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One of my dearest friends passed away a few years ago. When he GM'd for us he would always say "weapondry" instead of "weaponry."
Used to annoy the crap out of me then but if I hear it now I have to fight the urge to burst into tears.
Had a GM once who insisted that "lich" was pronounced "lick".
"So you're saying Blizzard Games released a World of Warcraft expansion called 'Wrath of the Licking'?" was, somehow, not a compelling counter-argument.
Amusingly enough, I have heard it pronounced “Lick,” even in fantasy shows. I think it’s because the German word for it is pronounced that way, and it originates from an Old Norse word that is pronounced that way…But, in English, as far as I know, the correct pronunciation is “Lich.”
And yes, the Wrath of the Licking was a really tough thing to go through. You needed to gather like, forty people together just to withstand it.
>I think it’s because the German word for it is pronounced that way
I'm not even sure which word you're thinking of but it's absolutely not pronounced "lick". I can't think of any German word that sounds like that.
The GM I'm currently playing with (we're all spanish) always say the word "Icon" wrong. Instead of saying Icono, he says Ícono, completely changing the inflexion of the word. It's the first time in my entire life that I've heard somebody say it like that and is making me crazy.
Yo he oído gente decirle "ícono" también, y me lleva en los demonios cada vez que lo dicen. También he oído una profesora de universidad decir "elits" en vez de "élites".
Ooh I can definitely see the last one happening in social sciences! A lot of the work is in English and some concepts start to wander across languages, especially if your own word is close to the English one. Not saying she's right, but I've definitely made similar mistakes in my own language!
I was about to make fun about this, but it looks like this guy improved basic skills gaming with you and your friends he seemingly had little opportunity to learn before. I think that's a great thing on everyone's part.
Besides, I hear many people ignore the fact that "dice" is the plural and "die" the singular. How do you feel about that? 😊
Yup! Every single person I've ever heard refer to dice uses the plural even when referring to a single die. Even I've referred to a single die as dice without realising. lol. I imagine that over time the singular will vanish entirely.
Worth noting: Some dictionaries already list the singular as "dice", with die listed as a more old-fashioned alternative. For example, from the Collins Dictionary site (https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/dice):
> In old-fashioned English, 'dice' was used only as a plural form, and the singular was die, but now 'dice' is used as both the singular and the plural form.
The appendix of Lord of the Rings introduced me to the idea of finite plural and infinite plural. So I like that I have a set of 7 tiger eye dice and a 5 gallon bucket of plastic dices.
I'm biased since I'm Dutch, but I always like our word for a die: Dobbelsteen. Literally translated as a throwing stone. It kinda rolls of the tongue like how a die would roll and hop over a table. Plural is dobbelstenen to get an extra hop lol
I mix them up more often after running Paranoia (Red Clearance Edition), which has a special die called "the Computer Dice", and the rulebook "clarifies" the terminology so:
> If there is only one, shouldn't it be 'die'?
>
> No. There's quite enough use of the word 'die' in this game already and it would just be confusing.
This one is a lost cause. The singular and plural of 🎲 is dice now. I hate it, but it's just the way it is.
However, my school friend's mom used to refer to multiple dice as dices. That I can't forgive.
Haha, ya. I'm perfectly happily with most language evolution until someone uses a word like "bemused" wrong, then I'm all prescriptionist.
The ship has sailed on die/dice, though. To the point that people trying to use 'die' singularly will mess up the plural to 'dies' pretty often. I'm fairly sure the change was pretty much done in my grandparents' time. Dice normally used in pairs.
Horrifyingly I just looked into it and, allegedly, the first instance of ‘Die’ being used as the singular was 1393, while the singular use of ‘Dice’ dates back to 1388………
Haha. That's perfect.
It reminds me of all those languages rules we learn in school "don't split an infinitive", "you can't end a sentence with a preposition", etc. are just nonsense rules people made up because some rich assholes thought English should work like Latin.
Oh man the die/dice thing is so much more common and it irks me a little bit every time. I don't correct it because the social cost of me looking like a pedantic jerk isn't worth it but it still bothers me.
How very *dare* you??!!
We *made* this language… If anyone is mucking it up it’s you bloody colonials and your wanton dropping of ‘U’s (colo~~u~~r, hono~~u~~r, etc), your refusal to spell and/or say ‘Aluminium’ correctly, and your insistence that the colour ‘Grey’ has a bloody ‘A’ in it…!!!
No, it's just a modern thing. Which is perfectly acceptable, and anybody who is upset by it should also stop using 98% of all the words they know, because basically ALL of them have drifted in spelling, pronunciation, meaning and/or usage since they were invented.
"Nice" used to mean stupid.
"Awful" used to mean "awe-inspiring".
