For me, it may be that the toilet paper roll needs to have the open end away from the wall. I don’t want to reach under the roll to take a piece! That’s ludicrous!

That or my recent addiction to correcting people when they use “less” when they should use “fewer”

  • @slumlordthanatos
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    53 months ago

    An entire fandom has been pronouncing “Evangelion” wrong for the past quarter-century.

    It’s supposed to be pronounced with a hard G, like hair gel.

    • qantravon
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      83 months ago

      A hard g? Like in giraffe?

    • ObjectivityIncarnate
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      33 months ago

      I’m not really into it, but it seems I’ve been saying it right the whole time, nice lol.

    • NotNotMikeOP
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      13 months ago

      Dota players will pronounce “Abaddon” (a hero’s name) like “ah-buh-don” and it’s really bizarre. In their defense though, many aren’t native English speakers

    • @[email protected]
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      13 months ago

      εὐαγγέλιον

      /eu̯.aŋ.ɡé.li.on/

      Roughly pronounced ayoo-ahn-gay-lee-on

      Or if that’s not a compelling argument

      新世紀エヴァンゲリオン

      /ɕiɲseiki ebangeɾioɴ/

      Roughly pronounced Ay-bahn-gay-lee-on

      And that’s really what matters: how the guy who named it pronounces the name.