Okay, we all know that Megamind has a pronunciation problem, but is it a speech impediment? I think not!!! I mean think about it, the words he mispronounces are words that have a spelling contradictory to their pronunciation. See below!
Below are the following words Megamind mispronounces:
School - If you think about it, it's spelled pretty funny. Megamind says it (sh-chool), pronouncing the "sch" as it would be in "schmuck" or "Schlotzky's" (Which BTW, is my 2nd fav sub place). And I can honestly say, If I saw that word for the first time, I would pronounce it the same way.
Melancholy - Which Megamind says as (Me-lahn- koly) When I first head it in the movie, I didn't think he mispronounced it and just thought it was a word I didn't know. But after watching the movie a few times, I realized what he was trying to say. And I believe his pronunciation wasn't far off. I probably pronounced it the same way when I first read it. I wouldn't blame him for doing the same.
Hello - Megamind says as (o-llo). I think this mistake is from him being socially inept. I mean, who else is there to talk to besides Minion? And I'm sure he's never greeted anyone on the phone before. So there was no reason for him to ever use the word. Plus I'm sure everyone here loves the way he says ollo. I know I've been greeting everyone that way lately.
Metrocity - I really think he pronounces it this way on purpose. It sound very similar to "atrocity" which means heinous. I kind of like how he pronounces it too.
Revenge - Okay, this one looks like it should be pronounced the way it looks. And... I got nothing for this one. My only guess is that he is pronouncing the "venge" based on it's pronunciation in a different word or language. That, or the person who taught him the word mispronounced it as well. I'm sure they talked a lot about "revenge" in prison, and for a prison that for the criminally gifted, some of them seem pretty slow.
And I'm not sure if he mispronounced any more words, did he?
Well, my basic point here, is that I think that Megamind mispronounces words simply because there wasn't anyone to correct him (excluding Minion). I'm sure Megamind learned most of his vocab through reading books instead of through conversation and didn't have a dictionary to look each word up with. So basically, he guessed their pronunciation and just went with it.
And that, everyone, is my theory.
Below are the following words Megamind mispronounces:
School - If you think about it, it's spelled pretty funny. Megamind says it (sh-chool), pronouncing the "sch" as it would be in "schmuck" or "Schlotzky's" (Which BTW, is my 2nd fav sub place). And I can honestly say, If I saw that word for the first time, I would pronounce it the same way.
Melancholy - Which Megamind says as (Me-lahn- koly) When I first head it in the movie, I didn't think he mispronounced it and just thought it was a word I didn't know. But after watching the movie a few times, I realized what he was trying to say. And I believe his pronunciation wasn't far off. I probably pronounced it the same way when I first read it. I wouldn't blame him for doing the same.
Hello - Megamind says as (o-llo). I think this mistake is from him being socially inept. I mean, who else is there to talk to besides Minion? And I'm sure he's never greeted anyone on the phone before. So there was no reason for him to ever use the word. Plus I'm sure everyone here loves the way he says ollo. I know I've been greeting everyone that way lately.
Metrocity - I really think he pronounces it this way on purpose. It sound very similar to "atrocity" which means heinous. I kind of like how he pronounces it too.
Revenge - Okay, this one looks like it should be pronounced the way it looks. And... I got nothing for this one. My only guess is that he is pronouncing the "venge" based on it's pronunciation in a different word or language. That, or the person who taught him the word mispronounced it as well. I'm sure they talked a lot about "revenge" in prison, and for a prison that for the criminally gifted, some of them seem pretty slow.
And I'm not sure if he mispronounced any more words, did he?
Well, my basic point here, is that I think that Megamind mispronounces words simply because there wasn't anyone to correct him (excluding Minion). I'm sure Megamind learned most of his vocab through reading books instead of through conversation and didn't have a dictionary to look each word up with. So basically, he guessed their pronunciation and just went with it.
And that, everyone, is my theory.
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As for "re-vahnge" . . . I'm pretty sure that one was on purpose too. It sounded like he was saying it that way just to get under Metro Man's skin.
So I tend to think more are intentional rather than bumbling mispronunciations. Even elitist, in a way - especially the "shool" one. He probably keeps at it out of stubbornness, and the feeling that everyone else is in the wrong. I can just picture young Megamind ranting to Minion about the mindless drones' imbecilic butchering of their own language:
"They're fickle and inconsistent, Minion! They don't correct each other when saying 'schnauzer' or 'Schmidt,' now do they? Honestly, there isn't a sholar among them!"
The "shool" thing I'm pretty sure he keeps out of stubbornness/habit. He catches himself before pronouncing it wrong when talking to Roxanne... actually I wonder how often that happened, if he was able avoid mispronouncing things around her or if she was correcting his pronunciation of and on throughout their lil outings.
Now, you can certainly argue that that kind of self-correction was motivated by a lie and therefore indicative that Megamind's entire performance as Bernard was a lie, and you'd be 100% valid IMO. But, frankly you could go around in circles for like, ever, trying to pin down what the "real" Megamind is vs. the "fake" Megamind (ugh, existentialism...). The fact that he tells her a very touchy, very personal, very true tidbit about his childhood right after when he could've made up anything says more to me than the lil cover up (which people do all the time anyhow).
Gah, I'm rambling again. I'll stop now xD
I put that in one of my fics, where he was saying "Invisible not in-audio-ble". He tries to parse some words and they just come out.... different.
I actually have the "um, you said that wrong" thing happen to me on random occasions, so I know how he feels.
Plus... puns are fun. Why not have more of them?
Another clue that Megamind pronounces things simply from not conversing very often: the "potato-tomato-potato-tomato" line. The analogy doesn't work at all unless you change the pronunciation of the words but if you'd only read it, not heard it aloud, you wouldn't know that.
And you're spot-on about how he pronounces Minion's name too!
For example: epitome, in my head, was "ep-ih-TOHME".
I'd never made the connection between the pronunciation of "stingy" and the actual word until (I'm ashamed to admit) late in high school. I've always been good at reading - I just never saw it printed until then. In Spanish, one of the words we learned was tacaño, meaning "stingy", but I'd always mentally pronounced it "sting-ey" rather than "stin-jee", and thus had no fucking clue what the word meant. I knew it was the opposite of generous, so I had a general idea of what it meant... but fuck, I still have no idea how I missed the bus on pronunciations of words.
/cool story, sis.
I laughed at your post because I did the exact same thing with "epitome" and "stingy," and another one that always got me was "clandestine." It looks like "CLAN-de-steen," why would you pronounce it "clan-DEH-stin"? Gah! ^_^;