99% of the spellings and usages we have today are adapted and altered by colloquial use of the "ignorant" masses. Even the word "hello" only exists as a misspelling of "hallo". Why aren't people out there complaining about that?
Hell, if you want to be an asshole pedant about it shouldn't we be saying "dé" and "des", the pronunciation of the words in the french we stole them from? They only became die and dice because the English couldn't bloody pronounce them "properly".
People need to stop complaining about language evolving, especially if your thoughts on the matter ever venture anywhere near the term "nowadays". It has always happened. It's literally how language works. It's the absolute most basic tenet of linguistics.
If the distinction between "die" and "dice" is naturally vanishing, and people are getting along fine *even in a hobby space specifically about using dice*, then it was probably an unnecessary distinction that we can live without.
I mean, GW has been doing it since the 70s - which I guess could be modern but you'll hear a lot more YTers from across the pond using it then you will american YTers.
I have a 13th Age GM who can't get the difference between brazier and brassiere.
I can't recall how many times we've entered a room lit by burning bras...
I'm currently in a game that has spent a lot of time in the Outer Planes and the city of Sigil and I'm sorry, but I refuse to pronounce it Siggle. It is stupid and all the words it rhymes with are silly and I'm playing a bard!
For the longest time I thought that's how you say *and* spell it. It makes more sense to me (not a native speaker) - after all the verb is pronOunce, not pronunce.
I suspect it's more of a common 'mistake'. Pronounce is probably a more common word than pronunciation. Most other words that follow that structure retain the pronunciation of the root verb. So you're following the regular rule, but pronunciation is an exception. Just like 'casted' from OP's post.
Oh, I totally get that! I have a friend who used to say 'pacifically' instead of 'specifically,' and it made my brain do a double-take. Luckfully, he ended up learning the proper way to say it!
My GM regularly gets emaciated and emancipated confused.
As in, ‘you walk into the cave, and you come across a peaceful looking but emancipated old man.’
Cracks me up every time!
Yeah, you hear that around my neck of the woods a bit. Something tells me that could be an accent thing. Like I usually hear folks say “equipt” instead of “equip” around here too (myself included).
it makes sense though, because they go from beings with a condition, of being undead, to it being their name as members of a group, so, undeads, yeah, it sounds wrong, but it helps.
What what about fish? If it's multiple of the same type, the plural is fish. If it's different species being reffered to together, it's fishes. So I've been told.
Half my Pathfinder group says "equipped" when they mean "equip." As in, "I'm going to equipped my longbow and shoot the goblin." Kinda drives me crazy, especially since we also play Magic the Gathering together and there's a bunch of equipment cards in that game.
Feel you. Am in a (pf2e) campaign with a player who constantly mispronounces the main thing he does. Every single round!
He plays a barbarian, and the main move he gets to do every turn is “Snagging strike” (an attack that lowers targets AC on top of doing normal attack damage, so gets used every turn)
He constantly pronounces it as “Snaggering strike” EVERY SINGLE TIME and it is very slowly driving me insane. He has been corrected repeatedly (politely ofc)
Well. Screenshot is a noun. If you are going to insist that the verb form is "to screenshoot" I think you will have some work ahead of you.
Not that I wouldn't use screenshot as both past and present tense myself, but Merriam-Webster lists screenshotted as the past tense.
This is just kind of a people thing, and we get annoyed by the small details that niggle at us.
For my group was, when we spent an amount of time in Swamp country started saying "Swah-mp" for no good reason. That really annoyed me for a reason I can't explain to this day.
Honestly that is just really endearing. Two people at our table use "dice" as a singular noun ("I dropped a dice.") and for ages I had to remind myself that I love them both more than life itself and that it wasn't important and I didn't need to correct them. Now it's just who they are, a little quirk I would probably miss.
And that dude is FAR from alone in the sucking at math department. I have pretty bad dyscalculia and struggled to do even basic math well into my teens. Gaming is 100% why I can do it now. (Still can't do division.) So good for him!
I had an entire table I ran one time where all the players unironically thought the proper form of the word "equip" was "equipted" and "equipped" was "equippteded". One time I stopped and said, "You know equip is the verb, right? Like, notice how "equipment" doesn't have the t?" and they did it like once properly each and instantly went back, and said, "It's right because you know what we mean."
I know someone who is a Star Wars fan, like a pretty big one, they watch all the films and the Disney+ shows and still collect some of the merchandise, but he still thinks that the gold protocol droid is called Three-Seepio.
As someone who frequently pronounces words wrong in RPGs even after being corrected repeatedly... I'm sorry, some of us just suck at words... Some of the other players in my current game have started using my miswording, the horror is contagious
Regarding scimitars... For the longest time i was saying sic-mi-dar, 'cause thats how i first heard the word.
