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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I'm wondering if it will blow anyone's mind that "th" makes two different sounds in english. That thief. Bring back eth and thorn. "Ğat şief."
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beats for junkies posted:Around the world around the world around the world around the world was everywhere in the late 90s. At least, that's how it seemed at the time. That and Republica's "Ready to Go." I remember Muchmusic playing the video for Da Funk a whole bunch as well
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May 27, 2019 05:15
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Daft Punk is all about paying tribute to 70s/80s music, so thinking that they are 80s makes perfect sense and also shows how well they pulled it off.
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May 27, 2019 05:23
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Besesoth posted:Bring back eth and thorn. "Ğat şief." I was going to say this but decided not to. Thanks for keeping the cause alive.
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May 27, 2019 17:09
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Besesoth posted:"Ğat şief." it's... beautiful.
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May 27, 2019 17:21
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Beachcomber posted:Recently my wife learned what derring-do is, because she had previously thought the DuckTales lyric was "Tales of daring, do bad and good luck tales" instead of "Tales of derring-do, bad and good luck tales" Apparently it originally meant "daring (to) do", and when Chaucer wrote "in durring don that longeth to a knight" it translates as "in daring to do what is proper for a knight". The noun "derring-do" allegedly came about when Tudor poet Edmund Spenser read a book which misspelled the phrase as "derrynge do" and he thought it sounded cool and started using it in his own poems. It's an archaic use of a misspelling of an even older archaic use!
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May 27, 2019 17:56
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beats for junkies posted:Around the world around the world around the world around the world was everywhere in the late 90s. At least, that's how it seemed at the time. That and Republica's "Ready to Go." I could.swear that I've never heard the first one before. Born in 1984, for reference. The second one is very familiar, but I wouldn't have been able to place it.
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May 27, 2019 19:15
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Apparently it originally meant "daring (to) do", and when Chaucer wrote "in durring don that longeth to a knight" it translates as "in daring to do what is proper for a knight". The noun "derring-do" allegedly came about when Tudor poet Edmund Spenser read a book which misspelled the phrase as "derrynge do" and he thought it sounded cool and started using it in his own poems. That's how words are born!
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May 27, 2019 19:35
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quote:Only the most pop culturally isolated English speakers don’t know what the word “stan” means.  I thought people were mistyping 'stand'
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Jun 5, 2019 04:01
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Not me, but a coworker learned yesterday that the expression “suit yourself” is not pronounced “sue it yourself” and none of us can figure out how he got to 40yo with this in his head.
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Jun 5, 2019 13:09
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:
They make different sounds?
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Jun 5, 2019 13:19
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iajanus posted:They make different sounds? ... is that a joke? One sounds closer to "v" and the other sounds closer to "f". Try saying it out loud. Unless you have an accent I've never heard before, they'll start with different sounds.
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Jun 5, 2019 15:07
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Vat feef, vat feef Pyf ventriloquist techniques
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Jun 5, 2019 15:26
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Beachcomber posted:
I know what it means from context, but not where it's from, kind of like how everyone here suddenly started saying 'chud'
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Jun 5, 2019 15:59
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Phlegmish posted:I know what it means from context, but not where it's from, kind of like how everyone here suddenly started saying 'chud' It's a reference to the Eminem song as far as I'm aware, although obviously it's softened in meaning a bit.
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Jun 5, 2019 16:17
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The_White_Crane posted:... is that a joke? Where the hell do you live.
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Jun 5, 2019 16:24
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I don't know what "stan" means.
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Jun 5, 2019 16:30
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packetmantis posted:Where the hell do you live. Warwickshire. But is there really an accent where "that" and "thief" begin with the same sound? Can you point me to a youtube video or something where I can hear that?
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Jun 5, 2019 16:34
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Aleph Null posted:I don't know what "stan" means. It's an obsessed fan, like from the song "Stan" by Eminem. I'm not sure what else it might be though. Beachcomber posted:
Where did the post you're quoting come from? (I'm looking for context for my above question)
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Jun 5, 2019 16:35
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In the song Stan kills himself and his girlfriend because Eminem doesn't answer his letter. So it started as a way to call people that kind of crazy obsessed. Now people use it positively.
