THE PRONUNCIATION MEME

[makeste]

WHY AM I DOING THIS oh my god. Stolen from a lot of people with more interesting/less obnoxious voices than my own:

Make a voice post with the following things so that your F-list can hear how you pronounce them (and laugh at you, of course):

01. Your name and/or username
02. Where you're from
03. The words "roof", "aunt", "direction", and "naturally"
04. Your favorite song
05. Your favorite character
06. A word in a different language

D:

Comments

[faorism.livejournal.com]

LOL JERSEY.

♥ I love how everyone has that awkward transition between their intro and the questions, and then another awk moment when you have to stop. /victim of the awk myself.

[makeste.livejournal.com]

OH MY POOR HOME STATE SO ABUSED!!

Lol I know right. It's like "sooooo, uh. I feel like I should be saying more words here but I am not exactly certain of what those words should be so I guess I should just start the meme so I'll do that then!" And then afterward it's like, "...now what...?" XD

[snowpoison.livejournal.com]

Funny really, because a friend of mine always tells me about how amazing New Jersey is when she goes on her holidays :'D So I don't know anything bad about the place. Really.

Anyway, do you know what? Your voice is exactly how I imagine your voice is to be! You sound better than myself, anyway. I couldn't even speak up ;w;

[makeste.livejournal.com]

:O Someone actually giving NJ some decent PR? It almost sounds too good to be true. YOUR FRIEND IS AWESOME. ♥

And lol, do I really? I wonder if that means I write the way I talk, or if it's that I just talk the way I write. XD But I still don't have an awesome accent like you, though.

[caddles.livejournal.com]

SOMEBODY REPLY TO THIS COMMENT SO I'M REMINDED TO LISTEN TO THIS WHEN I GET HOME Y/Y

[makeste.livejournal.com]

DOES THAT MEAN IF I DON'T REPLY YOU WON'T LISTEN TO IT AND I WON'T HAVE TO BE EMBARRASSED? AWESOME.

ETA: WAIT. NOOOOOOOOOOOO

NEW JERSEY, GET IN ON SOME OF THIS RAINBOW

[escherichiacola.livejournal.com]

I can't help but notice you pronounce aunt as "ont".

[rinkhals.livejournal.com]

I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY THEY ASK YOU TO SAY NATURALLY, how many ways are there to say that word!

I want to do this like crazy but LJ won't let me and my support ticket hasn't been answered yet.

Re: NEW JERSEY, GET IN ON SOME OF THIS RAINBOW

[makeste.livejournal.com]

I DO. Not everyone here does, though; I hear "ant" almost as often, so I'm used to both.

[makeste.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the only variations I can think of are "nah-troo-ruh-lee" and "nah-truh-lee", with the second version kind of omitting one of the syllables. As far as accents go, there are probably other words out there that are a lot more revealing.

And that sucks. :/ I hope they fix the issue soon, I wanna hear yours.

[windgoddess688.livejournal.com]

Ok, not to sound too strange, but I think it's awesome that if somehow we ever met and ran out of KHR things to talk about, we'd have a f*cking BLAST talking about other random shit that we have in common....

yeah.....

It's ok bout the Spanish, I'm a 4th generation Mexican-American living in California and people NEVER understand why me and my parents don't speak Spanish (they even more confused when I tell 'em I'm practically fluent in Japanese)....it's like, the idea of cultural assimilation and the fact that my GRANDMOTHER doesn't even really speak it is rendered moot...heh heh moooot

wait- so i've been pronouncing your username in 3 syllables all this time.....THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING! D:

Hellz yeah Linkin Park! And I would have laughed if you pronounced New Jersey as "New Joisey" XD

[smilypie.livejournal.com]

Aww don't hate the way you sound, you sound adorable D8 <3

Ohhh so thaaaaat's how you pronounce Makeste. Why was I not able to figure that out. /derp.

Ahh I wanna do this meme kinda sorta (even though I sound disgusting outside of my own head) but I have no mic ffff 8'C

[makeste.livejournal.com]

ran out of KHR things to talk about

Sob so here I was reading this post and I got to this part and the first thing that crossed my mind was, "but that would NEVER HAPPEN!!" WAS THAT THE POINT FLYING UP OVER MY HEAD JUST NOW I think it was. XDDD

ANYWAY, I too think it is awesome, so yeah. Haha, it's good to know there's someone else in the "everyone always assumes that I speak Spanish even though I don't which gets really embarrassing at times" boat. XD I'm planning to learn it at some point just so I can stop getting into situations where people start talking to me in Spanish and I have to sheepishly explain that I have no fucking idea what they're saying.

Lol, and I did wonder how many people were pronouncing the 'e' at the end, Japanese-style. But that's my own fault for having such a weird username. (Truth is, I came up with it because one day I found a typo in a fortune cookie where the words "makes" and "the" were smooshed together, and I thought to myself, 'hey, there's a username in there somewhere' so I took it but I ditched the 'h' because it was just holding it back. So it's basically a made-up word that I arbitrarily chose a pronunciation for at random. XD)

Lol. Actually, in all my years here I've never known someone from Jersey to actually pronounce it as "Joisey." I think that's more of a Brooklyn thing, heh.

