Exenocide? I mean really people, thats how some jock at my school pronounced it. And if you scroll lower it ever spells out the name in quotes.
Posted by ricree101 (Member # 7749) on :
Meh, it happens. I've pronounces things from books strangely in the past. It really doesn't seem worth judging people over.
Posted by Descolada Survivor (Member # 9019) on :
Oh but he's an idiot.
Posted by King of Men (Member # 6684) on :
Many people are. I wouldn't worry about it if I were you.
Posted by Sergeant (Member # 8749) on :
The fact that his classmate says it that way is one thing but how did Amazon get it wrong?
Sergeant
Posted by GaalDornick (Member # 8880) on :
Amazon just switched the E and the X. A typo, I guess.
Posted by Orson Scott Card (Member # 209) on :
I always admire people who mispronounce words. It means they learned them by reading when nobody around them actually used these words in conversation; it implies a certain degree of self-education. Which is, I think, the noblest kind.
Posted by Oobie Binoobie (Member # 8059) on :
That leads me to wonder, how do *you* pronounce "err"?
Posted by OSTY (Member # 1480) on :
I agree with OSC! I often discover I have been pronouncing a word wrong after having done it for years. Then it becomes a hard habit to break. But when you come across a word in print, and not always wanting to run to the dictionary right away, you just pronounce it the way it looks to you. But yes Amazon misspelling it is very huge!
Posted by Subhuman (Member # 9052) on :
quote: I always admire people who mispronounce words. It means they learned them by reading when nobody around them actually used these words in conversation; it implies a certain degree of self-education. Which is, I think, the noblest kind.
I've had the same problems with some words. Not common as a word as Xenocide. I didn't think anybody else noticed that. Well, I guess I'm not alone...
Posted by Sergeant (Member # 8749) on :
I passed OSC's post on to my wife and it made her very happy because I often give her a hard time about how she pronounces words. I think OSC' view on this is great. (Of course as a kid I pronouced buffet and ballet with T's making myself sound a little silly.)
Sergeant
Posted by Crotalus (Member # 7339) on :
When I was a kid I pronounced 'Reader's Digest' wrong--a hard 'g'. It was during the seventies and I guess I was picking up on the hippy slang. For the longest time I really thought these were stories that readers dug the most.
Posted by Uprooted (Member # 8353) on :
quote:Originally posted by Crotalus: For the longest time I really thought these were stories that readers dug the most.
I know I had a lot of words like that too--can't think of any offhand, but I was in my own little book-inspired world when I was a kid.
Oh, jalopy is one of them. To this day I'm not sure if I'm pronouncing it right--I put the stress on the wrong sylLABle. I mean, who ever says the word jalopy? It's a book word!
Posted by Descolada Survivor (Member # 9019) on :
-Tries to steer the thread back to the original topic of amazons slightly funny spelling error-
Posted by Joshua Newberry (Member # 7864) on :
"The best SF book iv'e ever read after "Battle Field Earth" (L.Ron.Hubberd) you grow up with Ender Wiggin - You think alike and you allways have that feeling of a missed childhood for poor Ender - The Saviour of the world"
^^From an Amazon review
I don't know whether, if I were OSC, to feel complimented by a person who enjoyed EG, or insulted that it's mentioned in the same breath as Battlefield: Earth...
Posted by OSTY (Member # 1480) on :
quote:Originally posted by Joshua Newberry: "The best SF book iv'e ever read after "Battle Field Earth" (L.Ron.Hubberd) you grow up with Ender Wiggin - You think alike and you allways have that feeling of a missed childhood for poor Ender - The Saviour of the world"
^^From an Amazon review
I don't know whether, if I were OSC, to feel complimented by a person who enjoyed EG, or insulted that it's mentioned in the same breath as Battlefield: Earth...
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I know I had a lot of words like that too--can't think of any offhand, but I was in my own little book-inspired world when I was a kid.