Who doesn’t love a good story of someone getting their just desserts? Especially when it involves a language enthusiast, a football match, and a know-it-all boyfriend. ️⚽ Our hero, a 22-year-old language lover, found himself in a situation that would test his patience and his linguistic skills. Let’s dive into this tale of linguistic justice, where arrogance meets multilingualism.
A Multilingual Hobbyist
Football Night and a Know-It-All
The Pronunciation Police Strikes
The Unwanted Linguistic Corrections ️
The Linguistic Surprise
The Tables Have Turned
The Aftermath of the Linguistic Showdown ️
The Lingering Resentment
The Refusal to Apologize
The Linguistic Justice Served ️
Our language-loving hero found himself in a sticky situation during a football match. His sister’s boyfriend, the self-proclaimed ‘Pronunciation Police,’ was constantly correcting him on his pronunciation of German footballer’s names, despite getting them all wrong. Our hero, tired of the incessant corrections, revealed his secret weapon – he speaks German! This unexpected twist left the know-it-all speechless and the crowd in splits. But the drama didn’t end there. The sister is now demanding an apology for her humiliated boyfriend. But our hero stands his ground, refusing to apologize for serving a well-deserved dose of linguistic justice. Let’s see what the internet thinks of this linguistic showdown… ️
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NTA: Shutting down a know-it-all with linguistic justice ️
Pronouncing names in different languages: respecting or pretentious?
ESH: Annoying correction battle with a sprinkle of showboating
ESH: Language debate escalates, both parties could have handled better
Linguistic justice served! Keep sharing your language stories!
ESH for correcting names, but pronunciations should be respectful
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“That’s how I was taught to pronounce it when I was learning the language, maybe my pronunciation is off.” ️ ESH, but he’s the real smart ass
Commenter calls out OP for arrogance and creating unnecessary drama
NTA: Epic shutdown of a know-it-all. Linguistic justice served!
“ESH I mean he behaved like an A but also one does not on purpose mispronounce names. When I speak English, I also try to pronounce non-English names correctly. This is also part of our sensitivity training at work and it is hard for me because I always had a problem with pronunciation but I understand this is also about respecting the other individual. So you both get an A rating from me, him for correcting you when he doesn’t know anything and you for mispronouncing names on purpose.” – Engaging discussion on mispronouncing names ️
“ESH. Linguistic justice showdown: Age vs. pronunciation expertise! “
A smug commenter gets a taste of linguistic justice ️
>he became so annoying correcting me at every German word I said.
Since you claim you were speaking Spanish, the only German words you used were surnames (Müller and Klostermann are originally nouns naming professions but in this instance clearly surnames). We should try to pronounce the surnames as closely as the original pronunciation. He probably tried to correct you because he only heard it pronounced similarly to German by sports commentators, so this is what he knows these players by. I don’t read it as him having bad intentions.
Your intention was, however, to show off (which really came through in the whole post) and humiliate him so that other people would laugh at him (although it wasn’t even funny). I don’t get how you thought this was the only way to make him stop correcting you when up until that point you ignored him and tried no other method.
YTA
Linguistic justice served! NTA shut down know-it-all with style
Respecting names is important! Let’s avoid cultural insensitivity.
Engaging in linguistic justice: pronunciations and show-offs collide! ️
Engaging response to a know-it-all language showoff ️
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Awkward language correction leads to unnecessary showdown
Language lover corrects grammar and capitalization in German sentence
NTA for finding native pronunciations well-intentioned but annoying.
