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posted by [personal profile] bugshaw at 02:54pm on 15/06/2006
I wonder how many dilettantes don't know how to pronounce it?
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posted by [identity profile] voidampersand.livejournal.com at 02:43pm on 15/06/2006
Would that make them dilett-ain'ts?
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posted by [identity profile] del-c.livejournal.com at 03:57pm on 15/06/2006
I was just wondering if Keanu Reeves is a didn't-ought-to-act.
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posted by [identity profile] tanngrisnir.livejournal.com at 01:12pm on 17/06/2006
'S okay, what he does isn't acting.
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posted by [identity profile] pigeonhed.livejournal.com at 03:01pm on 15/06/2006
how many debutantes don't know how to pronounce it?
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posted by [identity profile] aardvark179.livejournal.com at 03:10pm on 15/06/2006
Hmm, if we weren't so dilettantish on the subject of dilettantes then we'd know the answer to this.
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 03:28pm on 15/06/2006
I went to the library to look it up in one of their big dictionaries. I would not have been surprised to see it read:
dilettante: If you are reading this, you are not one.

I love that it comes from diletarre delight.

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posted by [identity profile] cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com at 04:28pm on 15/06/2006
(A) ROFL. Priceless.
(B) But, is it true that autodidact refers to "working things out from first principles" and not "working things out without guidance or information given by another person"? The first hit on google is a word of the day, the quote being "Consider the autodidact in Sartre's Nausea, who is somewhat unbelievably working his way alphabetically through an entire library."
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 04:49pm on 15/06/2006
(B) I was using autodidact for self-taught, to refer to myself going to the library to look up how to pronounce dilettante rather than happening to be taught how at school. Pulling the info, not having it pushed to me. I don't know if that is a correct usage - I'd have to look it up ;-)

BTW, I found I had been pronouncing dilettante incorrectly for years. I've not had a moment like that since misled - which, misleadingly, is not pronounced "my-zuld".
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posted by [identity profile] marypcb.livejournal.com at 07:21pm on 15/06/2006
misled is very common - the philology lecturer at Oxford used to have a long string of auto A) and B) heterodidacts who got it wrong. learning more words from books than people, it wasn't till his lecturers that I realised not to pronounce all the syllables in miscellaneous

A)exactly right
B)taught by others, made up by me
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posted by [identity profile] cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com at 04:24pm on 15/06/2006
Me! Me!

Though I think I'm missing the joke -- Is there any non-obvious way of pronouncing it? Aren't self-taught people much more likely to not know pronunciations because they're a lot harder to learn in isolation? Is one of those two the point? :)
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 04:39pm on 15/06/2006
The subject line of this post refers to me, the content refers to itself. Perhaps I should draw a diagram...
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posted by [identity profile] cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com at 04:42pm on 15/06/2006
Ah! I see. Yes, actually, a diagram probably would have helped me follow :)

Unfortunately, now my brain is full of the image of a dilettante muttering "'eet'? 'et'? Hmmm... I really don't know how to pronounce that. Could it be 'it'?"
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posted by [identity profile] bohemiancoast.livejournal.com at 06:20pm on 15/06/2006
You know, until I read the comments I really couldn't work out alternative ways to pronounce "autodidact".
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