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HelpRe: We talk about the slaughter of spellings, what about pronunciations? (ETA)
in reply to a message by Llewella
Maybe this is why there are all those crazy spellings prevalent now. Maybe reading standards are dropping and people can't read names they don't know, and so they use phoenetics to write the name down when naming their own kid. Most of us have these new names wrong, you just have to read them out aloud and you get it :)
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It bothers me so much...
How so many people don't grasp the concept of proper phonetics. I've seen someone spell their daughter's name "Halley" and insist it was pronounced like Haley. *facepalm*
I was just talking to my husband this morning about this thread and how I don't understand how some people have such a hard time with pronounciations. I understand the occasional person having some sort of learning disability or just having linguistic stuff not really click for them, but the general population should be better at it than I think they are.
How so many people don't grasp the concept of proper phonetics. I've seen someone spell their daughter's name "Halley" and insist it was pronounced like Haley. *facepalm*
I was just talking to my husband this morning about this thread and how I don't understand how some people have such a hard time with pronounciations. I understand the occasional person having some sort of learning disability or just having linguistic stuff not really click for them, but the general population should be better at it than I think they are.
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