Suggestion: It Is Pronounced Tro PAY

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edited 13th Jan '13 4:55:05 PM by TropeEater

I think the joke is lost on anyone unfamiliar with the character and/or pronunciation script.

There is a "t" in there, and you can tell she's stressing over a pronunciation. All you have to do is recognize it as the phonetic alphabet, and pretty much everybody has looked up something in the dictionary.

This trope is difficult to visually illustrate, and since the IPA is really the most universally-accepted method of transcribing sounds with a higher degree of accuracy, I think it should work.

edited 13th Jan '13 5:40:18 PM by TropeEater

That's... a decent point.

How much of the strip does the image contain?

It's iffy, but better than nothing.

"Peridot" is pronounced PEYR-uh-DOT, not PEYR-uh-DOH, as you might expect from other words that end in -ot, by the way. Hard T. Which is what that image is saying.

edited 13th Jan '13 8:48:44 PM by rodneyAnonymous

Right. The implication is that the character's name 'Peridot' is pronounced Pari-doh, and she's stressed because the shadowy figure is pronouncing her name wrong. (As opposed to simply because a shadowy figure is calling out for her as might be suspected in the absence of the phonetic alphabet panel.)

I get a stress on the pronunciation, but not more than that. It's enough to sort of illustrate the trope, but not ideal.

I like the suggestion. It works. Can be replaced it something better is found.

That's what I thought.

We outta make an acronym for that...

Put Up Until Better Image Suggested?

@ post 4... It's less than half the page.

A couple more votes for it, even if they're iffy, and we can run with it.

Provided a caption gives the actual pronunciation, I'm okay with it.

I like it just fine.

Image is up, potholed & tagged. Caption?

I'm not sure about this. There's a good chance it might fly completely over a non-native speaker's head, since as far as I've seen, English classes hardly ever touch the subject of "Those funny simbols in the dictionary". In my case, even after learning what those symbols are, I still don't know what pronunciation each one represents.

I got nuthin' right now. I added the strip to the page...I'm not where I can look at it, did I write it up correctly?

It's the International Phonetic Alphabet. See all those little symbols?

Granted, a lot of languages don't need them, because pronunciation works in an Exactly What It Says on the Tin fashion, but the IPA is not limited to English.

edited 14th Jan '13 12:53:21 PM by TropeEater

Really? I honestly didn't know that. It comes with being a Spanish speaker, I guess.

Let's just add a link to en.wikipedia article on the IPA to the caption.

The strip has updated, and the next page is much more explicit about the trope.

edited 16th Jan '13 10:17:24 AM by TropeEater

The first two panels, you mean? Those are clearer, but also a bit more text-heavy.

You know, I almost prefer those two panels to what we just decided on...

Just one panel, the second, I think.

I still think the IPA one is funnier, but I'd be willing to sacrifice humor for clarity.

I don't like the other one, since it could work just as well with just text. The image adds very little, if anything.