In a thread on codeproject, someone humorously commented that "pedophile" must mean somebody with a foot-fetish: American pronunciation has even changed it from "peed-o-file" to "peddo-file", which is almost equivalent to "encyclo-peddy-ah" (since American spelling similarly converts that 'ae' glyph to an 'e').
Another funny dodgy American pronunciation is the popular "eye-raq / eye-ran" thing. It was entertaining to hear that our ex-Taoiseach Bertie Ahern was introduced as "Bertie Ay-hern" by Nanci Pelosi on a recent trip to the US.
As culturally-prevalent-and-nobody-corrects-themselves pronunciation errors go, it seems as bad as the Japanese 'l'->'r' transliteration (take the eravator to the rower reveru, prease), since at least Japanese have the excuse that the 'l' sound doesn't appear in their language and they thus have trouble pronouncing it.
Friday, May 23, 2008
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
gymnastic bounces, late
Received 3/5/2008 (happy birthday):
Your membership in the mailing list Announce-gymnast has been disabled due to excessive bounces The last bounce received from you was dated 29-Dec-2003. You will not get any more messages from this list until you re-enable your membership. You will receive 2 more reminders like this before your membership in the list is deleted.
Excessive bounces, but the last one my account apparently sent was four and a half years ago? I don't think I even subscribed myself to that list, though I was in the gymnastics club in first year of college. Weird.
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