pronunciation

>>Tom Wier:
>Normally instead of correcting people, I simply repeat the phrase or
>word in question in the next statement I make somewhere, so as to let
>them know, hopefully somewhat subtly.
The way Marcus Aurelius recommended himself!  Alas this kind of people
never understand subtlety...


>I find it obnoxious that people sometimes take this to be pretension:  I
>see it as honoring and respecting people who speak a different language
>than I do by showing interest in them in this way, not as being somehow
>"correct" in my pronunciation, since there is no objective meaning to
>that word anyways.
I agree, but I always also get this negative reaction...



/BP 8^)>
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