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Kitchner posted:Anyone who cares enough about "being right" to correct someone on how they pronounce their own surname is obviously going to reject any criticism. Like I have a super long and weird to pronounce Armenian last name (seriously, different branches of my extended family pronounce it in different ways) that I'm sure we're not saying the "correct" way, but if someone corrected me I'd probably just say "cool, thanks!" and change the topic.
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Cyks posted:According the the OP eh we'll see how it goes in a couple of months when the kid surpasses her dad developmentally.
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Bamabalacha posted:Like I have a super long and weird to pronounce Armenian last name (seriously, different branches of my extended family pronounce it in different ways) that I'm sure we're not saying the "correct" way, but if someone corrected me I'd probably just say "cool, thanks!" and change the topic. my married last name is extremely French and even my husband's assorted immediate family all pronounce it slightly different most of them are in Louisiana though so mangled and/or arbitrary French pronunciations are pretty much par for the course
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Cyks posted:According the the OP The post makes it sound like he's just not specifically playing the Zelda games except when he's got the kid with him. It's mentioned several times that he's never been seen playing Zelda other than that, making me think it was his first video game as a kid which  I can easily see some nerd thinking "If I just speedrun the child in the exact same order as my own life, I'll have a best friend who loves playing video games with me!"
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Smirking_Serpent posted:AITA for getting upset that my wife's 7 year old daughter basically ruined our wedding day? What the hell did this rear end in a top hat expect? He says right in the post that he felt "tension" between him and the kid from the very beginning-- what the gently caress kind of adult male human being sees a seven year old upset that someone new is changing up her life and thinks "clearly this child is my opponent, there is tension", like ffs And maybe this is reading in a bit, but wouldn't you think, just a little, that if the kid doesn't like him maybe its not the greatest loving idea in the world to take her out in public where she can't get away without making a scene and give her news that's gonna ruin her day? What the gently caress kind of mother lets that happen to her kid? Ugh. Future estranged parents indeed. I'm way too angry over this. gently caress those assholes and their wedding day, they got the wedding and honeymoon they deserve. Edit: figured out whats making me so mad-- zero empathy for the kid at all in that post. Not even an attempt, not even "i get that im a stranger" or "i know i shook up her life" or anything. Yikes. Lysistrata fucked around with this message at 15:27 on Jun 18, 2020 |
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Lysistrata posted:What the hell did this rear end in a top hat expect? He says right in the post that he felt "tension" between him and the kid from the very beginning-- what the gently caress kind of adult male human being sees a seven year old upset that someone new is changing up her life and thinks "clearly this child is my opponent, there is tension", like ffs Also the lack of explaining where the kid's dad is is deafening in it's absence. No kind of explanation or defense as to why this kid may hate him so much is very telling. I feel like there's something sinister or otherwise lovely going on here that he's not letting on to get a sympathetic light. 7 year olds by and large don't run the gently caress away just cause their mom gets remarried.
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Jun 18, 2020 15:32
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coolusername posted:My (f28) fiancé (m27) is trying to make our baby (f3months) Legend of Zelda themed. THis is terrible and child abuse. Zelda was a mediocre game when it came out, hasn't aged well (all of its sequels suck, too) and dramatically better metroidvania games exist. Dark souls is 10000% a better game and I would have respected him if he named his daughter Dark Sun Gwyndolin or Anastacia of Astora. Even Samus would be a better name for a child, and the suit could help protect her from pathogens damaging to young children. Yes this is significantly more effort than a lovely triforce but the metroid suit would lead to a much better, more fulfilling childhood. I named my daughter "Chosen Undead" and her classmates have had nothing but respect for the classic and enduring IP behind her name.
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SoftNum posted:Also the lack of explaining where the kid's dad is is deafening in it's absence. No kind of explanation or defense as to why this kid may hate him so much is very telling. I feel like there's something sinister or otherwise lovely going on here that he's not letting on to get a sympathetic light. 7 year olds by and large don't run the gently caress away just cause their mom gets remarried. He's obviously a nightmare beast that killed the father and consumed his essence to assume human form. Only the daughter (who has the innocent heart of a child and can see through the illusion) knows the truth. Through a series of adventures she will defeat the monster and free her mother from the spell. Or the guy had an affair with the mom and the kid knows that he destroyed her parents marriage. You know, if you want to be boring about it.
