Random Thoughts

[amatara]

#1 Purely hypothetical (naturally! *g*) question. Say you're Googling the keyword "G'Kar", to get some vital piece of information for a fic perhaps. Say you're scrolling through the results, and that during that process, you spot an entry titled "G'Kar Teaches".

HOW BAD IS IT if you think, for two entire seconds, that it says "G'Kar - Tentacles" instead ???

Seriously. It seems my subsconscious needs to find itself some tentacle pr0n. *g*

#2 On a completely unrelated note. Why is it that so many people speaking a foreign language don't even try to get their pronunciation right? Like yesterday I had to follow this course, given in English by a French-speaking lady. Grammar and vocabulary wise she did pretty well, hence it couldn't have been lack of knowledge of the language... So can anyone tell me what makes it so hard not to pronounce:
- "hybrid" as "eebreed"
- "available" as "ava-lábel"
- "et cetera" as "exetera" (this one cracked me up at first, but at the end I just wanted to punch her for it)
AND THEN USE THESE WORDS A FRAKKIN' 10 TIMES PER MINUTE! As an aside: I'm not a native speaker myself - so if this rattles even me, it's BAD, people. *g*

Comments

[amatara.livejournal.com]

En fait, le Français est un de ces langues où ma prononciation est infiniment mieux que ma vocabulaire! ;-)
(The fact that it just took me over two minutes to type that one sentence testifies to the truth of that. *g*) But you're welcome anytime to try some French on me, if you want. It'd even be good for me to get some practice again.
Incidentally, is Swiss French as different from "official" French as "Schweizerdeutsch" is from German?

[maspalio.livejournal.com]

Swiss French is mostly the same as "official" French, except for a few words. And apparently, we have a silly accent.

Your French's quite good, btw.