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Daktari posted:Like you are trying to talk with a potato in your mouth/ throat , from a Norwegians pow. From any Germanic language speaker's point of view, really.
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steinrokkan posted:It's perfectly fine to call places names that work better in your language than whatever the locals call them. The alternative is to twist your tongue every time you try to talk about a foreign topic. Yes, it's fine, but don't say the locals are wrong. Kentuckians in Versailles aren't mispronouncing their hometown.
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A Buttery Pastry, is this true? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-mOy8VUEBk
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Maxwells Demon posted:"Urban" county is still a reasonable stretch. Wasco county (mid-top) has only 25k people in the whole county. Tillamook the same. Malheur County is red and bigger than two of the green ones (at a heady 31k), but all the population is essentially a suburb of Boise, Idaho. It might also be related to the configuration of the population. Like, I've only been through Tillamook and Clatsop once but I remember it being primarily wilderness with a few towns dotted on the coast. That's different from "a fair number of people, but they're also all farmers/commuters". But most likely it's just proximity to Portland/the 2-3 other notable metro areas, oh and Medford too.
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Peanut President posted:It's funny you mention Indiana because I'm curious how all the European supermen itt would pronounce "Kosciusko County". There's a subway stop in Brooklyn of this name. Most conductors say Kah-žu-sko street, less frequently kah-zee-ah-sko street. Named for https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadeusz_Kościuszko, an interesting figure in the American Revolution
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Ofaloaf posted:We fixed that nonsense here in America by just not caring about alleged proper spelling, hence Edinboro, Pennsylvania and Wooster, Massachusetts. God bless.
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It sounds like a Saxon trying to say "Kopenhagen", lol
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Disco Infiva posted:A Buttery Pastry, is this true? System Metternich posted:It sounds like a Saxon trying to say "Kopenhagen", lol
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A Buttery Pastry posted:So, the problem is that some English-speakers pick the wrong German dialect? You mean English?
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A Buttery Pastry posted:Pure projection on the part of the Norwegians, who pride themselves on having the best ear for Scandinavian languages among the three nations. While Danish pronunciation can differ greatly from spelling, sometimes dropping entire sounds, this follows entirely consistent rules which other Danish speakers have no problem dealing with. The real issue is that Danish has devolved rapidly since the end of WWII, when inter-Scandinavian intelligibility was remarkably high, while the insular and conservative Norwegians guard their language like the French. 
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A Buttery Pastry posted:So, the problem is that some English-speakers pick the wrong German dialect? Do you think it is impossible for English speakers to pronounce 'ah', there's nothing specifically German about the phoneme
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Phlegmish posted:Do you think it is impossible for English speakers to pronounce 'ah', there's nothing specifically German about the phoneme Dropping useless features is as much evolution as gaining useful new ones.
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A Buttery Pastry posted:They're not supposed to use an 'ah' sound. They don't with you 
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Speaking of languages, I don't know why forum software don't support DOT. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOT_(graph_description_language) It would very easy to make diagrams using dot in a post. Is also a language with strong open source support, so integration would be easy. It would even be possible to translate english sentences to DOT diagrams with emoji symbols, It would be a single language that all humans beings would be able to understand.
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Tei posted:Speaking of languages, I don't know why forum software don't support DOT. Yeah, I often find myself wondering "Why aren't there more emojis around"
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I don't see why ahgen is more wrong than aygen.
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Kurtofan posted:I don't see why ahgen is more wrong than aygen. e: It is equivalent to pronouncing Algiers like the French Alger, in an attempt to use the proper native name. A Buttery Pastry fucked around with this message at 18:56 on Sep 14, 2016 |
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I am irrationally annoyed that the projection used here is centered on the USA instead of Oregon. Also at the use of drop shadows.
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Golbez posted:I am irrationally annoyed that the projection used here is centered on the USA instead of Oregon. Also at the use of drop shadows. Youve never been to Dark Oregon?
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Golbez posted:I am irrationally annoyed that the projection used here is centered on the USA instead of Oregon. Also at the use of drop shadows. The shadows are an insincere attempt at being respectful to Oregon.
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 I'm going to go ahead and say Building 61 is the best.
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cheerfullydrab posted:
That's a weird maze.
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Golbez posted:I am irrationally annoyed that the projection used here is centered on the USA instead of Oregon. Also at the use of drop shadows.
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A Buttery Pastry posted:The etymological origin of Coepenhahgen is an insincere attempt at seeming cultured or respectful, and this colors any use of the pronunciation, even if the speaker is unaware of the origin. People pronounce a word in their own language either in the way they've heard others do, or in the way they guess from the spelling. Saying Copenhahgen for either reason is not insincere, and insincerity isn't a thing that can be transmitted through time by sharing a pronunciation. Besides, foreign place names in any language frequently originate with people trying to use the native name, and getting it wrong. Almost nobody minds.
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cheerfullydrab posted:
What's awful / special about this?
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Well it's in Chico so they're all awful.
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steinrokkan posted:What's awful / special about this? I just felt that somebody needed to post a map of something. I've never been to California or heard of this complex, though it looks awful. I took a political position by saying that building 61 is the best. Living in human storage facilities like that is not the way people were meant to exist.
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cheerfullydrab posted:I just felt that somebody needed to post a map of something. I've never been to California or heard of this complex, though it looks awful. I took a political position by saying that building 61 is the best. Living in human storage facilities like that is not the way people were meant to exist. You're that upset about mediocre condos? Honestly having some storage lockers and a preschool on site is pretty decent.
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Let me tell you about a little book called The Death and Life of Great American Cities (though I'm not sure it would necessarily apply to Chico)
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How about this politically contentious map?
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fishmech posted:You're that upset about mediocre condos? Honestly having some storage lockers and a preschool on site is pretty decent. How did I not notice the preschool? I guess it seems like an okay place for young families.
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cheerfullydrab posted:I just felt that somebody needed to post a map of something. I've never been to California or heard of this complex, though it looks awful. I took a political position by saying that building 61 is the best. Living in human storage facilities like that is not the way people were meant to exist. Humans originally lived in clay hives in the ground.
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Danir hafa vitanlega forþýskast heil ósköp og eru í raun ekkert annað en Þjóðverjar í afneitun líkt og Austuríkismenn og Hollendingar. En Kaupmannahöfn er þó skemmtilega gegnsætt orð. Höfn þar sem kaupmenn starfa. Annars er Danmörk alveg allt í lagi ef manni líkar við reiðhjól, repjuakra og rauð múrsteinahús.
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cheerfullydrab posted:
Why do you wanna live where you have to deal with the noise of the pool, the mini storage, and the playground?
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Baka-nin posted:How about this politically contentious map? (Re-hosted on imgur so that people using https can see it too.) I'm the redundant Klavdia III off the southwestern border. I guess it's an emergency backup, in case they break the one in the Iadara Sector.
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Peanut President posted:Why do you wanna live where you have to deal with the noise of the pool, the mini storage, and the playground? Ah, a goon who can't stand hearing normal people have fun. And the terrible noise of things staying in place in a storage facility. 
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cheerfullydrab posted:Living in human storage facilities like that is not the way people were meant to exist. i've never seen a goon be anti-dwelling before. i guess we're supposed to live in the open in forests?
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Popular Thug Drink posted:i've never seen a goon be anti-dwelling before. i guess we're supposed to live in the open in forests? People should live in nasty old rotting post-industrial cities in apartments above vape shops and dingy grocery stores, not in huge condo building mazes.
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