by pronouncing Antigone "Anti-gone"; we knew how to pronounce it correctly but it was much more funny watching her lose her shit. I, also, had to correct a different English teacher when he mispronounced hyperbole (#depressing).
I had only ever seen "Toupee" written, and thought it was "To pee" in pronunciation. When my dad heard it, it was all "To pee or not to pee, THAT is the the question.."
Simple answer: to NOT pee will eventually result in a bladder infection.
...so PEEE!!!
xD XD XD OK THEN
Haha!
It bugs me the most when you're professor asks you to read something in the class, and everytime the world "causal" comes up, they always say "casual". EVERY SINGLE TIME.
Yet nobody says anything. It bugs me so much.
James Welch Umm... just spelling, not pronunciation, but it's "your". Y'know, while we're all being pedantic for fun and geekery. ;)
+James Welch Also I think it is 'word' not 'world' :D
I think "I could care less" is more correct. You need to remember that the goal of both of these phrases is to denote the lowest possible amount of care. Also keep in mind that neither of these phrases imply an initial amount of care, only the other amounts of care that are available or not available in addition to the initial amount of care. So assume for a second, that you start out with a medium amount of care. Under the phrase "I could not care less", your amount of care can only be medium, no lower (it might be possible for your amount of care to be higher, but whether your amount of care can be higher is not mentioned in either phrase, so I'll assume a higher amount of care to be forbidden in both phrases). Under the phrase, "I could care less", your amount of care can be medium, but it can also be anything less than medium. Assuming you start with a medium level of care, it's possible for you to have the smallest amount of care under the phrase, "I could care less", but not the phrase "I could not care less".
One time, a girl in my science class did a presentation on neon lights as in neon signs when she was supposed to be doing a presentation of Aurora Borealis, the "neon lights." She literally made a power point that said, "Aurora Borealis: a glass bulb or tube containing neon at low pressure that gives a pink or red glow when a voltage is applied."
The one I hate the most is "should of", instead of "should have". I actually cringed writing it...
What I don't think people realise is that (at least where I'm from) it's not "Should Of" it's "Should 've" a contraction instead of a different word.
I think the reason why people say "I could care less" is that they're trying to say "I wish I could care less" (which they'll hear all the time), but just dropped the first part (and they didn't stop to think about what they're saying).
Knowledge is not the same as wisdom. Knowledge means knowing that Frankenstein was not the monster. Wisdom means knowing that, in fact, he actually was
"Ask" being pronounced like "aks" bothers me to no end. There are a few others that I can't think of at the moment.
I kept telling my desk partner that "hearth" was not pronounced "herth" and everyone kept laughing at me. I then proceeded to take out my iPad and showed them a video about the pronunciation of hearth. Suck it, desk partner.
When I was 11 I didn't get out much or talk to people much and saw a Chicago Bulls hat on a field trip, and I asked my entire class what "chick-a-go" was
I think it's sad that I haven't seen this video in two or three years, yet I can quote it word for word.
I've never made this mistake before to my knowledge, but every time I type the word 'song', I double-check before sending it that I haven't typed 'snog' instead.
Never be offended or embarrassed if some one corrects your pronunciation of a word, and never feel superior when you correct someone else. Sometimes when people mispronounce words, it's because they learned them through reading instead of speech, and failed to make the connection with the word they hear, like when I pronounced epitome as epi-tome after reading an article which I then told my mother about. Ever since then, I've corrected people's pronunciation but in a non-condescending way. Like you, I APPRECIATE it when someone saves me from further embarrassment.
I used to never be able to remember when to use affect and when to use effect... It was terrible. Now, I can remember the difference using this: Affect = Action. Effect = End Result.
I said "err" phonetically for years until someone finally corrected me. :-(
Same
Don't beat yourself up. To err is human.
Kara Hill hahaha nice
Remus Lupin
:P thanks!
I feel cheated because I'll never know number 4. :c
me neither D:
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
Uumm...
I think about this video a lot and it's genuinely helped me in life. Thanks, Hanks.
