#and now I pronounce it with the w

[enne-uni]

I’ve been bamboozled by English again. I thought ‘cicada’ had the same A sound twice in a row. Exactly the same, but the ‘ca’ would be pronounced like the one in ‘car’.

Nope, I’m wrong for assuming, apparently.

#so now I know that you don’t pronounce the W in ‘sword’ #and this #what next? you’re gonna tell me garage is pronounced differently than I though? #oh also my little sister told me how ‘colonel’ is pronounced #why is it a popcorn kernel?? #english is stupid

[bhalspawn]

cute boy alert! cute boy alert!

#i was gonna romance gale w him but then i got to wyll and changed my mind. besides i guess gale's broken rn? #also he WAS wild magic durge but now he's a wizard tav... i was calling him theo as in mattheo but. idk #i felt like i was stealing the name i was trying so hard to think of which mutual had an oc named theo and then wyll started talking and #i realized who i was thinking of. ik its pronounced different and it doesn't matter really but it bugs me a little #anyway. he's cute! he's trans! he has a complicated relationship with his mom! i love him

[homoqueerjewhobbit]

I don't urbandictionary slang terms to make sure I'm using them correctly before I use them because I'm old and out of touch. I do it because I have anxiety.

#I do it with established words too. What if “insoucient” doesn't actually mean what I thought it did all these years??? #Anxiety #urban dictionary #Slang #Linguistics #millennials #post o' mine #Also hilarious that I spelled “insouciant” wrong in that first tag #On mobile can't reorder them #Anyway I did look it up and it doesn't mean precisely what I thought it did and maybe I've been pronouncing it wrong? #Idk #Gonna go drown myself now or w/ever

[willow-lark]

bold words from a man whose name is dylan with a w

#wylan van eck #six of crows #i’m sorry 😭😭😭 #like WHY #like ik it’s pronounced WHY-lan i’ve only seen the show #but STILL #i’m sorry sir but your name is fucking lame #dylan. DYLAN. dylan with a W #come on now. DYLAN #posts of lark #like how am i supposed to take this man seriously #/lh

[liverpool-enjoyer]

i love baseball commentary so fuckin much cause they jus talk abt ANYTHING. rn keith hernandez is talking abt what food hes eaten while in kansas city. imagine turning on a premier league game n hearing peter drury talking abt london monday morning traffic

#this is the chillest sport argue w the wall #now theyre talking abt how to pronounce homage i cant make this shit up #baseball #keith hernandez

[tragedykery]

hiii I have a question for ppl who know the/an english orthographic tengwar mode: what do you guys do with silent letters other than the h, esp in words like “know” and such? btw feel free to rb to increase the chance somebody sees this & gives their two cents etc :)

#tengwar #lotr #I generally just leave out the letter but in ‘know’ that feels confusing bc ‘now’ is. obviously a word too :/ #I’ve been thinking about using a w-tehta except under the tengwa instead of above #but obviously that’s not attested lol #elli rambles #also technically the mode I use isn’t /fully/ orthographic (like using different tengwar for the voiced and unvoiced th; using an extended #formen/parma for ph pronounced as f; etc) but it’s more orthographic than phonetic so #the lord of the rings #lotrposting #tolkien

[kitnita]

Do you seriously think ESPN was rotting for Seattle?

okay assuming you meant rooting. and also assuming this is in reference to this post i sent out into the lb tag last night. yes and no?? do i think espn as a corporation or whatever is inherently biased against the stars & was actively rooting for them to lose out of some kind of malice — no lmao, it's not that deep. do i think that national broadcasts are largely ambivalent to teams in non-traditional markets & so the scales tip more in the kraken's favor because they have a true underdog narrative for espn to pitch to a casual audience? yeah, a little. i do try not to bitch about the national broadcasts because it's such a tired complaint, esp re: teams like the stars who have such good local broadcast crews. but like ........... yeah the national broadcast is meant to be unbiased and there was a feeling in game 5 (which was on tnt so espn wasnt even to blame there) like they were hoping to see seattle come back (probably just for the drama! like, i get it! their jobs are better when the games are more exciting!). and also a feeling in game 6 like they didn't think the stars had a comeback in them & were thus being a little more effusive w seattle talking points than they were w dallas talking points.

i do think that if the tables were flipped – if the kraken had won game 5 & the stars had won last night – the vibes from the broadcasts would have also been flipped. because in the end neither tnt nor espn cares about the kraken or the stars & all they really want is more game sevens because game sevens bring in good ratings.

