Funny ways of saying things...

[SckizoBoy]

OK... this I have to air because how silly it all is. Irrespective of one's use of English (or whichever language, for that matter, since context is everything), there will be certain words and acronyms that you say in ways that make people chuckle or laugh.

With me, and this is relating to weapon systems, so apologies if you don't get it, there was a series of guns (of varying uses): PaK; FlaK; & KwK. Naturally, I pronounce the first two as they appear, but that necessarily means that I end up pronouncing the third as 'quack'... -_- which amuses my old man to no end...

How's about you?

 

[tippy2k2]

I don't think it's weird but everyone I know always gives me a funny look when I say "Mum" instead of Mom. For whatever reason, I picked up on those wacky Brits way of talking with their mothers.

I also always have pronounced Ubisoft as U-Be-Soft. I had no clue that it was pronounced Oobi-soft...

EDIT: The Escapist! SHE HAS LIED TO ME! BLOOD FEUD!!! (see below)

 

[Sack of Cheese]

I call chips "fries". Edit: oh I pronounce "meme" meh-meh.

I also always have pronounced Ubisoft as U-Be-Soft. I had no clue that it was pronounced Oobi-soft...

Wait, what?

 

[hazabaza1]

Half the stuff in Dark Souls is amusing to see people get worked up over.
For example, "Ornstein and Smough". Their names are never actually said in game so I call them "Orn-Steen" and "Smo" ("Smoh?") but everyone can get really arsey going "IT'S ORN-STINE AND SMOFF!"
Good times.

 

[tippy2k2]

I call chips "fries".

I also always have pronounced Ubisoft as U-Be-Soft. I had no clue that it was pronounced Oobi-soft...

Wait, what?

Everytime I hear people in videos and whatnot, they pronounce it Oobi-soft.

Maybe it's just The Escapist pronouncing it that way to fuck with me...crafty bastards!

Example:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/editorials/reviews/10015-Assassins-Creed-III-Review

Go to 1:29 in the video

 

[Sack of Cheese]

*snips*

Oo-bi-soft just doesn't make sense!! They're messing with us, it has to be.

 

[DoPo]

I also always have pronounced Ubisoft as U-Be-Soft. I had no clue that it was pronounced Oobi-soft...

...and to think I pronounced it Oobi-soft before only to switch to U-Be-Soft because I thought that was actually the correct pronunciation.

Ugh, can anybody bring some enlightenment here? I know they are French, so what would be the French way of saying it?

EDIT: upon some search, it's not Oobi-soft


And according to Wikipedia it's /ˈjuːbisɒft/ YOO-bee-soft.

 

[Kolby Jack]

My dad and I are the only two members of my family who seem to be able to pronounce "Breakfast" correctly (it's brek-fust). My older brother, younger sister and even my mom all say "brek-fixed" which annoys me to no end.

Also, being surrounded by a lot of more colloquial speakers at my job, I've learned to tolerate people misusing the word "good" as in "I did good on the test." That's fine. A lot of people say it that way and it's not a big deal. But every now and then, someone (presumably with a brain defect) says something like "That cereal tasted well" and I just flip my shit. WHO TAUGHT YOU TO SPEAK?! YOU KNOW WHAT?! DON'T ANSWER! YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO SPEAK EVER AGAIN YOU FUCKING LINGUISTIC FAILURE!!! It doesn't happen often, but it happens. I've heard it. It sickens me.

 

[tippy2k2]

YOO-bee-soft.

The Escapist....she has LIED!!!! I went to the Ubisoft press conference thingy on the youtubes and the announcer lady called it U-Be-Soft! My whole world has been based on a lie...

Now, I know I've been declaring a lot of blood feuds lately but...

BLOOD FEUD!!!!!

Where's my list...

Spoiler

So it begins...the epic blood feud between Tippy2k2 and Nasrin Copper Zen The Escapist. The world will create ballads and sing songs about the battles that this feud will inevitably cause! Millions will become orphaned! Entire cities will be burned to the ground! New rivers will be formed by the blood of the fallen! Internet brothers will turn upon internet brother as lines in the sand are drawn! THERE. WILL. BE. BLOOD!!!!!

Who will join me!?!?

*Cricket Noises*

...you win this round Nasrin Copper Zen Escapist. But I'll be back...I'll be back...

 

[Reginald the Butler]

Well not me exactly, but my friend pronounces iron as I-ron. Most people I know just glide over it so that it sounds like I-rn.

 

[HoneyVision]

As someone who had to study English as a second language, I can safely say that's it's the most messed up language ever. One of the trillion examples is when we say the word compile as "com-pyl", but then as soon as it becomes a noun (+tion) it's pronounced as "com-pih-lation". I just say "com-pie-lation" because it makes more sense and is more consistent.
I could go on for DAYS about all the discrepancies. Days.

