start a victory garden and ration your IRRATIONALLY ANGRY feelings, part 3

i judge ppl on their use of 'belated' possibly more than anything else

actually, no: use of 'ect'. Then 'belated', then 'begs the question'. That's the golden hierarchy.

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Was watching the new Sabrina show on Netflix and in the second episode they pronounce the word "Samhain" as it is written and not as it is actually pronounced. Now, I concede that most Americans -- maybe most English-speakers -- don't know how it's pronounced, but this is a show about Satan-worshipping witches, and THEY sure know how it's pronounced. So as a writer, YOU had better know, too, or just avoid the word.

Well now I'm just waiting for someone to tell me that there's a Polish pronunciation of Danzig that sounds nothing like the way I say it.

its not even that simple im afraid liz

im not sure youd ever (well, that ive ever anyway) hear 'samhain' said

the feast is the een part, the night before, which is oíche shamhain which of course we all know is pronounced eehahowin

So as a writer, YOU had better know, too, or just avoid the word.

surely the error is on the actors and director, not Aguirre-Sacasa

unless you want him to type all dialogue phonetically?

an american witch would absolutely just mispronounce it tbf

american wiccans = almost unmatched in pretension, they probably learn those words like american sportscasters who overdo latino athlete names

plus i feel like the devil would hold his disciples to a fairly high standard on this stuff

yeah thats probably a thing, private schools being almost solely under his remit

Gotta be a well-defined line between "getting it right" and "Peggy Hill pronouncing 'México'."

"i don't spend this kind of money for you to bring home a D- in celtic, no iphone and no netflix until you can pronounce 'bothántaíocht.'"

Just putting this out there, but what if the writers and the actors all knew how the word should be pronounced but decided that most of their audience wouldn't understand the word correctly pronounced so they pronounced it like it looks so the audience would recognise what word they kept saying?

Also because winding up message board posters is a key function of serial fantasy drama.

xp tbf you wanna explain to a mexican why her name is pronounced margaret

liz im rather afraid to again report that it's not quite that simple. if you were to task a pupil with same the onus would be on you to specify the dialect upon which grading is to occur

we're not wound up nv this is scholarly discussion

whichever one that cereal-peddling leprechaun speaks

correct title is president higgins fyi

films set in ancient greece or rome or wherever where everyone is instead speaking english

(xp) lol

lately i've been irrationally angry about podcasts, even the "good" ones
why so many
why do they sound like that
who has the time

Was watching the new Sabrina show on Netflix and in the second episode they pronounce the word "Samhain" as it is written and not as it is actually pronounced.

TOTALLY HAD THIS THOUGHT WHEN IT HAPPENED.

xpost yeah, I get IA when I notice 20 new tech podcasts on the Pocketcast Trending chart. Also, the 8000 Chapo knock-offs with alternating free/patreon episodes.

Coming to a screeching halt when exiting an escalator should be a felony.

Public stairways, too. But life imprisonment for escalators.

People who look at their phones while walking with an umbrella. You have to have some awareness to avoid knocking people in the head.

Well, obviously, any non-emergency usage of a phone while walking is also an insta-felony.

Welcome 2 my fascist state, hope u like it here.

(I realized recently why posting in this thread didn't sit well with me, and it's that the feeling I'm expressing is usually irrational intense anxiety rather than irrational anger, but that other thread doesn't exist so this one will have to do.)

walking with umbrellas should be a capital offence tbh, get a hat or a jacket with a hood which will make it harder for you to gouge out fellow pedestrians' eyes u savage

walking with umbrellas in cities is a NO.

^ gets it

Urban umbrellas are fine if people are mindful of others. But they so rarely are.

I'm of the very sincere opinion that public schools need to start intensive proxemics education now before the kids of today grow into the human roombas of tomorrow.

Urban umbrellas are fine if no one else is around and it is actually raining hard and not windy. No one knows how to walk with umbrellas.

"Now, class, as you can see, past 25 feet we reach 'the void'. Nobody knows what's there."

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xp
You don't need to use a golf umbrella in the city.

some people got a big head

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no shame in my game

right now i'm mad at all the pinprick lights on my electronic devices that cause my bedroom to not be completely pitch black at night and i spitefully smother them all with pairs of underwear.

I was staying with a friend last month and it drove me crazy the stupid blinking bright lights and humming from powerstrips, printers, bluetooth speakers... the bluetooths were even going off in the middle of the night. I felt like Saul Goodman's brother.

Long before the invention of the blue LED, I stayed with a friend who had a beautiful old grandfather clock and I got up in the middle of the night and stopped the faintly noisy pendulum because it was making me IA and then I didn't admit I had done it.

Nowadays I unsolder the useless lights in any device that I can open up, but only my own devices.

I also carry an umbrella in the city on rainy days, but not for weather protection, only to spitefully thrust its spikes at people who are not as qualified to use an umbrella as I am.

honey, mick's coming over for the sleepover, could you hide the soldering irons?

Umbrellas just add a simple vertical dimension to sidewalk navigation problems. Mind you, shorter people who don't have access to the highest umbrella lanes may indeed have to have their umbrellas taken away.

Wife keeps getting mad at me because I unplug the Comcast box. It makes more noise than a Playstation, even when the TV's turned off.

I also know it's almost time to get up when her phone starts displaying notifications again, lighting up the ceiling.

i turn mine face down at night

er, not that I'm your wife arguing with you

I just don’t understand people who walk on the left side of sidewalk or carelessly umbrella walk or sit on busy public transit staircases or etc who think they are not worse than trump

Those people aspire to be as good as Trump.

there’s a particular language that tech blogs use which is consistently grating and childish, like their brains are off and they’re just banging out whatever their peers are doing

savages who spell it "warrantee", this literally sets my teeth on edge