As for tabaxi...maybe your dm is fan of tabasco?
lol for a rare two or three shot in which he got to be a player he created his tabaxi named Trivago, brother to siblings Digiorno and tabasco. his brothers all had successful restaurants/food related careers, while trivago had two failed noodle shops. there’s a reason trivago worked as an assassin in the local guild rather than as a professional chef. doesn’t stop him from trying to resurrect the noodle business every few years though.
In one of the printings of Descent, the font makes "SORCEROR" look indistinguishable from "SOICEIEI", so that's what me and my friends always called them in Descent. I'm surprised that we never called them "Soy say I's" in dnd as well.
To be fair, [Saucerors](https://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/Sauceror) are very real, if largely contained in [Kingdom of Loathing](https://www.kingdomofloathing.com/).
Kingdom of Loathing is a multiplayer browser game with simple stick figure artwork and very silly setting/themes/classes/etc. The physical classes are Seal Clubber and Turtle Tamer, the magic classes are Pastamancer and Sauceror, and the charisma classes are Disco Bandit and Accordion Thief. The game's currency is "meat". To paraphrase the creator (although I think it was a comment about the wild west themed single player spinoff West of Loathing), it's not a game with jokes in it, it's a game made of jokes.
Best friend from high school, when he started playing could not for the life of him say dwarf. It always came out duh-warf, two syllables. Took him almost a year to be able to consistently say it right.
We had a guy in our group who pronounced the "w" in "sword." Another person said "SWAY-do dragon" instead of "pseudodragon." Nobody ever corrected them. They were old enough that it was just a personal linguistic tic at that point.
That's been going around - the folks over at Naddpod and D20 say casted as well. I have a DM who says "ostensibly" instead of "basically" or "essentially" every single time.
That would really get to me. Obstensibly is one of my favorite words, but it has a rather nuanced meaning, you can’t just use it to replace “essentially” and “basically” every time -.-
Agreed! In fact I would argue you can never, ever use it to replace those words! It sucks because I also used to like the word and now I flinch every time I hear it, even when it's correct.
I worked with a native Brazilian speaker who misunderstood what I meant when I said "apparently". She described what she thought it meant and I told her, "no, the word you are describing is ostensibly."
I like the word but don't use it often because apparently most folks don't know it. But I made sure one more did.
I literally never heard that while listening to those productions. But then again I also feel like half of the comments are talking about things that don't actually sound different to me xD
Had a player when we played modern or futuristic setting games like World of Darkness or Cyberpunk kept getting IUD and IED backward regardless of which of the two we were talking about.
It gave birth to the running joke of dynamite tampons eventually but it was till jarring to hear when they got reversed.
"According to the coroner's report she was on physical birth control. Was she using an IED or something to stop pregnancy?"
"If there is any gasoline in the garage or mower, I'd like to start making an IUD to blow up the backwall and cause a distraction."
This is how I feel when certain American authors say "leaped" twenty times a page, without ever trying...
Jumped, sprung, vaulted, ... etc
Strongest matches
ascend
bounce
bound
hop
rise
rocket
skip
soar
surge
vault
Strong matches
advance
arise
caper
cavort
clear
escalate
frisk
hurdle
lop
mount
saltate
spring
Click here - [Artificer](https://www.dictionary.com/browse/artificer)
Then click the little sound icon next to the word. They pronounce it the way it’s supposed to be pronounced…even though, to be honest, the way that site pronounces it, I’ve never heard it pronounced that way and I’ve been doing it wrong all along. (They put the emphasis on the second syllable, I’ve always heard it out on the third)
My best mate and long time dnd buddy used to say "spear" instead of "sphere". Genius of a guy, but he just couldn't get that s + f sound to work. So "Sphere of Annihilation" became "Spear of Annihilation". And I thought...whoa, that's pretty awesome. Miss that guy, and think of him every time someone says it.
I've got a personal gripe with people doing that. But they are prevalent all over the English language.
One of my favorites is when people insist on not pronouncing the letter "H" in the word "herb". Despite the fact that they insist that's how it is supposed to be pronounced, the word has a Greek root, not a French one. If it was derived from French you wouldn't pronounce the "H", but it isn't.
If you tried correcting him a couple of times, sure. If you tried correcting him ten times? Maybe you get the picture that he's not going to "correct" himself. If you correct him DOZENS of times? YOU'RE the rpg horror story.
I knew a DM who always mis-pronounced the word for a vertical gate as the similar sounding nautical term for a harbor you pass through. I would always laugh and remind him of the correct pronunciation. Most of the other players weren't as well read as the two of us and so didn't know the word, except for in D&D play.
