Every time T uses the word "exactly" she says "exzackly" lol

Everytime it happens I can feel myself freezing. I want to laugh. I'm like a deer caught in the headlights and hold myself together by just staring ahead of me.

Haa anyone else's T's got a word that they pronounce oddly.

[Echos Myron redux]

Seems to me that what Trace62 is expressing here is not so much a sense of superiority but a kind of "my therapist isn't perfect" moment which are actually pretty important to acknowledge and even celebrate in therapy. Mine is that, when my T wrote me a letter it became apparent that he just sticks semi-colons where he pleases, not where they're appropriate. It's kind of funny because I see him as so worldly and wise. If anyone else did it wouldn't be funny and I probably wouldn't notice.
This thread is more about the nuances of the therapeutic relationship than it is about pronunciation I feel.

[Echos Myron redux]

Originally Posted by Echos Myron redux

Seems to me that what Trace62 is expressing here is not so much a sense of superiority but a kind of "my therapist isn't perfect" moment which are actually pretty important to acknowledge and even celebrate in therapy. Mine is that, when my T wrote me a letter it became apparent that he just sticks semi-colons where he pleases, not where they're appropriate. It's kind of funny because I see him as so worldly and wise. If anyone else did it wouldn't be funny and I probably wouldn't notice.
This thread is more about the nuances of the therapeutic relationship than it is about pronunciation I feel.

Well the person I replied to deleted their post so now it makes no sense. Oh well.

Originally Posted by Echos Myron redux

Well the person I replied to deleted their post so now it makes no sense. Oh well.

Oh I missed that deleted post lol.

What a shame

Cripes. I'm certainly not superior to T in anyway. Lol.
Shes a genius in my head. But that one word she gets wrong wierds me out. Lol.
I wondered if it's because she might wear dentures lol.

[LabRat27]

Originally Posted by Echos Myron redux

Seems to me that what Trace62 is expressing here is not so much a sense of superiority but a kind of "my therapist isn't perfect" moment which are actually pretty important to acknowledge and even celebrate in therapy. Mine is that, when my T wrote me a letter it became apparent that he just sticks semi-colons where he pleases, not where they're appropriate. It's kind of funny because I see him as so worldly and wise. If anyone else did it wouldn't be funny and I probably wouldn't notice.
This thread is more about the nuances of the therapeutic relationship than it is about pronunciation I feel.

I read my T's psychology today page once and cringed the entire way through and haven't reread it since. There was a misused semicolon (gasp!) and a lot of really awkward and cheesy wording. It wouldn't have really bothered me if it was someone else, but it bothered me that it was sloppy. He's much more eloquent when he speaks. It kind of felt like seeing him in public wearing cargo shorts and socks with sandals instead of his normal business causal attire, if that makes sense.
Semicolon abuse bothers me more than most grammatical mistakes because you don't really need to use semicolons, so if you don't know how to use them properly just don't use them. Misuse of "whom" when it should be "who" also bothers me a lot more than "who" when it should be "whom" for similar reasons, because it feels like the person was being pretentious and failing at it. But that's just me being pretentious.

Originally Posted by LabRat27

I read my T's psychology today page once and cringed the entire way through and haven't reread it since. There was a misused semicolon (gasp!) and a lot of really awkward and cheesy wording. It wouldn't have really bothered me if it was someone else, but it bothered me that it was sloppy. He's much more eloquent when he speaks. It kind of felt like seeing him in public wearing cargo shorts and socks with sandals instead of his normal business causal attire, if that makes sense.
Semicolon abuse bothers me more than most grammatical mistakes because you don't really need to use semicolons, so if you don't know how to use them properly just don't use them. Misuse of "whom" when it should be "who" also bothers me a lot more than "who" when it should be "whom" for similar reasons, because it feels like the person was being pretentious and failing at it. But that's just me being pretentious.

I am crap at grammar. This was about a word being produced odd.

[LabRat27]

Originally Posted by Trace62

I am crap at grammar. This was about a word being produced odd.

I was just reminded of the semicolon thing because of Echos' comment. I wasn't trying to say it was the same thing as what you were talking about.
I have nothing against people being bad at grammar. It's a set of arbitrary rules and it really doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things as long as your point gets across and no one's grammar is perfect all the time anyway. It was just that it didn't "fit" with my image of my T ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Originally Posted by LabRat27

I was just reminded of the semicolon thing because of Echos' comment. I wasn't trying to say it was the same thing as what you were talking about.
I have nothing against people being bad at grammar. It's a set of arbitrary rules and it really doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things as long as your point gets across and no one's grammar is perfect all the time anyway. It was just that it didn't "fit" with my image of my T ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I think that's what it partly is for me. Who mispronunciation doesn't fit

[ChickenNoodleSoup]

My Ts parents were from a different country, so he didn't speak our language at home. He doesn't have an accent, but sometimes he messes up grammar (like once in three sessions). He'll say things that you could translate as "it make he afraid". Sometimes he notices and starts to stutter between the correct and wrong version, in those cases I tell him what's correct. Otherwise I don't mind.
Oh, and judging from his website, he also doesn't know how to capitalize certain special characters. That I find more annoying, I feel he should have learned how to use a keyboard in the last 30 years.

