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> It's the agreed upon pronunciation we all ought to use when working together. Agreed upon by whom? By the in-group? Why does this "agreed-upon pronunciation"

• Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
  Because what you call "in-group" is just a bunch of professionals that are working hard on making thier lives easier. One of the results of this collective effort is a consensus (more or sometimes less established, depending on the term) on the pronounciation. It usually doesn't make sense to disturb this for every single person that has a different "intuition" about how words should be pronounced.
• dschuetz 6y ago
  > Why does this "agreed-upon pronunciation" take precedence over the "agreed-upon pronunciation" of English? Excellent question. I don't know. People just assume that precedence as axiomatic (they just agree upon it), because it seems to work... well, easier with? More efficient? That's a subject for a study, I guess. Of course by the in-group. People invent their own languages just to keep other peoples out of their culture or subculture. Since centuries. Another subject for a study. Knock yourself out, do the research and write a paper.