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Some things you can't live down (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

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[–] ninjabard@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Had a DM that did the same thing. A different dm pronounced chitin as chai-tin

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

The DM for Critical Role did that in one of the early episodes. I think that if you're making a podcast, you should check your words for pronunciation.

[–] Gaspar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 10 months ago

How are you going to bring up early CR Matthew Mercer without his most infamous pronunciation gaffe?

Sigil* as "siggle". If I were at that table, I'd still be ribbing him about it (good-naturedly, of course).

^*SIJ-uhl

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I imagine Dan Carlin gets a lot of crap over "Makedon" instead of "Macedon" just because he's being extra

[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 10 months ago

He's doing that because he believes that it the way the people from there called it during the period he's talking about

I note he doesn't do the same for other places

[–] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I learned chitin from playing Morrowind. Pronounced it like "chit in" (like in "chip"). But also my local dialect/accent tends to drop pronouncing t's so it came out more like "chi'in". To this day it's an active effort to pronounce it correctly if I ever have to say it out loud

[–] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 11 points 10 months ago

Okay, so I've just realised I've been pronouncing this wrong.

So I've been pronouncing it "chit in", probably as above - perhaps halfway between "chicken" and "shit in".

Apparently it's pronounced "kite in".

Not that it's a word that crops up too much, but I've almost certainly made other people say it wrong too :(