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May. 9th, 2012 11:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
boxofdelightsI got into a stupid fight on James Nicoll's LJ, which inspired me to post:
How many syllables does "Julia" have?
How about "Danya"?
And "Darya"?
Given that the correct answer is "However many the person whose name you're pronouncing wants it to have," do you find it difficult to pronounce any of those names with two syllables?
How many syllables does "jewel" have? "Poem"? I don't want to start a stupid fight on my journal, but so far everyone who comments here has reasonably good sense and reasonably good manners. If you feel safe answering this question in this context: Do you have prejudices about people whose answers to the last two questions are different from yours? What are they?
And what is it about being female on the internet that makes people think I couldn't really understand what I just said, so they ought to explain it to me?
How many syllables does "Julia" have?
How about "Danya"?
And "Darya"?
Given that the correct answer is "However many the person whose name you're pronouncing wants it to have," do you find it difficult to pronounce any of those names with two syllables?
How many syllables does "jewel" have? "Poem"? I don't want to start a stupid fight on my journal, but so far everyone who comments here has reasonably good sense and reasonably good manners. If you feel safe answering this question in this context: Do you have prejudices about people whose answers to the last two questions are different from yours? What are they?
And what is it about being female on the internet that makes people think I couldn't really understand what I just said, so they ought to explain it to me?
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Date: 2012-05-10 03:34 pm (UTC)Julia: 3
Danya: 2
Darya: 3
At least until I'm corrected.
Jewel: 2
Poem: 2
Do you have prejudices about people whose answers to the last two questions are different from yours? What are they?
Hrm. I'm aware of class differences in the way some words are pronounced. I try not to be prejudiced on that basis, but you know I'm a work in progress just like everybody else.
That doesn't mean I won't tease my close friends about how they say certain words. The way my Brit-accented husband says 'urinal' never fails to be comedy gold.