Friedrich Nietzsche is pronounced: Free-drick Neat-Shuh (Or in American Neat-She)
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Replying to @ssica3003
if this is a series I have requests! wittgenstein (v or w?) hegel (is it like haggle?) Zhuangzi Lao Tzu Pynchon Barth vs. Barthes
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Replying to @a_fellow_of
oooo I should have threaded them! Here's the ones I know: wittgenstein = v hegel = haygle Pynchon = pin-shon Barthes = Bart no joke
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Replying to @ssica3003
this is what twitter is for I’ve been mispronouncing barthes and pynchon for years
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Replying to @a_fellow_of
Don't worry literally everyone who is not Spanish has said "Don Quicksote" in the past. We have all been there.
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Replying to @ssica3003 @a_fellow_of
I'm still annoyed that "Quixotic" is pronounced (wrongly) in English phonetics rather than the way the actual referenced name is pronounced
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Replying to @danlistensto @ssica3003
wait, it’s not key-hot-ic? this is a dark revelation
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Replying to @a_fellow_of @ssica3003
kwik-zot-ic
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Replying to @danlistensto @ssica3003
god this just undermines my insecurity about what I’m signaling with my pronunciation like, if I say key-hoe-tic am I an over correcting pompous ass? And if I say bar-thess am I an ignorant ragamuffin? luckily virtually no one knows the difference except my internal critic
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Yes to all three I guess :)
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