Each time my colleague pronounces “integer” with a hard “g”, I feel like cutting my ears off with a rusted and blunt hacksaw. Anything to make it stop!

Don't talk about integers

Still better than 'float' with that indian T, making that weird loud popping 't' sound

'flottTTT<TTTa-BOOOM>

Did you gust... oh no you didn't jirlfriend...

heh, integrrrr...

German pronunciation I guess..

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So you pronounce it inter?

I CAN RELATE TO THIS !!!!

My colleague says "report" weirdly. He's Indian but lives in America so the accent is mixed. It gets on my fucking nerves each time he says it.

I wish there was an audio upload feature here. So I could make you hear it.

@Sid2006 youtube.com, soundgasm, etc

@Demolishun Not worth the hassle.

He says "REPOURT". You can imagine how that must sound.

I recall a former (German) manager pronouncing "false" as "fails". I just hoped he did it on purpose.

At the same company, I dared to say "aah - gee - lay" in a mock Italian style when another manager had to introduce agile methodology. He did not find it funny.

I sometimes do incorrect pronunciations on purpose these days, especially when reading "aloud" silently to myself, to make it sound either funny or easier to recall or both, so "echo" becomes "etcho" instead of "ekko",

and of course the infamous CSS idiom "!important" must be pronounced "not important".

I have a colleague who pronounces feature as future and it drives me insane.

Also, "En Vee Ron Ment" for environment

To be fair, the English language is bad and makes no sense. Sometimes G is pronounced as G and sometimes completely different. It is a horrible choice for a global language but here we are.

@happygimp0 yes. But at least it doesn’t have crap that some other languages have.
What I want to say is: We could have had it a lot worse.

@Lensflare English adopts the crap from every other language, making it worse than before.

What language would be a lot worse?

@happygimp0 German or French for instance.

German has arbitrary and mandatory different articles for each noun.
French has the weirdest pronunciation rules ever. It might be more consistent than English, though. I don’t know.

@Lensflare

In German you can see a new word and know how to pronounce it and when you hear a new word you are more or less know how to write it (not exactly, but closely). This just isn't true for English. Learning English is like learning 2 languages: The spoken one and the written one.

German doesn't confuse quadrillion with billion (bi = 2 => billion(en) => million * million). It was correct in English in the distant past but somehow someone messed it up and now we are stuck with it.

There are just so many terms with no word in English. You often have to describe something in English and make complicated sentences to be as precise as you can be in German with only a single sentence.

In English, many words have too many different meanings. This is true for every language, but it is worse in English.

The rule when to use multiple words and when not for a single object is arbitrary. For example Snowboard (1 word) vs Water ski (2 words).

Den Deutschen fehlt es an Patriotismus.

@fraktalisman sounds like you would appreciate that OK supposedly stands for 'oll korrect', and it came to be because some people in Boston liked to misspell things intentionally.