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Ah that's why they've been calling her Princess Di
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Wheat Loaf posted:America's obsession with the British royal family is really strange to me. I've no particular objection to them myself but didn't you guys have a whole revolutionary war so you wouldn't have to pay attention to them? Exactly. And yet the media loves to obsess over the latest doings of the royal children. They're cute kids, and I wish them well, but I don't care what size turd the older one shat today.
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I've never known any american to care even the slightest bit about foreign royal families. Even when Princess Di died we all just kinda tried to get our shopping done while hundreds of thousands of unsold "Candle in the Wind" CD pallets blocked our paths.
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Sep 7, 2017 01:11
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Wheat Loaf posted:America's obsession with the British royal family is really strange to me. I've no particular objection to them myself but didn't you guys have a whole revolutionary war so you wouldn't have to pay attention to them? Nobody cares about the royal family here, it's just the media.
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Sep 7, 2017 02:35
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I think Canada's the one who cares too much. Easy mistake to make.
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Sep 7, 2017 03:28
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Dross posted:If the right to life is inalienable then why does capital punishment still exist? It's hard to think of a worse example of a "silent letter" than the D in Wednesday. It's not silent! Sure, some people say "wensday", but plenty of people actually pronounce it "wednsday". You could make the argument that it would make more sense to spell it "Wedensday", but the D is there because it's part of the word. Midig posted:How to make language consistent and logical? Remove absolutely all exceptions from normally applied rules or write down all words exactly as it is pronounced. No loving silent letters!
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Sep 7, 2017 07:04
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Tiggum posted:It's hard to think of a worse example of a "silent letter" than the D in Wednesday. It's not silent! Sure, some people say "wensday", but plenty of people actually pronounce it "wednsday". You've really wounded me today. Please tell those people to stop. Tell them to stop everything.
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Sep 7, 2017 07:19
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Kingdoms are cooler when they have elective monarchies, anyway. Just Crusader King things.
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Sep 7, 2017 07:49
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It is a pretty popular conception that americans care a lot about the british royalty, but my experience is more like what Mu Zeta said. I mean, you'll occasionally hear people talk about how hot they think kate middleton/the princes are but I never heard it go beyond that. It's like the Kardashians - nobody really cares except the tabloids and the people who buy/read tabloids. also I haven't heard anyone pronounce the d in wednesday unless they are trying to be "funny" by saying wed-ness-day. I mean, I can kind of hear it sometimes as wendsday but it's more toward the silent side and that's the way it should be.
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Sep 7, 2017 08:10
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loving nobody pronounces the first D in Wednesday, what the gently caress. Like, pronouncing it the way its spelled is a lovely comedy bit I heard on comedy central radio once
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Sep 7, 2017 08:29
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Back in college we pronounced it Wetnessday.
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Sep 7, 2017 08:30
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Saagonsa posted:loving nobody pronounces the first D in Wednesday, what the gently caress. I do. If you don't you sound dumb as gently caress wait is this americans being wrong about the english language again because lmao if so
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Sep 7, 2017 08:51
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So people pronounce it as "Whens-day"? Never heard that. Don't tend to hear "Wed-nes-day" either. It's always "Wedensday".
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Sep 7, 2017 09:03
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I've known people that pronounce Tuesday as "Tuesdee" and it makes me angry hearing it. And yeah nobody says the D in Wednesday unless you're an ESL student.
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Sep 7, 2017 09:03
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You don't pronounce it Wodans-day?
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Sep 7, 2017 09:07
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Wednesay PHUO: Agile development is dumb and lovely, but managers love it because they think it means they don't have to commit to a project plan and can just keep changing the specs and then throw the project team under the bus when they fail to redo four months of work in one week.
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yeah I eat rear end posted:It is a pretty popular conception that americans care a lot about the british royalty, but my experience is more like what Mu Zeta said. I mean, you'll occasionally hear people talk about how hot they think kate middleton/the princes are but I never heard it go beyond that. It's like the Kardashians - nobody really cares except the tabloids and the people who buy/read tabloids. Yeah it's really misstated that anyone in America actually cares about British royalty or the kardasians when it's more that they're the equivalent of background noise radio pop. My mom and sister watch (or at least used to watch) the kardashians when they'd come on but when I asked them a few questions about them they didn't really know or care much about them. It's like saying Americans are obsessed with McDonald's because it's a ubiquitous and easy place to grab a burger: the only people obsessed with McDonald's are loving pop culture weirdos like that Big Mac dude from supersize me who eats one every day
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Sep 7, 2017 09:27
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Saagonsa posted:loving nobody pronounces the first D in Wednesday, what the gently caress. I'm American and just doing it naturally and slowing it down I'm definitely putting a d before the n. Given the US though that's probably not the be all and end all since there's a billion dialects here but it's there, it's just a really quick transition No ones saying wed-ness-day it sounds almost exactly like Wensday just with a click of d before the n
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Sep 7, 2017 09:32
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Aesop Poprock posted:Yeah it's really misstated that anyone in America actually cares about British royalty or the kardasians when it's more that they're the equivalent of background noise radio pop. My mom and sister watch (or at least used to watch) the kardashians when they'd come on but when I asked them a few questions about them they didn't really know or care much about them. My sister watches Keeping Up With the Kardashians almost religiously and I don't understand why. I don't understand what the appeal of it is. I've never really gotten any reality TV that isn't some manner of competition; I get something like Britain's Got Talent or the X Factor because you're invested in who you want to win. Wheat Loaf has a new favorite as of 09:44 on Sep 7, 2017 |
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Sep 7, 2017 09:41
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Mu Zeta posted:I've known people that pronounce Tuesday as "Tuesdee" and it makes me angry hearing it. I do this, sorry. That's just how most of my family said it so I picked it up. I agree it is pretty stupid and nonsensical but 
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Sep 7, 2017 09:43
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Wheat Loaf posted:I've never really gotten any reality TV that isn't some manner of competition; I get something like Britain's Got Talent or the X Factor because you're invested in who you want to win.
