we had a new girl in fifth grade and her first day she pronounced arkansas 'r kansas' and the entire class including the teacher burst out in laughter for like five minutes
Rightfully so, too. I mean, how in the world could somebody make that mistake?
But Georgia? What?
I mean, look. there are ways to pronounce a name, but then there are regional inflections that come to play. Someone calling New Orleans Nawlins doesn't qualify here. Someone calling it New Ore Leeeeens does.
So joejuh, that's somone's accent hitting the word. are there people out there calling it jor-GEE-uh or something?
― pplains, Thursday, 14 November 2013 17:48 (ten years ago) link
kids in school used to pronounce Korea "KORR-ee-uh".
― Lesbian has fucking riffs for days (Neanderthal), Thursday, 14 November 2013 17:49 (ten years ago) link
doo-doo doo-doo-doo-doo doo-doo doo-doo-doo-doo doo doo
― balls, Thursday, 14 November 2013 17:51 (ten years ago) link
are there people out there calling it jor-GEE-uh or something?
― pplains, Thursday, November 14, 2013 12:48 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yes. Alison Krauss. Had no idea what the fuck she was singing on "Oh, Atlanta." "On my way back to...judge a Jew?"
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 14 November 2013 17:52 (ten years ago) link
leo frank joke in there somewhere
― balls, Thursday, 14 November 2013 17:53 (ten years ago) link
In non-pronunciation IA developments, I noticed an adult man in the gym locker room the other day who went to the effort of bringing his clothing into one of the shower stalls to get dressed. He didn't turn the shower on, just hid out there while changing.
For some reason this made me angry, or maybe just sad - how can it be so hard to just suck it up and change your clothes where a bunch of other fat / hairy / otherwise imperfect and misshapen men are also occasionally briefly naked and nobody gives a shit?
― joygoat, Thursday, 14 November 2013 17:53 (ten years ago) link
Maybe he's trans.
― Ian from Etobicoke (Phil D.), Thursday, 14 November 2013 17:55 (ten years ago) link
Maybe he isn't circumcised.
― c21m50nh3x460n, Thursday, 14 November 2013 18:01 (ten years ago) link
Maybe he's trans.― Ian from Etobicoke (Phil D.), Thursday, November 14, 2013 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Ian from Etobicoke (Phil D.), Thursday, November 14, 2013 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― c21m50nh3x460n, Thursday, 14 November 2013 18:02 (ten years ago) link
Possible, I guess. I've seen this happen to varying degrees a couple of times with different people and would be shocked if they were all trans.
― joygoat, Thursday, 14 November 2013 18:08 (ten years ago) link
maybe they're trans fat.
― pplains, Thursday, 14 November 2013 18:24 (ten years ago) link
I'm sort of surprised when young fit (pretty certainly cissexual) men shower in their workout shorts at the gym. I'm not big on group nudity, but for me, the awkward modesty would be more embarrassing.
― disgruntled punter (Je55e), Thursday, 14 November 2013 19:46 (ten years ago) link
I just want to say that for me, "Appalachian" has always been and will always be "apple-atch-uh" despite that being non-standard pronunciation. It's a little jarring when I "apple-aich-a."
― disgruntled punter (Je55e), Thursday, 14 November 2013 19:49 (ten years ago) link
Contrast: lady at my gym who was buck naked in the middle of the locker room blow drying her hair and showing off a vulva so thoroughly waxed I could clearly see her labia.
― carl agatha, Thursday, 14 November 2013 20:18 (ten years ago) link
I mean work that labia, girl, I don't want to hate but I would have preferred she don a towel.
― carl agatha, Thursday, 14 November 2013 20:19 (ten years ago) link
see you labia
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 14 November 2013 22:48 (ten years ago) link
lol at all the bemusement at these words being pronounced they way they're spelt
― golfdinger (darraghmac), Friday, 15 November 2013 02:47 (ten years ago) link
Elf on a Shelf. Fucking Elf on a Shelf makes me so irrationally angry. There are two people on my Facebook feed currently going back and forth sharing "staging" tricks for this year's Elf on a Shelf. This is fucking ridiculous and literally the worst forced marketing tradition ever.
― JACK SQUAT about these Charlie Nobodies (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 15 November 2013 04:51 (ten years ago) link
You were gold on this thread: Bah Humbug
― pplains, Friday, 15 November 2013 06:28 (ten years ago) link
Elf on the Shelf is some creepy bullshit.
― carl agatha, Friday, 15 November 2013 14:48 (ten years ago) link
It gets worse.
http://media.cmgdigital.com/shared/img/videothumbs/2013/10/30/da/02/0ea15858-41a1-11e3-bfcc-0019b9b9e241.jpg
― Ian from Etobicoke (Phil D.), Friday, 15 November 2013 14:50 (ten years ago) link
wow
― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 15 November 2013 14:54 (ten years ago) link
Is that a hand that looks like an aeriel view of a helmet?
― Stevolende, Friday, 15 November 2013 15:05 (ten years ago) link
haha.
