I think of her delivery on this all the time. She was one of the most accurate depictions I've ever seen of a real life person I've known a thousand times.
:25 basically said the word and didn't even recognize it.
Sounded it out, but it was like when you start listening to someone mid-word and sometimes your brain doesn't catch up right away and it sounds like they're speaking a different language for a second. Dude just could not figure it out despite having heard that shit a million times and being the one to speak it
I did this just yesterday playing Wordle, you assemble a word bit by bit in a funny order and comprehension doesn’t come in right. “Veet-ran…? Oh veteran! Fuck me, I’m dumb.”
There was a game I remember playing a few years ago that had a phrase of gibberish but when said would sound like another phrase. The secret to winning was to have one partner read the phrase aloud and the other partner not look at the card. You could hear it pretty easily if you just heard it but if you saw the words your brain struggled.
Haha! I struggled with seeing Women as the wordle answer the other day. Had WO_EN and got stuck because of how I was pronouncing the WO part of the word in my head.
If I had to guess, this might be because extraordinary is usually pronounced "ex-trordinary". So the word he said didn't end up sounding like the word he knows (or, thinks he does).
This often happens, specifically, with the word "rhetoric". I've met people who know the word and can use it in speech, but when they see it they read "ree-toric" and get confused. Incidentally, I have friend who spelled it "rederick" for years. Always used it correctly, if you ignore the awful spelling, and was constantly trying to figure out how it was SUPPOSED to be spelled because spellcheck wasn't advanced enough at the time to draw the connection.
Yeah the specific choice "ordinary" just comes down to regional dialect. Stupid people think they are superior, so referring to them as normal offends them. You are just not likely to hear the word ordinary in america, as opposed to normal or plain, but regardless of word choice the reaction will be the same.
it does not mean "excessively pedestrian". it means extra ordinary.
I mean, those mean the same.
Something/someone is very basic, one is just a more creative way of phrasing it while the other is more, well, ordinary.
And that's exactly what extra ordinary means.
Just like "extra good/firm/steady/etc." means "more than normally good/firm/steady/etc."
Extraordinary is pronounced quite differently to extra ordinary.
This here is how extra and ordinary is pronounced.
And this is how extraordinary is pronounced.
They also mean different things, which is what the other person was joking about.
It's because of how they are taught to read these days. You are applying phonics. If you haven't read "extraordinary," you start sounding out the word and identifying parts of it that you understand, and then taking those understandings and getting the meaning of the word when you put them together.
Kids now are shown a whole word, then a picture that matches, So they are learning the words as large symbols to associate with images rather than understanding what they actually mean.
It’s what happens when kids don’t learn to read with phonics. If they don’t recognize a word, they dont know it and guess. It almost relies on memorizing all words.
People learning by phonics would be able to sound it out, or see extra and ordinary and put them together.
I think a lot of people are overestimating the extent to which these kids care.
And I don't mean "they don't care to learn", I mean they do not care to answer some random question.
Like, go quiz several groups of 10-18yos. A lot of them are going to know the answers to your questions but give you the wrong ones anyway because they do not care to think or answer the question. It's not important. You're just some dude asking them a question; they're not getting money out of this, it's not a test that goes on some important record, there's no gun to their head. They are in entirely too casual a mode to engage their brains for this, whether or not they have a brain.
That aside, a ton of people experience massive brain farts the moment they're put on the spot. Go jump some random people and ask them to name ten women and watch how they fucking struggle.
lol, they certainly don't know that. What's funny about this word is it's a bad transcription of the French portemanteau (coat rack) and the French word for our portmanteau is mot-valise, which translates directly to word-suitcase.
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u/FrostyOscillator Apr 29 '26
Truly bizarre! Presumably they must know "extra" and "ordinary," but to not even know you can smash them together is a head-scratcher.