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Tiggum posted:A lot of small children say that, so it could be a mistake that she just never bothered to unlearn, like how some people go their entire lives saying "fink" instead of "think" or "somethink" instead of "something". Does anyone in the world pronounce "comfortable" correctly? Or is saying "comfterble" just an American thing?
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In this thread native speakers of English are perplexed by varieties of English. WHAT DO YOU MEAN GARAGE RHYMES WITH MARRIAGE OMG 
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I recommend you all read David Crystal's The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language which, apart from being a rather good book and a nice read, will give you 40000 pages worth of material for this thread.
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May 25, 2016 13:35
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Xun posted:I've recently figured out how the "have your cake and eat it too" phrase even works. It's not having a cake and then eating it, which is perfectly reasonable, it's trying to eat a cake but still have one at the same time The problem is that people say "have your cake and eat it too" which doesn't make sense and is stupid when people should be saying "eat your cake and have it too"
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May 25, 2016 15:06
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Jerry Cotton posted:WHAT DO YOU MEAN GARAGE RHYMES WITH MARRIAGE OMG the beauty of English is that where I live these two words don't rhyme at all
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May 25, 2016 15:10
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The Garage, oo la de da, just call it a car hole like the rest of us.
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May 25, 2016 15:54
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The Orange Mage posted:the beauty of English is that where I live these two words don't rhyme at all 
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May 25, 2016 15:55
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Henchman of Santa posted:Does anyone in the world pronounce "comfortable" correctly? Or is saying "comfterble" just an American thing? I pronounce it comfort-TAble.
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May 25, 2016 15:56
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EX250 Type R posted:The problem is that people say "have your cake and eat it too" which doesn't make sense and is stupid when people should be saying "eat your cake and have it too" Let me guess, you get mad at people who say "head over heels" too.
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Besesoth posted:Let me guess, you get mad at people who say "head over heels" too. I don't get mad at all and I thought the expression was stupid myself until Drill Sergeant Snodgrass was kind enough to explain it one day and the lesson stuck
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May 25, 2016 16:36
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Tasteful Dickpic posted:I pronounce it comfort-TAble. You monster.
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Tiggum posted:A lot of small children say that, so it could be a mistake that she just never bothered to unlearn, like how some people go their entire lives saying "fink" instead of "think" or "somethink" instead of "something". "Some people" being Cockneys, the Cornish, some people from Yorkshire, a significant number of African Americans and Newfies. Quite a lot of English speakers don't bother with "th". stubblyhead posted:The latter. With an ð it would be a voiced fricative.
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Besesoth posted:Several dozen, you mean. This is a better fit for the Pet Peeve thread, but I hate how Wikipedia pronunciation tables give every European scrub-tier glorified accent its own line but shove all the Chinese languages into a single row. I understand they are considered "varieties of Chinese" and that's where people will look for them, but it still feels like Communist propaganda.
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May 25, 2016 19:59
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FreudianSlippers posted:"Some people" being Cockneys, the Cornish, some people from Yorkshire, a significant number of African Americans and Newfies. Þou art correct But Þ is still voiced while ð is unvoiced
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Whiz Palace posted:This is a better fit for the Pet Peeve thread, but I hate how Wikipedia pronunciation tables give every European scrub-tier glorified accent its own line but shove all the Chinese languages into a single row. I understand they are considered "varieties of Chinese" and that's where people will look for them, but it still feels like Communist propaganda. Maybe they all have the sound 
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In the awful app, the grenade next to people's names mean they have plat/you can pm them. You don't have to just guess. I don't know if it's on the main site too, I almost exclusively phone post anymore.
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FreudianSlippers posted:"Some people" being Cockneys, the Cornish, some people from Yorkshire, a significant number of African Americans and Newfies. I didn't even realise it was a regional thing, I just meant individuals from places where that pronunciation is not usual who say it that way. 
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om nom nom posted:In the awful app, the grenade next to people's names mean they have plat/you can pm them. You don't have to just guess. It is.
