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lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 1 month agoPeople should be able to name their own babies.
Tell that to the SQL folks.
And yes, it’s “sequel”. And “gif” like “gift”.
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lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 1 month agoPeople should be able to name their own babies.
Tell that to the SQL folks.
And yes, it’s “sequel”. And “gif” like “gift”.
Wolf@lemmy.today 1 month ago
I did, they say they agree with me.
How do you pronounce Porsche? Do you say “Por-shh” or “Por-shuh”?
What about Volkswagen? Is it Volks-wah-gen or Volks-vah-gun?
How about Hyundai? “Hon-Day” or “Hai-un-dai”
If you look up the ‘correct’ way to pronounce them, I bet you will get a different answer to what you thought it was. Are the former pronunciations only correct in the U.S. but when you travel to Germany or South Korea they become incorrect?
Your argument is a descriptivist one, but how do you determine which is the ‘right’ pronunciation if both ways of pronouncing a thing are commonly used?
Interesting, so what do you think of the people in this thread who say that LaTeX is pronounced “Lay-tech”? Would the ‘right’ way to say it change if enough people started pronouncing it ‘wrong’?
lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Por-shuh Folks-vah-gun Hun-dai (approximately) Sequel
Mostly I was just joking around though, pronounce stuff however you want
Wolf@lemmy.today 1 month ago
😉
I usually pronounce Volkswagen as “Vee-Double-You”
I say actually say Hyundai just like you around normies, but my bff and I have an In-joke where we call them “Hyun-uh-Die” because one time when she was on the phone with someone from the Insurance company, they corrected her pronunciation to that.
I actually love to mispronounce things on purpose, it might be why I chose “Jif” as my little hill to die on lol.
lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I sometimes do too lol. I lived in Germany for a while. So if we are working on a project together and get along well you might here me pronounce a tool like it’s literally a German word (i.e. “knife” -> “kuh-NEE-fuh” lol)
echodot@feddit.uk 1 month ago
So is it, go dot, god oh, or gu doh
Wolf@lemmy.today 1 month ago
It’s ‘Guh doh’ I believe.
0x0@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
If the vast majority is wrong it doesn’t make them right.
Hyundai is correctly pronounced how the hell ever koreans pronounce it.
One not being korean, it’s acceptable to approximate.
Wolf@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Sure, but who decides which one is right and which one is wrong? In the case of .Gif the people who made it said that it should be pronounced Jif, like the peanut butter, but a lot of people have an issue with that.
Koreans pronounce Hyundai as “Hai-un-dai”, but if you say that or Volkswagen the ‘right’ way in America people look at you like you are crazy.
Ok, but it’s not hard do say “Hai-un-dai”, even though most Americans say “Hun-day”, even in official TV commercials from Hyundai themselves.
In Japan they pronounce sandwich, like Sandoichi. Is it acceptable for them to approximate? Does it being acceptable equate to it being ‘correct’?
These are all very questions.