Comments | kentawolf: Dear Sam

kentawolf

Dear Sam

Oct 31, 2008 15:54

Dear Sam,

It's pronounced "sow-inn."

Sincerely,
Grammar Mythology Nazi

Comments 10

astri13 October 31 2008, 23:03:29 UTC

Everytime somebody said Sam-hain, my ears were burning.

Next up on Supernatural: a demon called Bill Tanner. Or Beltane. Whatever fits. *g*

kentawolf October 31 2008, 23:18:40 UTC

Agreed. The burning.

EPIC FAIL Kripke Crew. Epic fail.

I'm sure someone will call him out on that at a convention.

They can't fuck up "Yule"!

metalicar_67 November 23 2008, 07:05:14 UTC

Yes, it killed me. Not to mention the lore was wrong too. Usually they do their research, but this time.... yes, it was epic fail.

spiritualseekr November 1 2008, 01:09:04 UTC

Everytime somebody said Sam-hain, my ears were burning.

Agreed. It was a bit painful. For Kripke being such a mythology buff, this was epically disappointing.

auriliawestlake October 31 2008, 23:23:03 UTC

Perhaps no one ever told him about the Gaelic tradition of eschewing vowels in place of long strings of brain-melting consonants?

And I thought it was 'SA-ween'? Eh, who knows.

An easy way to get around the irritation is to simply pretend that it's a slightly different word meant - one that's spelled the same, but sounds different (whaddaya call 'em? homonyms?).

zazreil November 1 2008, 01:34:22 UTC

LOL - somebody wasn't doing their home work for the actors - grin. I know that they have a latin coach and of course Jim Beaver really does speak a lot of languages but this make you wonder just how much they are messing up - doesn't it

Zaz - who does not know Celtic pronunciation either

havenward November 1 2008, 02:44:09 UTC

::giggles::

spn_ftw November 1 2008, 05:48:34 UTC

Yeeeaaahhh... You'd think DEAN would have aid it that way.

Talk about the uproar within my Wiccan friends. But I had to remind them it is a tv show and that there IS lore on it that reflects the episode (granted lore that was prejudicial but still historical records are out there) and really I think it was more "Oh hey guys... this is what this episode about. What can we find that fits and will make it happen?"

But yeah, I cringed. Each time. Next week: Arabic? xD