[2014-07-15] En Route

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[2014-07-15] En Route

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He should have just used the too-common mispronunciation "enn rowt", and his device would have spelled it correctly.

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True, but the driver is obviously too anal (and uppity?) about his grammar and spelling to even consider mispronouncing it wrong. Heaven forbid!

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dangerkeith300 wrote:mispronouncing it wrong.
As in pronouncing it right?
On a related note, fairly sure the comic guy would explode if he read that.

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Lupk wrote:
dangerkeith300 wrote:mispronouncing it wrong.
As in pronouncing it right?
As in "mispronouncing the too-common mispronunciation", hence not getting the correct spelling from his device.

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18446 wrote:As in "mispronouncing the too-common mispronunciation", hence not getting the correct spelling from his device.
Yeah...what 18446 said. *my brain hurts*

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On a tangential note, I've heard that Stephen Hawking deliberately misspells some words when in conversation in order for his voice emulator to pronounce them the way he wants it to.
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Yeah, Stephen Hawking's really miffed that his voice emulator doesn't have an English accent.

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