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Sep 7, 2017 10:05
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Collateral Damage posted:Wednesay Agile development is actually good but only if you're under competent management. When idiots use it the way you stated it's horrible dogshit that allows management to gently caress up and blame it on the guys lower down for their own lack of foresight and planning. Used well it allows you to react quickly to changes, like if you realize this feature you're developing is actually dumb and bad you can remove it quickly before you spend four months working on it.
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Sep 7, 2017 12:56
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lmao what the gently caress is a wednesday
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When Di died I vividly remember my mum recording the whole 8 hour funeral on tape. It's not been watched since and I'm pretty sure the whole thing is on YouTube in better quality. During the last royal wedding our entire office at the time (me and 5 women) paused working for 2 hours to watch the livestream. It was kind of interesting but my cynical brain couldn't help thinking it was all a bit showy and unnecessary. Still Kate Middleton is an absolute 10/10 till it fell off kind of girl so it's not all bad.
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Sep 7, 2017 13:12
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No widely spoken language is going to be without regional accents, and it's silly to argue over them.
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Tiggum posted:
We spell castle as CASTL. If people have been using that word without the T I am a loving moron.
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Sep 8, 2017 00:45
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Midig posted:We spell castle as CASTL. If people have been using that word without the T I am a loving moron. You don't pronounce the t and there sure as hell ain't no r sound.
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Sep 8, 2017 01:15
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:You don't pronounce the t and there sure as hell ain't no r sound. In that case CASL or CASSEL. Both work and are consistent with the sound of the letters. Midig has a new favorite as of 01:30 on Sep 8, 2017 |
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Sep 8, 2017 01:25
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Midig posted:How to make language consistent and logical? Remove absolutely all exceptions from normally applied rules or write down all words exactly as it is pronounced. No loving silent letters! Yeah no ambiguity in a language when homophones are spelled the same and only determined entirely through context
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Sep 8, 2017 01:43
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Olive Garden tonight! posted:Yeah no ambiguity in a language when homophones are spelled the same and only determined entirely through context maybe not at 100 percent, but getting rid of silent letters is a good start.
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Silent letters aren't really a problem so much as consistency is. For example french has a shitload of silent or oddly-pronounced constructions but once you know how to pronounce french words it's extremely easy to know how to pronounce a new one, because the unique spellings are consistent almost all across the language. Or at least they're close enough for a foreigner to pronounce generic decent-sounding french with little accent. Modern spoken language is all over the place, but it's worlds away from tomb-bomb-comb.
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Brits are always riding American asses about proper speech but when you actually go there everyone's dropping H's like Ivy Mike.
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Sep 8, 2017 03:46
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People who believe in astrology are insufferable
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The occult is real. Spirits, ghosts, magic, demons, ley lines, the other side, psychics, witchcraft, gods and goddesses, laws of sympathy and contagion, its all real.
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Blue Star posted:The occult is real. Spirits, ghosts, magic, demons, ley lines, the other side, psychics, witchcraft, gods and goddesses, laws of sympathy and contagion, its all real. Nope
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Sep 8, 2017 05:38
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You're right, i forgot to include the faerie folk, skinchangers, vampires, grimoires, the philosopher's stone, Atlantis, ancient astronauts, qi, astral projection, channeling, crystal healing, and more. There's simply too many to include, though. The universe is far vaster and stranger than we can conceive.
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Blue Star posted:You're right, i forgot to include the faerie folk, skinchangers, vampires, grimoires, the philosopher's stone, Atlantis, ancient astronauts, qi, astral projection, channeling, crystal healing, and more. There's simply too many to include, though. The universe is far vaster and stranger than we can conceive. Nope
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Sep 8, 2017 05:47
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We Know Catheters posted:People who believe in astrology are insufferable Not as insufferable as people who say this, because no one takes astrology seriously except people who are determined to make sure no one takes astrology seriously
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Sep 8, 2017 05:51
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You're right, I also forgot about ascended masters, hermeticism, the goetia, naguals, tulpas, zombies, the yeti, the manananngal and penanggalan, mermaids, shadows, walk-ins, and again much much more. Thanks for reminding me that there's always so much more that we know or ever can know. You're really helpful! Are you a reincarnation of an Atlantean sage?
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Occult and religious poo poo are terribly fascinating, real or not. I like the power of their aesthetics. It's cool to walk into a cathedral or up to a giant Buddha and be gobsmacked with a proclamation of dedication and devotion like that. Same with all the witchy voodoo stuff: it has a neat feeling to it, like it carries so much meaning for another person's vision of reality that they might as well be from another world.
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