how will you react if someone aggressively talk and has a wrong pronounciation.!
By dorothy09
@dorothy09 (1520)
Philippines
October 13, 2008 9:59am CST
when someone talks and is very confident but pronounce the word very bad.
How will you react? will you laugh at him/her? will you correct him/her?
or you will not mind it...
In my country we do have that..we have different dialects and when we try
to speak other dialects, we cannot pronounce it properly and sometimes sounds so funny...
On my part if I knew the person and he sounds funny not to pronounce the words very well I will correct him, before someone laughs at him/her.
4 responses
@guybrush (4658)
• Australia
13 Oct 08
I used to get really annoyed at people who mispronounced and misspelled things - but as I get older I find I'm far more tolerant. One of my daughers has a particular word she mispronounces ALL the time - and it drives me nuts because it's a word she uses constantly - but I never say anything. I would also never say anything to someone who had English as a second language - I think myLotters from other countries are doing incredibly well, so good for them!
@dorothy09 (1520)
• Philippines
14 Oct 08
Hi guybrush, I came from a country where
here we have so many dialect, we spoke differently per region.
We have a national language in order to communicate.
We spoke English since it is our mode of instruction.
I am so lucky enough I live in a city and the way I pronounce is not bad nor not
perfect. I have fellowmen who lives in provinces the because of their dialect
they find hard really to pronounce any other language..
@msedge (4011)
• United States
11 Jan 09
I don't correct others people's mistakes regarding pronunciation of words.It's not that i am not concern but i just don't want to offend or hurt people.If its my hubby or daughter i will.On my case,i am the one who always corrected by my daughter and husband.I can speak English but the accent is different so they corrected me all the time and i appreciated it.
@crazydaisy (3896)
• Canada
14 Oct 08
I would do same as you if it is a friend but not to just anybody because
they could get very nasty even if you mean well they wont take it that way.
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@bvdev234 (304)
• India
14 Oct 08
It will be a laughing matter to hear one speaking (with wrong pronunciation) and carrying it on and on. I knew of some like this. One from another state came to ours, and somebody taught him some words with wrong pronunciation or the word itself was wrong. He became a laughing stuff. This is cruel. If we know somebody is wrong correct him.
