The Sword and Laser discussion

Wait, is "sower" pronounced "sour" like Daniel Green is saying? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09I5X...

Also, if someone sews, does that make them a sewer? I don't want them to get all wet in the street.

The Youtube commenters massively agree that he's pronouncing it wrong (as do I). Much wincing going on in the comment thread.

Sew-er, as in "They sew clothing".

In American English at least, that's "ess-oo" . I have no idea where he got that pronunciation

Oh, pronouncing it ‘sour’ is weird! The only place I can imagine he got it is from the word ‘sow’ meaning a female pig, which can smell pretty sour, now that I think about it.

So... err.

Yeah.

No he's an idiot 😉

I joke. I have committed worse. It is strange when you say a word that you've only ever read for the first time and someone (usually your most sarcastic and vitriolic friend or family member) points out your error.

It is grating when it is in an audiobook and they keep using that same wrong word. It pulls me out of the story.

I forgive American narrators. It's a weird linguistic cultural thang 😉

“Sour”? Wacky.

Although I get it: if you’ve only ever read a word and never heard it pronounced, it’s easy to get it wrong, even if it’s a common word.

As for the actual pronunciation, what Leesa said.

I mispronounce everything. A joke with my friends is how we now pronounce "gorgonzola" because of me.

Picture it: We're at a California Pizza Kitchen talking about what we'll order.

My friend: I'm thinking the Pear and Gorgonzola pizza.
Me: Sounds great!
(waiter arrives)
Me: I'd like the Pear and gor-GON-zola pizza
My friend: gorgon-zola.
Me: that's what I said.
My friend: ...

After the order is in, everyone at the table laughs, and I'm like... but it sounds so much better: ::dramatic affectation with hands: Gor GON zola!!!

Now, those of us there that night pronounce it (dramatically) Gor GON zola!!! (then crack up immediately after)

:D

Nevermind that I can even hear how someone pronounces it, and still I pronounce it the way I think it should be pronounced, EVEN AFTER SOMEONE POINTS IT OUT TO ME that I mispronounced.

LOL. Words are fun. (aka, I am totally with Veronica on this subject)

Daniel Greene has said before that he's dyslexic and struggles with pronunciation so that's likely the cause!

Leesa wrote: "I mispronounce everything. A joke with my friends is how we now pronounce "gorgonzola" because of me."

My dad mispronounces things FOR FUN, which has really screwed me up. Like, he would say “colander” as “co-lander” (similar to a co-pilot, I guess), but I’d never heard anyone else say the word, so the first time I said the word outside my family I was severely mocked.

I had to go through my mental dictionary and wonder which other words were time bombs. 🤯

Trike wrote: "
My dad mispronounces things FOR FUN, which has really screwed me up. Like, he w..."

I do this, and annoyingly (to others) think it's the height of hilarity.
This is despite the blank looks on my wife's and children's faces when I phonetically pronounce things like chamomile - "cha - momma - lee." I'm smiling right now thinking about it.

Seth wrote: "Trike wrote: "
My dad mispronounces things FOR FUN, which has really screwed me up. Like, he w..."

I do this, and annoyingly (to others) think it's the height of hilarity.
This is despite the bl..."

I have a aunt that still pronounces 'Parmesan' cheese so that it rhymes with Parisian (Par-me-sian cheese). My wife and I like to break that whenever we use it with our dinner!

Aren't we glad nobody on Sword & Laser is mispronouncing things!?

Still confused. It's not "so-err"?

Yes, it's so-err. The guy in the video pronounced it sour, which was very disconcerting.

Serendi wrote: "Yes, it's so-err. The guy in the video pronounced it sour, which was very disconcerting."

Plugging my S&L Word Search here, for reasons that will become obvious once you get into it. 😈

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

I'm think the title is referring to the parable from the Bible, which I've always heard as pronounced as so-err.

Well I didn't realize the song we sang at bible camp came from a Broadway musical (I can't find it in the sung version I'm used to) but here is how Godspell pronounces it. I absolutely think it is parallel with the parable of the sower in the Christian bible.

Jenny (Reading Envy) wrote: "Well I didn't realize the song we sang at bible camp came from a Broadway musical (I can't find it in the sung version I'm used to) but here is how Godspell pronounces it. I absolutely think it is ..."

(In fact the word parable itself is usually used specifically for a subset of didactic story as told by Jesus as described in the Christian bible... I've never heard it applied otherwise.)

In 2020 the updated version is known as the Parable of the Sourdough.

Give a man a sourdough, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to make sourdough, and you feed him for a lifetime.

Tamahome wrote: "Give a man a sourdough, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to make sourdough, and you feed him for a lifetime."
If we're having sourdough, I'd like the spicy #4.

Jenny (Reading Envy) wrote: "If we're having sourdough, I'd like the spicy #4."

Just don't agree to adopt the starter - there might be consequences (but also adventure, so...).