I hope you have the emergency service number ready on your phone for the inevitable alcohol poisoning
Should I end up in hell (it’s likely …) I fully expect that one of my torments will be as follows: I will be locked in a dusty room with Ruby. I’ll be strapped to a chair and Ruby will be flouncing round the room reading the full version of the OED in her poetry voice, whilst mispronouncing Every. Damn. Word.
English names can be difficult even for native speakers (as Ruby proves) so I wouldn’t worry about it. It’s just surprising that Ruby, a literature student who claims to be such a book worm and to love academia, makes such a mess of pronouncing these names - especially the ones that aren’t exactly niche. I think half her problem is that she seems to glance at names and assume a pronunciation rather than read it properly. For example, she pronounced Gazdanov as Gaznadov. Even the former wouldn’t sound perfect to real Russians when read in an English way, but at least it’s a good approximation rather than a totally different name.Okay i just watched her video while cooking, and it might just be me being dumb but English is not my first language and I couldn’t really pick up on any oddly pronounced author names… does that mean I’ve been pronouncing authors name wrong my entire reading career?embarrassing..
Reader, I did dare. And I blooming well regret it.
Still laughing at the thought of this introduction happening.
This would be the final stage of Rud/byism.If they corrected her, there's a substantial risk that:
I'm barely holding on
The thing I find utterly bizarre and fascinating: Ruby constantly says that she considers videos over 12 minutes "too long" to make or watch. So she often condenses several things that might be vaguely interesting (days out to interesting places, time spent with people more charismatic and likeable than her) into a 11 minute vlog full of sped-up, silent footage and slapdash editing.
Barely 2 minutes in and I hear 'Rude-yard Kipling' (Rudyard Kipling). We need a proper compilation of all mispronunciations. Could be hilarious.
i hate commenting on what people wear but lol no literally if she had on black or dark wash high waisted jeans and tucked it in and wore the cardigan over it would look so nice! (i probs wouldnt wear a green shirt, maybe white or a neutral brownish colour thats darker than the cardigan)
sorry pondscum has absolutely sent me
i can't sleep so am just reading through all the threads and this tickled medid she ever mention how long it would be until she announced the winners?
Supposedly July 28th. She said winners would be contacted directly, which is always a dead giveaway that nobody will win anything and it's a marketing scam.
