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re: people who speak in foreign accents when they're not from that country
or however that thread title went. (i speak in a british accent even though i'm not british, does that make me a cunt?)
i was talking to my housemate about the film amelie and he asked me how i'd pronounce the name, i guess i'd mentioned it before or something, because he pronounced it as you would emily, only with an a in the place of the e obvs. when i pointed out that that's not how that particular name is pronounced, he said that i don't understand english accents. how is that relevant, when it's not even an english name?????? wtf.
You mean a diacritic/accent?
Unless this is a heavy metal version of Amélie.
Öh DïsïntëgrätëdMïnd!
^ umlauts (except technically some of them aren't umlauts, because you can only have an umlaut over an 'a', 'o' or 'u')
*Fücksäke
Yes.
That was supposed to be a space after "diacritic" instead of a virgule. Oops. But yeah, apostrophes and commas are sometimes called diacritics too.
tell you to do what exactly?
To make some attempt at the accent, I think he means
Like talking in English in a French accent if you're in France is silly, but talking in French in a lovely-jubbly cockney accent is even sillier.
but it's not really a matter of 'talking' in an accent though
it's just pronouncing words correctly
ironically, just after we'd discussed this issue, he proceeded to talk about ricky gervais, and i was tempted to point out that according to his own logic he shouldn't be pronouncing it like that but it would have brought on a shit storm so i didn't
Nah, it's not
You're wrong.
god, i hate british people so much sometimes
It's true though
There's a greater subtlety to an accent than it simply determining whether a word is pronounced correctly or not.
all i'm saying is, you can't really argue that i'm not pronouncing it correctly
when i don't go by english rules of pronunciation, when it's not an english word i'm pronouncing
Yeah I can
English rules of pronunciation trump all others.
Helenny
i'm gonna kick you in the face
what language are you speaking?
so say that i'm speaking about you in a different language,
you'd be fine with me completely mispronouncing your name because that language works differently?
like, i can accept what they were talking about in the other thread like names of food and stuff. because foods tends to be called different things in different languages anyway. but a person's name is the same no matter what language they're speaking in/being spoken about in
that said, i do alter my name slightly because people wouldn't get it right anyway. but it's something this simple i don't see the point of insisting on mispronouncing it
names are different
because there's an absolute authority - the owner of the name. if i want to start pronouncing "christopher" as "rest stop", that's my call. i'd look a twat, but it's my call.
yeah, and i was talking about a name
so i'm not sure what you're getting at?
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