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Lysistrata posted:What the hell did this rear end in a top hat expect? He says right in the post that he felt "tension" between him and the kid from the very beginning-- what the gently caress kind of adult male human being sees a seven year old upset that someone new is changing up her life and thinks "clearly this child is my opponent, there is tension", like ffs That's what bugged me about the post. He treats her like an obstacle or a nuisance rather than as a human being. There is of course her reaction to this kind of attitude from him. Some people are so loving stupid that they can't even pretend that they give a poo poo about anything but themselves.
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SoftNum posted:Also the lack of explaining where the kid's dad is is deafening in it's absence. No kind of explanation or defense as to why this kid may hate him so much is very telling. I feel like there's something sinister or otherwise lovely going on here that he's not letting on to get a sympathetic light. 7 year olds by and large don't run the gently caress away just cause their mom gets remarried. That post was a lot like Krusty's autobiography - self-serving, with many glaring omissions. Considering that kind of drastic acting out, it's amazing how little detail there is. Are we to believe that's just 7-year-olds, I suppose?
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teen witch posted:
"That's FRONK-en-steen."
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Tomfoolery posted:THis is terrible and child abuse. Zelda was a mediocre game when it came out, hasn't aged well (all of its sequels suck, too) and dramatically better metroidvania games exist. Dark souls is 10000% a better game and I would have respected him if he named his daughter Dark Sun Gwyndolin or Anastacia of Astora. Even Samus would be a better name for a child, and the suit could help protect her from pathogens damaging to young children. This is obviously the BEST choice, but a close second is choosing something almost needlessly obscure. If I have another daughter someday, I intend to push for “Ithbal” from this really cool (goon-written?) story called The Beribboned Door over in the video game hoaxes thread. That way when she eventually gets social media, “Ithbal follows you” will be RIGHT THERE BUILT IN.
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GORDON posted:"That's FRONK-en-steen." I think you mean FRONK-en-steen's monster.
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Karia posted:I think you mean FRONK-en-steen's monster. Ha! Sedagive.
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Tomfoolery posted:THis is terrible and child abuse. Zelda was a mediocre game when it came out, hasn't aged well (all of its sequels suck, too) and dramatically better metroidvania games exist. Dark souls is 10000% a better game and I would have respected him if he named his daughter Dark Sun Gwyndolin or Anastacia of Astora. Even Samus would be a better name for a child, and the suit could help protect her from pathogens damaging to young children. lomarf based username/post combo
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My family lineage is Italian and we have a last name that is apparently does exist in Italy, meaning it's probably an original and not one my ancestors changed when coming to America like five or six generations ago. We're 100% Americanized at this point, nobody in my parent's generation of the family speaks Italian on either side of the family, nor do any of their offspring. So this situation probably relates to me. It's a name that exists in the home country, and there is a significant possibility we aren't pronouncing it correctly. And it's always been a difficult one to pronounce. In school every time a teacher did roll call on the first day of the school year, at some point they'd read my first name and then pause with an obvious uncertainty, and I'd just raise my hand. So, tbh if an actual from-Italy Italian told me "nah dawg, here's how you pronounce your name" not only would I accept it, I'd probably start doing it from then on.
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Tomfoolery posted:THis is terrible and child abuse. Zelda was a mediocre game when it came out, hasn't aged well (all of its sequels suck, too) and dramatically better metroidvania games exist. Dark souls is 10000% a better game and I would have respected him if he named his daughter Dark Sun Gwyndolin or Anastacia of Astora. Even Samus would be a better name for a child, and the suit could help protect her from pathogens damaging to young children. His behavior is absolutely terrible and abusive but Zelda is actually really good and cool and it's nice how things can be simultaneously awesome but also bad when lovely people ruin them.