I'm very socially anxious, so whenever I say something that doesn't make sense and seems stupid I have a tendency to beat the hell out of myself over it. Any time I'm embarrassed about something like that I feel like setting myself on fire. I obsess about it for weeks, sometimes months. I tend to ruminate over various instances like it and get really, really down on myself.
Lingerie. I'm not a native speaker so this word was super confusing for me untill one of my friends told me that it was pronounced like "langeray" like 3 weeks ago.
"LAHN-zhuh-ray". Keep working on it.
Yeah, yeah. I'm not that great with spelling either.
My all time most embarrassing word mispronounced was facade too!! Change topic: I worked for the IRS. We mistakenly let a particularly illiterate manager write an apology note to a taxpayer (who really wasn't paying his taxes but we didn't have a word for the opposite of taxpayer). So this note, our manager wrote "I am applied at how taxpayers treat auditors". Let's ignore this manager had no clue what an apology meant. She wrote "applied" when she meant "appalled" embarrassing the Federal Government! The we before 2016 when we have a new kind of Low to define embarrassment.
And if I repair something with glue (or something along the lines), I say "that'll hold, barring all intensive purposes." It's depressing how seldom people get the joke.
I live in India and in our biology class our teacher kept pronouncing foetus not as 'fe-tus' but 'fo-e-tus' and then he also asked us to prepare a speech on the topic 'stop female foeticide' I pronounced 'foetus' as 'fe-tus' but my classmates and teaches thought that I was wrong when in reality they were wrong in pronouncing it as 'fo-e-tus'
Kid in my class dad to do a presentation on the peasant revolt. The entire time he called it the pheasant revolt.
My friend was describing a book about a person who stole and set free a bunch of peasants from a rich guy by drugging them and causing them the pass-out and picking them up and putting them in a car. It took me a while to work out she meant pheasants.
First vlogbrothers video I ever watched :D so glad to be part of Nerdfighteria
7 Years later, I still reference and promote this video.
Not a mispronunciation, but I once referred to the language I speak as “American”. No, I wasn’t being silly, I thought for a moment that that was what English was called. In my defense I’d been awake for like over 30 hours and I corrected myself immediately. But yeah, the words “I can only speak American” did come out of my mouth.
That's nothing. I once told someone I was learning German and she responded "Oh cool. Will you still speak human afterwards too?"
NUKE YA LER NUKE LEAR
Sooo true! In Wales we hate it when people say we are English. Once in Germany, we were talking to this nice lady who ran a B&B- she asked where we lived and we replied "Wales". Her reply? "Oh yeah, Wales in England," Sad face. :(
Oh, and on a side note, a good way to remember affect/effect is the acronym RAVEN: Remember- Affect = Verb, Effect = Noun.
Although, of course, that means you have to be able to work out if you're using a verb or a noun.
The video that made me a nerdfighter! It's been a great 6 years- looking forward to whatever comes next:)
You should have put "should of" on this list too.
pet peeve: people using 'of' instead of 'have.' example: "I would of liked that." ugh.
“Great Britain is an island that contains three *bump* autonomous ~ ow~ countries” will never not make me laugh 😂
you included the Isle of Man on the map! I'm so happy!
I once mispronounced beret multiple times in a presentation.
I did the exact same thing! It was bad. 0_0
But Frankenstein's monster thinks of Victor as a his father, so calling him Frankenstein is like calling you (Hank that is) just 'Green'. Also, the monster is known as 'the monster', 'the creature' and, if I'm not mistaken, 'Adam'
So the creature's name is Adam Frankenstein! That is excellent. I guess in the 50's and 60's in the US he would have had to pronounce it "Adam FrankenSTEEN" to avoid the German association. Tho to be honest, that would probably have been the least of his troubles.
Do they ever say what Dr. Frankenstein's first name is?
Shining Armor Victor.
Ok thanks
Adam doesn't think of Victor as his father!!!! possibly at the very beginning of the novel but beyond that... no way!
oh, how i love anything related to linguistics.. thank you both for all of your amazing videos over the years..
