Help with Pronunciation of "Anathema"

[T'Bonz]

Xeris said:
...but I have little sympathy for those who have no excuse for not being able to speak, pronounce or spell correctly - and that includes my father!

It's not easy to change when one is raised with poor grammar skills or in a family where it is not a priority. It can be learned at a later age *raises hand* but it's trickier to remember it when speaking as opposed to the written word.

Schools didn't encourage it in my time (or correct bad grammar) and I bet they're worse nowadays about that.

Don't look down on those with inferior grammar skills. Help them if they want help, but remember, many people are too busy trying to earn a living and survive to care about not ending sentences with prepositions. Not everyone is middle class with a laptop and intelligent friends.

 

[Christopher]

"A-na-the-ma." By analogy with "analysis," "anatomy," and, well, "analogy."

 

[iguana_tonante]

It's pronunced "Ee-nay-muh".

 

[Therin of Andor]

Kegek Kringle said:
^That's not the impression I have been given of those who correct me (as a dyslexic, I make frequent grammatical errors and word confusions), or the impression recieved when I correct others. All that is required is a bit of candour and politeness.

The guy's friend isn't an idiot for pronouncing a work incorrectly. He's an idiot for stubbornly refusing to change his pronunciation, even though every resource he and Technobuilder had checked - over several months - did not back up the friend's claim.

 

[Julio Angel Ortiz]

It's also not a word that comes up in every day conversation... for most people, at least.

BOB: Jim, did you forget to refill the coffee pot?
JIM: Well, yes I did. Sorry about that.
BOB: You are now anathema!

Yeah, haven't come across that in the office recently.

 

[captcalhoun]

it's anathema to me that people can't pronounce anathama properly!

 

[BrotherBenny]

captcalhoun said:
it's anathema to me that people can't pronounce anathama properly!

Or spell anathema properly when using it twice in one sentence. And the sentence, grammatically, should read: It's an anathema to me that people can't pronounce anathema properly!

 

[James Swallow]

uh-NATH-uh-ma

Doo doo do-do-do.

uh-NATH-uh-ma

Doo doo, doo doo.

*ahem*. Sorry.

 

[Christopher]

Xeris said:
And the sentence, grammatically, should read: It's an anathema to me that people can't pronounce anathema properly!

Actually, no. "X is anathema to Y" is a standard and acceptable usage.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/anathema

 

[Julio Angel Ortiz]

Christopher said:

Xeris said:
And the sentence, grammatically, should read: It's an anathema to me that people can't pronounce anathema properly!

Actually, no. "X is anathema to Y" is a standard and acceptable usage.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/anathema

ZOMG oh noes Xeris got PWNED. LOLZ

(Watches as Xeris' head explodes.)

 

[Scott Pearson]

Every once in awhile I like to pronounce "pronunciation" as "pronounciation" to see if anyone catches the geeky language humor of it.

 

[Christopher]

Scott Pearson said:
Every once in awhile I like to pronounce "pronunciation" as "pronounciation" to see if anyone catches the geeky language humor of it.

Is that like the old "Which word in this sentence is mispelled" (sic) gag?

 

[Technobuilder]

James Swallow said:

uh-NATH-uh-ma

Doo doo do-do-do.

uh-NATH-uh-ma

Doo doo, doo doo.

*ahem*. Sorry.

^BEST POST EVER!

 

[Scott Pearson]

Christopher said:

Scott Pearson said:
Every once in awhile I like to pronounce "pronunciation" as "pronounciation" to see if anyone catches the geeky language humor of it.

Is that like the old "Which word in this sentence is mispelled" (sic) gag?

Like that, only aural.

Technobuilder said:

James Swallow said:

uh-NATH-uh-ma

Doo doo do-do-do.

uh-NATH-uh-ma

Doo doo, doo doo.

*ahem*. Sorry.

^BEST POST EVER!

Holy crap, I finally got that.
Brilliant.

 

[Maestro]

Xeris said:

captcalhoun said:
it's anathema to me that people can't pronounce anathama properly!

Or spell anathema properly when using it twice in one sentence. And the sentence, grammatically, should read: It's an anathema to me that people can't pronounce anathema properly!

If we're going to get down right technical here, the following is probably the best sentence: "To me, people who cannot pronounce anathema correctly are anathema."

 

[Jim Johnson]

James Swallow said:

uh-NATH-uh-ma

Doo doo do-do-do.

uh-NATH-uh-ma

Doo doo, doo doo.

*ahem*. Sorry.

Ba-hahaha! This is 20x funnier because my wife and I just finished watching the first two seasons of the Muppet Show on DVD and that bit was in one of the episodes. Classic.

 

[captcalhoun]

Or spell anathema properly when using it twice in one sentence. And the sentence, grammatically, should read: It's an anathema to me that people can't pronounce anathema properly!

La di da di da

 

[James Swallow]

Technobuilder said:
^BEST POST EVER!

Thank you. I'm here all weekend. Don't forget to tip your waitress.
I love Trek BBS... Very clean...

 

[BrotherBenny]

Christopher said:

Xeris said:
And the sentence, grammatically, should read: It's an anathema to me that people can't pronounce anathema properly!

Actually, no. "X is anathema to Y" is a standard and acceptable usage.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/anathema

I'm English. You heathens keep playing our language

It might be an acceptable usage in the US, but over here in the UK we would usually include the an in the sentence, unless specifically writing in US English. So says pretty much every English teacher I've ever had, including the American one who always marvelled at the differences in the two languages.

 

[TGTheodore]

I used to have anathema ... but then I got an inhaler and the thymptoms went away.

--Ted