My worst example was the word GIF pronounced like the peanut butter instead of properly as in Graphical. It’s worse because Amanda Montell was writing a linguistics book about the history of language and words.

Recent example was “eschew” which is pronounced Eh-shoo but the narrator said “Eskew” and it confused me so much I had to Google it to make sure I hadn’t been saying it wrong my whole life. What exmaples have you found?

  • JustMeLurkingAround-@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    I’m more annoyed about bad accents. For God’s sake, if you can’t do an accent well, don’t do it. And if it’s a non English accent, you most likely just sound racist (looking at you “Garden of Evening Mists” narrator)

    I DNF’d aufiobooks and given 1* reviews over this and will do it again.

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      1 year ago

      I could do the Gaijin by Clavell audio book for this reason! The narrator’s “Japanese” accent was just awful.