[makeste.livejournal.com]

Lol, idk, I guess everyone hates the way they sound when they hear themselves recorded. XD It drives me crazy but I'm glad it doesn't bug other people so much.

Haha, and I wouldn't say that's much of a derp thing, really, given that the way I pronounce it is completely arbitrary. I can't even remember why I settled on that pronunciation now... I guess it just felt right or something. XD

Aww, too bad, I'd love to hear you do the meme (I'm having such a blast listening to everyone else's voices and accents). Maybe you could do a recording with a cell phone and try uploading that? I wonder if there are sites that let you do that... *ponder*

[windgoddess688.livejournal.com]

Lmao, i somehow knew it was a brooklyn accent and yet i still wrote it @_@

misspelled fortune cookies FTW! I'd always wondered how your username came about :DDDDD

I had the chance to learn Spanish this last year as a (super) senior since my lovely adviser thought it necessary for us modern language majors to learn a *third* language for a year....

I was all for taking Italian...and yes, it's for the reason we both know and love...i was *SO* stoked....and then they canceled it......as well as Portuguese....as well as Arabic, Russian, Cantonese AND EVERY OTHER FUCKING LANGUAGE THAT WASN'T ASSOCIATED WITH A MAJOR!

*sigh* So it was a toss up between French and Spanish...and I realized that frankly I could probably just ask my friends to teach me it or just buy a cheaper version of Rosetta Stone.

In short, bonjour! (i love it went you hear that whoosh over your head! so refreshing!)

[storm-obsession.livejournal.com]

If I did this, everyone would probably not bother listening because the people who go to my blog are my classmates...:/ And I would be the one laughing because, yeah, voices sound screwed when recorded. >_<

YESH I got 'makeste' right...the pronunciation, I mean. :D But either way, my friend and I have finally confirmed your gender (ya can never be too sure on the world wide web...)

...how does one even upload recordings on LJ? I abandoned my LJ mostly cuz no one reads it.

[smilypie.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I understand. But you voice isn't bothersome at all, hehe c8

Lol, it's funny though, that I couldn't think of your way to say it. Even though it makes the more sense than anything I was thinking. (Though my brain usually just thinks of you as Julie, so yeah XD)

Yeah 8C but it's alright. Sob, I don't even have a cellphone. And I'm not gonna bother asking my sister, ffff

[makeste.livejournal.com]

*raises hand!* I would listen to it! I love this meme so much, getting to hear everyone talk and for once hearing their actual voices and not just the voices I imagine in my head when I read their posts and comments. Idk, something about it makes me feel that much closer to people. ...does that make me sound lame and/or creepy? I think it might. XD

But either way, my friend and I have finally confirmed your gender

Sob, I wish I could say this was the first time my gender has been called into question on the Internet. ...or the second. Or the third. Or fourth. XD I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS but I have actually been mistaken for a guy a lot. ?? IT MUST BE MY MANLY AURA.

And I think that to do an LJ voice post you have to have a paid account (though, don't quote me on that?), but the site I used is actually free and super-easy to use, so you could just record something with that and post it.

[pestetada.livejournal.com]

I pronounce yours as "mak-est-e" - and it was probably the weeabo in me, idk. ^^;

Haha. I loved how fast you answered #5~ XD

I did another one called "Voice Meme" - pretty much the same but it had more questions than this. But I'd like to do this in the future~ :D

[makeste.livejournal.com]

Yeah, to be honest, if it was someone else's username and it was me trying to figure out how to say it, I'd automatically go with the Japanese pronunciation too, pronouncing the e as a separate syllable and putting the emphasis at the beginning of the name. I've gotten into the habit of doing that automatically for any name that I don't know the origin of. XD

Haha, number five was super easy. I should have punked everyone and said Byakuran. :P

Ooh, a voice meme, you say? I'll have to go and track yours down when I get the chance, it sounds fun. |D

[cleartempest.livejournal.com]

IT'S BEEN A WHILE SINCE YOU POSTED THIS BUT I JUST SAW IT NOW SO

YOUR VOICEEE ♥ I can't say the way you write ever gave me any preconceived notions about your voice but you sound the way I would imagine ♥...even though I've never really thought to imagine what your voice sounds like...this makes complete sense. slkgasg I think I just mean it sounds familiar even though I've never heard it.
I love the way you answered number 5 ♥

And I've always pronounced your username like may-kes-tee. Yeah. idk. XD

[makeste.livejournal.com]

♥ ♥ Nah, I know what you mean; I felt that way when I was listening to some of the other voice memes. Like, "I never thought about what you might sound like before, and yet somehow this is exactly what I expected." NEVER MIND THAT IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE. Heh. YOU SHOULD DO THIS MEME TOOOO, or the other pronunciation meme that was more recently going about.

Lol, may-kes-tee... well, it makes about as much sense as any other pronunciation. Probably more than mine. My username is just weird. XD

[cleartempest.livejournal.com]

...I posted mine ahhhh

Haha, god I wonder how other people with weird usernames pronounce theirs...and how off I am XD