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Post by Ithiarel on Jun 14, 2012 4:34:47 GMT -5
Oh God. I'm really shocked. I wouldn't have thought that possible...
*shakes head in despair*
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Post by Silvertongue on Jun 14, 2012 17:38:49 GMT -5
Yea... my biggest spelling peeve is when people misspell names of characters.... HAVE YOU READ THE BOOKS?! lol I once read an RtB fic (I think it was Nikki's Deathly Hallows Reading) where the author insisted on spelling Arthur Weasley's name as "Author" even when, in the bolded sentence immediately below, it said ARTHUR! Thankfully, she eventually stopped this something like half-way through the fic, maybe a bit later. It still drove me up the wall; if I hadn't been practically craving a good DH reading that I hadn't already read at the time, I'd have probably quit reading just because of that. YES! I saw that! Seriously pissed me off. I think I stopped reading it when I realised it was a continuous thing. This reminds me, 'Auror'. I've seen it spelt 'Aura' and 'Aurora'. My sister actually didn't know how to pronounce it and come out with "Ah-raw" instead of "Or-ah" even though we have so many conversations about HP and I'm sure would have said it at least once. I don't understand why she didn't know how to say it. |
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Post by ShotgunWilly on Jun 14, 2012 21:24:53 GMT -5
Yea... my biggest spelling peeve is when people misspell names of characters.... HAVE YOU READ THE BOOKS?! lol I once read an RtB fic (I think it was Nikki's Deathly Hallows Reading) where the author insisted on spelling Arthur Weasley's name as "Author" even when, in the bolded sentence immediately below, it said ARTHUR! Thankfully, she eventually stopped this something like half-way through the fic, maybe a bit later. It still drove me up the wall; if I hadn't been practically craving a good DH reading that I hadn't already read at the time, I'd have probably quit reading just because of that. YES! I saw that! Seriously pissed me off. I think I stopped reading it when I realised it was a continuous thing. This reminds me, 'Auror'. I've seen it spelt 'Aura' and 'Aurora'. My sister actually didn't know how to pronounce it and come out with "Ah-raw" instead of "Or-ah" even though we have so many conversations about HP and I'm sure would have said it at least once. I don't understand why she didn't know how to say it. I used to pronounce it "Ar-ror" and I still do sometimes when I'm not really thinking about it, but, yes, I do know that it's supposed to sound something like oar-er or w/e. It just sounds more natural to me the first way, but I suppose that's just the difference in dialect; I looks so much like "Aurora" that I generally pronounce it as such, minus the ending "a" sound of course. |
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Post by Silvertongue on Jun 16, 2012 16:11:55 GMT -5
I think it probably is a dialect thing. I know there are some words that just don't sound right coming from a Brit that sound perfectly normal coming from an American, and the other way around.
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Post by blackroses77 on Jun 17, 2012 0:26:05 GMT -5
I can't pronounce Auror for the life of me! Two words that always seem to be mixed up and drives me batty are weary and wary. Honestly, weary means tired and wary means cautious how can you mix it up?
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Post by Kitty279 on Jun 17, 2012 1:08:40 GMT -5
I'm beginning to understand why so many authors can't get the difference between Auror and Aurora, to ...
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Post by Trilonias on Jun 17, 2012 1:36:41 GMT -5
I can't even pronounce things normally, what chance have I of words like Auror? Stupid hearing loss... ><
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Post by Kitty279 on Jun 17, 2012 1:38:41 GMT -5
Oh, you too? Been deaf since I was six - one of the reason why I am on the warpath with English pronouncation. Reading and writing is fine - but speaking it?  |
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Post by Trilonias on Jun 17, 2012 1:42:25 GMT -5
I'm not exactly deaf, but I have a smaller hearing range than normal. Soft sounds and high pitched stuff, forget it. And by high pitched, I mean what people normally use for alarms.
Otherwise, I totally agree. Also, I had this problem for as long as I've remembered... and from what my parents tell me, I was like this from the get go. Or close enough.
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Post by Kitty279 on Jun 17, 2012 1:52:01 GMT -5
I just can notice extremely high or deep noises, but not really identify them. Everything in between is lost. The cause, who knows? When I was barely six, I fell off a children's bike and next morning I couldn't hear any more, though I wasn't even hurt. If it was the reason - no idea. Heard about as many theories as I saw doctors, so in the end, I didn't believe one. Even more so as some were plain ridiculous.
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Post by Trilonias on Jun 17, 2012 1:59:47 GMT -5
Haha, yeah... there are still many things about the human body that we just have no idea about. Though admittedly they were able to locate why I have the hearing loss... Nerve damage/loss... so unless we can replace those nerves, I'm not going to be hearing those sounds anyway. Or change the sounds... That's something a hearing aid can do. Too bad I can't afford it at the moment.
I guess the bike's fall would probably be the best reason. Also, Occam's Razor. Simplest explanation!
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Post by lucyolsen on Jun 17, 2012 1:59:55 GMT -5
Did they tell you you were imagining it? I wouldn't put it past some people.
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Post by Kitty279 on Jun 17, 2012 2:02:23 GMT -5
It could have well been a late birth effect - my twin sister died weeks before birth and my Mum was rather ill.
Worse. They yelled at my Mum that I didn't hear any more because I didn't want to hear, and that it was her fault. Bastard. Still want to kick that idiot to hell and back.
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Post by Trilonias on Jun 17, 2012 2:03:27 GMT -5
Not after I consistently failed hearing tests from the get go. Though I do sometimes react to imaginary sounds...
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Post by lucyolsen on Jun 17, 2012 2:11:35 GMT -5
I think I saw that on an episode of Judging Amy once. The kid was deaf unless you spoke very loudly and faced him directly, but only because his parents were fighting and yelling constantly.
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Post by Kitty279 on Jun 17, 2012 2:12:50 GMT -5
That's called selective hearing, dear  |
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Post by Trilonias on Jun 17, 2012 2:14:17 GMT -5
Only if it selects me to hear when no one said anything! Oh wait, you mean that other kid...
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Post by Kitty279 on Jun 17, 2012 2:15:41 GMT -5
Yes, that was aimed at the kid in the movie.
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Post by Silvertongue on Jun 17, 2012 10:28:52 GMT -5
Does that kind of thing make you wish Dr. House was real?
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