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[Poll #1180373]


Mostly just because I'm curious. They're all pretty much unrelated.

Pronunciation "prevalence": I've always done it the second way, but this group that presented in Drugs and Society today, all SEVEN of them, pronounced it the first way, and it really bothered me. So now I'm not sure if I'm just a freak or it's a regional thing or they just can't pronounce words.

Pronunciation "comfortable": Here's where I'm pretty sure I'm a freak, because I pronounce it the second way. I've heard a couple people pronounce it the first way recently, and at first I was like "WTF? NOT HOW YOU PRONOUNCE THAT WORD" and then I was like "...wait. That pronunciation totally matches how the word looks. ...and my pronunciation makes no sense." So now I want to see if I'm alone in my freaky pronunciation.

One or two spaces: I was taught 2 spaces between sentences when I first learned to type, and I cannot make myself NOT do it. This isn't normally a problem, except my film professor wants us to only put one space between sentences for whatever reason (it can't be due to like... page count or anything, since we have a word count for the paper, not a page count, and I don't see how the number of spaces affects that), and I absolutely CANNOT force myself to do it. I'm pretty sure I'm going to have to go back once I'm done with the paper and change the spaces between every sentence to only one space.

Random poll, I know. But I felt like procrastinating some more. I officially have 133 words out of 2000 right now. heh. Not so good. I'm just really stuck about how to approach this paper. I really need to just DO it and stop bitching about it, I know. sigh.

Last random tidbit before actually getting to work! Something that's really been amusing me in my Film Analysis class: Ok, so we've been discussing how different things like... masculinity and femininity and such are socially-constructed categories and are not inherent qualities defining what men or women are, and my professor keeps describing how these categories are "post-it notes" that we put on people and the world sees them that way and such, and I can't help but always thinking about The Office episode "Diversity Day" when Michael puts the various post-it notes on people's head of different races and then everyone's supposed to treat each other like the race on their head. This wouldn't be a problem (it's actually a pretty good literal example of what he's describing) except that every time he brings it up, I start cracking up, and... what he's discussing isn't actually amusing. But I figured that you all would be much more appreciative of how amusing it is.

Ok, time to work!

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I mispronounce a lot of words, too. I can never pronounce "via" or "hiatus" correctly. For "hiatus," I'm pretty sure it's just because I first saw the word on the internet and pronounced it in my head wrong, and it took me years to actually hear it pronounced out loud. And for any word that I've never seen before, I always pronounce it as if it were a French word, just because I took French for 5 years and the majority of new words I learned were French, so I got in the mindset of pronouncing new words I learned how they would pronounce them in French.

I think it really does depend on where you're from. The spacing thing I think just depends on who taught you to type. I know that two spaces were heavily emphasized when I was learning to type in elementary school, but obviously most other people were taught only one space (at least, based on this poll).

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I'm actually pretty sure when I took typing classes in school we learned the two spaces thing after sentences. But me being too lazy (because omg all that energy for that extra space bar click...) just kind of never did it. :)