Quotation marks (actually, I use the little two fingers motion on each hand to denote these -- not when I'm reading to myself, of course,THAT would be wierd but when reading aloud -- but that's technically not "pronouncing" them...unless deaf people are looking in...then I guess it IS.
Dramatis personae of War & Peace, indeed any Russian novel, such as Dr Zhivago. I had to mentally substitute Bert, Fred atc. in order to get to end of the book.
How about e.g. and i.e.? When reading aloud, I'm always forced to substitute "for example" and "that is", because it sounds stupid to actually say "E G" or "I E".
I was thinking about pairs of words where one is a misspelling of another. The mistake connotes some additional meaning that is lost when the word is spoken. For example, fstr is an abbreviation of faster, but there's no way to read it.
Prolagus commented on the list elephants-amid-my-pages
What do you mean jennarenn? I want to contribute but I don't get it!
Delightful list name by the way!
June 24, 2008
dontcry commented on the list elephants-amid-my-pages
Um, headers and footers?
Page numbers?
Parens.?
Brackets?
Quotation marks (actually, I use the little two fingers motion on each hand to denote these -- not when I'm reading to myself, of course,THAT would be wierd but when reading aloud -- but that's technically not "pronouncing" them...unless deaf people are looking in...then I guess it IS.
I'm with Pro, I don't get it either...
June 24, 2008
yarb commented on the list elephants-amid-my-pages
Long Polish names, and quotations from Ancient Greek.
June 24, 2008
Prolagus commented on the list elephants-amid-my-pages
τι κακὸν �?στι πε�?ὶ Ryszard Kapuściński?
June 24, 2008
johnmperry commented on the list elephants-amid-my-pages
Dramatis personae of War & Peace, indeed any Russian novel, such as Dr Zhivago. I had to mentally substitute Bert, Fred atc. in order to get to end of the book.
June 24, 2008
pterodactyl commented on the list elephants-amid-my-pages
How about e.g. and i.e.? When reading aloud, I'm always forced to substitute "for example" and "that is", because it sounds stupid to actually say "E G" or "I E".
June 24, 2008
yarb commented on the list elephants-amid-my-pages
*gazes blankly past prolagus*
June 24, 2008
sionnach commented on the list elephants-amid-my-pages
ibid, viz
What's a fstr?
June 25, 2008
plethora commented on the list elephants-amid-my-pages
Dang, I thought of a really good word for this earlier while I was doing homework. Now I've forgotten :(
June 25, 2008
jennarenn commented on the list elephants-amid-my-pages
I was thinking about pairs of words where one is a misspelling of another. The mistake connotes some additional meaning that is lost when the word is spoken. For example, fstr is an abbreviation of faster, but there's no way to read it.
Wordie confession: I say "I E".
June 26, 2008
dontcry commented on the list elephants-amid-my-pages
Like "they're there"?
June 26, 2008
jennarenn commented on the list elephants-amid-my-pages
Actually, I think that that's on another list this week. This one is devoted to intentional misspellings.
June 26, 2008