The fact that she uploaded a nearly 1 hour long video breaking down how she became a published poet... sis we all know it's because you're an "aesthetic" influencer and you get by on YouTube sponsorships and adsense.
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To be fair when I was in kindergarten I drew crucified Jesus and hunting scenes because I went to a catholic kindergarten and my family is full of avid hunters - am I edgy enough?
Also yes to messed up story lines whilst playing with Barbies. Children’s brains are wild lmaoFor the different people on here who were speculating on whether she had a Catholic background or not, I think her newest video today sheds a little light on that. I see a "Catholicism For Dummies" book in the background, lol. I wonder if she reads this thread? In her last video about becoming a full time artist or whatever she made such a HUGE point in the beginning of the video to pin up a pair of underwear in the background. This girl is so so so cringe!
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Oops lol, spoke too soon. Didn't plan on watching the whole video but someone listed all the books she's talking about with timestamps. So if you go to the Catholic one she talks about how she was born & raised Catholic and went to Catholic school. She had some rambly boring reason for buying this book, some project she's working on. But mystery solved I guess!
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Oops lol, spoke too soon. Didn't plan on watching the whole video but someone listed all the books she's talking about with timestamps. So if you go to the Catholic one she talks about how she was born & raised Catholic and went to Catholic school. She had some rambly boring reason for buying this book, some project she's working on. But mystery solved I guess!
Dakota claims she reads obsessively, writes obsessively. I wish that she would consult a dictionary and an IPA pronunciation guide obsessively instead. In her book haul video she was butchering every mid-level vocabulary word she came across.
She has an extremely weak grasp of English for a native speaker—just no natural facility with words and language whatsoever.
10:54 macabre as MACK-uh-buh (?? wtf)
11:45 diaspora as DEE-uh-spora. This was bordering on ignorant. It wasn’t just that she mispronounced it, which would be understandable for a lot of people, it was that she sounded it out making it clear it was her first time encountering the word. Has she literally never taken a history class? Hello, Jewish diaspora? African diaspora? Any of the million diasporas you might have learned about?
14:40 visceral as VISKeral (you can’t make this tit up)
16:32 recollections as RE-collections
20:19 calls herself a “frequenting visitor” of her local thrift store
22:15 “this has my utmost recommendation.” Totally ungrammatical.
24:50 amoral as AMoral, like how you would pronounce “amorous.” That one was as excruciating as VISKeral. It’s a-moral, as in without morals, Dakota. Isn’t that a word a devilish, hedonistic god-killer such as yourself should be familiar with?
She has an extremely weak grasp of English for a native speaker—just no natural facility with words and language whatsoever.
10:54 macabre as MACK-uh-buh (?? wtf)
11:45 diaspora as DEE-uh-spora. This was bordering on ignorant. It wasn’t just that she mispronounced it, which would be understandable for a lot of people, it was that she sounded it out making it clear it was her first time encountering the word. Has she literally never taken a history class? Hello, Jewish diaspora? African diaspora? Any of the million diasporas you might have learned about?
14:40 visceral as VISKeral (you can’t make this tit up)
16:32 recollections as RE-collections
20:19 calls herself a “frequenting visitor” of her local thrift store
22:15 “this has my utmost recommendation.” Totally ungrammatical.
24:50 amoral as AMoral, like how you would pronounce “amorous.” That one was as excruciating as VISKeral. It’s a-moral, as in without morals, Dakota. Isn’t that a word a devilish, hedonistic god-killer such as yourself should be familiar with?
I noticed a few other words she mispronounced too, can't remember which ones but you are absolutely right.
I considered that but no, it seems she is just not saying them correctly.
Some of these are definitely just aussie pronunciations. I've for sure heard diaspora with a "dee" and "amoral" like "amorous" from several Australian English speakers.
I definitely have tried to give her the benefit of the doubt with a lot of pronunciations. But British English isn’t different enough from Australian English that ALL these words she butchers can be chalked up to accent. And no offense but just because you heard it one way doesn’t mean they said it correctly
Regardless of “dee” or “die” -aspora, even if “dee” might not be outright “wrong,” the accepted form is 100% “die.” But more importantly the emphasis needs to be on the second syllable. diASpora, not DEEuhspora. So, yes, her pronunciation is wrong.
If I remember correctly she once used a bit of german in an instagram story, does anyone know more about this/has she spoken about her being multilingual in the past? If she is fluent in german it might explain her way of pronouncing diaspora since in german it´s pronounced DeeASpora, not DieASpora. (I´m not trying to defend her too much since she is in general rather pretentious onlineI definitely have tried to give her the benefit of the doubt with a lot of pronunciations. But British English isn’t different enough from Australian English that ALL these words she butchers can be chalked up to accent. And no offense but just because you heard it one way doesn’t mean they said it correctly
Regardless of “dee” or “die” -aspora, even if “dee” might not be outright “wrong,” the accepted form is 100% “die.” But more importantly the emphasis needs to be on the second syllable. diASpora, not DEEuhspora. So, yes, her pronunciation is wrong.