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May 26, 2016 04:20
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The actor who played Casey Jones in the 1990 TMNT film is not the same actor as the guy from Black Ops 3/Law & Order.
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om nom nom posted:In the awful app, the grenade next to people's names mean they have plat/you can pm them. You don't have to just guess. That's a fairly recent addition to Awful I think
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May 26, 2016 10:55
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Aggravated assault must be the lesser charge, because hey, that jerk really aggravated you right?
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The symbol for infinity is an 8 on its side. If you follow the line you keep going round and round and round and round. It's an infinite loop!
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duckmaster posted:The symbol for infinity is an 8 on its side. Yeah that was a good Ulysses 31 episode 
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May 26, 2016 18:32
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Well I mean they all were.
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VSauce and VineSauce are two different youtube channels and in no way affiliated with one another.
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May 26, 2016 22:09
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The mint in "mint condition" refers to the coin factory, not the plant they flavour toothpaste with. I always thought of it as meaning like 'minty fresh' or something.
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Beezle posted:The mint in "mint condition" refers to the coin factory, not the plant they flavour toothpaste with. It'a no that far off though, kinda. I mean a mint stamp/bill is fresh as hell.
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May 30, 2016 01:36
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Snapchat A Titty posted:It'a no that far off though, kinda. I mean a mint stamp/bill is fresh as hell. trust me, mint the plant tastes a lot better than licking a penny.
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May 30, 2016 05:26
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no theyre the worst if only they were made of meat :|
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Over the past couple days I listed to a twelve part podcast series about Charles Manson. I always assumed he was just a regular serial killer like Gacey or Bundy, but it turns out he didn't kill anyone, only shot one guy in the chest. Also, that's not a swastika carved into his forehead, simply an 'x'.
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Ego-bot posted:Also, that's not a swastika carved into his forehead, simply an 'x'.
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Yeah, I just did a bit of searching and you're right. He initially carved an 'x' into his forehead because he was deleting himself from society. Sometime before an interview he did in 1981 he added the other lines.
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Besesoth posted:Several dozen, you mean. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_dialects_and_varieties Holy crap. This is why my Spanish teacher couldn't pronounce "th", but my Mexican girlfriend has no issue. 
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Snapchat A Titty posted:no theyre the worst What, have you never heard of mint's meat?
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Ego-bot posted:Over the past couple days I listed to a twelve part podcast series about Charles Manson. I always assumed he was just a regular serial killer like Gacey or Bundy, but it turns out he didn't kill anyone, only shot one guy in the chest. Also, that's not a swastika carved into his forehead, simply an 'x'. He didn't kill as much as his infamy lets on. I think the reason he became such a famous criminal was the circumstance surrounding his crimes. His obsession with pop music in the Beatles and Beach Boys, his interest in starting a race war, and of course the murder of an actress and almost murder of a famous and well liked Hollywood director before he had been publicly outed as paedophile rapist.
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Ego-bot posted:Over the past couple days I listed to a twelve part podcast series about Charles Manson. I always assumed he was just a regular serial killer like Gacey or Bundy, but it turns out he didn't kill anyone, only shot one guy in the chest. Also, that's not a swastika carved into his forehead, simply an 'x'. Was that "You Must Remember This"? Their Star Wars series is pretty good too. (Hollywood Stars and WWII, not the Jedi poo poo)
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The cover for Masters of Doom has a really zoomed in graphic of that Doom 2 human with the chaingun. I've read the book multiple times, but I've never looked at the cover from far enough away that the image looked like the zoomed-in, slightly blurred pixel art it is. This whole time I thought it was a genericized 2D video game image; blurred to avoid stomping on id's copyrights.
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KillHour posted:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_dialects_and_varieties Wouldn't it be the other way around? I thought that sound was mostly found in Peninsular Spanish, with Latin Americans pronouncing z as s.
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That until now, just this once, in another country/culture, I've never seen a homeless woman - only men. Maybe the rest of this post would better fit in the A/T stupid questions thread, but what would be the cause of this imbalance?
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