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Would wear(it’s not that bad of an album)
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Dec 1, 2022 15:41
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hawowanlawow posted:Spanish vowels always sound the same, if you can read you can pronounce Spanish Speakers of literally any other language, learning that English vowels pretty much uniquely do whatever the gently caress they want depending on context or just because: 
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Dec 1, 2022 15:44
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Rebel the verb and rebel the noun are a great example of how stupid English is. The rebel will attack the base. The people will rebel against the oppressors. Why is the same word pronounce differently?
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Dec 1, 2022 15:53
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Data Graham posted:Speakers of literally any other language, learning that English vowels pretty much uniquely do whatever the gently caress they want depending on context or just because: danish has more vowel phonemes 
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Dec 1, 2022 15:54
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Data Graham posted:Speakers of literally any other language, learning that English vowels pretty much uniquely do whatever the gently caress they want depending on context or just because: It has an actual name: The Great Vowel Shift. When the Normans conquered Britain, they spoke a dialect of French. French became the official language of British government, and as a result French was cool and English (still the language of the people) picked up tons of French loan words. Then Henry IV came along, who didn't speak French natively, along with the 100 Years War. Suddenly French wasn't cool and all those French loan words began to be pronounced in an English manner. The printing press started standardizing spelling, and soon spelling and pronunciation parted ways. So as usual it's all the French's fault.
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Dec 1, 2022 15:58
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Rebel the verb and rebel the noun are a great example of how stupid English is. That's one example of a general rule that English has. Two syllable nouns get stress on the first syllable, two syllable verbs get stress on the second syllable. See also "combine," for example. It helps us determine part of speech easier; lots of languages have features that serve a similar purpose I think, idk I'm not a linguist. So it might be a bit of a dumb rule but it does have a purpose, at least.
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Dec 1, 2022 16:05
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Scratch Monkey posted:Texans take a dumb pride in not pronouncing Spanish correctly. When I lived in Austin I was shocked to learn that Guadalupe St is pronounced “Gwada-loop” there Louisiana is the same way with French. It's completely random which names they use the French pronunciation and which ones get English.
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Dec 1, 2022 16:07
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Deteriorata posted:It has an actual name: The Great Vowel Shift. Yeah this is something that no matter how many times I've read about it the less sense it makes to me lmao. Like sure I get the cultural attitudes thing but to take written vowels that have all been universally understood forever and just randomly reassign them to arbitrary diphthongs, like I suddenly sounds like "ai", and then 400 years later I have to wonder whether a Ferrari Spider in its native Italian is pronounced "speeder" and lol @ that? Henry violation: vowel fuckery But I like how the printing press came along just in time to cement in stone all the pre-Shakespeare spellings like "helped" before he had a chance to popularize writing "help'd" the way people were saying it by that time.
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Dec 1, 2022 16:26
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Data Graham posted:But I like how the printing press came along just in time to cement in stone all the pre-Shakespeare spellings like "helped" before he had a chance to popularize writing "help'd" the way people were saying it by that time. Surely this had nothing to do with that the printer could charge more £ for more characters?
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Dec 1, 2022 16:36
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NoNotTheMindProbe posted:Fajita rhymes with vagina I worked in the kitchen at a retirement community as a kid and there was this firecracker Jewish granny who would pronounce fajita in that way. Working at a retirement home was a rad high school job. Schmoozing and BSing with a bunch of interesting old people was fun. It was cool to hear the collected life experiences from people who had lived for a long time in a very different world than I did. They all ate dinner early so you'd be clocking out at like 7 pm every night so you could go hang out with your pals
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Why is the same word pronounce differently? Now let me tell you about tonal languages.
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Dec 1, 2022 18:19
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One of radio/televisions’s worst crimes is slowing the process of words being pronounced drastically differently from town to town. Didn’t eliminate it, but slowed it down. Word fuckery is great! Edit: https://youtu.be/Oj7a-p4psRA HPanda has a new favorite as of 19:35 on Dec 1, 2022 |
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Dec 1, 2022 19:33
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Data Graham posted:Yeah this is something that no matter how many times I've read about it the less sense it makes to me lmao. Like sure I get the cultural attitudes thing but to take written vowels that have all been universally understood forever and just randomly reassign them to arbitrary diphthongs, like I suddenly sounds like "ai", and then 400 years later I have to wonder whether a Ferrari Spider in its native Italian is pronounced "speeder" and lol @ that? Henry violation: vowel fuckery It also has to do with vowel shifts that took place both within Old English -> Modern English and Old French -> Modern French. Some of the way we say the "French" vowels are hosed up because the French don't say them that way any more. It's not so much randomly making a hard shift as it is things changing over time. It looks like the blink of an eye linguistically but we're still talking generations of change.
