Scott Meyer
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How to Recognize a Great Idea When You See It
🕑 Added 2023-02-06 08:00:01 +0000 UTCThinking about it further, I see that if you do correct the person's pronunciation, it suggests that you are well acquainted with the word in question.
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Zihuatanejo
My half-brother and I were both the kind of kids who read more than we talked, which often led to us using words that we didn't really know how to pronounce. He was the kind of person who wouldn't correct a mispronunciation directly, but would use the word himself a sentence or two later in the conversation and smugly pronounce it correctly (or at least the way he thought was correct). I'm the kind of person who, if I think I'm right about something, will stick to my guns no matter what. The totality of these circumstances regularly led to us lobbing our respective pronunciations at each other in an increasingly-heated (but still incredibly passive-aggressive) manner.
BjΓΈrn Larssen
*at a camp* I'm just going to put my taint up there, 'kay?
