Goddamnit
I am such a terrible, terrible public speaker. I don't know when this happened, because I honestly couldn't have cared less in high school, but now every time I have to give even the most mundane of presentations the only way I get through it is if I basically black out and just start babbling until it's over.
It's bad because it means I stutter and mispronounce words (impetus = impeeeetus, fuck me) and everyone thinks I'm a lot dumber than I actually am. Anyways, the point of this post is actually to talk about how much I hate that because I read so much as a child I came across a lot of words in written form before I ever actually heard them. This means that certain pronunciations that I KNOW are wrong are so ingrained in my brain so that when I'm reading in my head or under duress I still reflexively use my whacky pronunciations.
IMPETUS
AWRY (DOUG, YOU TOO!)
UNISON
DIFFER
CLANDESTINE
CONJURE
Do you have these words? I have at least thirty more, I am compiling as they come to me.
HOORAY FOR NOT DOING REAL WORK THAT I SHOULD BE DOING ON THIS NIGHT.
It's bad because it means I stutter and mispronounce words (impetus = impeeeetus, fuck me) and everyone thinks I'm a lot dumber than I actually am. Anyways, the point of this post is actually to talk about how much I hate that because I read so much as a child I came across a lot of words in written form before I ever actually heard them. This means that certain pronunciations that I KNOW are wrong are so ingrained in my brain so that when I'm reading in my head or under duress I still reflexively use my whacky pronunciations.
IMPETUS
AWRY (DOUG, YOU TOO!)
UNISON
DIFFER
CLANDESTINE
CONJURE
Do you have these words? I have at least thirty more, I am compiling as they come to me.
HOORAY FOR NOT DOING REAL WORK THAT I SHOULD BE DOING ON THIS NIGHT.