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[image: A tweet by Johanna Fateman (@johannafateman)

people who mispronounce words because they learned them from reading independently are deserving of admiration not scorn

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ALL of this. Encourage people to try new words, to mess them up, to experiment with vocabulary, to learn complicated adjectives and verbs and nouns, because words are fun.

Also, don’t be a jerk.

Like, I learned math from books. So of course the first time I talked about the “Lap-lace transform” I got some weird looks.

I wonder if that Euler guy and that Euclid guy were related? :) Since, you know, their names obviously begin with the same syllable.

(A friend I was hanging with last night learned programming on his own, so he says “ARray” rather than “arRAY,” which is rather charming actually.)

Wait it’s not pronounced “Lap-lace”? How is it pronounced?

Luh-PLOSS. More or less. (I’m from Indiana, even when I’m trying to pronounce French properly there’s a definite… lack of Frenchitude there. ^_^)

…I’m going to have to go look up the pronunciation of Euler now.

I’m back. Apparently Anglophones generally can’t quite manage the proper pronunciation, but the standard English approximation is “oiler”.

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