0:44 Quick correction that no one seems to realize. Frankenstein's monster in the original novel named himself Adam and described himself as Victor Frankenstein's son. Thus, his name would be Adam Frankenstein. This means it's totally reasonable to refer to him as Frankenstein as that is his name.
paradigm....i said "pair a dig um" once....its "pair a dime" shame
No. It's "PA-ruh-dime", as in "PA-ris".
...sorry I never studied how to properly write phonetics?
It's not how you wrote it... It's actually a different sound. Paradigm isn't started with "pair/pear", it has a short "a", as in "carrot" or "Paris".
How the hell is ATM machine redundant? There is no "machine" in "ass to mouth."
rekt
+Bolshevik Spaceman Yes
You asked for examples?
When my siblings and I were younger, we pronounced quality "koala-tee" and my parents had SUCH a hard time training us out of it (but it was their fault for repeating it because they thought it was funny and we took that mean it was correct... oops).
Once, my parents were on a bus and a lady exclaimed "What rudety!" in a tone of great affront. They thought this was hilarious and picked it up as a joke. My sister thought it was right and used it unironically for years.
Merely as MURR-ly, escapism as ESS-ca-pism, pronunciation as pronounciation, and countless others I can't remember off the top of my head.
it is not siphon like syphilis, it's siphon like psychic. it's not decisive like deceive, it's decisive like decide.
My old pastor did a whole sermon on the biblical character Amos. But he didn't call him Amos, he called him Anus. For a whole hour and a half long sermon, he said Anus instead. I also was in a european history class and we had to do presentations, I was in the Russian history group, I had phonetic spellings in my notes so I would pronounce things right, but everyone else didn't.
When I started learning at age 4, I saw it as a rather simple process, a bit like figuring out a 10-piece jigsaw puzzle. It may take a few seconds, but It CAN be figured out.
I thought this way until I looked at a map of the world and wondered what in the holy macaroni was an O-KEAN (phonetically speaking) - O-C-E-A-N - hard C - soft C would be "O-seen" or, if you know someone by the name, "O-Shawn", given Sean Connery pronounces his name that way.
My AP English teacher once told my class that in college, he was rather pedantic in that he learned things--especially words--through books, and not experience. This resulted in him thinking he knew how to say the word 'acquiesce.' In English his sophomore year, his class was talking about some classic novel or other, which I can't remember, but that's beside the point. Long story short, he raised his hand and said, "I think it shows So-and-So's meek personality when in Such-and-Such a Chapter, he akweesed to Such-a-One's wishes."
Some of my classmates still haven't stopped teasing him.
I never had a problem with "effect" vs. "affect" before I saw this video...thanks Hank.
Well... for all the intensive purposes I could care less about you're corrections.
There in no way important to me, and therefore this video won't have any affect in my current understanding of the English language.
RIP in peace anyone who decided to read my comment.
PS: I'm actually surprised you haven't mentioned how people mess up with "you're/your" "there/their/they're".
Stuff like those don't deserve mentioning. People making those mistakes are beyond help.
OMG THEY KILLED KENNY! just like Cookie Dynamics who said "there" instead of "they're"
And Cookie Dynamics R.I.P means 'Rest in Peace' so you literally said "Rest in peace in peace".
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Sheldon, please practice your sarcasm detection. The joke clearly went way over your head there, friend.
Yes, I did those mistakes... but I did them on purpose.
Here are the mistakes from the post: "intensive purposes", "could care less", "you're corrections", "there in no way", "have any affect" and "RIP in peace".
Cookie Dynamics, I would appreciate it if you would forgive me for not detecting sarcasm for it is difficult to detect it in a youtube comment.
I apologise for the misunderstanding and that I was quite rude about it.
Cookie Dynamics At least someone is smart enough to know and correct mistakes. I salute you, sir.
How didn't you mention RIP in peace?
That's just a joke, not a mistake.
No, people are generally dumb enough to think that's the correct way, trust me, i've seen it all too often
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This is now my favourite video on the internet
'If you're in a pub in Wales and say "Gee guys I love it here in England!" They will punch you in the face.'
So true!
I was looking up this video and spelled "embarrassing" wrong in the process. Whoops.
I always spell desiccate wrong - dessicate