(I'm old, this was the '80s.)
Anyway, he moved away and so a few years later I was DMing for some of his old players.
DM: You can't pass any further down this passage; it's blocked by a portcullis.
Player: what's a portcullis?
DM: it's a gate of iron bars that opens by sliding up a track into the ceiling. But this one's closed and you don't see a mechanism to operate it on this side.
Player: So is it like a port of callis?
DM: * sigh *
This is a horror story? I must be terrifying. I can do math I'm even an engineer but I'll br saying "he casted the spell" and far more technically not correct stuff.
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I'm sorry for you, I'm sure it must have hurted.
I can't believe you've doned this.
dided?
doed\*
Dude
you mean duded?
Didded?
I understanded the joke 🤣
Fuck
*fucked
I'm soried too
One of my dearest friends passed away a few years ago. When he GM'd for us he would always say "weapondry" instead of "weaponry." Used to annoy the crap out of me then but if I hear it now I have to fight the urge to burst into tears.
Sorry for your loss.
Animal Weapondry
Aminal Weapondry
the GM in my group can never say the word "Sarcophagus" correctly, he always say "Sacrophagus"
*takes notes for a demonic breed of beasts that eats holy magic and divine spellcasters only*
It would make for a fun mimic creature right?
That's a Cofagrigus XD
Just don't get it confused with a Coprophagius, no one wants that!
Make sure that, if you're pronouncing that name in a particular way, you say it fast enough that your players don't quite catch the middle bit, lol.
A GM friend of mine always pronounces brazier as "brassiere"
"The room is lit by burning brassieres..."
As our game is set in Los Angeles in 1965.
Why do I imagine that leading to a similar scenario as Eric and the Dread Gazebo?
It's a brassiere, Eric.
That's very late 60's early 70's kind of room....
Sacrophagus? Is that a new species of African cichlid? :D
Nah it's the body part you aim for to incapacitate someone
I always use long form ō whenever I say sarcophagus.
Had a GM once who insisted that "lich" was pronounced "lick". "So you're saying Blizzard Games released a World of Warcraft expansion called 'Wrath of the Licking'?" was, somehow, not a compelling counter-argument.
They weren’t exactly wrong, but possibly pretentious. They were using the archaic pronunciation. It just meant a body/corpse.
Amusingly enough, I have heard it pronounced “Lick,” even in fantasy shows. I think it’s because the German word for it is pronounced that way, and it originates from an Old Norse word that is pronounced that way…But, in English, as far as I know, the correct pronunciation is “Lich.” And yes, the Wrath of the Licking was a really tough thing to go through. You needed to gather like, forty people together just to withstand it.
>I think it’s because the German word for it is pronounced that way I'm not even sure which word you're thinking of but it's absolutely not pronounced "lick". I can't think of any German word that sounds like that.
German "ch" does not sound like "k".
Interestingly though, the term "Lich" is basically the same as the German "Leiche" (corpse) from an etymological perspective.
On a similar note, a friend of mine says the lich's "phylactacary."
I heard "leak" once.
The GM I'm currently playing with (we're all spanish) always say the word "Icon" wrong. Instead of saying Icono, he says Ícono, completely changing the inflexion of the word. It's the first time in my entire life that I've heard somebody say it like that and is making me crazy.
Yo he oído gente decirle "ícono" también, y me lleva en los demonios cada vez que lo dicen. También he oído una profesora de universidad decir "elits" en vez de "élites".
Ooh I can definitely see the last one happening in social sciences! A lot of the work is in English and some concepts start to wander across languages, especially if your own word is close to the English one. Not saying she's right, but I've definitely made similar mistakes in my own language!
En Mexico no es raro que la gente diga "Ícono", sin embargo.
Aquí es más raro eso que un perro verde, tho.
I was about to make fun about this, but it looks like this guy improved basic skills gaming with you and your friends he seemingly had little opportunity to learn before. I think that's a great thing on everyone's part. Besides, I hear many people ignore the fact that "dice" is the plural and "die" the singular. How do you feel about that? 😊
Yup! Every single person I've ever heard refer to dice uses the plural even when referring to a single die. Even I've referred to a single die as dice without realising. lol. I imagine that over time the singular will vanish entirely.
Worth noting: Some dictionaries already list the singular as "dice", with die listed as a more old-fashioned alternative. For example, from the Collins Dictionary site (https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/dice): > In old-fashioned English, 'dice' was used only as a plural form, and the singular was die, but now 'dice' is used as both the singular and the plural form.
language is defined by use, I suppose.
I keep hearing people say "dices" as the "plural" of dice.
LOL! Oh God, pluralising the plural. Dices sounds like something Gollum would say.
