Unbearable Lightness Of Being

Ilaria |Italy | Milan | Med student | "And after all You're my wonderwall"

[perrfectly]

[athenaswho]

“if i believe in one thing, just one thing, i believe in her” is the best statement of love i’ve ever heard probably

[bob-belcher]

[makeuphall]

[velourscotele]

[brandonjordanpics]

[everythingfox]

[utwo]

Scotland United Kingdom

© F. Comparelli

[utwo]

Scotland United Kingdom

© F. Comparelli

[iant0jones]

GUCCI CAN’T HIDE THE WARPED WINDOWS TO YOUR SOUL

[geschiedenis-en-talen]

You will not believe the amount of times I’ve read an English word and thought of a pronunciation and then continued to pronounce the word that way in my head for years only to discover that it has a completely different pronunciation and I would’ve made a fool of myself if I had ever pronounced that word out loud

[nordic-language-love]

it’s okay native speakers have exactly the same experience

[randomslasher]

It’s a phenomenon unofficially known as “reader’s accent” and it’s very common! Because English has so many words (in fact considered to be the language with the greatest number of words) lots of people, and in particular those who read a lot as children, will encounter a word in writing long before they hear it spoken. They’ll develop the idea of what the word will sound like in their head, and only realize when they hear it spoken that their idea was different than the common pronunciation. 

I’ve even had it where I’ve known words as spoken words, and I’ve known words as written words, and it’s taken me a significant amount of time to realize that they were the same word. One example I can think of is the word indictment. I always thought “indictment” was pronounced “in-dict-ment,” and it was only when all these police indictments started happening on the news (with the news crawls below the words being spoken) that I realized it was “in-DITE-ment.” 

So yeah, never feel bad for discovering that a word in English is pronounced differently than you would’ve expected. English has had influence from SO many other languages over the centuries as it developed, and as a result, many of our pronunciation “guidelines” are borrowed from the languages the words originally came from. It’s massively inconsistent, and it’s one of the reasons that learning English as a second language is so difficult. 

As my favorite poster in the campus writing center used to proclaim: 

“English: A language that lurks in dark alleyways, beats up other languages, and rifles through their pockets for spare vocabulary.” 

[mikkeneko]

it wasn’t until an adult that I realized that colonel and spoken word “kernal” were the same word

[dragontatoes]

me, 6 years old, seeing the word “chaos”: ….. chah…. ose? me, 13 years old: it’s pronounced HOW?

[maybemalapert]

I always thought “indictment” was pronounced “in-dict-ment,” and it was only when all these police indictments started happening on the news (with the news crawls below the words being spoken) that I realized it was “in-DITE-ment.” 

WHAT THE FUCK!?!?!???

[enraged-chihuahua]

fuck this *unfocuses my eyes*

[drunken-dalek]

[entertainmentnerdly]

End of the world; have Fun! Bye-bye! via /r/DoctorWhumour https://ift.tt/2zQfnHh

[zvaigzdelasas]

Minneapolis police shoot TV reporter & camera crew with some sort of projectile (5/29/20 evening)

[unaveragealien]

Actually this is Louisville KY. Wave 3 is a local news station that covers Kentucky and Indiana and the people there are protesting the death of Breonna Taylor. I know that us Kentuckians might be small compared to Minneapolis, but please don’t forget Breonna or the seven people who were shot the other night during protest, one in critical condition. You may not hear as much about Kentucky, but when the news station literally says Louisville, this is just lazy.

[notjustanyannie]

This reporter was shot in the eye and permanently blinded. By the cops.

[thepeoplesmanifesto]

This is terrorism

[geekandmisandry]

"She said protesters took her to hospital after the police shot her, giving her medical supplies and acting as her eyes after her own became bloodied and swollen."

Emphasis mine, in case anyone needs reminding on who the villains are

[salty-red-mage]

[travelingcolors-deactivated2020]

[ilybtl]

Miss this

[goddamnitomar-deactivated202508]

I love when people reply to me with long messages and details and keep the conversation interesting like yes tell me everything I'm listening