• Hackerman_uwu@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    10
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    8 months ago

    You can tell someone grew up reading amongst troglodytes this way.

    No one only family read, I was forty years of age having a very Oscar from The Office discussion about ISIS and mispronounced “apostasy”. I still lie awake cringing over that sometimes.

    • graff@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      8
      ·
      8 months ago

      Mispronouncing a word is not a bad thing. It means you read it somewhere before

    • nifty@lemmy.worldOP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      7
      ·
      8 months ago

      Mispronouncing words isn’t really a big deal, just blame it on English being a tricky language (it is). Tbh no one would even remember such a thing, so I don’t recommend being sleepless about it :)

      • Hackerman_uwu@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        5
        ·
        edit-2
        8 months ago

        You’re very kind.

        My colleague actually corrected me to the person I was speaking to: “He means “apostacy””. I died.

      • aidan@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        8 months ago

        Where I live something like 1 in 3 people can’t pronounce ř, including the most most famous president

    • droans@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      8 months ago

      I grew up reading and mispronouncing a lot of words. But my family is pretty smart. Both parents are CPAs, one brother is a lawyer, another works in benefits, two sisters are teachers, and I’m a Financial Analyst.