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Now, maybe you think *I'm* a jolt or a dolt or whatever, but I come by it very honestly, 'cause here's an example of what I have to deal with: My dad, today, tells me that his friend is fixing up what he calls a 'Kar-ma-GUI-ya' which he lets on enough that I can discern to be a type of automobile. He says his friend is going to take him for a ride in it when he finishes restoring this 'Car-mah-GEE-ah.' I should look it up sometime, it's a cool car, he tells me. So, I say to him, I'll just look it up right now, so I can see what you're talking about; 'how do you spell it?' I ask him: 'no idea.' So, I sound out whatever he seems to be saying into some phoneticization I can quickly type into Google, careful to add that it's a 'car type.' Google retorts with a Rolls-Royce *Camargue* of which I show him a photo and he says it is, in fact, the type to which he's referring. So, I tell him: this is pronounced 'kah-MARG,' in such a manner that he has no way of *not* noticing that I looked it up *on the web* (that bastion of propriety in our humble epoch). Albeit, *telling* him how to pronounce *anything* were my mistake, because, just then, I kid you not, he repeats in all seriousness, 'kahr-muh-GHEE-uh,' twice, as if to remedy my 'incorrect' pronunciation of ‹Camargue› (like the very region in France)! He had apparently grown so attached to his more 'exotic' pronunciation that he could not but still assume, in the face of blatant evidence to the contrary, 'No, *my* pronunciation is the right one'—indeed, I could almost *hear* him thinking it I study French, and this same man has told me that I 'need to lighten up' because I have dared to correct his pronunciation of *visibly-francophone* terminology If I'm not primed for long-suffering with such phenomena manifesting in my *daily* social existence on top of whatever scotoma I've apparently slipped into digitally, I'm not sure who is (I don't think my dad has dementia as of yet)

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