I tried 241 times to pronounce Dakota (“DayGO-Da”?) until I gave up and pronounced it the French way (as it is : Da Ko Ta, plain and simple). Watching Ghost in the Shell, I heard the word “Data” many times, mimicking it to learn something, until I understood that DATA is pronounced DAYDA.
Foreigners make mistakes. This morning I woke up with some words in my mind, this marvelous way one friend of mine described my lover at the time : “Quelle formidable folle!” – What a wonderful fool she was, indeed. I woke up like : Wonderfool.
So I googled it and discovered this : Eye Spelling, Eye Dialect, or Pronunciation Spelling – nonstandard spelling but doesn’t indicate an unusual pronunciation.
women : wimmin
gentlemen : genlmen
listen : lissen
light : lite
Nooooo I won’t use it, it’s too dangerous. I could “get mixed up” (is it good English? Become mixed up?), though I know that it’s really used to get the “dialog” mood : kinda for kind of, wanna for want to. Also, it’s used for marketing purpose of course : I found “Froot Loops” cereals, froot for fruit, of course.
Now think about this group names : The Beatles. The Byrds. And the way rap groups use U instead of You.
Tool : What will you do of that? What could you invent? Where? Why? A name? A brand? A groupe name?
A deliberate comic mispelling is called CACOGRAPHY. I love that word so much that I almost fainted… Awweee!
Have a good day!
Jean-Pascal
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