Just based on how often I notice someone mispronounce a word without realizing it (or have done so myself and realized it later). Statistically I’m probably still doing it with some word.

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    10 months ago

    My teacher told me that he’d fail me if I mispronounced “Data” as “Da ta” and not “Dait a”. So I always mispronounce it

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      10 months ago

      Is it a dialect training class? Because otherwise that feels like boarderline racism to penalise someone for having a different an accent.

      “Da ta” vs “date-ah” is regional. If you’re pronouncing it “wrong” move across the pond and suddenly you’ll be right.

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        10 months ago

        He claimed it wasn’t an accent. It was a database class. I think he was correct though as that type of thing transcends accents

        He was weird. He spent an entire class talking about his divorce and once came in dressed as a cowboy. Oh, and he also taught us for mathematics, and ended up failing the entire class on coursework.