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Gravitas Shortfall posted:counterpoint, an American trying to say "twat" I had an American friend visit who was prepared for our weird place names, and was very careful to enunciate properly. He struggled when nobody could tell him how to get to Shortage.
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May 27, 2022 11:47
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Guavanaut posted:"Mankind does not strive for happiness; only the English do" may have been the wrongest thing that Nietzsche said. "Es ist scheiße, es ist absichtlich scheiße, und wir finden es toll, dass es scheiße ist" E: also, "Creggslist"
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Guavanaut posted:"Mankind does not strive for happiness; only the English do" may have been the wrongest thing that Nietzsche said. It's the other way around?
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Spangly A posted:Milngavie is bullshit and wikis origin of the name sounds like a multi century game of telephone played through google translate, featuring at least one bh/dh switch It's actually pronounced the same as Yngwie Malmsteen
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I don't think I saw this mentioned in the thread: https://twitter.com/miffythegamer/status/1529938560920567810
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Lord of the Llamas posted:What was the actual logic behind that. Did they think he had some kind of neurolinguistic superpowers? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOUeauLWEaE
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forkboy84 posted:Try living in the Highlands where half the places are impenetrable to a native English speaker. loving bh and dh melt my tiny brain. For example, Bhatarsaigh is the Gaelic for an island in the Outer Hebridies. How do you think you'd pronounce that? Same as the place with the power station.
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Guavanaut posted:"Mankind does not strive for happiness; only the English do" may have been the wrongest thing that Nietzsche said. IDK, a hefty number of us seem to be made very happy by toffs making GBS threads on us from a great height and telling us it's a windfall, so...
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fuctifino posted:I don't think I saw this mentioned in the thread: I believe it’s also his birthday? Delicious.
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 Bobstar posted:"Es ist scheiße, es ist absichtlich scheiße, und wir finden es toll, dass es scheiße ist" 
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Pablo Bluth posted:Nothing is worse than the American way of saying niche  Also it may just be a California thing but I enjoy how my friend pronounces ‘mirror’ as ‘meeeh’
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TACD posted:”erb” I believe that's a general america thing, at least, when I've watched Link to the Past Randomizer races on twitch, pretty much all the american commentators say "meeer" when referencing the magic mirror. Mind you most English accents do something similar too, I'd guess it's only noticeable since american accents are generally rhotic ("r"-pronouncing) so this one non-rhotic word stands out. Might be an indication american accents are going to move in that direction over the next few centuries like most of England did in the last few.
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It's weird cos here it's pronounced "mih-ruh" it's as rhotic as you can get without rolling it.
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"War-yuh" (warrior) is a US pronunciation that is like nails on a blackboard to me. That and "twot". Always enjoyed the NI pronunciation for mirror personally, sounds like a cow mooing if someone really leans into it forkboy84 posted:Try living in the Highlands where half the places are impenetrable to a native English speaker. loving bh and dh melt my tiny brain. For example, Bhatarsaigh is the Gaelic for an island in the Outer Hebridies. How do you think you'd pronounce that? Did we get an answer for this?
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Deketh posted:"War-yuh" (warrior) is a US pronunciation that is like nails on a blackboard to me. That and "twot". I think it is "Vatersay" to rhyme with Battersay. But I'm a sassenach. But also because I know Siobhan has v sound for bh in Irish.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I think it is "Vatersay" to rhyme with Battersay. Oh that's neat. I'm guessing sassenach is a gringo meaning kinda word, is it derogatory?
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I think it is "Vatersay" to rhyme with Battersay. Yep, it's just south of Barra in the Outer Hebrides. I went cycling across the whole island chain some years back and it was great. The beaches look incredible too, all perfect white sand and blue-green water like something out of a travel brochure, and amazing strips of grass and wildflowers along the edges (a fairly unusal ecosystem called machair). Unfortunately the water is absolutely freezing.  Anyone want to have a go at Eolaigearraidh? Even the Anglicised version written next to it on the map doesn't really tell me how the first vowel (diphthong?) should sound...
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Deketh posted:Oh that's neat. I'm guessing sassenach is a gringo meaning kinda word, is it derogatory? I think it's just 'Saxon', meaning English, so as derogatory as you think that is, basically. Sowsnek in Cornish.
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Oh dear me posted:I think it's just 'Saxon', meaning English, so as derogatory as you think that is, basically. Sowsnek in Cornish. Honestly I just like the sound of the word 
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big scary monsters posted:Yep, it's just south of Barra in the Outer Hebrides. I went cycling across the whole island chain some years back and it was great. The beaches look incredible too, all perfect white sand and blue-green water like something out of a travel brochure, and amazing strips of grass and wildflowers along the edges (a fairly unusal ecosystem called machair). Unfortunately the water is absolutely freezing. Brb, heading there with an inflatable pig for the album art of my celtic folk cover of Animals
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big scary monsters posted:Anyone want to have a go at Eolaigearraidh? Yole-a-garry, roughly. The opening is a bit more of a "hyuh" than a "yuh", though.
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A few months ago I made a note of a spot near me where you get a lovely view over Bournville, especially the chocolate factory. Today I happened to be passing by and finally went back to get a photo there, and you know what? You can't see anything unless you're on the top deck of a bus. I am a complete idiot and I don't even care, it's a gorgeous day.
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Deketh posted:Honestly I just like the sound of the word I also think shibboleth should have a different pronunciation, because I just think it would be funny to have people go "actually it's pronounced sheblit, but of course you'd know that if you weren't new here."
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Dabir posted:A few months ago I made a note of a spot near me where you get a lovely view over Bournville, especially the chocolate factory. Today I happened to be passing by and finally went back to get a photo there, and you know what? You can't see anything unless you're on the top deck of a bus. I am a complete idiot and I don't even care, it's a gorgeous day.
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Lmao https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/may/27/boris-johnson-changes-ministerial-code-to-remove-need-to-resign-over-breaches Lol
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big scary monsters posted:Anyone want to have a go at Eolaigearraidh? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUTe2ndjRew
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Can he fire the horse catcher? Ah well, nevertheless.
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:Lmao lol a permission slip for crimes
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https://twitter.com/maitlis/status/1530177507793813510?t=4COta-SfGRlWeBTbn6OUCA Get out of crimes using one weird trick, journalists hate this.
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 Another victory for the international rules based order. what do you mean changed the rules
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:Lmao Hm that Mhairi Black speech is starting to feel slightly too prescient.
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deletebeepbeepbeep posted:Hm that Mhairi Black speech is starting to feel slightly too prescient. no but you see using the F word is lazy
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Wait till the speaker of the house hears about this, perhaps her majesty will make a carefully coded intervention by wearing a ministerial code reference on her hat, surely the honest and decent tory mps will stand up against this. You can't just rewrite the rules that you don't like, it's simply not British.
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My favourite part is changing the foreword to remove any references to honesty and integrity.
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:Lmao
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Thank you Guardian for making meaningless changes to meaningless codes the headline. You'll get on Come Dine with Keith any day now.
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Deketh posted:Oh that's neat. I'm guessing sassenach is a gringo meaning kinda word, is it derogatory? So yeah, it's a mildly derogatory term for the English that was originally a Gaelic word to describe lowland Scots. And the root is indeed Saxon, because Lothian & the borders were part of the Kingdom of Northumbria while the Highlands were Celtic speaking. And yes, it's a fun word to say. It's like "dreich", the ideal word to describe the mean weather in Scotland, fun to say. Ch sounds are cool. What the Internet tells me is the voiceless velar fricative
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