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Do you find it weird when idols pronounced wrong on super easy English words?


Silent Dawn

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English is my second language too so who am I to judge. But it bothers me sometimes when Super easy words are mispronounced. Prime example is ITZY's It'z Summer.  I don't understand why Ryujin said Whatch-up instead of What's up , and Yeji pronounced PARRY instead of Party? I mean they are super easy to see and learn. I'm surprised Ryujin can speak English very well but she mispronounced that word so incorrectly. I guess that's the composer's intention?

 

 

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2 minutes ago, yonderie said:

It doesn't bother me if they're just talking or singing live, but I feel like it should be pretty easy to look up how to pronounce words when you're recording a song idk...

Exactly, when speaking or singing live you might make mistakes and that's okay. But a song was composed, fixed, practiced and sung, how the heck did they not bother looking up how to pronounce the words?

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well ryujin saying whatchup makes sense because that's how "what's" would be written and said in hangul, like whatchu

while it is pretty easy to look up what they sound like, it's harder to get rid of the tendencies your tongue has to just say things the way you do in your own native language, especially overnight. I can go to google translate and listen to what a word sounds like in any random language, but if I try to say it will it sound accurate? most likely not

and what might seem easy to you might not be so easy to others

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Sometimes they do it on purpose just because it sounds more pleasing to the ear

Well known example is EXO pronouncing "Wolf" and "Cheese" perfectly fine in the demo but somehow miraculously forgetting how to say them and going to the Korean pronunciation in the final :imstupid:

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It doesn't bother me. I think words being 'easy' is a relative thing. Especially if it's not your native language. Some letters don't exist in certain languages, some sounds can't be pronounced easily etc.

Those 'mistakes' don't seem very bad. People say the same words differently sometimes

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32 minutes ago, Tteona Oneul Bame said:

Sometimes they do it on purpose just because it sounds more pleasing to the ear

Well known example is EXO pronouncing "Wolf" and "Cheese" perfectly fine in the demo but somehow miraculously forgetting how to say them and going to the Korean pronunciation in the final :imstupid:

Yes, RV, Twice, Momoland  and Everglow too. 

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It's important to remember that the English words aren't being spoken or sung for an English-speaking audience--it's for a Korean audience.  I remember that clip a few years back on some variety show where the hosts were "testing" Wendy's English spelling, and so they had her spell some English word.  She went through it quite quickly, but they couldn't understand her, so she had to respell it with Korean-accented English, even though it was technically less correct.  For understandability, as well as certain aesthetics (as others have mentioned itt), proper pronunciation becomes much less important.

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