)She said in her most recent video that she only speaks English. Something like: "I'm just a boring English speaker." I may watch it again and post the other words I noticed she had mispronounced.If I remember correctly she once used a bit of german in an instagram story, does anyone know more about this/has she spoken about her being multilingual in the past? If she is fluent in german it might explain her way of pronouncing diaspora since in german it´s pronounced DeeASpora, not DieASpora. (I´m not trying to defend her too much since she is in general rather pretentious online
Please do lol. This is seeming more like a devil’s advocate page than a snark page at the moment. I definitely skipped through a bunch of the vid, which is why the quantity of mispronunciations she managed to pack in is so impressive.
If she spoke any language other than English even at a low level, you can trust she would be bashing us over the head with “As a bilingual,” in every other video.
Instead her refrain alternates between “As a writer,” “As an artist,” “As a creative,” “As a literature student.”
The fact that she keeps referring to herself as an “artist” is hilarious.
She could not pronounce the name of a German author, thus definitely does not speak German:
She appeared to mispronounce precarious at around 18:35.
"I trust your opinion very highly" just seems off.
The one that was the most infuriating was how she said macabre
'As a German speaker artist writer english student artist writer,... I've always said 'wo ist der Bahnhof' which, if you don't know, means 'Nitcher is so god-killing unhinged woman core' which I think really sums up this book.'
I didn't say all, but to dismiss pronunciation differences as "wrong" without knowing specifics is naive at best, elitist at worst (no offense!), especially considering there isn't just one "Australian English" and one "British English" either. If something is said in one way by a lot of (native) speakers, generally that means it is a (regional) variety of some sort (such as a dialect, sociolect, etc.), which is what I was getting at when I said I've heard it said like that a bunch. And while that may differ from the correct pronunciation in the standardized varieties of English, it is the correct pronunciation in that variety. To dismiss something like that outright is always a bit of a pretentious move, especially in contexts that don't call for a certain standardized pronunciation like that (meaning: she's not a news reporter on the BBC, she's on her own youtube channel and different contexts allow for different registers).I definitely have tried to give her the benefit of the doubt with a lot of pronunciations. But British English isn’t different enough from Australian English that ALL these words she butchers can be chalked up to accent. And no offense but just because you heard it one way doesn’t mean they said it correctly
Regardless of “dee” or “die” -aspora, even if “dee” might not be outright “wrong,” the accepted form is 100% “die.” But more importantly the emphasis needs to be on the second syllable. diASpora, not DEEuhspora. So, yes, her pronunciation is wrong.
So no, it's not "100%" "die" (even though that's how I'd say it too) because there is no one single "accepted form". I'm not British but I would've assumed Brits would be especially atuned to this kind of thing, given how vastly different British regional accents are and how strong the bias and discrimination based on one's accent still seems to be there? Maybe not, idk. Sorry, I'm not trying to ruin the fun here (I love the snark!) or come for you specifically but if you're gonna snark, snark about something snark-worthy imo. Not about someone just... saying words slightly differently.
I don't think people are solely criticising her for mispronouncing a few words. No one's perfect and if I'd never heard the word 'diaspora' said out loud before I'd probably say it wrong too.
It's the fact that she's a published author and presents herself as someone who reads and writes constantly, yet she can't even pronounce 'visceral' or 'macabre' correctly (which btw, is definitely not down to her Australian accent, they're just wrong).
We're not criticising her for mispronouncing a few words (or anyone else who does so), we're criticising her for being pretentious, superficial and phoney. If the average Tattle user does know how to say a word, I don't give a tit, if someone who's whole ~aesthetic~ is how much they love reading, writing and the English language and makes money of this aesthetic is mispronouncing basic words then yeah, I'm going to call them out and suggest that perhaps they're not the expert they pretend to be.
It's the fact that she's a published author and presents herself as someone who reads and writes constantly, yet she can't even pronounce 'visceral' or 'macabre' correctly (which btw, is definitely not down to her Australian accent, they're just wrong).
We're not criticising her for mispronouncing a few words (or anyone else who does so), we're criticising her for being pretentious, superficial and phoney. If the average Tattle user does know how to say a word, I don't give a tit, if someone who's whole ~aesthetic~ is how much they love reading, writing and the English language and makes money of this aesthetic is mispronouncing basic words then yeah, I'm going to call them out and suggest that perhaps they're not the expert they pretend to be.
If someone I was speaking to said macabre that way I'd say: "do you mean macabre?" She has a degree in English lit (right?) So there is no excuse.
I'm from the UK and I know which words from other English speakers are pronounced differently, and absolutely accept them, as they do with us. She said a lot of words incorrectly. Not due to where she is from, unfortunately.