FP: Should 31 be the new 51 y/n

geez everyone's in a fighting mood these days

Say that to my fists, son.

(Sorry, my dad taught me that one.)

yr dad

his fists had....ears?

They had names, why not ears as well

You should get a 24 hour ban any time you are FPed 9 times within a 1-hour window

― faculty w1fe (silby),

otm

Be careful what you wish for (FPs tlg for the fifteenth time this hour).

sorry about that, Fråd

It's Fræd!

(It's literally pronounced that way, rather than with an English e. Frætheræk)

now i'm learning something!

Good work lads

This thread is a nice balance to the gongshow happening in the y ppl leev ilks thraedism

what is the mushy ae supposed to sound like? like in encyclop(ae)dia? freethereek?

lol, that looks like a hashtag from that season of Game of Thrones where Theon got castrated.

Like the 'ea' in 'thread' or 'dead'

... or like the "e" in "Fred"

surely if you pronounce it in Danish the vowel sound of the first e is more like the a in "pat"

wait... so it sounds exactly like an english E

or do other english accents pronounce the E in "med" different from the ea in "dead"? i am perplexed

xp lol

as is the i

and the middle e like the e in "the"

I think fratherrack comes closer

i'm afræd of Danes

dønt bæ

(who hæte the Intercept)

Yeah, it's just a bit darker.

Whan that aprille with his shoures soote

googles a suitable reference worth noting that English has around 15 vowel sounds, whereas well-organized languages tend to get by with 5 or 6. The choice of vowel sound to use in many words also tends to vary by region.

nice overview of AmE vowels with an ESL perspective http://ocw.uci.edu/upload/files/vowels.pdf

'well-organized languages'

Yeah, this isn't Danish, lol

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stød

wow, morphological vocal fry

googles a suitable reference worth noting that English has around 15 vowel sounds, whereas well-organized languages tend to get by with 5 or 6. The choice of vowel sound to use in many words also tends to vary by region.

― faculty w1fe (silby), Friday, August 17, 2018 1:56 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

where i grew up you were lucky if you heard two different vowel sounds, mostly it was just a growl and then kind of another louder growl

I think the Danes had quite a bit of influence on the development of English.

these vowels all got imported from somewhere that's for sure

Will M., raised by wolves

xp

No that's Noodle Vague you're thinking of there.

https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article10543439.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/Wolverhampton-Wanderers-Unveil-New-Manager-Nuno-Espirito-Santo.jpg

gosh he looked so young 12 months ago

Let me see if I have the pronunciation of Frederik down now, is it this

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91uvLOmmyxL._SY550_.jpg

That's Swedish, and after being called out for calling Ireland part of the 'British Isles' I'm really not in a mood to be confused with those ässhöles. Jüst stöp it!

if denmark is so great, why does Dane (almost) rhyme with LAME

https://data.whicdn.com/images/253994130/original.gif

Had no idea 'croonchy' was a real word. ILX teaches me new things every day!

if denmark is so great, why does Dane (almost) rhyme with LAME

― Trϵϵship, 17. august 2018 21:09 (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Because those who invented English were racist.

(cue deej: 'Danish is not a race!')

after being called out for calling Ireland part of the 'British Isles'

heh, was this what prompted that poll

pretty good comeback fred xp

https://media.giphy.com/media/xT0GqdzIPUeojOf9Yc/giphy.gif

after being called out for calling Ireland part of the 'British Isles'

heh, was this what prompted that poll

― flaneur brayin (darraghmac), 17. august 2018 21:18 (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Lol, didn't you know that? Yeah, it's on the 'British literature is shit' thread, which again was prompted by a remark of mine on the 'British cinema is shit' thread, and at that point I'd probably shat enough on, um, 'the wet and foggy isles west of glorious Jutland', was that what we ended up agreeing to?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQyuKHiPMdI

what is our consensus on the worst nationality?

Because those who invented English were racist.

Isn't Jutland in Denmark anyway?

frankly i thought we should never have left europe, i was agin it

xp american

american on the internet

Sorry, Denmark is in Jutland rather.