my fam is doing our annual rewatch of the lord of the rings movies and i’ve come to the conclusion that when they’re trying to go over the pass of caradhras and gimli is like ‘we should go through mines of moria instead’ and there’s that long saruman speech about how gandalf doesn’t want to go into moria because he knows what the dwarves awoke there, and then gandalf … immediately doesn’t say any of that to any of the party
…that’s basically the equivalent of, in dnd, if the dm had just given a whole prepared monologue of information to gandalf’s player of things gandalf should already know …
….and then when they go ‘so do you tell the rest of the party that?’ gandalf’s player just goes ‘no.’
and i’m losing my shit
enough with the loser shit . here’s the only good reasons to build a time machine
- to film all the cute stuff dinosaurs probably did, like falling over when they sneeze or rolling around in puddles
- to see if shakespeare used a real bear when he said exit, pursued by a bear
It’s a phenomenon unofficially known as “reader’s accent” and it’s very common! Because English has so many words (in fact considered to be the language with the greatest number of words) lots of people, and in particular those who read a lot as children, will encounter a word in writing long before they hear it spoken. They’ll develop the idea of what the word will sound like in their head, and only realize when they hear it spoken that their idea was different than the common pronunciation.
I’ve even had it where I’ve known words as spoken words, and I’ve known words as written words, and it’s taken me a significant amount of time to realize that they were the same word. One example I can think of is the word indictment. I always thought “indictment” was pronounced “in-dict-ment,” and it was only when all these police indictments started happening on the news (with the news crawls below the words being spoken) that I realized it was “in-DITE-ment.”
So yeah, never feel bad for discovering that a word in English is pronounced differently than you would’ve expected. English has had influence from SO many other languages over the centuries as it developed, and as a result, many of our pronunciation “guidelines” are borrowed from the languages the words originally came from. It’s massively inconsistent, and it’s one of the reasons that learning English as a second language is so difficult.
As my favorite poster in the campus writing center used to proclaim:
“English: A language that lurks in dark alleyways, beats up other languages, and rifles through their pockets for spare vocabulary.”
it’s okay native speakers have exactly the same experience
You will not believe the amount of times I’ve read an English word and thought of a pronunciation and then continued to pronounce the word that way in my head for years only to discover that it has a completely different pronunciation and I would’ve made a fool of myself if I had ever pronounced that word out loud
it wasn’t until an adult that I realized that colonel and spoken word “kernal” were the same word
Steven Universe Future episode where an exhausted Steven just wants to go on a peaceful date with Connie and the Crystal Gems go out of their way to make sure nothing goes HORRIBLY WRONG but THE UNIVERSE HATES THEM and there’s a LOT OF THINGS HAPPENING but the Crystal Gems try to keep it under control so Steven and Connie dont find out and it’s really cute
Steven and Connie: *talking and laughing over smoothies*
Garnet: *choking out a rogue Homeworld gem in the background*
Steven and Connie: *watching a movie*
Pearl: *discreetly collecting runaway gem shards as they cause quiet havoc in that very theater*
Steven and Connie: *finding shapes in the clouds*
Amethyst: *smacking Onion with a broom as he tries to set things on fire*
But of course their efforts can’t help everything.
Steven and Connie: *about to kiss*
The Diamonds, appearing out of nowhere:
YOO HOO
I think ideally an episode like this would need to be from the gems’ perspective, but considering how strictly the show sticks to Steven’s perspective it’s very amusing to imagine and episode that’s oddly domestic except the gems are doing buckwild shit in the background and it’s completely unaddressed
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astrology side of tumblr….stop
looks like we’ve got ourselves a Virgo…
shut the fu k up I am a virgo
that’s exactly what a virgo would say
