• Preacher@lemmy.world
    66·
    1 个月前

    One dnd session, the dm described the room as having flaming braziers. He pronounced them as “brassieres.”

    We never let him forget.

      • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works
        81·
        1 个月前

        The DM for Critical Role did that in one of the early episodes. I think that if you’re making a podcast, you should check your words for pronunciation.

        • Gaspar@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          9·
          1 个月前

          How are you going to bring up early CR Matthew Mercer without his most infamous pronunciation gaffe?

          Sigil* as “siggle”. If I were at that table, I’d still be ribbing him about it (good-naturedly, of course).

          ^*SIJ-uhl

          • psud@aussie.zone
            1·
            1 个月前

            He’s doing that because he believes that it the way the people from there called it during the period he’s talking about

            I note he doesn’t do the same for other places

      • Ms. ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml
        5·
        1 个月前

        I learned chitin from playing Morrowind. Pronounced it like “chit in” (like in “chip”). But also my local dialect/accent tends to drop pronouncing t’s so it came out more like “chi’in”. To this day it’s an active effort to pronounce it correctly if I ever have to say it out loud

        • fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk
          11·
          1 个月前

          Okay, so I’ve just realised I’ve been pronouncing this wrong.

          So I’ve been pronouncing it “chit in”, probably as above - perhaps halfway between “chicken” and “shit in”.

          Apparently it’s pronounced “kite in”.

          Not that it’s a word that crops up too much, but I’ve almost certainly made other people say it wrong too :(

    • Grabthar@lemmy.world
      5·
      1 个月前

      Oh my DM really leaned into that one. Had us searching for a golden brassiere as part of a ritual we needed to perform. We ended up picking up a rumour that the captain of the guard wears one, so on to the seduction attempt to go find out what she’s into and where she hangs out. Play through the whole bit, get the brassiere and then ask what we do next. Well, now we need to burn incense in the brassiere. Now everyone just looks at eachother completely confused. Then the guy sitting next to the DM suddenly perks up and asks to see the module we’re running for a sec. Tells the table it says brazier. Confusion dispelled and everyone laughing for days.

      • Robust Mirror@aussie.zone
        21·
        1 个月前

        The magic of the modern day means you can type “define” or “pronounce” then any word into Google and it’ll tell you how to say it. There’s also an absurd amount of YouTube pronunciation videos for basically every word that exists.

        Not that there’s a problem asking, this is more advice for future words your friend doesn’t know. So you can help them. The dummy.

  • Scipitie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    58·
    1 个月前

    On the one hand … “Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.”

    On the other hand… what else are friends there for?

    • jballs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      16·
      1 个月前

      We were playing some game (don’t even remember what) back in 2005 and I read a card that said Lebron James as “Lee-bron James”.

      My wife will not let this go. It’s been almost a full 2 decades, but anytime Lebron is mentioned in any context whatsoever, my wife will give me that look like “haha Lee-bron. You moron.”

      • Monument@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        14·
        1 个月前

        I’m ruined on “Lee-“ anything. , because I think of Leeroy Jenkins. Now I’m just imagining Lebron just charging into every play with no strategy, shouting “Leeee-bron James!”

      • DontMakeMoreBabies@lemm.ee
        2·
        1 个月前

        Stories like this make for lasting relationships.

        My wife accidentally bumped someone at a traffic light while sitting immediately in front of a cop like 10 years ago. No damage, no ticket, no problems but she’s SO bad with that sort of thing.

        So naturally it occasionally comes up when she’s driving.

  • PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works
    38·
    1 个月前

    My friend once put the emphasis on the first syllable of pedantic, and correcting him was probably the single greatest joy I’ve ever felt

    • nyctre@lemmy.world
      4·
      1 个月前

      Had a classmate that thought the same. 20 years later, still amused by how funny we thought that was.

    • fibojoly@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      1 个月前

      I still have the irrepressible urge to pronounce the s at the end of “chaos” because I more or less learnt the word through warhammer 40k. Except in French the s is silent. But now I’ve moved to the south where the locals have a habit of pronouncing many silent s !
      My poor brain is so confused…

  • DaMonsterKnees@lemmy.world
    14·
    1 个月前

    A dear friend once said, "Let’s go to the mall and get some of those Bavarian peck-ins

    Chris, if you’re reading this, I’m still loling, bro. 25 years, still loling.

  • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
    12·
    1 个月前

    At university a college pronounced ‘machine’ a bit like ‘ma-shayna’ (almost a bit Slavic? but totally on accident whatever it was). I loved it so much it stuck with me all these years, basically became headcanon.

      • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
        3·
        1 个月前

        Fuck, lol, well now I have to as well, since I was so committed.

        Then again, I always pronounce whale-cum, cock-a-ccino, etc, what’s one more collage college.

    • Darkenfolk@dormi.zone
      4·
      1 个月前

      Well of course it’s not very helpful, “this” is quite frankly wrong. Use “this” instead of “this”.

    • DJDarren@thelemmy.clubEnglish
      2·
      1 个月前

      Guy I watch on YouTube drives around the UK following a 100 year old Michelin guidebook, looking at historical things on the way. It’s nice and fairly cosy.

      Last weekend’s video was in my neck of the woods. He visited the town of Lymington (pronounced LIM-ington), and pronounced it Lie-mington the whole time.

      90% of the comments were locals pointing it out to him.

  • MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works
    7·
    1 个月前

    My father had a terrific sense of humour and would deliberately mispronounce certain words to wind up his fancy-pants daughters. “Patio” became “pay-tio”, that kind of thing. But one word in particular has entered the family lexicon: “gnome”, pronounced “ganOmee”. Not meaning a garden ornament, but a young man of dubious moral/intellectual qualities. Our boyfriends were almost always declared gnomes.

    • BambiDiego@lemmy.world
      6·
      1 个月前

      I do this all the time. My son used to roll his eyes, but now he joins in, asking his grandmother for a “fork and ka-nife” or saying “I can do that, it’s my pierogi-tive”