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Except or except
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madeintaipei posted:May I introduce you to Bur-min-ham, Alabama? Funnily enough, it was hearing someone refer to that very city that made me think of it. They're saying their own town's name wrong. Smdh.
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# ? May 16, 2019 13:27 |
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zedprime posted:Obligatory obtuse "what's the difference" It's the difference between 'prose' and 'purse'.
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TheMaskedUgly posted:It's the difference between 'prose' and 'purse'. Everyone's a mush mouth burn down the strict pronunciation establishment.
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zedprime posted:Obligatory obtuse "what's the difference" One means to write before, and the other means to write through.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Except or accept ftfy
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I never perspire. I prespire
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christmas boots posted:I never perspire. I prespire Wish you'd expire lol.
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very hurtful
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christmas boots posted:very hurtful I was very rude; I aplogize.
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christmas boots posted:I never perspire. I prespire Buncha linguistic preverts in this thread, that’s for sure
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# ? May 16, 2019 23:52 |
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It turns out that the debugging tool Valgrind is not called that because it grinds through all your values looking for mistakes. It's actually the name of the main gate of Valhalla, through which only the worthy may pass. And it's pronounced with a short "i", like in "hit".
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# ? May 17, 2019 01:09 |
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Jerry Cotton posted:Wouldn't it be nice if spelling was consistent and phonemic so if you knew how to spell a word, you'd always know how to pronounce it, and if you knew how to pronounce a word, you'd always know how to spell it? Savukkeensytyttimen is cigarette lighter. Your language is twice as mad as ours.
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That's not correct, though.
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# ? May 17, 2019 06:36 |
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I genuinely like the pronunciation talk. I’m not, however, shocked to find that I am good at spelling but have regional/rural pronunciations for at least some common words that I didn’t realize were technically incorrect or whatever. (“Febuary” at least.) It’s kinda to be expected. I grew up near He-LEE-na, Mo-EYE-ruh, and NOR-fork (Norfolk.) I’m happy to look it up myself (and will because I’m curious) but I can’t discern a difference in how I pronounce any version of Mary/merry/marry and can’t even imagine what the difference would BE.
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Sniper Party posted:That's not correct, though. https://www.seslisozluk.net/en/what-is-the-meaning-of-savukkeensytyttimen/ I found a few sites that claimed it was. I don't pretend to know Finnish.
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The_White_Crane posted:... but that's correct? What do you call it now? It's not even remotely correct. Worcestershire is pronounced /ˈwʊstərʃər/, or if you don't read IPA I'd write it something like "wuss-ter-sher". Three syllables, short o/u sound.
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On the topic of pronunciation: my dad was a software developer in the 80s/90s, an immigrant to Australia, from South Africa. The story goes that, one time in a meeting with a client, they emphasised that the system to be designed must "cope with deposits and withdrawals". Dad responded, genuinely perplexed, "what's a 'droral'?"
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Hyperlynx posted:On the topic of pronunciation: my dad was a software developer in the 80s/90s, an immigrant to Australia, from South Africa. The story goes that, one time in a meeting with a client, they emphasised that the system to be designed must "cope with deposits and withdrawals". Dad responded, genuinely perplexed, "what's a 'droral'?" That checks out. With-draw-rals is how the vast majority of people here say it.
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burial posted:I’m happy to look it up myself (and will because I’m curious) but I can’t discern a difference in how I pronounce any version of Mary/merry/marry and can’t even imagine what the difference would BE. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3i9rMU8aL-U I also read somewhere that people say Prize and Price as the same word, and that just seems bonkers. Also how the hell is perogative not a word? Phosphine posted:It's not even remotely correct. Worcestershire is pronounced /ˈwʊstərʃər/, or if you don't read IPA I'd write it something like "wuss-ter-sher". Three syllables, short o/u sound. Memento posted:That checks out. With-draw-rals is how the vast majority of people here say it. Edit: Just a note, I'm not saying what I say is right or correct, but it's just how we say it in the south east pa area. AFewBricksShy has a new favorite as of 12:31 on May 17, 2019 |
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burial posted:I’m happy to look it up myself (and will because I’m curious) but I can’t discern a difference in how I pronounce any version of Mary/merry/marry and can’t even imagine what the difference would BE. Mehree (long "e" first syllable)/meree (short "e" first syllable)/maree ("a" as in "cat", rather than "e" as in "hello"). E: just thought of a better way of putting it: they rhyme with hairy/cherry/carry, respectively Hyperlynx has a new favorite as of 14:48 on May 17, 2019 |
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Captain Monkey posted:Savukkeensytyttimen is cigarette lighter. Savukkeensytyttimen is Finnish for cigarette lighter's. e: Well it can also be accusative. But it's not the nominative of cigarette lighter, that would be savukkeensytytin. 3D Megadoodoo has a new favorite as of 13:19 on May 17, 2019 |
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burial posted:I’m happy to look it up myself (and will because I’m curious) but I can’t discern a difference in how I pronounce any version of Mary/merry/marry and can’t even imagine what the difference would BE. Same re pronouncing them all the same and one of those is my name, so I declare I'm right. My husband likes to give me poo poo for pronouncing pin and pen the same (along with ten and tin but that comes up less often).
