General Discussion

@Lunarduo
Phione? Like, the Pokemon? That's fee-own-ay.


I have a general problem with all of my languages whereby my vocabularies don't overlap well. I speak English at work and on the Internet, two other languages strictly in the religious academic context, one at home, one because my region is incredibly xenophobic if one doesn't have it, and three with some relatives, so you can imagine that things are quite stratified. In some of them I've atrophied to the point of passive bilingualism, so that I understand what everyone else is saying to me but can only reply from a limited set of options (albeit without an accent so I look like an idiot).
In others I'm perfectly competent but have never had occasion to talk about certain topics, so I never had the opportunity to pick up specialist vocabulary, even if I already understand the concepts it refers to.
My point with all this is to call attention to the fact that I'm fully capable of typing like an absolute tool (thank goodness, this isn't usually how I type, but now I'm stuck in this stupid elf voice!) but I can't pronounce half of what I'm saying - until recently I didn't realize that albeit was said like all-be-it and not to rhyme with Arbeit. :D