On the one hand, I'm a firm believer in letting people decide how to say their own names. On the other hand, it bugs me when good ol' American ignorance in foreign matters rears its head like this. Especially for something as straightforward as the pronunciation of foreign words! Italian pronunciation has simple rules. People only have trouble with them because they're different from English.
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On the one hand, I'm a firm believer in letting people decide how to say their own names. On the other hand, it bugs me when good ol' American ignorance in foreign matters rears its head like this. Especially for something as straightforward as the pronunciation of foreign words! Italian pronunciation has simple rules. People only have trouble with them because they're different from English.
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Yup, still here apparently. Goodo!
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Huh, still operational.
I still have a Livejournal? Cool! Maybe I oughta use it sometime. Twitter took up about 95% of what I used it for, so it kinda... lay fallow.
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The MLP season finale (spoilers if you don't already know the BIG ONE)
Wow, haven't written a post in so long, the update page has a buncha new features! Anyway, on with the post. I know what really bugs me about the…
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Just checking
Yup, still here apparently. Goodo!
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Huh, still operational.
I still have a Livejournal? Cool! Maybe I oughta use it sometime. Twitter took up about 95% of what I used it for, so it kinda... lay fallow.
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The MLP season finale (spoilers if you don't already know the BIG ONE)
Wow, haven't written a post in so long, the update page has a buncha new features! Anyway, on with the post. I know what really bugs me about the…