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Carthag Tuek posted:that word begins with a vowel  it's an approximant, a type of consonant. More specifically, a glide or semivowel.
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Carthag Tuek posted:"sometimes Y" is the worst copout.. W is always a vowel in english but you dont sing about that for some reason get your poo poo together For what it is worth, here in middle America I learned the vowels as "a e i o u and sometimes y and w" - it doesn't even scan otherwise because "u" and "y" don't rhyme.
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And, per se, and.
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Carthag Tuek posted:"sometimes Y" is the worst copout.. W is always a vowel in english but you dont sing about that for some reason get your poo poo together The gently caress?
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Stoatbringer posted:The gently caress? He's confused about whether W is a consonant or a vowel.
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W is a letter, [u] [uː] [ʊ] [ɔ] are vowels, [w] [v] [β] [ʋ] [ʕʷ] [ʙ] [ɣ] [f] are consonants [◌ʷ] is labialization of a consonant Glad we could sort this
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Aug 20, 2023 17:33
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Grassy Knowles posted:W is a letter, your mom's a labialization
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Aug 20, 2023 17:48
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W is a double vowel. It's two UC's after all.
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It's not really a new phrase I learned but I didn't want to bother the serious people in A/T about it: I just like the dysphemism treadmill around what dead guys do when they're offended. You know, from "shifting in their grave", to "turn over in their grave", "do backflips in their grave", "spin so fast in their grave you could jacket them in copper wire and tap them for power". I dig that. Maybe one day I'll see "spin so fast you could use the gyroscopic effect for guidance" in the wild.
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"Bleeding Edge" is the dumbest possible version of that. It means the exact same thing as "Cutting Edge" except the metaphor no longer makes sense.
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It means that its so far forward on the cutting edge of that razor that it's into your blood, maaaan. Going by that logic, an even more advanced version of "bleeding edge" would be "fatty edge"
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Sentient Data posted:It means that its so far forward on the cutting edge of that razor that it's into your blood, maaaan. Great, someone leaked my pornhub search terms again.
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It's referencing leading edge, not cutting edge, it's a pun (but yeah also it's ~dangerously~ advanced)
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i just realized that mele kalikimaka is literally "merry christmas" adapted to hawaiian orthography. looked it up & it checks out. nice! originally, i thought they were words in the hawaiian language
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Marcade posted:I've always heard slicker than squirrel poo poo. Haven't heard this but "nuttier than squirrel poo poo" has always been a favorite to describe someone acting crazy/weird. Also the Scandinavian talk reminded me of this old gem from Conan  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yHqnVMe54g BOOTY-ADE has a new favorite as of 16:49 on Dec 8, 2023 |
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BOOTY-ADE posted:Haven't heard this but "nuttier than squirrel poo poo" has always been a favorite to describe someone acting crazy/weird. wow i thought his name came from dutch (aa is not common Swedish & in my danish experience not used much as å, but i guess its an old noble family not even from a danish area where aa would make sense) but oh my god lol theyre so bad at pronouncing swedish, the y is short
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I thought maybe the double-a was an expansion of å, so the original would be gyllenhål. But that would mean "golden hole" and hmm.
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for fucks sake posted:I thought maybe the double-a was an expansion of å, so the original would be gyllenhål. But that would mean "golden hole" and hmm. yea lol the closest i can figure with my knowledge of older swedish & danish is the obvious "golden-hall" there were a couple danish comedies about the nouveau riche Familien Gyldenkål (golden-cabbage) in the 1970s, but no idea if thats an intentional pun. its not a name that was common or well known in denmark at any point
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for fucks sake posted:I thought maybe the double-a was an expansion of å, so the original would be gyllenhål. But that would mean "golden hole" and hmm. Lotta blondes in sweden
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im wondering what word tim the coke dealer and snitch, what he is alluding to here, they say what sounds like "fyuke" which apparently means "take a break" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIMix711OC4&t=272s (4:50 ish)
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Fika?
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taqueso posted:Fika? fika doesn't mean shut the gently caress up. it's more like come in, sit down
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Dec 29, 2023 04:46
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Fika is back slang for coffee. Kaffe > kaffi > fika
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vandrersprog kanske? Uanset, han ved ikke hva det er.
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So in broad terms it means break because coffee is associated with taking a break?
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Fika = coffee break makes sense to me yeah, it's just a real weird way to invoke it, like a parent or a bouncer
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