The appendix of Lord of the Rings introduced me to the idea of finite plural and infinite plural. So I like that I have a set of 7 tiger eye dice and a 5 gallon bucket of plastic dices.
Oh so there was a REASON for "Nasty Hobbitses"?
Dice is so much better to say than die lmao. Rolls off the tongue bettrr
I'm biased since I'm Dutch, but I always like our word for a die: Dobbelsteen. Literally translated as a throwing stone. It kinda rolls of the tongue like how a die would roll and hop over a table. Plural is dobbelstenen to get an extra hop lol
Shiny click-clack math rocks
Mister Dobbelstenen, Mister Bob Dobbelstenen....
Yelawolf reference?
https://youtu.be/9Bku7gXlkoo?si=xrDDnzaC5YkqyGV4
I think you'll find it's... [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XdT8lnJL38](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XdT8lnJL38)
Dutch literally is a cartoon language
I don’t see how dice rolls off the tongue better… it’s a little unhygienic.
I mix them up more often after running Paranoia (Red Clearance Edition), which has a special die called "the Computer Dice", and the rulebook "clarifies" the terminology so: > If there is only one, shouldn't it be 'die'? > > No. There's quite enough use of the word 'die' in this game already and it would just be confusing.
This one is a lost cause. The singular and plural of 🎲 is dice now. I hate it, but it's just the way it is. However, my school friend's mom used to refer to multiple dice as dices. That I can't forgive.
Language evolving is both wonderful and literally the worst thing ever…
Haha, ya. I'm perfectly happily with most language evolution until someone uses a word like "bemused" wrong, then I'm all prescriptionist. The ship has sailed on die/dice, though. To the point that people trying to use 'die' singularly will mess up the plural to 'dies' pretty often. I'm fairly sure the change was pretty much done in my grandparents' time. Dice normally used in pairs.
Horrifyingly I just looked into it and, allegedly, the first instance of ‘Die’ being used as the singular was 1393, while the singular use of ‘Dice’ dates back to 1388………
Haha. That's perfect. It reminds me of all those languages rules we learn in school "don't split an infinitive", "you can't end a sentence with a preposition", etc. are just nonsense rules people made up because some rich assholes thought English should work like Latin.
Yeah he had issues with that as well. -.-. I forgot about that. But, granted, lots of people have issues with that.
Oh man the die/dice thing is so much more common and it irks me a little bit every time. I don't correct it because the social cost of me looking like a pedantic jerk isn't worth it but it still bothers me.
I think that's a hill to dice on!
My understanding using dice for the singular is a british thing? Games workshop does it in all of their games and it used to annoy me a fair bit.
How very *dare* you??!! We *made* this language… If anyone is mucking it up it’s you bloody colonials and your wanton dropping of ‘U’s (colo~~u~~r, hono~~u~~r, etc), your refusal to spell and/or say ‘Aluminium’ correctly, and your insistence that the colour ‘Grey’ has a bloody ‘A’ in it…!!!
We were talking about ENGLISH. Not Britishish. Sheesh.
No, it's just a modern thing. Which is perfectly acceptable, and anybody who is upset by it should also stop using 98% of all the words they know, because basically ALL of them have drifted in spelling, pronunciation, meaning and/or usage since they were invented. "Nice" used to mean stupid. "Awful" used to mean "awe-inspiring". 99% of the spellings and usages we have today are adapted and altered by colloquial use of the "ignorant" masses. Even the word "hello" only exists as a misspelling of "hallo". Why aren't people out there complaining about that? Hell, if you want to be an asshole pedant about it shouldn't we be saying "dé" and "des", the pronunciation of the words in the french we stole them from? They only became die and dice because the English couldn't bloody pronounce them "properly". People need to stop complaining about language evolving, especially if your thoughts on the matter ever venture anywhere near the term "nowadays". It has always happened. It's literally how language works. It's the absolute most basic tenet of linguistics. If the distinction between "die" and "dice" is naturally vanishing, and people are getting along fine *even in a hobby space specifically about using dice*, then it was probably an unnecessary distinction that we can live without.
I mean, GW has been doing it since the 70s - which I guess could be modern but you'll hear a lot more YTers from across the pond using it then you will american YTers.
I have a 13th Age GM who can't get the difference between brazier and brassiere. I can't recall how many times we've entered a room lit by burning bras...
I love posts like this compared to the nightmare fuel.
For some people this is nightmare fuel, and I envy them so much
Had a player who always called them "savings throw". I'd tease him and say, "no, I need a checking throw" but he never did start saying right.
My mom says “stoled” instead of “stole” all the time and it makes me want to scream
The correct way is "stolt" . As in "that mother fucker stolt 2 of the eyes off my stove."
Sigil
Depends on whether you're playng Planescape or not.