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# ? May 17, 2019 13:42 |
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My wife is from Pittsburgh. There's no difference between tile and towel, roof and rough, fire and fur. Also Erin and Aaron are the same name.
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I just the remembered the "just fax it over, m'lord" joke
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# ? May 17, 2019 13:48 |
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Since Mary is a name it could be pronounced like Merry or Marry too though depending on the person, or even like Marie if you and/or your parents are monsters.
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# ? May 17, 2019 14:04 |
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Jerry Cotton posted:Savukkeensytyttimen is Finnish for cigarette lighter's. You're not making a strong case for Finnish being a sane language.
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Bertrand Hustle posted:You're not making a strong case for Finnish being a sane language. I never made any such claim. Finnish orthography, however, is not only insanely good but in fact the only reasonable way to go about writing a language using an alphabet. (I.e. written language should be phonemic because anything else sucks all the asses.)
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Jerry Cotton posted:I never made any such claim. Finnish orthography, however, is not only insanely good but in fact the only reasonable way to go about writing a language using an alphabet. (I.e. written language should be phonemic because anything else sucks all the asses.) Being written phonemically doesn't make up for the rest of the insanity involved in the Finnish language. It's not even fully phonemic, the velar nasal (the n sound in kenkä) is inferred based on the spelling/placement of letters, and inconsistent especially in loan words and there are actually several exceptions to phonemic spelling within the language. Also, tuli, tuuli, and tulli will all sound remarkably similar to people trying to learn the language. A bunch of my in-laws speak Finnish, and it's always fun to discuss the insanity of that language. I admit to having to use wikipedia to remember some of the weirdness that's been brought up in previous conversations.
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AFewBricksShy posted:Also Erin and Aaron are the same name. This is at least Pennsylvania-wide, because I'm from the East.
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Beachcomber posted:This is at least Pennsylvania-wide, because I'm from the East. Where in the east? They are pronounced very distinctly here. Aaron's beginning 2 "A's" sound like the A in "apple". Erin sounds like Air-in. AFewBricksShy has a new favorite as of 19:22 on May 17, 2019 |
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To me it’s airon / errin
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# ? May 17, 2019 20:12 |
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i pronounce everything like in game of thrones (the books, not the tv show)
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AFewBricksShy posted:Where in the east? They are pronounced very distinctly here. Aaron's beginning 2 "A's" sound like the A in "apple". Erin sounds like Air-in. I have never heard these two names pronounced differently. I assumed they were homonyms with one being the male version and one being the female version. I knew a girl named Aaron and it was pronounced just like "air-in". Not A. A. Ron.
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AFewBricksShy posted:Where in the east? They are pronounced very distinctly here. Aaron's beginning 2 "A's" sound like the A in "apple". Erin sounds like Air-in. This pronunciation of Aaron sounds hosed up.
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AFewBricksShy posted:Where in the east? They are pronounced very distinctly here. Aaron's beginning 2 "A's" sound like the A in "apple". Erin sounds like Air-in. This is the way I’ve always pronounced them and this is at least Pennsylvania-wide, because I'm from the East.
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Cacafuego posted:This is the way I’ve always pronounced them and this is at least Pennsylvania-wide, because I'm from the East. That's my favorite place in the Orient.
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Finnska er frekar undarlegt tungumál það vita hinsvegar allir að Finnar eru rammgöldróttir því kukl er þeim í blóð borið og því er eðlilegt að gera einfaldlega ráð fyrir því að Finnska sé einhverskonar undarleg galdraþula.
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FreudianSlippers posted:Finnska er frekar undarlegt tungumál það vita hinsvegar allir að Finnar eru rammgöldróttir því kukl er þeim í blóð borið og því er eðlilegt að gera einfaldlega ráð fyrir því að Finnska sé einhverskonar undarleg galdraþula. finner er djævlefødte, men ikke på den seje måde
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Satt
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