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Mentally correcting people's pronunciation ALL THE TIME.
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This like an OCD thing that I do ...

Whenever people are talking (to me, to others, in a movie; it doesn't matter) I compulsively correct (in my head) any pronunciation that I'm unhappy with. Sometimes I'm so bothered by it that I literally repeat their sentence out loud to say it correctly, without explaining myself. I just interrupt them out of nowhere. It's really embarassing. If someone's pronunciation is good then it's totally fine, but if they have bad words with every single sentence then I can't even follow the conversation because my brain is going insane, correcting everything they mispronounce in my head.

I'm extremely specific about it too. An example off this page: "repetitive": if someone pronounced it "repet-uh-tive", I'd need to repeat that in my head with the correct "i" syllable.

I know it's totally crazy but I get really distracted by this.
Do you think it's normal?
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PsychoNikki (26118)
2009-07-28 05:24:44
I really do this too, almost always, but 70%% of the time (and I know I irritate people by doing this) I verbally correct their pronunciation. I also correct people (either out loud or in my mind) when they use a word wrong, say someone someone says "If I did X it would be categoric!" I'll be like "catastrophic" and like go "Yeah right..that." I know they hate me for this but I really can't help it. Even if I do say it out loud I, like you ALWAYS do this in my head.

My vote..it's normal :)
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pickleweasel (26375)
2009-08-04 16:23:52
@: PsychoNikki
it's not crazy i'm the same way
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pickleweasel (26375)
2009-08-04 16:25:35
@: pickleweasel
lol i didn't mean to put @: PsychoNikki
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Kat444 (27378)
2009-10-01 21:51:47
You must hate talking to someone with a different accent! Like, if said outloud, my last statement would sound more like "You must hate talkin' ta someone with a diff'rent accent". Bet it would drive you nuts. I'm gonna go with not normal on this one, but I might just be less easily annoyed than most people.
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tapdancingrocks (31579)
2009-11-21 19:14:20
Oh my gosh, I do that all the time. If I am really ticked off at someone, though, I will sometimes just be rude and actually correct their grammar.
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abnormalmochi (35261)
2010-01-21 16:37:32
I do this, but normally just when I'm watching TV by myself. Interrupting someone to correct a pronunciation mistake is so rude.
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stone_love (26109)
2010-01-22 13:52:39
@: Kat444
Kat444: Actually, no. Accents just set up a different mindset to abide to. In your example (southern), the tilt to the words doesn't bother me (e.g. for "hate" I'd say "heyt" and you'd say "haiyt", sort of). But the "diff'rent" would bother me because you're ignoring that "different" is a three-syllable word. It's hard to explain. But accents don't bother me.
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