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| Posted by: Division56 Jun 12 2004, 12:40 AM |
| Does anyone here have great shame about mis-pronouncing words? I could probably list every word I've mispronounced for the last year or so. It isn't because it's only a few, it's that it upsets me so. |
| Posted by: Vagabond Jun 12 2004, 12:58 AM |
| Of course. It is even worse than misspelling, I think. Even if I put the stressing on the wrong syllabe (which is easier to happen in greek than it is in english - and I do NOT!!) it frustrates me. It makes me feel like a freaking idiot. It bothers me when others do it, as well; but I don't rub it in their faces. Unless of course they are *that* kind of people that will rub everything in others' face - you can only do this if you are impeccable, if you are not you will get it back. (Rambling blah...) |
| Posted by: flan2dave Jun 12 2004, 03:52 AM |
| No, but I can recount every arithmetic mistake I have made in the past year. |
| Posted by: Division56 Jun 12 2004, 04:31 AM |
I'm terrible at math.  |
| Posted by: MacGuffin Jun 12 2004, 05:18 AM |
| I once during a round of Trivial Pursuit mispronounced the word "organism" as "orgasm". That was hilarious. But it still bothered me a lot. I can remember situations where I mispronounced words years later. |
| Posted by: Vagabond Jun 12 2004, 11:03 PM |
| I was good at math, but it was the most boring subject for me... |
| Posted by: flan2dave Jun 13 2004, 01:12 AM |
| I think the main thing I have against english or similar subjects is that it plays by its own rules, not necessarily by reason. So a mistake in it doesn't mean much. |
| Posted by: Division56 Jun 14 2004, 04:30 PM |
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| Posted by: nobarcode Jun 14 2004, 06:34 PM |
| I mis-pronounced moot and said mute during a rapid fire response to someone.....I'll never forget it. |
| Posted by: flan2dave Jun 14 2004, 06:59 PM |
| I wonder if division is laughing for the reason I think he is laughing. Somehow I knew it before I checked again, it was too ironic not to happen. |
| Posted by: giftedmadness Jun 15 2004, 02:35 AM |
| I always, always mispronounce "bass" and "base", such as the one as a setting on a CD player, and the base in baseball. I always call the music "bass", the fish "bass". Is this something particular to INTPs? |
| Posted by: shaytana Jun 15 2004, 04:28 PM |
| I know the words, I know what they mean, I can spell them, read them and completely understand them, but saying them is tough. Common word that I stumble on is conscience and all its variables and other words similar to it. And it really really bothers me to mispronounce a word, and yup, I will remember it for a long time as a source of shame lol |