Mispronouncing a word makes you less of a nurse

[Unique87]

I was in open lab practicing things from my lab the day before. I was talking to a classmate and I mentioned the word larynx but I pronounced it wrong. It's a new word for me so I'm not going to be perfect at pronouncing it. The professor there noticed I pronounced it wrong and corrected me. Then he went on to give me an example of if I were a nurse and he brought his kid to me and I mispronounced a word to him I would be little less of a nurse. In the sense that I was not as competent as a nurse who could pronounced words correctly. He understood that it shouldn't make you less of a nurse but to him it does. I know it's just his opinion and opinions are like mouths everyone has one. I just didn't like the comment nor did I expect this from him. What do you guys think?

[AsAnatomy]

I agree we should learn the "right" way to say things but being from the South (sorta) we have accents. It happens and that instructor was just trying to make a point... one that a find competely wrong to say it makes you less of a nurse. Get this I live in Louisville, KY. Do you know how many ways there are to say Louisville? Yet, us Kentuckians pronouce it Lou-ah-ville but say it really fast. Just do your best and eventually you'll get it.

[Atheos]

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[ghillbert, MSN, NP]

Yeah,well I wonder what is worse because in both cases you can barely understand what the person is talking about...

I beg your pardon, but that is ridiculous. There is a whole gamut of accents, including people such as myself who are native english speakers but have an accent. I can still pronounce words correctly and certainly speak understandably!

What a strange post from another foreigner!

[nrsang97, BSN, RN]

I think the instructor could have phrased their critisisim a little differently. Some people will never be able to pronounce a certain word no matter how many times they are corrected. My mom says melk for milk. My mom also says darbocet for darvocet. She just can't get that word right no matter how hard she tried.

There are also regional pronunciations of words too. In Boston instead of Tinn-i-tus, they say Tinn-uh-tis, both are technically correct. Larynx has 2 pronounciations as well. So the nursing instructor may think one way is correct, but was pronounced differently in anatomy class by that instructor.

[lovehospital]

I beg your pardon, but that is ridiculous. There is a whole gamut of accents, including people such as myself who are native english speakers but have an accent. I can still pronounce words correctly and certainly speak understandably!

What a strange post from another foreigner!

Obviously you lack experience with true foreigners!!! You really dont see a close relationship between being foreign and not being able to say words correcly? Wow,I'm speechless...

[ghillbert, MSN, NP]

I can't even answer that, as apparently I'm not a "true foreigner"... *** that means!

[lovehospital]

I can't even answer that, as apparently I'm not a "true foreigner"... *** that means!

Yeah but obviously you hold some grunge against them and talk about something you are not experienced with!

[~Mi Vida Loca~RN, ASN, RN]

Obviously you lack experience with true foreigners!!! You really dont see a close relationship between being foreign and not being able to say words correcly? Wow,I'm speechless...

I have to agree with you here, well depending on the accent, I mean shoot, when I get the CS people on the phone that speak English but are outsourced from other countries I have a heck of a time understanding some of the things being said. I have had to ask for different people before because the conversation was going no where when I had to keep asking them to repeat themselves because I could not understand what they were saying. I have also met people from deep south of La and again had a very hard time understanding just regular conversation. A lot of people I have met though don't see their accent as being difficult to understand though.

Some accents can be very tricky, we learned alot about the different dialects in the US in my Speech Communications class.

[Atheos]

Yeah but obviously you hold some grunge against them and talk about something you are not experienced with!

Ummm love... he's NOT American...

[Virgo_RN, BSN, RN]

Yeah but obviously you hold some grunge against them and talk about something you are not experienced with!

:chuckle

It's "grudge", though the typo is pretty funny.