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Jun 5, 2019 16:41
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packetmantis posted:Where the hell do you live. He's actually got a point according to the IPA. Thief has a θ sound and that has a ©£ sound where one is voiced and the other isn't. https://teflpedia.com/Pronunciation_exercises:_/%A5%E8/_vs_/%A9%A3/ E: OK it doesn't seem to like the characters in the URL. Third option down from this link: https://teflpedia.com/index.php?search=thief&title=Special%3ASearch&go=Go christmas boots has a new favorite as of 17:52 on Jun 5, 2019 |
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Jun 5, 2019 17:50
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Phlegmish posted:I know what it means from context, but not where it's from, kind of like how everyone here suddenly started saying 'chud' CHUD is a b-horror movie about sewer mutants. Chapo Trap House applied the term to Trump supporters and it caught on from there
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Jun 5, 2019 18:34
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If you don't pay your electricity bill for three months, they cut you off.
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Henchman of Santa posted:CHUD is a b-horror movie about sewer mutants. Chapo Trap House applied the term to Trump supporters and it caught on from there Chud is a particularly good term because it also stands for Contamination Hazard Urban Disposal, which means dumping toxic waste into the inner city. Something Trump supporters would be for. AFewBricksShy posted:It's an obsessed fan, like from the song "Stan" by Eminem. I'm not sure what else it might be though. When Stan became a verb.
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Jun 5, 2019 18:42
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Aphrodite posted:In the song Stan kills himself and his girlfriend because Eminem doesn't answer his letter.
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Jun 5, 2019 18:50
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Hirayuki posted:Huh, I figured it was a portmanteau of "stalker" and "fan." I'd read that's exactly why he chose that name.
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Jun 5, 2019 19:38
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Well today I just figured out I'm "culturally isolated," according to that article. I know the song; my little brother was big into Eminem back in the '00s, but I was completely unaware of the wider meaning until now. I've never seen that word used that way. 
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Jun 5, 2019 19:38
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It's weird yeah apparently that song was way more culturally relevant than I thought. It's like it went away and came back years later as a verb
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purple death ray posted:It's weird yeah apparently that song was way more culturally relevant than I thought. It's like it went away and came back years later as a verb It seems like just a week ago I started reading, on these forums, about Marvel stans and SC stans, and then I watched a YouTube video on Mary Poppins and historical revisionism and it's in there more than once, where previous videos didn't include it at all. Serious Baader-Meinhof phenomenon.
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Jun 5, 2019 19:46
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i have never actually heard anybody irl say stan as a verb before. i've only ever heard/seen it on the internet.
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Silver Falcon posted:Well today I just figured out I'm "culturally isolated," according to that article. I know the song; my little brother was big into Eminem back in the '00s, but I was completely unaware of the wider meaning until now. I've never seen that word used that way. I’ve only paid attention to it’s use recently, having seen it pop up very often in the last six months or so. I am not culturally isolated, nor do I believe this is a youth thing, since the current crop of teenagers weren’t even born when it came out. Middle aged people must have more sway than I thought?
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Jun 5, 2019 19:53
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Monoculture creeps closer every day.
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Jun 5, 2019 19:55
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packetmantis posted:Where the hell do you live. I know, right I've been saying it for a few minutes and roped in my wife to do the same and I can't hear a difference. Chalk up one person with a broad australian accent and one with a general Australian accent where there's effectively no difference.
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I'm Australian and it sounds like this for me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6x72zUJQ5I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkHBGd4Kg4k Now try and figure out if there's a difference in the 'th' sound in "teeth" and "teething" 
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Jun 6, 2019 10:32
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There isn't. All of those th sound the same, the difference is what comes after
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Jun 6, 2019 11:01
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TheMaskedUgly posted:There isn't. That was my impression.
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Jun 6, 2019 11:06
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iajanus posted:I know, right I'm Australian and I can hear the difference, it's just subtle. As someone mentioned it's the same as the difference between f and v. It's also the same as "sh" and that jjjj sound that's in French and some other languages. The "th" in teeth and teething are definitely different. I think the term is voiced vs unvoiced?
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:I'm Australian and it sounds like this for me: To be clear, you think those two videos sound different, right? Because they do to me. (And yes, "teeth" is th as in thief and "teething" is th as in that. As someone mentioned above, they're ş and ğ respectively.) Organza Quiz posted:that jjjj sound that's in French and some other languages. If you're thinking of the sound I think you are, it's usually written as "zh" to contrast "sh" and in English it occurs in pleasure, leisure, and measure. The_White_Crane has a new favorite as of 12:10 on Jun 6, 2019 |
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I have a slight Texan accent, my wife has a mostly midwest accent. That and thief have the same th sound.
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