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Help[Opinions] Re: Jocosa
in reply to a message by namesarecool285
I learned the vocabulary word "jocose" before ever seeing Jocosa, so it was ruined for me. Because "jocose" is such an arch word, like a word someone would use to describe someone who was trying to be funny but wasn't.
I might not mind it so much if it were juh-CAW-suh. Then I wouldn't feel so much like it has the idea of "joke" in it.
It seems to me that one could pronounce it however they pleased, since it's so unheard-of that there can be no convention, so, no "correct" pronunciation.
I don't like Coco and I think it could only be a good nickname for someone who liked being called it. But it does come naturally out of Jocosa "jo-COH-sa." I think it'd work for "juh-CAW-suh" too, though, if she wanted it.
- mirfak
I might not mind it so much if it were juh-CAW-suh. Then I wouldn't feel so much like it has the idea of "joke" in it.
It seems to me that one could pronounce it however they pleased, since it's so unheard-of that there can be no convention, so, no "correct" pronunciation.
I don't like Coco and I think it could only be a good nickname for someone who liked being called it. But it does come naturally out of Jocosa "jo-COH-sa." I think it'd work for "juh-CAW-suh" too, though, if she wanted it.
- mirfak
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