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You fuckin with the wrong people then. Find people with soul and their nudes will have soul.
You don’t want to hear me read aloud, I deliberately add malapropisms because I find them funny, especially when I have to read the names of fantasy characters and places. I am not going to read your pronunciation guide in your half baked fantasy language! You’re not Tolkien! If it reads like Chicken, I’m saying Chicken.
That’s the reason why i use latin as base when i name things in fantasy, it both sound good and can’t be misspelled
Malapropisms - learned a new word today and it’s a fun one. I do the same thing in my head when I read, any name I don’t know how to pronounce becomes something I do know how to pronounce and stays that way for the rest of the story.
One of my favourite things about Brandon Sanderson’s fantasy books is that the pronunciation is canonically “whatever goes”. Even the author himself doesn’t use the pronunciations he originally imagined when writing.
Please don’t, I’ve read so many words that I’ve never said aloud and am 100% saying them wrong
Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.
I made the mistake of pronouncing the “s” in “debris” once, and a pedantic acquaintance pretended to not know the word over and over as I repeated it, until I finally realized the mistake. If he’d simply corrected me, I would have laughed at myself and appreciated him. But he had to be a smug prick about it, and now I permanently resent him.
Sorry for the mini trauma dump. Just agreeing with your sentiment.
I had a coworker who would frequently say “Not to be pendantic…” and I honestly could not tell if he was just fucking with me.
Yikes fuck that person for doing that.
I’ve started pronouncing debris like the British do and now I just do it all the time as I read.
I also say “sooorry” instead of “sorry” because I jokes around one too many times on a trip to Montana.
They sound like the life of the party
I learned English reading so many books that I just pronounced how it’s spelled in my head. Combine that with general non-social tendencies I didn’t really heard or had to say a lot of those words.
I had to spell out words to people because of that. Then I came to US, and now I can’t even spell the words because the alphabets are pronounced differently lol.
I immigrated to the US at like 8 years old, I speak on a native level, in contrast, my older brother stuggles like a lot, I noticed an accent. I asked my classmated if I have an accent, and they don’t seem to notice any foreign accents.
Even then, there are still weird words that feels very weird to me. Like wtf is colonel = kernel , lmfao
this is bait
Political trolls
Corps, core and corpse
Anything containing “ough”
Tough bluff dough though.
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Okay, but I’m reading naked.
This is allowed. Not wanted, but allowed.
Best of both worlds.
Sure, when they do it they’re “awesome” but when I do it suddenly I’m “tresspassing” and “not allowed to come back to the library”.
I’m diagnosed dyslexic which, when reading aloud, sends me into a stutter to full embarrassed apologies. When reading to myself, I’ll make it 10 pages before I realize I didn’t read shit. I’m never getting laid in your hypothetical world.
Who am I kidding? I’m not getting laid as is.
Show me the progress of your most recently opened audiobook.
Man idk
I got a date secured and it dawned on me that I am NOT ready to have a date over. Like you ever realize how many things you gotta take care of that you stopped paying attention to?
Like fine, clear your counters, sweep the floor, clean the bathroom, replace the burnt out light bulb, clean sheets on bed, on box spring, on bedframe, shampoo carpets, dust shelves, put away clean clothes, wash dirty clothes, check your fingernails, check your ear and nose hair, your regular hair, make sure they don’t have allergies, etc, etc.
Im ok with not getting laid I don’t have the energy to go to work, do all that shit, panic for a week about the date, have fun at the date, play the social awkward dance of “more, not more” and potentially end up having her see that I’m an absolute disaster?
Nah I’m good.
Yeah, I have SO many rescue animals, it’s hard to explain to normal people. Multiple dogs with all sorts of problems, a few parrots, an angry hedgehog, two cats, and my vet’s first call to foster (almost anything). They are all well taken care of and clean but there’s a… smell.
I’m also holding Balthazar, a bark scorpion, against his will for invading Pretty Kitty Pepper’s land. Balthazar is kept well and fed a steady diet of pinheads. When he eats, it looks like a dot matrix printer in reverse. That’s the one creature in the house most people freak out about the most, but they would all be wise to fear the parrots.
Pretty Kitty Pepper for reference
I had a friend who was married to a veteranarian who worked with exotic animals. They were constantly fostering bird rescues. He told me once he fell asleep on the couch and woke up as a parrot was reaching for his glasses. He said he knew this bird wouldn’t intentionally hurt him but seeing a 4-year-old child with a can opener on its face reaching for him was pretty scary.
Hmmm. I have a cat and an 8yo ADHD boy.
There’s a smell, and stuff everywhere. So yeah, you get it. I don’t live in a barn, but it sure does feel like it some days.
Yeah routine self-management/self-care is something many people are looking for in a partner. At a minimum. Good on you for knowing. I actually live alone now, and I find those things are much easier to take care of without someone else’s clutter adding to the cacophony. Also, where things used to pile up I use baskets.
I need more baskets
Don’t fall for it ppl! This is just the AI wanting more samples to detect, know and reproduce our voices.
This is why I just burp into the phone until I know I’m talking to a real person.
Oof, that’s at least 1/4 of USA just OUT
You wish.
more than half of people living in the United States between the ages of 16 and 74 read below a sixth-grade level
Good. There’s too many of us.
Send me a picture of you wearing mom jeans.
reading books to each other is an amazing pastime.
My wife got cataract surgery years ago and they kind of botched it, so she could see for some time. She couldn’t watch videos/TV, browse the web, or anything like that, and it was pretty terrible for her. She asked me to read to her, so it became a daily thing. It was pretty neat, I have to admit, though it sure did make me hyper aware of my pronunciation and stuff.
pastime
keep reading those books
i Swype type on my phone
i really hope I’m smarter irl
I don’t see the problem…?
They edited the post from pass time to pastime after my comment.
Oh. I took your “pastime” as a quote, not a correction.
Until its me where my fiancée always wants me to read to her while she falls asleep but I CANT RED OUTLOUD AND UNDERSTAND WHATS GOING ON AND SHE INTERRUPTS ME WOTH “HUH? WHOS THAT? WHY DID SHE DO THAT? WAS THIS WRITTEN BY A MAN??”
William Gaddis, The Recognitions, has been a trip so far
Although I recommend it, It is obvious it isn’t for everyone.
I’m sure your fiancée appreciated it.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar, by Eric Carle…
Read? … what kind of pervert are you?
Here’s a very horny variant of this idea (no idea how it counts as SFW by Youtube standards)
