Jabberwocky: October 2006 font-color:#CCFFCC

Thursday, October 05, 2006

How ridiculous

For someone who claims to have spent years abroad at prestigious universities and always corrects other's pronunciation, isn't it funny that he himself does not know the difference between pronunciation and spellling?
"Your spelling is wrong", he said.
I was puzzled.I spelled it exactly as how the book spelled it and i went over my work to check for mistakes."That's what the book says,"I said.
Him:You don't just copy everythign from the net.
Me: Mine is from a book.
Him: you mean to say that this is how u spell it here? I'm gonna check with dk about that.Goes on blabbering about how great he is.SUch a vain and narcissistic person.then we argued about that.

MIND YOU, it was only some time later that i found out that what he was referring to is the DAMN PRONUNCIATION.AND HE CLAIMS TO BE EXCELLENT IN ENGLISH.PAH!MY ASS.WTH,i might not know that much nor have such an excellent std of english but i am sure what spelling means, OK.Am i supposed to just sit back knowing fully well what he said was wrong and accept what he said?

and then some idiot actually speaks in his favour and ask me to calm down.It had the effect of adding wood to a fire.

YOU MORON!JERK!You think you know it all huh..just thinkin abt the smirk on his face was really enough to make me boil over in rage.ARgh..I came this close to losing my temper and this incident , unsurprisingly,did not make my day.

the difference between pronunciation and enunciation
Enunciation means the articulation of whatever you have to say distinctly and clearly. Pronunciation is the proper sounding of consonants, vowels and the accentuation of each syllable.