#replies #they just. can't pronounce our players' names lmao #in a way that i feel is more egregious than it is w tnt?? #so the fact that they'd been pouring on the praise for seattle & just seemed to bring up dallas after a save was uhhh. annoying #but then to be fair to them now that i'm not watching the game filled w stress and ire. the stars had like 2 shots on goal that period lmao #i would've been hard pressed to come up w other compliments too probably

[radiant-absolute-radiance]

I like that English Descole just straight up pronounces his own name wrong which is also kind of ironically fitting for a British guy deciding he needed to be French for some reason

#professor layton #descole #i hate them pronouncing it desco-lay so much #and also its so weird that he DOES introduce himself as Jean descole #i thoght that was just a fandom thing where you only find out about his first name in like bonus content #but the fandom decides that theyre gonna call him that at all times now #BUT I WATCHED THE ENGLISH DUB OF ETERNAL DIVA FOR THE FIRST TIME A MONTH AGO W FRIENDS AND HE FUCKING SAYS JEAN DESCOLE #in german his first name is snapped the FUCK out of existence #i even looked at the french dub and YEAH he does go des-cole and not desco-lay #THE ENGLISH PEOPLE ARE JUST WRONG IM SORRY TO YOU GUYS

[theghostofashton]

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#the genre of posts that's like 'stop being so demanding about people pronouncing foreign names our mouths can't move like that' is just so. #like i'm sorry but this is not a real problem #it truly is not a real problem that people are too mean about wanting their names pronounced correctly #as if that's been a demand forever and not something that's just becoming more of a thing as of the last few years #the default for decades has been putting up w anglicization even when we didn't want it or it butchered our languages #because that's easier and how dare we ask people to put in the effort #so now that people are pushing back and being like no this is how my name is pronounced we end up being told we're demanding #and we're all just assholes looking for ways to be mean to the poor english speakers who can't say them right #we can tell when you're trying and we can tell when you're not and the idea that the former is more common is literally ridiculous #the most regular occurrence for me is people pronouncing my name correctly at first and then suddenly anglicizing it for no reason #they have demonstrated that they can say it correctly. they just choose not to. #that is the default #not to mention poc not being able to pronounce english words correctly or not knowing how to pronounce them get way more shit lol #idk like i am never trying to be mean #i have so much respect for the people who try because most people do not #and it is so endlessly frustrating to see this framed as us being assholes when we're simply tired of putting up with this #sorry i saw a post that made me mad lol #delete later

[menaceborn]

the avatar brainrot is so bad rn

#i shant lie i wasnt very hype for the new game but now I've got like 30+ hours in it already #it's such a pretty game. it's definitely not perfect but i think it expands on a lot of #what i liked about the 2009 game but also learned from that game's mistakes #but... i might also be biased because the plot is so reminiscent of like... maul LOL #and the game has like a set of names you can choose for your ikran and i kid you not #one of the names is “amay” #you know... like am'ayru #(my HC birth name for maul) #so obviously i chose to make my ikran red+black+yellow and named it amay #and the player character even pronounces Amay the same way I've been pronouncing it in amayru in my head this whole time LOL #i wasn't gonna buy this game bc it's stupid expensive but then i found out u can get it for super cheap by just subbing to ubisoft+ #or whatever it's called #and since the game is singleplayer (there's a coop mode but like... w/e) i dont think I'll be playing it for more than a few weeks at most #so i dont mind losing access to it after a month #i feel like not making this game an mmo is a missed opportunity... i know mmos are expensive to develop but they've got #a crazy big map already that easily could be expanded on. they've got crafting and resource collecting #they've got a clan favor system etc etc etc and a ton of side missions #some of which could be turned into coop operations/raids with minor tweaks #they're even trying to sell skins which is like???? very questionable in a first person singleplayer game #the character customization is also a funny choice here #but idk i was pleasantly surprised by this game

[farmlesbians]

next person who subjects me to that tara girl from tiktok gets blown up

#the finna be in the pit girl who is now talking about hooking up w a girl even tho shes straight or whtv #ENOUGH. stop making me see her #also she pronounces her name the wrong way and i hate it #sorry to every tara pronounced like that but i hate hate hate it

[thosedamnlemmings]

I am going to kick my own ass because duolingo doesn’t know how freaking latin works.

