#hypercorrection

Joe B. Wallrakontisto
2025-06-29

I'm less bothered by honest missteps in grammar, word choice, and pronunciation than by noxious I'm-smarter-than-you hypercorrection and pompnunciations like English speakers pronouncing "ambient" as "AHmbient." Get over yourselves.

Joe B. Wallrakontisto
2025-05-13

The relentless drumbeat of "gift" as a verb in the pervasive newsflood reminds me I'm no pedant about changing language, but I nonetheless detest pointless, dorky mutations like "gifted" instead of "gave" (insert the standard blathering defense of how we need "gifted" because "gave" doesn't sufficiently imply that something was given for keepsies…or something like that here). To me, it just makes anyone using it sound like an oaf.

Joe B. Wallrakontisto
2025-05-08

I contend that most Americans who even know what a 2CV is feel compelled overpronounce its French nickname as "doo shev oh" out of some inherent need to seem in the know (a similar hypercorrection to people saying "biases" as "biaSEEZ" or wrongly sound "habanero" as "habanYERoh" to seem smart), but every French person I've ever encountered slurs it together as "dooshvoh."

We're a peculiar lot.

Mark Dominusmjd@mathstodon.xyz
2025-05-06

Today I learned that the Box-Müller transform is, in fact, the Box-Muller transform. Ooops.

#hypercorrection

2025-01-02

Croisé "personaes" dans un fichier. #hyperCorrection #HahahaYes

Alfred disant à Batman "certains veulent juste voir le monde partir en flamme".
Jonathan Emmesedijemmesedi@c.im
2024-12-30

@grammartable

There's a certain kind of pedant who insists that it should be pronounced with [s] as in "sit", but I see no reason why this pronunciation, derived from middle and early modern English spelling, should be regarded as more "correct" than the pronunciation that follows the post 17h century Hellenized spelling and reflects the word's Greek roots.

#Schism #Etymology #Pedantry #Hypercorrection

Matthieu Weber 🇫🇷/🇫🇮matthieu@weber.fi.eu.org
2024-12-10

hypercorrection : ajouter exprès des fautes d'orthographe pour faire plus authentique.

Par exemple le mot « biisi » en finnois veut dire morceau (de musique). C'est un emprunt à l'anglais « piece », donc on aurait pu avoir « piisi ». La lettre « b » n'existe en finnois que dans les mots empruntés à d'autres langues, mais on a quand même remplacé le « p » de « piisi » par un « b », parce que ça fait plus authentique.

(❗ ne pas confondre « piisi » avec « pissi »)

#linguistique #hypercorrection

2024-07-25
Joe B. Wallrakontisto
2024-04-10

There's something inherently aggravating about listening to an otherwise fascinating interview with someone talking intelligently about language and power who consistently pronounces "biases" as "biasEEZ," in the same way it would be unsettling to hear a professional archivist talking about the "libary."

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