T's grammar is faultless.
I can tell she's had a very education.

[Amyjay]

Originally Posted by Echos Myron redux

Seems to me that what Trace62 is expressing here is not so much a sense of superiority but a kind of "my therapist isn't perfect" moment which are actually pretty important to acknowledge and even celebrate in therapy. Mine is that, when my T wrote me a letter it became apparent that he just sticks semi-colons where he pleases, not where they're appropriate. It's kind of funny because I see him as so worldly and wise. If anyone else did it wouldn't be funny and I probably wouldn't notice.
This thread is more about the nuances of the therapeutic relationship than it is about pronunciation I feel.

Yeah, that's why I deleted it. When I reread what I posted it didn't feel right and it came across really badly.

[LonesomeTonight]

My T said he had a major grammatical error in the first sentence of his (accepted) dissertation.

[rainbow8]

My T is intelligent but she often uses run-on sentences in her emails. I can't think of any example now but they are something I learned not to do in elementary school. Apparently, she didn't. At first those glaring errors bothered me. Now I ignore them because I know T is just a "regular person" and is not perfect.

[unaluna]

My t would say "unrequitted love" and "colonoscophy". I corrected him on both of course but he persisted. I teased him about the second, i was like, what is that, love of colon exams?

[Anne2.0]

Originally Posted by Trace62

Every time T uses the word "exactly" she says "exzackly" lol

I am pretty sure I pronounce it that way, and I would be okay with it if someone giggled at me. I am not sensitive to being laughed at or even mocked if it is in good nature. If you laughed and said I was an idiot, probably not so much. But I have a number of things I pronounce where others say, "I thought it was pronounced [this way]" and I reply, probably, but I'm generally quite ignorant about how precisely to say some words even though I am a pretty good communicator in general.

So what would happen if you let yourself laugh and be honest about why you find it funny. IME with my T, he kind of likes it when I "school" him and he doesn't take himself so seriously.

Originally Posted by Anne2.0

I am pretty sure I pronounce it that way, and I would be okay with it if someone giggled at me. I am not sensitive to being laughed at or even mocked if it is in good nature. If you laughed and said I was an idiot, probably not so much. But I have a number of things I pronounce where others say, "I thought it was pronounced [this way]" and I reply, probably, but I'm generally quite ignorant about how precisely to say some words even though I am a pretty good communicator in general.

So what would happen if you let yourself laugh and be honest about why you find it funny. IME with my T, he kind of likes it when I "school" him and he doesn't take himself so seriously.

My T doesn't take herself seriously. I don't know why I can't just tell her. Until you said this, I don't think I've ever thought about telling her. Like whrn her stomach rumbles, I go stiff with embarrassment for her or is it really for me?

I'll think about this and see if I can tell her next time she says it wrong.

[RaineD]

Yeah, mine pronounces Missouri as "Missoura." I think it's a regional thing. But my T is from the midwest, and I thought mid-westerners speak standard American English so I don't know what's going on.

[imnotbroken]

When I read this, I was like, “oh, so that’s NOT how you pronounce ‘exactly’?”

I have learned English as a foreign language, with non-native teachers, so I probably picked up that from them. Funny, never thought of that. Do you guys say “ezactly”?

Originally Posted by RaineD

Yeah, mine pronounces Missouri as "Missoura." I think it's a regional thing. But my T is from the midwest, and I thought mid-westerners speak standard American English so I don't know what's going on.

I'm from Missouri and I say it Missouri. My mom was born there too but she has pronounced it Missoura my whole life lol

[Echos Myron redux]

Originally Posted by imnotbroken

When I read this, I was like, “oh, so that’s NOT how you pronounce ‘exactly’?”

I have learned English as a foreign language, with non-native teachers, so I probably picked up that from them. Funny, never thought of that. Do you guys say “ezactly”?

I am UK British and I say like "eckzactly" I think the unusual thing about Trace's T's pronunciation was the "ackly" at the end instead of pronouncing the t

[WarmFuzzySocks]

Interesting. U.S. English here, and say it like, "eggs-act-lee."

[Echos Myron redux]

Originally Posted by WarmFuzzySocks

Interesting. U.S. English here, and say it like, "eggs-act-lee."

I'm northern which I think makes a big difference! We have massive regional difference. Even just a few km makes a difference.

[Argonautomobile]

Beavers thinks that "Irregardless" is a word. He uses it a lot. I haven't said anything about it because I don't want to be a ****. I'm hoping that if I just keep modeling the correct use of the words "regardless" and "irrespective" he'll eventually catch on.

[Echos Myron redux]

I have tutors who can't pronounce "existential". It drives me up the wall. They pronounce it 'egstistential'