― pplains, Friday, 15 November 2013 15:20 (ten years ago) link
yeah the hand... you can definitely tell he's really Jewish.
THAT'S the thread, I couldn't remember which one it was last night.
― JACK SQUAT about these Charlie Nobodies (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 15 November 2013 17:31 (ten years ago) link
Totally OTM about Elf on the Shelf. Every time I see it in a store, I'm like STOP TRYING SO HARD TO MAKE IT A THING, IT WILL NEVER BE A THING.
The Elf on the Shelf story was created in 2004 by Carol Aebersold and daughter Chanda Bell over a cup of tea. Bell suggested they write a book about their own family tradition of an elf sent from Santa who came to watch over them at Christmas time. Aebersold’s daughter, Christa Pitts, was recruited by the family to share her expertise in sales and marketing. Together, the trio devoted the next three years promoting their self-published book and attending book signings and trade shows.
Heartwarming.
― Young Supper (Old Lunch), Friday, 15 November 2013 19:36 (ten years ago) link
isn't dinovember the same thing, but with dinosaurs?
― koogs, Friday, 15 November 2013 20:21 (ten years ago) link
Velociraptors intimidating kids through violence so they'll finish their Thanksgiving dinner?
― Lesbian has fucking riffs for days (Neanderthal), Friday, 15 November 2013 22:00 (ten years ago) link
man elf on the shelf is totally a thing sadly
― balls, Saturday, 16 November 2013 00:25 (ten years ago) link
maybe combine the two, have the dinosaurs eating the elf.
― koogs, Saturday, 16 November 2013 09:47 (ten years ago) link
Elf on the Run
― carl agatha, Saturday, 16 November 2013 14:59 (ten years ago) link
"nevada" pronunciation is blowing my mind. i've been living a lie all these years.
― Tip from Tae Kwon Do: (crüt), Monday, 18 November 2013 19:18 (ten years ago) link
rationally angry: lock snapped in my bicycle lock %#¥$¢!irrationally angry: no one seemed to care when I came back with huge shears and spent a minute destroying the lock. Quite a few people passed. I *ought* to be glad I didn't have to try to explain myself.
Guess it bothered me because I've had two bikes stolen from me in two years, both in the daytime in fairly public places.
― Øystein, Monday, 18 November 2013 21:16 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge7i60GuNRg
― Ian from Etobicoke (Phil D.), Monday, 18 November 2013 21:19 (ten years ago) link
Huh, I could've saved some energy if I was a beautiful woman.Crap, I hope this hasn't led to some of those people going home regretting not saying or doing anything.
― Øystein, Monday, 18 November 2013 21:25 (ten years ago) link
"Sent from my iPhone"
You know you can turn that smug little email-closer off, right people who email me?
― ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Thursday, 21 November 2013 23:32 (ten years ago) link
i especially despise the variation: please excuse typos, Sent from my iPhone. wish they'd put it at the front of the email so i could just delete it before reading.
― wmlynch, Thursday, 21 November 2013 23:39 (ten years ago) link
I find it useful in work contexts because it tells me the person is in transit or in a public place rather than the office and probably isn't going to be sending detailed responses.
― i wish i had a skateboard i could skate away on (Hurting 2), Thursday, 21 November 2013 23:42 (ten years ago) link
that makes sense. i don't think i've ever seen it in a work context.
― wmlynch, Thursday, 21 November 2013 23:47 (ten years ago) link
like anyone ever sends those anymore anyway, from anywhere
― j., Thursday, 21 November 2013 23:54 (ten years ago) link
My landlord sends me "Sent from my iPad" emails, creates significant IA.
― he had tons of money in the bank and left the toilet seat up (NotEnough), Friday, 22 November 2013 09:05 (ten years ago) link
i had an email yesterday with an attachment. the attachment was one line of text - "Sent from my iPhone"
― koogs, Friday, 22 November 2013 09:08 (ten years ago) link
Attachments: I'm compiling a bunch of material for a project and I'm getting tired of seeing 3 attachments and two of them are thumbnails of the sender's corporate logos.
― pplains, Friday, 22 November 2013 11:55 (ten years ago) link
they should include an ASCII art logo instead
― single white hairball (harbl), Friday, 22 November 2013 12:05 (ten years ago) link
Ugh mine is even worse: "sent from my CONTRACT FREE Blackberry on the **** network!". So obnoxious and embarrassing. I've tried to turn it off so may times but I can't figure it out. I basically just avoid sending emails from my phone unless absolutely necessary to prevent inspiring IA in the recipient.
― franny glass, Friday, 22 November 2013 14:49 (ten years ago) link
i changed mine to say 'sent from my TARDIS'
sorry everyone
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 22 November 2013 20:59 (ten years ago) link
'sent by my assistant because i wouldn't deign to touch a keybaord'
― wmlynch, Friday, 22 November 2013 23:14 (ten years ago) link
For a while I made my wife's iPad say 'Sent from my PANTS'
― ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Saturday, 23 November 2013 11:21 (ten years ago) link
changed mine to "sent from my abacus"
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 23 November 2013 12:48 (ten years ago) link