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A friend of mine taught an Intro to Visual Art course at a community college, and he discovered--to his great dismay--that it was not a good idea to pronounce Queen Nefertiti's name as it should be pronounced. When he pronounced it properly during his first semester teaching that course, it produced gales of laughter, with one student informing him..."Ha! Ha! You said t i t t y!"
Thereafter, when discussing sculptures of Queen Nefertiti, he referred to her as "Neferteddy". Although it galled him to no end, it was just so much easier to mispronounce that name, rather than have to deal with immature reactions from his students.
Hahaha that reminds me of this one:
There were some flowers called peonies growing around a house where I lived as a child. An older person said she always called them pie-neesbecause 'peonies' sounded like 'pee.'
Hmm... I'll continue on with how my mother handled it. If a word had the sound of a s s, she could not say it. It would be harussment, arstranaut, arstronomical but the exception was if she was reading aloud from the bible... then she would say the word. (After all, how could the scripture be wrong?)
Did she say terlet (toilet) like Archie Bunker?
I'm lovin' your mother, btw.
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Originally Posted by Retriever
A friend of mine taught an Intro to Visual Art course at a community college, and he discovered--to his great dismay--that it was not a good idea to pronounce Queen Nefertiti's name as it should be pronounced. When he pronounced it properly during his first semester teaching that course, it produced gales of laughter, with one student informing him..."Ha! Ha! You said t i t t y!"
Thereafter, when discussing sculptures of Queen Nefertiti, he referred to her as "Neferteddy". Although it galled him to no end, it was just so much easier to mispronounce that name, rather than have to deal with immature reactions from his students.
I teach math so I have to make sure that no problems have an answer of sixty-nine. The same goes for scored papers: those stinkers got a C- because I rounded it up to 70% so that I wouldn't have any explaining to do.
Oh no, toilet was toilet. I tend to tell many stories involving my mother. They often seem more fitting than anything else. Unfortunately, I'm often far too critical.
A friend of mine taught an Intro to Visual Art course at a community college, and he discovered--to his great dismay--that it was not a good idea to pronounce Queen Nefertiti's name as it should be pronounced. When he pronounced it properly during his first semester teaching that course, it produced gales of laughter, with one student informing him..."Ha! Ha! You said t i t t y!"
Thereafter, when discussing sculptures of Queen Nefertiti, he referred to her as "Neferteddy". Although it galled him to no end, it was just so much easier to mispronounce that name, rather than have to deal with immature reactions from his students.
It supports the accusation that cc is an extension of high school. They aren't quite ready for the university.
I just realized that I thought it was pronounced Nef-er-tee-tee. Although, that may not be enough of a distinction for a boy in 13th grade.
Whether it is pronounced as "Nefertitty" or as "Neferteetee", it doesn't take much for an 18-20 year old male to become...distracted...by that reference.
I "nefer" knew her (badum-bum). Sorry, we were on the subject of school-boy humor, I couldn't resist.
Shouldn't that be ba-dump-bump?
And then how would you spell the cymbals after? Shpee?
These things matter.
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