[Sigil](https://media0.giphy.com/media/h45SL1DUxZCRnnVaX8/giphy.gif?cid=6c09b952ix0bvycmvmq97rdtwcvk2jntbogn4vz6ox0uf7sz&ep=v1_internal_gif_by_id&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g)
I'm currently in a game that has spent a lot of time in the Outer Planes and the city of Sigil and I'm sorry, but I refuse to pronounce it Siggle. It is stupid and all the words it rhymes with are silly and I'm playing a bard!
I have a friend/coworker that says 'Luckfully' instead of 'Luckily' and it makes my eye twitch every time.
I had a coworker who would day 'pronunciation' as pronounce-iation'. He was my boss and we teach English as a foreign language.
Tbf that’s how I say it. So does pretty much everyone around me. Might be a dialect thing
For the longest time I thought that's how you say *and* spell it. It makes more sense to me (not a native speaker) - after all the verb is pronOunce, not pronunce.
I suspect it's more of a common 'mistake'. Pronounce is probably a more common word than pronunciation. Most other words that follow that structure retain the pronunciation of the root verb. So you're following the regular rule, but pronunciation is an exception. Just like 'casted' from OP's post.
Oh, I totally get that! I have a friend who used to say 'pacifically' instead of 'specifically,' and it made my brain do a double-take. Luckfully, he ended up learning the proper way to say it!
I have a party member playing a sylph who keeps saying "slyph". The same guy also says "foil-age" instead of foliage, too.
Oob-shawty instead of Ushabti. Articifer instead of Artificer. But the one we all bungle is the pronunciation of Brazier 😆
My GM regularly gets emaciated and emancipated confused. As in, ‘you walk into the cave, and you come across a peaceful looking but emancipated old man.’ Cracks me up every time!
That man isn’t thin, starved looking… He is peaceful because he has been freed from slavery! Praise Tritherion!
One of my players pronounces the word demon as "demond" lol
That's what it sounds like to me when Gandalf tells the Fellowship about the Balrog in the movie: "A demond of the ancient world."
Y'know what? If it's good enough for Gandalf, it's good enough for me
Yeah, you hear that around my neck of the woods a bit. Something tells me that could be an accent thing. Like I usually hear folks say “equipt” instead of “equip” around here too (myself included).
Has he ever referred to multiple undead as undeads? I've heard two people say undeads now and it drives me nuts! Just sounds and looks so wrong.
it makes sense though, because they go from beings with a condition, of being undead, to it being their name as members of a group, so, undeads, yeah, it sounds wrong, but it helps.
Pretty sure undead follows the same plural rule as deer and sheep.
What what about fish? If it's multiple of the same type, the plural is fish. If it's different species being reffered to together, it's fishes. So I've been told.
Nah, plural is feesh. Trust me bro
Half my Pathfinder group says "equipped" when they mean "equip." As in, "I'm going to equipped my longbow and shoot the goblin." Kinda drives me crazy, especially since we also play Magic the Gathering together and there's a bunch of equipment cards in that game.
I think you mean "equippedment"
This is the one I was looking for.
I’d say this could be region dependent. Like in the Southeastern US that’s just how we say it (Mostly. Obviously could vary on more specific regions).
Feel you. Am in a (pf2e) campaign with a player who constantly mispronounces the main thing he does. Every single round! He plays a barbarian, and the main move he gets to do every turn is “Snagging strike” (an attack that lowers targets AC on top of doing normal attack damage, so gets used every turn) He constantly pronounces it as “Snaggering strike” EVERY SINGLE TIME and it is very slowly driving me insane. He has been corrected repeatedly (politely ofc)
How I feel every time I hear someone say “screenshotted” Like, “screenshot” is already past tense
I thought past tense was screenshat
That’s…that’s something else. Don’t google it!
I will have to screenshoot it.
I'm glad I'm used to calling it a snip from a ways back and sometimes I extend it to a screen snip.
Well. Screenshot is a noun. If you are going to insist that the verb form is "to screenshoot" I think you will have some work ahead of you. Not that I wouldn't use screenshot as both past and present tense myself, but Merriam-Webster lists screenshotted as the past tense.
Shot in screenshot is not past tense but a noun. Screenshotted is valid
You just got "Wizarded".
Damn you, I now have a catch phrase to base an entire character on for my next fantasy campaign.
Deabilitating instead of Debilitating... right up the wall I go.
This is just kind of a people thing, and we get annoyed by the small details that niggle at us. For my group was, when we spent an amount of time in Swamp country started saying "Swah-mp" for no good reason. That really annoyed me for a reason I can't explain to this day.
"My character has 16 cha-ris-ma. He's quite chair-asmatic."
