ILX Milk Carton

I always thought the city was called St Louie but apparently that's just in the song

It was founded by the French, so arguably everyone has been mispronouncing it for centuries

The Louis in my hometown and St Louis, MO is pronounced Lewis by everyone apart from my late paternal grandparents.

xp See also Detroit and lol almost everyplace in the us come to think

I thought whether the 's' is silent or not depended on your feelings about CK.

Most of the places in Minnesota named after les voyageurs at least *try* for the French pronunciation.

If any of you non-yanks have yet to hear an American pronounce 'Notre Dame' you should really check it out, you're in for a treat.

note her dame

Rhymes with “boater shame”

no

dur

dame

homie

You guys are way too rough on people who are totally fine or easy to just skip over.

Yerac otm

dude there were stretches when R was anything but fine and easy to just skip over

Pronunciation guide at 0:13

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XurWUn5_S_E

healthy to all be in here discussing him anyway

I thought whether the 's' is silent or not depended on your feelings about CK.

Is he Lou-ie or Lou-is? I've never heard his name pronounced.

louie

Feel sure if I just watch Meet Me in St. Louis often enough, I will crack this one.

next on ILX Milk Carton:

how do you pronounce Missouri??

ILE slowly converging into one open thread

tbh i'm surprised there isn't one dedicated to that purpose (like there is on 77 for example)

Not location specific, No rules: Welcome to ILX heaven

(parody of the original locked thread maybe? still open, anyway)

i want to reiterate that I miss carl agatha, we should be talking about that instead

same

otm

For real

didn't we have a thread about proper placement of milk cartons in the fridge?

ILE slowly converging into one open thread

― rob, Tuesday, November 27, 2018 10:38 AM (nineteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this wld be a dreem cum tru

Is he Lou-ie or Lou-is? I've never heard his name pronounced.

his two TV shows were called Louie and Lucky Louie

how do you pronounce Missouri??

― Karl Malone, Tuesday, November 27, 2018 10:36 AM (forty-two minutes ago)

Where I'm from it's "Mizzeruh" lol.

universally accepted as misery tho

didn't we have a thread about proper placement of milk cartons in the fridge?

POll: Milk Placement

I've still never heard anyone pronounce it Missourah, not to my face anyway.

says the guy from Our Kansas

suzy
Posted: November 27, 2018 at 12:30:31 PM
Most of the places in Minnesota named after les voyageurs at least *try* for the French pronunciation.

See Mille Lacs
“MUH LAX”

next on ILX Milk Carton:

how do you pronounce Missouri??

― Karl Malone

"miserable"

i've heard "mizzUHRuh" a jillion times, usually from older folks

Are we just talking about everything we want to in every thread now *confused*

Didn’t someone say on another thread they wanted to make ilx one giant thread?

no that was on this thread, it has already happened, this is the giant thread that it all is

I feel like it should have a more illustrious name

Like The Big Stage or Ragnarok

So im just hunting on red dead 2 now

xp - we could start a poll about this?

Yeah. Now that the mods have decided in secret to turn ilx into one giant thread, we should AT LEAST have a say in what it is called.

MEGADRAADJE

Nah. This is just one of the more extended thread derailments. The ILX ship will right itself and sail on.

You guys are way too rough on people who are totally fine or easy to just skip over.

― Yerac, Wednesday, 28 November 2018 02:16 (fourteen hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ross seemed fine, if overeager and a little too earnest sometimes, and maybe that's saying something about how jaded and in-clubby ILX can be or seem, but let's not pretend he wouldn't have been clowned much harder by old ILX

I mean if you're seeing someone on a lot of threads too and they're kind of rubbing you the wrong way, then you can say something about it, just so long as it isn't attacking them in a mean spirited sort of way. I know he wasn't being actively offensive or mean, but it's nothing much more than some of the stuff LJ got sonned for bitd isn't it? Idk I can sense some narcissism of small differences and it feels kind of shitty, like talking behind someone's back, and worse if he's reading and feeling even shittier about himself, but it's not some brutal character assassination, it's more like ribbing for earnestness, and a lot of ILXors have been in his shoes. I think gr8080 has mentioned this in some other thread, how long it took to become accustomed and welcome. Treeship was kind of Ross. Until we beat the goodwill out of him lol

You don't have to scold us all into being nice either

I know he wasn't being actively offensive or mean,

...during daylight hours.

(After the 29th or so time that he blew up and abused people late at night, and after another thread of ppl who had not been on those threads going "wtf Ross is not offensive or mean, it is you who are the offensive and mean ones" and attendant pity party, he did actually get this under control. I assume and hope his pulling away from ILX is part of that ongoing sorting-things-out that he seemed to be doing. Walking away from here is usually a good sign re: IRL life.)

Ross isn’t on trial and no one should be made to feel guilty for “over earnestness” or whatever, that stupid fucking buzzword I only hear on this website. The instances sic describes sound like a different story but still—the past is the past and best of luck to Ross.

another thread of ppl who had not been on those threads going "wtf Ross is not offensive or mean, it is you who are the offensive and mean ones" and attendant pity party, he did actually get this under control

i remember at least one of these incidents. i don't remember it playing out in terms quite as black and white as that, but it was definitely an awkward situation to put it mildly. the obvious thing is that some of us know that he was going through a really rough time and struggling with some things. that doesn't give him carte blanche to attack others without reason, or for others to not feel hurt or threatened by what he said, of course. but, it does complicate things quite a bit. it's hard to watch people struggle and then unnecessarily lash out, and want to defend them but know you shouldn't. it's hard to know what to do. and then when he would turn around and apologize a few minutes later and hope that everyone would just move on, i mean, how do you react to that.

anyway, i know the overly diplomatic thing is also annoying in a different way, but it's always worth keeping in mind that other people are always, always going through more shit than they let on (no matter how much they let on).