 

[Nouw]

I couldn't help but wonder what the flying fuck a 'leftenant' was while playing Space Marine. A female lieutenant? A made-up rank in the 40K-verse? Little did I know at the time, that leftenant was the English pronunciation.

 

[Sandjube]

I have a small mouth and talk incredibly fast if my sentence is more than like 5 words long so pretty much everything I say is pronounced funny. But yeah, English is kinda messy. Some stuff just doesn't make sense and is not consistent. And yet, I'm a proofreader. Because masochism?

 

[SckizoBoy]

I couldn't help but wonder what the flying fuck a 'leftenant' was while playing Space Marine. A female lieutenant? A made-up rank in the 40K-verse? Little did I know at the time, that leftenant was the English pronunciation.

Ah, now, this I'll pick up on.

The word 'lieutenant' is (obviously) derived from the French phrase 'en lieu de le tenant'. But since England was conquered by the Normans, their pronunciation of 'lieu' was 'leuf' (and that's originally how they wrote it, since Norman French was a hash-up of Ile-de-France French, Breton French and Danish). As England went from Norman French to Aquitainian French, the spelling became 'lieutenant' but the pronunciation remained 'leuftenant'.

Then, in the early/mid 19th century, when the Americans wanted English to become markedly different from British English, they took one look at the word and though 'fuck it, we'll pronounce it the 'standard' French way'.

As someone who had to study English as a second language, I can safely say that's it's the most messed up language ever. One of the trillion examples is when we say the word compile as "com-pyl", but then as soon as it becomes a noun (+tion) it's pronounced as "com-pih-lation". I just say "com-pie-lation" because it makes more sense and is more consistent.
I could go on for DAYS about all the discrepancies. Days.

Heh... so could most native English speakers... >_> ...

 

[The Wykydtron]

Oh easy, how those wacky Americans pronounce "Caribbean." When I was on holiday over there someone asked something about the Caribbean and I was like...

"Wait where? Where? No i've never heard of that place, sorry"

I must have looked like such a dumpy retard >.<

Oh and my friend has a habit of ruining names for no reason. It's not even mispronouncing it sometimes, he looks at a name and just flat out uses another one.

My dad and I are the only two members of my family who seem to be able to pronounce "Breakfast" correctly (it's brek-fust). My older brother, younger sister and even my mom all say "brek-fixed" which annoys me to no end.

Also, being surrounded by a lot of more colloquial speakers at my job, I've learned to tolerate people misusing the word "good" as in "I did good on the test." That's fine. A lot of people say it that way and it's not a big deal. But every now and then, someone (presumably with a brain defect) says something like "That cereal tasted well" and I just flip my shit. WHO TAUGHT YOU TO SPEAK?! YOU KNOW WHAT?! DON'T ANSWER! YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO SPEAK EVER AGAIN YOU FUCKING LINGUISTIC FAILURE!!! It doesn't happen often, but it happens. I've heard it. It sickens me.

Hmm how about using "her" instead of "she?"

"What's her doing now?" for example

My grandparents do that all the damn time. >.>

 

[JemothSkarii]

"Can I aks/arks you a question?"

Gah it gets me every time. Also when I went to the U.S I found it odd how Adidas is pronounced A-de-das instead of Ad-ih-das....short i...You know what I mean.

 

[HoneyVision]

I have a small mouth and talk incredibly fast if my sentence is more than like 5 words long so pretty much everything I say is pronounced funny. But yeah, English is kinda messy. Some stuff just doesn't make sense and is not consistent. And yet, I'm a proofreader. Because masochism?

haha that sounds like torture. Join the club, I'm an English teacher. I'm a vicious spelling hawk. I HAAAATE bad spelling. I instantly have a bad psychological reaction to incorrect grammar and spelling.
I also often wonder why we say "You are" instead of "You is" for a single person. It's a singular pronoun and we say "He is", so why not "You is"?

 

[Shockolate]

No specifics but I appear to have a habit of randomly putting on a british accent when I ask questions sometimes.

I only ever know when my friends start mocking me for it.

I can't even do a british accent when I want to, but I I sometimes do it without even trying. How silly is that?

 

[HoneyVision]

A funny observation I made when I was in US and Canada a month ago was that people from both countries could more or less understand the British/NZ accent fairly well. But there were two words that they could never ever guess. One of them is 'custard', which we pronounce as "cus-tihd" and they say as "cus-turrrrrd". And the other is 'saucer', which we say as "sooh-sah" and they say as "saw-sir" LOL this is funny.