xpensive dog
Jul. 13th, 2013 01:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
boxofdelightsWell, they all do get expensive if they live long enough. Aiko's allergies have gotten so bad I'm trying a grain-free dog food. What I have learned so far is that both dogs think it smells fantastic. I need to put it somewhere I can get it and they can't. Right now it is on top of the washing machine, but I'm going to have to use the washing machine someday. Unfortunately I don't have a dryer.
Does it make you uncomfortable to correct other people's pronunciation? Does it make you uncomfortable to have yours corrected? Is there any way you can make correction less uncomfortable? These questions brought to you by my SF book group's discussion of The Quantum Thief. Book and discussion were both very good, but I kept being bothered every time someone said "Sobornost" with the stress on the first syllable (instead of the second) and rhyming the last syllable with "lost" (instead of "toast").
Does it make you uncomfortable to correct other people's pronunciation? Does it make you uncomfortable to have yours corrected? Is there any way you can make correction less uncomfortable? These questions brought to you by my SF book group's discussion of The Quantum Thief. Book and discussion were both very good, but I kept being bothered every time someone said "Sobornost" with the stress on the first syllable (instead of the second) and rhyming the last syllable with "lost" (instead of "toast").
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Date: 2013-07-16 06:08 am (UTC)Oooh, which reminds me of a pet peeve I developed through years of exposure to fantasy novels: 'indexes' of the made-up words where the pronunciation is given poorly! Be consistent, authors - if "ear-ON" and "grell-AHN" have identical end syllables, then render your phonetic pronunciations identical! (Likewise, please remember vowels are tricky; in something like "SORR-a-bu" there is no way for me to distinguish what that middle sound is supposed to be!)
I've corrected someone twice that I can recall; one was my friend's younger brother, who somehow mangled Siuan Sanche's first name into "Sue-Ee-Ann" - which doesn't even match the vowel order! (And also sounds like one is trying to summon a pig, but never mind that.) The second was a longtime college friend whom I introduced to the works of Lois Bujold; when discussing the Miles Vorkosigan series, his consistent use of "VOR-ko-SIG-an" prompted from me a gentle, puzzled, "I'd always thought it was "vor-KO-sig-an". (Word of God says I'm right, but while I continued to use my own pronunciation I didn't ever correct his beyond the one suggestion.)