General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: FLOOB on October 23, 2015, 03:21:00 PM
Title: It's irritating to me.
Post by: FLOOB on October 23, 2015, 03:21:00 PM
It's irritating to me that the word quixotic is pronounced nothing like its origin Quixote.
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Post by: JimmyC on October 23, 2015, 03:37:21 PM
Is that the cream for your rash?
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Post by: Copprhed on October 23, 2015, 04:07:00 PM
I understand but "kee-hot-ick" just doesn't work, does it? "Kwicks-otic " does. Just my honest opinion....
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Post by: Zoney on October 23, 2015, 04:42:34 PM
it's especially because I did not know it was pronounced differently. That explains why that hot Redhead rolled her eyes and walked away from me when I used it during our casual conversation.
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Post by: Meatwad on October 23, 2015, 06:14:13 PM
Did you tell her that she looks totally quixotic?
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Post by: Brooke on October 23, 2015, 06:30:16 PM
You could be quixotic by starting your own trend of pronouncing it like Quixote.
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Post by: Bizman on October 24, 2015, 09:10:12 AM
Don Quixote (/ˌdɒn ˈkwɪksət/[1] or /ˌdɒn kiːˈhoʊtiː/; Spanish: [ˈdoŋ kiˈxote]) Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Quixote (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Quixote)
I've never in my life heard anybody pronounce Don Quixote as dɒn kwɪksət. Is that what they're teaching children these days?
Kwikset, like the key?
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Post by: FLOOB on October 24, 2015, 05:15:53 PM
No. The upside down e represents a shwa sound, which sounds nothing like "shwa" if you don't know what shwa sound is. So kwiksuht.
Years from now the mispronunciation of this quixotic character's name will also become acceptable. Dollars to doughnuts. (http://www.gameartisans.org/forums/attachment.php?s=f99885672dbac9f7232a7577db12e36d&attachmentid=48562&d=1373079747)
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Post by: FLOOB on October 24, 2015, 05:28:24 PM
By the way I just watched that movie a couple days ago and it's brilliant, kind of steinbecky.
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Post by: Drano on October 24, 2015, 06:05:20 PM
One of my favs.
He's a very peculiar man.
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Post by: Nefarious on October 24, 2015, 06:17:19 PM