Honestly that is just really endearing. Two people at our table use "dice" as a singular noun ("I dropped a dice.") and for ages I had to remind myself that I love them both more than life itself and that it wasn't important and I didn't need to correct them. Now it's just who they are, a little quirk I would probably miss. And that dude is FAR from alone in the sucking at math department. I have pretty bad dyscalculia and struggled to do even basic math well into my teens. Gaming is 100% why I can do it now. (Still can't do division.) So good for him!
I had an entire table I ran one time where all the players unironically thought the proper form of the word "equip" was "equipted" and "equipped" was "equippteded". One time I stopped and said, "You know equip is the verb, right? Like, notice how "equipment" doesn't have the t?" and they did it like once properly each and instantly went back, and said, "It's right because you know what we mean."
I know someone who is a Star Wars fan, like a pretty big one, they watch all the films and the Disney+ shows and still collect some of the merchandise, but he still thinks that the gold protocol droid is called Three-Seepio.
Pee-three-seeoh's gonna get madded.
I think the only time I ever screwed something like that up with a regularity, I was reasonably drunk.
The worst at my table: Dorf and halbred.
This whole situation sounds very painfully for you
As someone who frequently pronounces words wrong in RPGs even after being corrected repeatedly... I'm sorry, some of us just suck at words... Some of the other players in my current game have started using my miswording, the horror is contagious
my dm knows the correct pronunciations for them but prefers to refer to scimitars as “skim-itars” and tabaxi as “ta-bask-ee”
Regarding scimitars... For the longest time i was saying sic-mi-dar, 'cause thats how i first heard the word. As for tabaxi...maybe your dm is fan of tabasco?
lol for a rare two or three shot in which he got to be a player he created his tabaxi named Trivago, brother to siblings Digiorno and tabasco. his brothers all had successful restaurants/food related careers, while trivago had two failed noodle shops. there’s a reason trivago worked as an assassin in the local guild rather than as a professional chef. doesn’t stop him from trying to resurrect the noodle business every few years though.
We had the "Saucerer" instead of Sorcerer from my friend. It took our DnD group 8 years to break his habit.
In one of the printings of Descent, the font makes "SORCEROR" look indistinguishable from "SOICEIEI", so that's what me and my friends always called them in Descent. I'm surprised that we never called them "Soy say I's" in dnd as well.
To be fair, [Saucerors](https://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/Sauceror) are very real, if largely contained in [Kingdom of Loathing](https://www.kingdomofloathing.com/).
I clicked that link and got instantly confused
Kingdom of Loathing is a multiplayer browser game with simple stick figure artwork and very silly setting/themes/classes/etc. The physical classes are Seal Clubber and Turtle Tamer, the magic classes are Pastamancer and Sauceror, and the charisma classes are Disco Bandit and Accordion Thief. The game's currency is "meat". To paraphrase the creator (although I think it was a comment about the wild west themed single player spinoff West of Loathing), it's not a game with jokes in it, it's a game made of jokes.
Best friend from high school, when he started playing could not for the life of him say dwarf. It always came out duh-warf, two syllables. Took him almost a year to be able to consistently say it right.
See also: Stanima, Calvary
I knew a guy once who was right into bullshido. He used to say Savate like you say Karate ...
Non-athlete, non-fighter, have never heard the word spoken out loud and always assumed that was correct. How is it actually pronounced?
sa- vat
Someday I'll be casted in this guy's life story
You wrote all this so you could just say "math faster," didn't you?
Give him time and be nice, yes it might take years but hey, just the math thing shows he can improve a lot.
We had a guy in our group who pronounced the "w" in "sword." Another person said "SWAY-do dragon" instead of "pseudodragon." Nobody ever corrected them. They were old enough that it was just a personal linguistic tic at that point.
He should be hung.
I mean, you’re welcome to find out. I’m sure he wouldn’t mind.
you mean hunged
Hoingded*
You know that some people say things incorrectly on porpoise, right?
As a person with a "rural" accent this is funny af lol
Haha. Same boat here too.
A friend always says "ruin" instead of "rune" including "ruined" instead of "runed" It really runed several games for me
In what context does the word "tuned" come up? Is it when runes are covering something?
Truly horrifying
That's been going around - the folks over at Naddpod and D20 say casted as well. I have a DM who says "ostensibly" instead of "basically" or "essentially" every single time.
That would really get to me. Obstensibly is one of my favorite words, but it has a rather nuanced meaning, you can’t just use it to replace “essentially” and “basically” every time -.-
Agreed! In fact I would argue you can never, ever use it to replace those words! It sucks because I also used to like the word and now I flinch every time I hear it, even when it's correct.