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Dec 1, 2022 19:42
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DontMockMySmock posted:That's one example of a general rule that English has. Two syllable nouns get stress on the first syllable, two syllable verbs get stress on the second syllable. See also "combine," for example. This just blew my little mind.
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Dec 1, 2022 20:35
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I played around with it a bit in my head, and it doesn't quite measure up to being universal; I'll think I'll pour myself a measure of gin after this
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Dec 1, 2022 20:50
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Sentient Data posted:I played around with it a bit in my head, and it doesn't quite measure up to being universal; I'll think I'll pour myself a measure of gin after this Name me an English rule that is universal
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Dec 1, 2022 21:39
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But how will you mea-Sure it? Oh, I see, that was indeed the joke. Very clever chap, that one.
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Dec 1, 2022 21:39
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Data Graham posted:Name me an English rule that is universal "Other countries would be better run if we did it"
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Dec 1, 2022 21:40
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Harlot? Yes, more than a little.
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Dec 1, 2022 21:42
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Does idea rhyme with year?
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Dec 1, 2022 21:44
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Data Graham posted:Like all the ones that end in -ab It turns out this is from a Christian fundamentalist movie about how books are all evil, except for the Bible. Our guy here is a victim of book addiction. Outstanding.
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Dec 1, 2022 21:50
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marshmallow creep posted:Does idea rhyme with year? In Boston
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Hyperlynx posted:It turns out this is from a Christian fundamentalist movie about how books are all evil, except for the Bible. Our guy here is a victim of book addiction. All books that contradict the Bible are heresy and should be burned. All books that agree with the Bible are superfluous and should be burned.
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Dec 1, 2022 22:08
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Hyperlynx posted:It turns out this is from a Christian fundamentalist movie about how books are all evil, except for the Bible. Our guy here is a victim of book addiction. It was sent to me by my ~12yo nieces who just discovered it and are obsessed with it. Very religious but probably as likely to ridicule something like a fundamentalist movie as we are I did my impression of it at Thanksgiving to their delight. Then did the Moskau song/dance for karaoke lmao
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oldpainless posted:In Boston Or France.
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Brazilianpeanutwar posted:Would wear(it’s not that bad of an album) Sure. The worst Radiohead album is still like a B/B- album by most bands' standards.
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Breetai posted:Or France. or New Zealand, and parts of Britain
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Radiohead is a one hit wonder.
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FreudianSlippers posted:Radiohead is a one hit wonder. I'm about to one hit you upside your radiohead and make you wonder.
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Dec 1, 2022 22:56
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FreudianSlippers posted:Radiohead is a one hit wonder. lmao no they're not they never had a hit
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Dec 1, 2022 22:58
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HenryEx posted:lmao no they're not 
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Dec 1, 2022 23:16
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Oh man i love that song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLPZmPaHme0
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Dec 1, 2022 23:19
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Literally the only good song Radiohead did.
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Phanatic posted:Now let me tell you about tonal languages. I've been wondering about that. How do songs work in tonal languages? Cos if melodies are based around tone, and so are word-meanings, are there a lot of screwy interactions between the two? This is one of those things where I don't know enough to express what it is I want to know.
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Dec 1, 2022 23:33
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HenryEx posted:Oh man i love that song Very funny. Link the real one. https://youtu.be/CsiP-GrbbD0
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Tree Bucket posted:I've been wondering about that. How do songs work in tonal languages? Cos if melodies are based around tone, and so are word-meanings, are there a lot of screwy interactions between the two?
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Data Graham posted:Like all the ones that end in -ab poo poo, so we are getting a God Emperor of Dune film, but it's gonna be animated? smh
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Railing Kill posted:Sure. The worst Radiohead album is still like a B/B- album by most bands' standards. Some real good b-sides from that time as well (million dollar question,killer cars,you never wash up after yourself)
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