Do you correct people?

Sometimes I'm very tempted to correct certain things, like saying 'Woof' for 'Wolf.' Also, my mother irritates the crap out of me when she mispronounces every Spanish word possible. I've finally trained her to not say 'Hal-a-PEE-no' for jalapeño, but she still has issues with the Spanish language. She embarasses herself at the grocery store where she works...there's a lot of Spanish speakers and products, so she has plenty of opportunity.

Not that I'm faultless in my Spanish, but aside from a basic inability to properly roll my 'rr's, I have the prounounciation correct.

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Originally Posted by Avalo

How is it that you are able to BREATHE!? I mean, bleeding christ, how the fuck did you get here? Why am I friends with you? I am drowning in a deluge of HICK SPEAK. ;____;"

Ha! Do you happen to go to college in Texas? ;_; Not that I'm 'drowning in a deluge of hick speak' there, but I've heard plenty of errors and such. If I make one little grammatical error in my speaking, my grandma or my viola teacher are allllll over my ass about it. Sometimes I try to correct myself, before they do. I know when I'm using bad grammar, and frankly, I don't give a damn.

Originally Posted by Mithos

Don't suppose anyone's heard of a little book called, "Eats, Shoots and Leaves"?

Hell yes, that's what this makes me think of! I love books that poke fun at language; there's another book, Ella Minnow Pea and while it's not about punctuation and usage of language, it's still amusing.

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I almost forgot...my grandpa was just as bad as my mom with spanish (maybe that's where she gets it from). He would always say Ree-LEN-o for relleno [reh-YEH-no] and occasionally say tor-TILL-uhs for tortillas. Gah, I could never get past that. I mean, come on. It's not like we haven't been eating mexican food our whole lives >_<. The 'll' makes a 'y' sound!!!

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Originally Posted by MetheGelfling

Except for that it's "Hal-a-pen-yo."

I know. That's why I said I got her to not say it with the 'PEE' in it.


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