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• Wolf@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Tell that to the SQL folks.

  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?

  And yes, it’s “sequel”. And “gif” like “gift”.

  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’?

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  • lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Por-shuh Folks-vah-gun Hun-dai (approximately) Sequel

    Mostly I was just joking around though, pronounce stuff however you want

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    • Wolf@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Mostly I was just joking around though, pronounce stuff however you want.

      😉

      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.

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      • lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I actually love to mispronounce things on purpose, it might be why I chose “Jif” as my little hill to die on lol.

        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)

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    So is it, go dot, god oh, or gu doh

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    • Wolf@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It’s ‘Guh doh’ I believe.

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  • 0x0@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    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?

    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.

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    • Wolf@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      If the vast majority is wrong it doesn’t make them right.

      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.

      One not being korean, it’s acceptable to approximate.

      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.

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