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11/11/2014 8:27:57 PM
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If it can be mispronounced it will be.
Minotaur - mine O tar
*facepalm*
Hooked on phonics anyone?
English
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How do you pronounce dinosaur?
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dine O soar
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Mean-otaurs.
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I keep hearing that little DNA cartoon guy from the beginning of Jurassic Park, the way he says "dyne-ah-sow-er!"... So I can't say it without that accent and pronunciation now. "Myne-ah-tau-er!"
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I will call out "Mine O's in the center" for abbreviation but pronounce it minnowtaur
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Just made me think of a new game: Shanks and Minotaurs Harhar!
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Yay hooked on phonics !
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Someone who knows "Hooked on phonics?" Yay, I'm not ancient!
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There are actually some people, -cough cough- England, who pronounce Minotaur like (mine o tor) and actually the Greeks who coined the term pronounced it Mine. So yeah :P not everybody pronounces it the same
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I get that but it's hard to give em credit if I hear it without a foreign accent.
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Not all foreign people have accents. I am from England myself. Born and raised there for 17 years of my life. Not an accent, if you heard me and Americans you would think I was born and raised in America.
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How so? Do you live in America now or something?
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Yeah. I've lived here for bout 3 months now.
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Interesting, and your native accent faded that fast? I've had friends move to America for a year and still had their local accents when they visit! Funny how it can vary so much between people.
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I've never had a British accent. That's what I'm saying. I've always been asked if I moved to Britain in school because I had am accent in Britain.
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Oh I must have misinterpreted one of your earlier posts. So did you grow up in England with any American family or friends that might have influenced your accent? (If you don't mind me asking that is, don't feel obliged to answer if you'd rather not!)
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Dad was American and mum was English
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My dad was the only American with an American accent I knew.
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Actually, "MINE o tar" IS an accepted pronunciation, commonly used I believe by our friends "across the pond" (the British, for those unfamiliar with the term).
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Nah, we would say min-o-tor.
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Looks like we have uncovered quite the con traw versy ;)
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You just gotta change the en-fass-is!
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Phonics, huh? Bologna, champagne and knife would have a field day with you.
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Edited by Macguyver Bond: 11/12/2014 3:10:20 PMThis thread right now.
