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>tfw you pronounce non-english author's names correctly

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>tfw you pronounce non-english author's names correctly but feel pretentious doing so
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>>7852713

>tfw you deliberately mispronounce words to hide your /lit/ power level from the plebs around you

Anyone else know this feel?
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>>7852755
no I just pick my words carefully
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>Pinch-on... hahaha, anon, you mean Pinchin?
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>>7852713
>in conversation
>guy you are talking to mispronounces authors name
>you just say it the same way he does for the rest of the conversation
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>>7852713
My first language is Mandarin, I can pronounce German and English names correctly, but I just can't do any other's. I still can't properly say Dostoyevsky, it's just hard. I was saying Pynchon wrong forever until somebody pointed it out to me last month. I've been told I have a slight accent and everybody I speak to understands me. Only been speaking for 3 and a half years.
Fuck French names too. I first saw Descartes and read it like it was Mexican.
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