/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.12882112]

Anyone else self-conscious about talking literature IRL because you don't know if you're pronouncing words you read correctly?

[Anonymous No.12882125]

>>12882112
No. Who am I talking to?

[Anonymous No.12882137]

>>12882112

In this day and age you can just click on an audio file and hear it pronounced.

[Anonymous No.12882645]

Not I, because I’m not illiterate, nor an idiot who doesn’t investigate how to pronounce a word that he doesn’t know.

[Anonymous No.12882662]

I always google words I can't pronounce since every definition has a pronounce button . Otherwise, I feel like I'm missing out. Plus, you can learn a lot from just words themselves.

[Anonymous No.12882664]

>>12882112
The key to speaking a foreign language is just pretending you are fluent and fuck everything else

[Anonymous No.12882686]

Spent a whole night talking to a guy about philosophy at a party once, pronounced every name wrong "Came-us" "Sart-reh". Embarrassing desu

[Anonymous No.12884093]

>>12882137
I know, but there's just so many words and I usually keep reading.

[Anonymous No.12884102]

If you can't pronounce Ecclesiastes. You are a certified brainlet

[Anonymous No.12884530]

>>12882112
>Anyone else self-conscious about talking IRL because you don't know if you're pronouncing words correctly?

yeah

[Anonymous No.12884549]

>>12882112
I don't like talking about it IRL because most people I know are normie retards, my brother is essentially the only person I can talk about anything intellectual with.

[Anonymous No.12884559]

>>12884549
Same here, but what are you gonna talk about, other than recs?

[Anonymous No.12884689]

>talking with someone
>pronounce diogenes wrong
>he halts the conversation to correct me
I never wanted to punch someone so badly before. He was a total fucking loser and got smug. He doesn't even read books, just listens to faggoty podcasts all day. This is why people hate pimple faced autists, you faggots are insufferable.

[Anonymous No.12884700]

>>12884549
>most people I know are normie retards

said every single person everywhere

[Anonymous No.12884713]

>>12884093
Yeah but knowing uncommonly used words pays massive dividends.

I keep a alphabetically arranged ledger on my table and I write all words I do not know in it along with how it is said outloud.

[Anonymous No.12885211]

>epitome
>constantly read it as epi-tome
>is actually uh-pid-uh-me
>despise the word ever since learning this
I don't have a use for uncommon words in daily life, the common man uses common language and very rarely have I had a use for cataclysmic, epistemological, confounded, and trepidation in conversation.

[Anonymous No.12885227]

>>12885211
>uh-pid-uh-me

It's eh-pih-toh-me you fucking yokel

[Anonymous No.12885473]

>>12885227
>>12885211
>don't even have flags on this board and obese illiterate southern swine still can't hide

[Anonymous No.12885508]

>>12882112
> pronounce maybe every 10th word in my native language with wrongly stressed syllabe
> "geez anon, that's so funny"

[Anonymous No.12885521]

>>12884689
>say uh-rist-oh-fanes
>you mean air-is-toph-oh-nees
but my professor said uh-rist-oh-fanes

[Anonymous No.12885525]

>>12885211
ahem.
As a Russian, I pronounce words like these very similarly to how they sound in Russian, but in English accent. I don't care about retarded anglo phonetics.
> schizo is pronounced s-kizo
> nope, it's SHIZO, stupid englishman.

[Anonymous No.12885552]

tfw said 'don quicks-oat' during a university presentation

[Anonymous No.12885556]

>tfw I once pronounced Plato as Plah-to and my mum laughed at me

[Anonymous No.12885939]

>>12882112
Thats a dude