Wolf_Dragon303 Posted December 6, 2018 Share Posted December 6, 2018 I was just wondering how do y’all pronounce ‘aro’. If you select other you can comment below. Thanks! Link to post Share on other sites
Philip027 Posted December 6, 2018 Share Posted December 6, 2018 Ay-row. You don't say "ah-sexual", do you? There's a reason why "ace" became the standard shorthand term for asexual (and not "ass") Link to post Share on other sites
Snao Cone Posted December 6, 2018 Share Posted December 6, 2018 Ay-romantic in full, arrow for short. Link to post Share on other sites
RoseGoesToYale Posted December 6, 2018 Share Posted December 6, 2018 Arrow, in my dialect /ˈɜɹoʊ/, because ay-row sounds too much like "a row of something" Link to post Share on other sites
lonelyace Posted December 6, 2018 Share Posted December 6, 2018 I sometimes say ay-row, but only when I'm trying (and failing) to be funny and ironic. Otherwise it's arrow. Link to post Share on other sites
natural blue Posted December 6, 2018 Share Posted December 6, 2018 wait. what's the difference between ay-row and arrow? is it the pause? Link to post Share on other sites
no-longer-in-use Posted December 6, 2018 Share Posted December 6, 2018 I say ay-ro. Link to post Share on other sites
no-longer-in-use Posted December 6, 2018 Share Posted December 6, 2018 11 minutes ago, natural blue said: wait. what's the difference between ay-row and arrow? is it the pause? The a sound in arrow is a little softer than the one in ay-row, I think. Link to post Share on other sites
AspieAlly613 Posted December 6, 2018 Share Posted December 6, 2018 19 minutes ago, natural blue said: wait. what's the difference between ay-row and arrow? is it the pause? ay-ro is like "AEROnautics" Link to post Share on other sites
Philip027 Posted December 6, 2018 Share Posted December 6, 2018 Quote wait. what's the difference between ay-row and arrow? is it the pause? ay-ro: more like "Hey there!" but without the H sound arrow is more like air-ro Link to post Share on other sites
OmegaTheMetamorphicDreamer Posted December 6, 2018 Share Posted December 6, 2018 I pronounce it "ay-row" I also pronounce the A in arrow with the short e sound. Am I saying it wrong? Link to post Share on other sites
Lunala Posted December 6, 2018 Share Posted December 6, 2018 I pronounce it as "ay-row" though the other ways to pronounce it do make sense too. Link to post Share on other sites
kiaroskuro Posted December 6, 2018 Share Posted December 6, 2018 Aromantic = ay-row-mantic. Because it's ay-sexual and ay-political etc. And otherwise it would sound like aromatic [arrow-matic]. Why don't we just call it unromantic? (Yeah, I know it's not the same thing, but I like that word somehow ) Link to post Share on other sites
Anthracite_Impreza Posted December 6, 2018 Share Posted December 6, 2018 I wasn't aware anyone pronounced it differently to ay-ro Link to post Share on other sites
daveb Posted December 6, 2018 Share Posted December 6, 2018 1 hour ago, kiaroskuro said: unromantic That word is already in common usage and I think has different, or at least additional, connotations. Link to post Share on other sites
kiaroskuro Posted December 6, 2018 Share Posted December 6, 2018 6 minutes ago, daveb said: That word is already in common usage and I think has different, or at least additional, connotations. I know, like I wrote above. It's just that I often prefer the prefix un- to a-. Also, I prefer immoral to amoral, but don't ask me why. It just sounds better. (I know, those words don't mean the same thing.) ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Link to post Share on other sites
fuzzipueo Posted December 6, 2018 Share Posted December 6, 2018 I pronounce the short form as "arrow". "ay-row" sounds like I should be talking about a a row of corn or something like that. Link to post Share on other sites
XYZ96 Posted December 6, 2018 Share Posted December 6, 2018 I pronounce it "arrow" 1 hour ago, kiaroskuro said: Why don't we just call it unromantic? (Yeah, I know it's not the same thing, but I like that word somehow ) The problem with "unromantic" is that I'm not quite aromantic, yet I'm one of the most unromantic people I know. "Aromatic" implies without romance or romantic attraction, but "unromantic" implies not being romantic, plenty of people aren't romantic but aren't aromantic, and the word "unromantic" is already often used to mean things, behaviors or people that aren't romantic, making it a term that means the same as "aromantic" would make the whole thing confusing, because you'd have to then say which definition you are referring to. Link to post Share on other sites
kiaroskuro Posted December 6, 2018 Share Posted December 6, 2018 Guys, I inserted an emoticon in my comment to make sure that you all know I'm just kidding. I guess I should've added some more, or maybe I put it in the wrong place. Please please please don't take my suggestion seriously. Link to post Share on other sites
everywhere and nowhere Posted December 7, 2018 Share Posted December 7, 2018 Please note one important detail: not for all users English is the first language. Link to post Share on other sites
awkwardchickenpotatodragon Posted December 7, 2018 Share Posted December 7, 2018 I pronounce it "arrow" purely for the puns. Link to post Share on other sites
Wolf_Dragon303 Posted December 7, 2018 Author Share Posted December 7, 2018 54 minutes ago, awkwardchickenpotatodragon said: I pronounce it "arrow" purely for the puns. All the aroace arrow ace posts got to me Link to post Share on other sites
Salmiakki Posted December 7, 2018 Share Posted December 7, 2018 I'm Finnish so I just say aro lol, literally the way it's written, in the Finnish pronunciation Link to post Share on other sites
Loner4ever Posted December 8, 2018 Share Posted December 8, 2018 A - ro like in AWOL like in A hole like... probably Ay-row, although that would be "I-row" in my people's tongue. Link to post Share on other sites
EnterCreativeName Posted December 10, 2018 Share Posted December 10, 2018 In my mind I read it as "arrow" but if I say it aloud I say it "ay-row". I think both are pretty similar though. Link to post Share on other sites
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