I've just had one of those moments, I speak with an accent from the British Midlands. I've been told my accent is fairly neutral, but I know I have a Nottingham twang to certain words, and when I'm being lazy I can sound right common (that is lower-class).
The vowel constructs I know I'm worst at are "Op" such as "Open" and "Operation" and "Ov" as in "Over", and I often made even my wife's eyes twitch when I say "it's upen uver there" pointing at a shop or parking space.
Today however I'm picking on "Pro".... Now, as a British English speaker I've never had this issue locally, we all say "project" with a "prodject" sound, we don't stress the "pro"... It's a prodject, not a PROject to my ear. It's like saying "podge" as in stuffed full of food, but with an 'r'.
Right or wrong this distinguishes that word with "Projector" and "projection", you know the habit of shining light through something to put an image on a screen or wall... that is "PROjection" when I say it. And this has been automatic to me all my life and I've known what my peers at school, home and work meant we were all very local, so we all knew the distinction and never really thought about it.
However, working in game development with a very wide range of folks I've just been called out.
Talking about a project with graphics the projection matrix came up.... And yes, you guessed it, in the meeting I said (something like) "the prodject is coming along well, I'm using the inverse PROjection matrix to check a ray intersection".
I literally got called out at that point, never noticed it before, I've heard folks saying "PROject" but ignored them... The problem?
One of the folks happened to be from the North West of England (Manchester I believe) and he said... "PRAWject".... and "PRAWcessing".... Yeah, even I was twitching then.
Either way, it was an interesting moment.
No comments:
Post a Comment