(Photo credit to my aunt and uncle, whose ranch was covered in a lovely layer of white this week.)My Gmail needs a good purging. I try to delete emails as I see fit, but I also don't like deleting particularly funny little exchanges between some of my friends. I keep the gems.
I ran across this email that I sent to MG last week as a follow-up to a discussion on pronunciation woes that we had had the night before. I realized that this email is so very me, it is such the perfect example of my personality and how my brain works, that it's almost comical.
Sometimes I capitalize words that need to be capitalized, other times I'm too lazy and use all lowercase letters. Sometimes I just find all lowercase more charming. When I run across a word or a phrase I don't know (I think I'm the only person who still wants to learn Latin), I look it up immediately, though I should probably pay more attention as to how to pronounce the word itself instead of the definition.
I realize that I'm strange. At least I embrace it.
from: Amy
to: MG
date: Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 8:56 AM
subject: pronunciation
remember the crudites conversation from last night? (side note: i don't always feel like looking for letters with accent marks and i don't know the short cuts, but i know one should be there. by now i could have found it and not been annoyed with it, but i still don't feel like it... just had to get that off my chest.)
okay so i was trying to think of a word that tripped me up in a similar fashion, and i found one!
"dossier"
i used to say, in my head of course, "dough-shur."
it is, in fact, pronounced "dos-ee-ey."
i won't even admit that it was an episode of gossip girl that revealed this to me.
we can't have these french words embarrassing us up like this, it's unacceptable. we are more cultured that this. our next continuing education class needs to be beginning french.
peace, love, appetizers of raw vegetables and a collection of documents about one subject,
amy
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
-Oscar Wilde
1 comment:
this is why i think we could be good friends! i also have random pronunciation issues. and my emails to friends are just as random and funny!
and i rarely delete emails. my gmail is color coded by labels and everything has a label (about 60) and as soon as i read it i label it and if it is something important/reminder/need to respond it stays in inbox. otherwise it gets archived.
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