Mentally correcting people's pronunciation all the time.

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This like an OCD thing that I do ...

Whenever people are talking (to me, to others, in a movie; it doesn't matter) I compulsively correct (in my head) any pronunciation that I'm unhappy with. Sometimes I'm so bothered by it that I literally repeat their sentence out loud to say it correctly, without explaining myself. I just interrupt them out of nowhere. It's really embarassing. If someone's pronunciation is good then it's totally fine, but if they have bad words with every single sentence then I can't even follow the conversation because my brain is going insane, correcting everything they mispronounce in my head.

I'm extremely specific about it too. An example off this page: "repetitive": if someone pronounced it "repet-uh-tive", I'd need to repeat that in my head with the correct "i" syllable.

I know it's totally crazy but I get really distracted by this.

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  • wardh07
    12 years ago

    I do this ;) how annoying is it when someone says "oh, nothing pacific" YOU MEAN SPECIFIC!!! I even tell them it annoys me so much :(

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  • Angel_in_a_Glass_Dress
    12 years ago

    I don't have that exactly, but I do have some pet peeves about how certain words are mispronounced.

    i.e.: "Italy" - I've met some people who cannot figure out that it's THREE syllables, not two. Seriously, they keep calling it "It-lee". It especially annoys me when they're in the teaching profession. Yes, sadly, I had teachers who didn't know how to say "Italy" properly. :(

    Oh, and "wrestling" - it is NOT wrasling. :-( blargle!

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  • MissNatalie
    13 years ago

    Oh yeah, @ilovealexred - it's "when people don't SPEAK properly" Not "talk". LOL

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  • MissNatalie
    13 years ago

    Hmmmm. I'd say you were bordeline OCD except for the fact that I suffer from a similar affliction. I am a grammar nazi.

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  • NopeNotNormal
    13 years ago

    I'm guilty of this myself. I actually seethe when people mispronounce things, and not just syllabically. Just making a mistake and getting a word wrong makes me cringe. For instance, my friend and I were discussing the movie "Demon Knight"...friend kept calling it "Demon Knights" and I about flipped out. Yep, I'm a bit anal.

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  • cheesey_jelly
    13 years ago

    I do it too, I think it's normal :) people get really angry, but if you must do it you must do it haha. But I don't correct words so much, its just people when they say stuff I don't understand, like they say it wrong, so I repeat their sentence correctly. If you know what I mean?

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  • [Old Memory]
    13 years ago

    i dooo it too. lol
    i hate it when people dont talk properly, and you realize it, and dont want to say anything because of the fear that they might get angry with you
    LOVE YOU GUYS because you ask amazing questions! <3
    -XOXO <3 Alex

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  • tori
    13 years ago

    I can't stand it either. When people say birfday instead of birthday is lazy. I actually blame the schools. They don't care.

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  • abnormalmochi
    14 years ago

    I do this, but normally just when I'm watching TV by myself. Interrupting someone to correct a pronunciation mistake is so rude.

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  • tapdancingrocks
    14 years ago

    Oh my gosh, I do that all the time. If I am really ticked off at someone, though, I will sometimes just be rude and actually correct their grammar.

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  • Kat444
    14 years ago

    You must hate talking to someone with a different accent! Like, if said outloud, my last statement would sound more like "You must hate talkin' ta someone with a diff'rent accent". Bet it would drive you nuts. I'm gonna go with not normal on this one, but I might just be less easily annoyed than most people.

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    • stone_love
      14 years ago

      Kat444: Actually, no. Accents just set up a different mindset to abide to. In your example (southern), the tilt to the words doesn't bother me (e.g. for "hate" I'd say "heyt" and you'd say "haiyt", sort of). But the "diff'rent" would bother me because you're ignoring that "different" is a three-syllable word. It's hard to explain. But accents don't bother me.

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  • PsychoNikki
    14 years ago

    I really do this too, almost always, but 70%% of the time (and I know I irritate people by doing this) I verbally correct their pronunciation. I also correct people (either out loud or in my mind) when they use a word wrong, say someone someone says "If I did X it would be categoric!" I'll be like "catastrophic" and like go "Yeah right..that." I know they hate me for this but I really can't help it. Even if I do say it out loud I, like you ALWAYS do this in my head.

    My vote..it's normal :)

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    • DaftDave
      13 years ago

      I hear that! My mother told me once that she couldn't "decyphen" what my sisters and I were talking about. I stopped her mid sentence and asked her if she was aware that she just fabricated a word.
      Decyphen - verb - the act of putting gas back in the tank after you've sucked it out through a hose.

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      • DaftDave
        13 years ago

        In high school I would hear the phrase "can i axe you a question", I would literally walk to the front of the class and write the words "ask" and "axe" and talk about what each meant, using them in a sentence to clear up any confusion. Man that one really grinds my gears.

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    • pickleweasel
      14 years ago

      it's not crazy i'm the same way

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      • pickleweasel
        14 years ago

        lol i didn't mean to put @: PsychoNikki

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