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Bamabalacha posted:If someone corrected me I'd probably just say "cool, thanks!" and change the topic. Chomp8645 posted:So, tbh if an actual from-Italy Italian told me "nah dawg, here's how you pronounce your name" not only would I accept it, I'd probably start doing it from then on. Yeah, it was a dick move to tell the guy in the first place, but I can see how it could be intended as a good gesture (Although I don't believe the poster intended it that way, tbh). And it was definitely a dick move to double down on the wrong pronunciation rather than go "Oh cool". Even if you want to double down on it, you can say something like "Thanks, that's honestly really interesting and I'm glad you told me, but I'm fond of how I'm already saying it, even if it's wrong" I think it says a lot about the guy that he started calling him a jackass and saying he was wrong right off the bat. Rather than, you know, asking how he knew it and getting full knowledge first. But then I don't expect Patrick Bateman to express even the slightest bit of curiosity. Actually, wait. I do. Even Bateman would have handled it better, even if he had a breakdown in the bathroom afterwards. alexandriao fucked around with this message at 16:39 on Jun 18, 2020 |
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Chomp8645 posted:My family lineage is Italian and we have a last name that is apparently does exist in Italy, meaning it's probably an original and not one my ancestors changed when coming to America like five or six generations ago. We're 100% Americanized at this point, nobody in my parent's generation of the family speaks Italian on either side of the family, nor do any of their offspring. So this situation probably relates to me. It's a name that exists in the home country, and there is a significant possibility we aren't pronouncing it correctly. And it's always been a difficult one to pronounce. In school every time a teacher did roll call on the first day of the school year, at some point they'd read my first name and then pause with an obvious uncertainty, and I'd just raise my hand. could prolly pay a native italian english translator to get an answer on this front for like 20 bux
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The manager was pronouncing their last name correctly and the polish fluent rear end in a top hat is wrong. At this point it's not a Polish word, it's a Polish loanword that's been through several generations of anglicization.
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Plenty of folks "correct" my mother's first name, they're wrong and deserve throat punches. Are last names any different?
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Bruceski posted:Plenty of folks "correct" my mother's first name, they're wrong and deserve throat punches. Are last names any different? I have a strange way that my surname is spelled, a common scottish surname turned dutch. I have, on occasion, had people ask "Are you sure?" when I've spelled my name out for them since it contains two a's together.
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alexandriao posted:Yeah, it was a dick move to tell the guy in the first place, but I can see how it could be intended as a good gesture (Although I don't believe the poster intended it that way, tbh). And it was definitely a dick move to double down on the wrong pronunciation rather than go "Oh cool". It’s not a dick move to get annoyed when someone “well, actually”s your own god drat name. A lot of last names aren’t pronounced “correctly” since they’re often attached to families who haven’t spoken the language their name crawled out of in generations. It’s not wrong at that point, it’s just the name.
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I love when people try to correct my pronunciation of Lacroix sparkling water from "la croy" to "la kwah". Nope rear end in a top hat it's named "La croy" after the St. Croix river in Wisconsin which is pronounced "Croy". Also you're on the losing side of a battle about the pronunciation of flavored sparkling water and are literally the worst person to ever live. Same with Bulleit. You think it's "Buleigh"? No, it's "Bullet", after the dude's last name, like what you should have in your head right now for being both lovely at pronunciation and also at life. The worst thing, is that Bulleit isn't even any good. Their rye especially is sourced from a factory that used to make Seagram's. Cough Drop The Beat posted:His behavior is absolutely terrible and abusive but Zelda is actually really good and cool and it's nice how things can be simultaneously awesome but also bad when lovely people ruin them. Maybe if yoyu were good at video games you would play better games, like Dark Souls or Final Fantasy 7. Any child can beat Final Fantasy 7 but you really need an impressively large brain to truly grasp the intricacies of its plot. Tomfoolery fucked around with this message at 16:53 on Jun 18, 2020 |
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Yeah, as someone with a last name that has as least three major regional pronunciations, gently caress that guy. My last name is technically French, but has been Anglicized over many generations. His pronunciation is correct, Polish dude is an rear end in a top hat.
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Nah. My last name is german as all gently caress. My family is American and I speak German. Pretty quickly in the process of learning the language j resized we pronounce it slightly wrong. Not crazy but there are some vowel sounds that aren’t right. I’m not going to correct my family because some of those people are saying it the way they’ve been saying it for 80 years and probably heard it from THEIR grandparents. When I’m in Germany or speaking German? Sure. I’ll say it the “right” way then because frankly it flows better. But in English back to our Americanized pronunciation. See also: place names. If I’m speaking German I’ll say Köln. If I’m speaking English I’ll say Cologne. Someone who walks around speaking American native speaker English and lays hard on the “PAH-REE” when talking about their study abroad in Paris is annoying. Basically people can do what the gently caress they want with how they say their own drat name and if you try to tell them that’s wrong you’re a prick.
