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  • jagara0

    People don’t like to be corrected, and I understand.

    But when they call Descartes “Dess car Tess” and Spotify “Spoo Dee fai” a whole evening, can you at least punch them in the face a friendly way?

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    • The use of a comma in your first sentence is often considered 'lazy' by some writers.
      Perhaps smooth out your statement with a less broken-up sentence:      PonyBoy
    • "I understand that people may not appreciate being corrected."PonyBoy
    • *runsPonyBoy
    • I would just spend the evening applying this to Gaggle, Angstagrim and other Micka Joordunspl33nidoru
    • How do you pronounce Descartes?palimpsest
    • I believe its Day CartFawnDog
    • Punches for that misplaced commanb
    • https://upload.wikim…palimpsest
    • ^ It is "Day Cart". People are gonna mispeak. There are people in the PNW who can't even say "Oregon", "Willamette" or "The Dalles".garbage
    • Hard mode: How does one pronounce "Sequim"?garbage
    • When I first moved to NYC I pronounced “Houston” St. like the city. Sometimes correct is relative ;)monospaced
    • Who the hell pronounces it "spoo dee fai"?BusterBoy
    • People who need friendly punches.jagara
    • @PonyBoy Thank you. I will strive to do better.jagara
    • <3PonyBoy
    • I like to be corectedgrafician
    • No, you don't.palimpsest
    • lolmonospaced
    • Nobody has had a go at Sequim, and I am disappointed.garbage
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