The Sims 4 Explains How To Pronounce 'Live Mode', Fans In Denial
For the past few years, a great debate has split The Sims community, and it all centers around the term "Live Mode". Of course, fans will know that this is the name for the mode in which you watch your Sim go about their daily life, while "Build Mode" lets you erect houses, purchase furniture, and so on. Due to the English language being a funny ol' thing, it's never been officially explained how Live Mode is meant to be pronounced, as the word 'Live' obviously has two different meanings depending on context.
The majority of fans seem to believe that it's pronounced like "jive" rather than "give", as switching from Build Mode is like you've started the cameras rolling on someone's life as you watch. It's not an outlandish assumption to make, but a recent discovery shared by u/lackadaisicaldolphin on The Sims 4 subreddit has turned the entire situation upisde down. It turns out that the correct pronunciation of Live Mode has been shared officially once, as u/lackadaisicaldolphin shares a paragraph found in some old patch notes for The Sims 4 that categorically puts the entire debate to rest.
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"Learning time: By the way, in case you were curious on the correct pronunciation of Live, simply say to yourself "I Build in Build Mode, and I Live in Live Mode," reads the patch notes, sending the entire fanbase into a state of shock and denial. Granted, it's probably just the one developer who wrote out these patch notes, and they could've been poking fun at The Sims community at the time, but it's the first official confirmation of the correct pronunciation.
"I am going to pretend that I didn't read this," says u/TurquoiseNostalgia, echoing a sentiment shared by pretty much
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