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Tomfoolery posted:I love when people try to correct my pronunciation of Lacroix sparkling water from "la croy" to "la kwah". Nope rear end in a top hat it's named "La croy" after the St. Croix river in Wisconsin which is pronounced "Croy". Also you're on the losing side of a battle about the pronunciation of flavored sparkling water and are literally the worst person to ever live. I say la craw, what are you gonna do about it?
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this thread has helped me discover that what i thought was my family's americanized pronunciation of our surname is actually correct in italian, and everyone who insists it has an awl sound after I introduce myself is a loving rear end in a top hat 
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Smirking_Serpent posted:AITA for getting upset that my wife's 7 year old daughter basically ruined our wedding day? Something's up with this kid, and she needs therapy immediately to figure it out. No mention of her biological father. I wonder if he was abusive so she's very afraid of having a new male figure in the household.
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Your name is pronounced exactly the way you think it's pronounced, everyone who pronounces it differently is wrong. It's your name, not theirs. If your name is pronounced differently from what the people around you infer when they see it written, you might need to put up with correcting them as to the actual pronunciation, but you're still right and they're still wrong.
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I went to high school with a guy with the name Richard (pronounced) Reshard. At homecoming, he was announced as so and so Reshard, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ritchard 
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hawowanlawow posted:I say la craw, what are you gonna do about it? Call you a french crow
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hawowanlawow posted:I say la craw, what are you gonna do about it? I pronounce it La Croyks
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Danaru posted:I pronounce it La Croyks I pronounce it “Kirkland Signature Sparkling Water.”
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Ugly In The Morning posted:It’s not a dick move to get annoyed when someone “well, actually”s your own god drat name. A lot of last names aren’t pronounced “correctly” since they’re often attached to families who haven’t spoken the language their name crawled out of in generations. It’s not wrong at that point, it’s just the name. It is a dick move if your bosses around. You don't flip out at someone straight off the bat, at least try to keep things civil. It's a sign of a deeper problem imo, that they can't even try to keep things civil and go from 0 - 100
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On the one hand, you can pronounce your name however the heck you want, that's kind of the reason they call it your name. On the other, I also get supper annoyed whenever a German "von" name appears in American media and everyone refers to them as "Edgar vaughn Humpeding" or whatever, even the people with terrible fake German accent. There's no vocalization in the word that doesn't also appear in English.
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My EX GF is jealous of my Wife and Childrenquote:This is a Throwaway.
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Your complaint is that they don't pronounce it "fawn," or something else? Wedding guy undoubtedly left out the backstory of his stepdaughter's biological father because he doesn't see how it's relevant. His story is about him and his wedding, not Cinderella's old dad. Aita for telling my pregnant wife to stop eating my food? quote:So my (25m) wife (24f) are having triplets. My wife needs to eat alot which i understand but i also need too. Since i was around 11 i started to have stomach problems and combine that with a metabolism that is 2x faster than the normal "fast metabolism" it caused me to be underweight. Im 6'2 190lbs but ive lost 13 pounds. This is because my wife eats all my food. If she craves a cheeseburger i will order an extra or 2 for her and she will eat them, but then leach off my food. I tell her that she already ate but she says "im pregnant youre not" then eats some of my food. Ive even tried to order larger amounts of my food so if she eats off my plate i will still have extra but it doesn't work she will still eat almost half of my food. Now i wouldnt be mad if it was every so often but its every meal. The only time i can eat full meals fit for a 6'2 person is in the car when my wife is at home or when im eating at my parents when she is home. So yesterday i had ordered red lobster, and i got her king crab legs,biscuits and a bowl of mash (that she asked for) and i got myself surf and terf (steak and lobster) with biscuits,salad and fries.So as im eating i had to go to the bathroom (because of my stomach problems) and find half of my steak gone and all my crutons gone with my wife stuffing her face. This was the last straw and i got pissed. I yelled (ngl it was loud) for her to eat her own food and stop eating mine. I then told her if she wants more food make it or ask me to make it. This set her off and she started crying and ran to the room. I told her i was sorry but she didnt want to talk.
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tactlessbastard posted:I went to high school with a guy with the name Richard (pronounced) Reshard. At homecoming, he was announced as so and so Reshard, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ritchard there should be a rule that if you publically want to make fun of someone's name, you have to post your own equally dumb name
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