#i am also going to kick the asses of these two people providing the voices for these characters that don’t know v is pronounced like w #You’re supposed to make learning languages easier bitch #I fled out of the arms of google translate into yours and now i’m paying the price #duolingo

[stinkrascal]

nobody in wolfgangs family has freckles except for wolfgang which leads me to believe wolfgangs dad had freckles which i think is very cute. i just love freckles theyre so cute

#i need to name wolfgangs dad but idk what to call him #i just went to magicbabynames dot com and typed in the name wolfgang to find similar names to the name wolfgang #and guess what the first result was. its gunther. magicbabynames knows #anyways magicbabynames has given me many names and i have now decided wolfgang's dad was called ludwig. the w is pronounced like a v #it took me far too long to realize german names pronounce w's like v's #wait does that mean wolfgang is. volfgang. oh my god #if thats true im just going to pretend wolfgang is wolfgang not volfgang i dont like volfgang. thats too much for me #this is my very super official writing process i hope you enjoyed a glimpse into my process #one day i will make wolfgangs dad. mr ludwig #rip ludwig u were real

[rosykims]

ive had her for 3 days and shes already confirmed my sexiest cuntiest girlbossiest oc to date. oh my god

#oc: xaesara #the x is pronounced sh btw. so its said like shay-sera #obsessed w having her warcraft name finalized when i still dont have a clue what her more canonical dnd surname is lol #but whatever most importantly theres not one detail on her board rn that isnt making me categorically insane #tall. ancient. gay. evil. 'crimes against god' priest subclass. literally having the surname darkdawn. need i go on #listen. she was originally a night elf and um. technically still is until i unlock void elves but. shh. #her being a void elf makes so much more sense especially keeping within the Spirit of her and lilithira's dnd lore #idk. the idea of her originally being a horde girly and then seeking power within the alliance after the alleria windrunner thing #lilithira and anakira still being horde.... lmao. rip lilith #SUDDENLY VERY AWARE THAT IVE NEVER TALKED ABOUT LITERALLY ANY OF THESE OCS UNTIL RIGHT NOW SO. IGNORE ME <3

[dongiovannaswife]

If you remember Bocelli's backstory --how do you think he feels when he looks at Giorno, someone he's seen grow up, having a family when he still sees his own son on him?

Bocelli came around shortly after Giorno became Passione’s boss and has been around ever since. He went from listening to a troubled teenager with more responsibility that he should ever have for his age, to watching him turn 18, get a girlfriend —and then he was the one to listen to his rambles and problems along the years of dating until he got married. Years later Giorno’s not the teenager he used to be, phsyically and mentally; he’s tall and looks like a carbon copy of his father, he’s been told: but to Bocelli, that boy came around when he had just lost his son and lost his will to carry on as the prestigios doctor he was once: would would that feel? 

#why am i like this ;w; #i don't think he regrets tagging along but maybe he still wants to call him his son's name #even if it's a mistake or he truly sees something on him #the fact he sees the twins and esme as his own grandkids AND the fact there's also matteo and now Dio?? #he probably fears he will be replaced (gio's not that kind of man) but still. fear can blind people's judgment #i like to think he's never revealed his deceased son's name bc he can't bare it to pronounce it

[bees-art-n-stuff-archived]

Wof oc jumpscare!!!

#bees art n stuff tag #wof oc #seawing #hivewing #oc: Whirligig #look at my guy now i love ix #took me way too long to make ngl lol #had so much fun with the design tho #i dont think i should tag this wof bc its not canon based content [like fuck it we ball] but idk #ive always had difficulty with seawing designs and how to make them fun to draw and i think this guy really helped me w/ figuring it out #yes i give my hivewings antennas #no they dont serve any purpose #yes they look cool fight me #also i decided to just not give seawings pronounced underscales[?] like in actually wof #i just thought it'd be fun to make them a bit more dolphin like in that way ig??? #even if dolphins are assholes #i should stop using tags to ramble