i can't pronounce calculator, unless I'm thinking about it. The funny thing is I can pronounce calculus....
Any words that you simply CANNOT speak.
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Well do forgive me....redisforever said:
I can't spell in English in Russian.
For Russian in English....
While English under Russian?
Fuck the prepositions....pisdyets...
Almost anything with f**king R's.
Girls, Terran, Burlap, etc, etc. Stupid speech impediment.
Every once in a while, my Tourette's Syndrome makes it so I can't say or thing a certain word. It could be anything from "Acceptable" to "Motivational", two of the most common.
Girls, Terran, Burlap, etc, etc. Stupid speech impediment.
Every once in a while, my Tourette's Syndrome makes it so I can't say or thing a certain word. It could be anything from "Acceptable" to "Motivational", two of the most common.
No one in my family can say Sudoku properly except for me. This annoys me for some reason even though I've never even played the game.
They always pronounce it: sudooko.
They always pronounce it: sudooko.
basically this, up until second grade i pronounced "genre" as "jen-urr" as i had never heard the word pronounced out loud, and my teacher heard me say it and was like "uh...what..? what the heck are you trying to say?" so i wrote it on the board and she goes "pfftt, that?" and continues to pronounce it. otherwise i have basically always said things as they go, i was a boss at spelling back in the day so it comes naturally for the most part.StBishop said:
I was with you with the "morals" thing. Because beside from any religious or philisophical things, You will have to hold a gun to my head before I say "the Beatles s**k." I refuse to complete that satement in any way, size, shape, or form.JokerCrowe said:I thought you meant words your morals prohibit you from saying....
Anyway, I don't think there's a word I can't say. I mean there might be but I haven't run into it yet. But the name of that Welsh village in the UK is a bit of a challenge.
Anyway. Pretty much all of the words that people have posted that are more than 20 letters sums it up for me.
I once knew someone who couldn't say "philosopher". Alway came out something like "philofofer". I have a few of my own, but none of them are in english. Except perhaps a few absurdly long scientific which I would never need to say in conversation anyway.
I have a friend who pronounces Tomahawk as Tommy-hawk, doesnt matter how many times he is corrected. You wouldn't think it would be annoying untill you play a few games of Black Ops with him...
The flapped intervocalic t and d are systematic dialectal phonological changes. It isn't a "lack of enunciation" and pronouncing them as stops isn't "proper enunciation". These are sociological myths. If you were pronouncing them "fully", you would actually be mispronouncing the words given your dialect.shrekfan246 said:
And the Deus Ex thing is just normal syllabification. Moving the s to the onset of the second syllable is a natural tendency in every human language.
Our horrible language education (by which I mean roughly everyone's - I don't know of anywhere that they do a good job) continues to convince people that they're wrong with absolutely no linguistic justification.
Yes, that's the issue. In a lot of regions (different for each one of course), the two vowels in the words have merged into one, typically both in production and perception. I say "cot" and "caught" the same way, and if you used the word "cot" in a sentence and it wasn't clear from the context, I would have no idea whether you mean "cot" or "caught", even though you actually do pronounce them differently. The fact that you find them so easy is what's so fun about them - to you these are unbelievably simple. To me, distinguishing "cot" and "caught" in someone without the merger takes intense concentration and usually substantial practice.EverythingIncredible said:
I don't have either of the other two mergers though and it's very possible that you're from somewhere without any of the three - though there are quite a few more mergers and splits.
I often struggle with Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.
And Lagrangian, I have a nasty habit of pronouncing all the gs as gs rather than the french pronunciation on the second one. Although I have come to prefer it that way. Also Euler, I say it how it's spelt.
And Lagrangian, I have a nasty habit of pronouncing all the gs as gs rather than the french pronunciation on the second one. Although I have come to prefer it that way. Also Euler, I say it how it's spelt.