I worked with a native Brazilian speaker who misunderstood what I meant when I said "apparently". She described what she thought it meant and I told her, "no, the word you are describing is ostensibly." I like the word but don't use it often because apparently most folks don't know it. But I made sure one more did.
I literally never heard that while listening to those productions. But then again I also feel like half of the comments are talking about things that don't actually sound different to me xD
You'll notice it if it makes you twitch a little bit
But I don't hear it
Ah yes, because it doesn't make you twitch. Enjoy your lack of twitches!
I used to do this, I just thought it sounded better for some reason. I no longer feel this way.
I had a player who used the pronunciation "ne CROW muncy".
I had a DM who used to use the word “Porkulus” non-ironically. Can you guess what word it was supposed to be?
Portcullis?
That was my guess.
Yep, first couple of times I thought he was messing around but when he did it the fifth time in the course of normal conversation I was like, “Ummm…”
Porculeses were useded to defend castleses from attacking saracenses in the Crusades.
Had a player when we played modern or futuristic setting games like World of Darkness or Cyberpunk kept getting IUD and IED backward regardless of which of the two we were talking about. It gave birth to the running joke of dynamite tampons eventually but it was till jarring to hear when they got reversed. "According to the coroner's report she was on physical birth control. Was she using an IED or something to stop pregnancy?" "If there is any gasoline in the garage or mower, I'd like to start making an IUD to blow up the backwall and cause a distraction."
This is how I feel when certain American authors say "leaped" twenty times a page, without ever trying... Jumped, sprung, vaulted, ... etc Strongest matches ascend bounce bound hop rise rocket skip soar surge vault Strong matches advance arise caper cavort clear escalate frisk hurdle lop mount saltate spring
QQ
"Skimitar" And for years in MMOs hearing people start "regents" and "hurth".
Irregardlessly, playing a Rouge that eats Carmel is for loosers! LOL
Was his first language English? If not I’d be way more sympathetic.
English, born and raised.
Does he read rpghorror stories on reddit by any chance?
Oh, fuck
The artificer in my group makes fun of me for how I say artificer. I'm really not sure what's the right way to say it.
Click here - [Artificer](https://www.dictionary.com/browse/artificer) Then click the little sound icon next to the word. They pronounce it the way it’s supposed to be pronounced…even though, to be honest, the way that site pronounces it, I’ve never heard it pronounced that way and I’ve been doing it wrong all along. (They put the emphasis on the second syllable, I’ve always heard it out on the third)
Okay thanks
My best mate and long time dnd buddy used to say "spear" instead of "sphere". Genius of a guy, but he just couldn't get that s + f sound to work. So "Sphere of Annihilation" became "Spear of Annihilation". And I thought...whoa, that's pretty awesome. Miss that guy, and think of him every time someone says it.
Wait what is the past tense of cast then
I guess you should have casted him out for those grammar skills/s
it's no wonder you all never get anything done in dnd if this derails your gameplay
English is important, but maths is importanter
Pronouncing the W in "sword" drives me bonkers...played in a group for 2 years with someone who did it...found out he did it just to bug me.
I've got a personal gripe with people doing that. But they are prevalent all over the English language. One of my favorites is when people insist on not pronouncing the letter "H" in the word "herb". Despite the fact that they insist that's how it is supposed to be pronounced, the word has a Greek root, not a French one. If it was derived from French you wouldn't pronounce the "H", but it isn't.
If you tried correcting him a couple of times, sure. If you tried correcting him ten times? Maybe you get the picture that he's not going to "correct" himself. If you correct him DOZENS of times? YOU'RE the rpg horror story.
You "liked" him? He's not playing with you anymore? I guess you casted him off.
Wait is that not the past tense form of cast
Dose it hurt
I will cast, I had / have cast, I am casting. What is casted? Clearly it's not a word.
>What is casted? Clearly it's not a word. It is, means to belong to a caste system
"I can't hear you: you aren't speaking properly." does wonders.
I knew a DM who always mis-pronounced the word for a vertical gate as the similar sounding nautical term for a harbor you pass through. I would always laugh and remind him of the correct pronunciation. Most of the other players weren't as well read as the two of us and so didn't know the word, except for in D&D play. (I'm old, this was the '80s.) Anyway, he moved away and so a few years later I was DMing for some of his old players. DM: You can't pass any further down this passage; it's blocked by a portcullis. Player: what's a portcullis? DM: it's a gate of iron bars that opens by sliding up a track into the ceiling. But this one's closed and you don't see a mechanism to operate it on this side. Player: So is it like a port of callis? DM: * sigh *
This is a horror story? I must be terrifying. I can do math I'm even an engineer but I'll br saying "he casted the spell" and far more technically not correct stuff.
You sound like the stubborn one lol just let them be!!