Things you were shockingly old when you learned

I used to trollfully insist that Stevie Wonder's real name is Steven Wonderful. This is about that level of stupid.

JUst learned this week that there's a fashion haircut called a combover.
Would have thought the attempted baldness disguise was prevalent enough that they would need to find a new name for something like that.
Its the tall gelled short back and sides thing that has one side combed over. Would have thought it was some kind of variation on a 'Meet me at McDonalds'. I think its popular among footballer types etc.

But really, I would have thought the referent was always going to be the 'I think people will not recognise the bald patch if I grow the sides longer and hide it, or Trump it' thing.

& would therefore think that it would be something that a trendsetter would attempt to avoid naming things after since it is a middle aged folly. But omigosh the youth of today.

We shall overcomb

Steven Wonderful is good, but nothing beats Steveland

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EFkRNH_XoAI-ZVL?format=png

That’s Scrappert Cornelius Doo to you, young man.

el scrapo

Escoobar

https://i.imgur.com/r78g4MI.jpg

Nice

we were talking coffee and wondering if Sanka was still around. it is. and for the first time i wondered about the name and realized it was a portmanteau for sans caffeine. the (american) pronunciation of sank-uh threw me all these many years.

If we used Spanish as our model it’d be Sinca

My new seltzter co must somehow then be named “Conga”

So Sanka rhymes with Tonka.

Also just noticed that I say Sank-uh, but also San-tuh.

The combover

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqhvJrcMV9c

new fella at my barbers seems to be tryin to push me in this or a similar direction i dunno how to break it to him that i had a bald patch before he was born ill be ok like

So apparently disgusting Americans pronounce "flaccid" with a hard C

I've never heard anyone pronounce it like that.

Wtf

Both pronunciations exist on both sides of the pond, it seems. I agree that the hard C is gross.

oh right, looks like the trendy haircut is spelt as 2 words.. Still sounds the same when said though. Foun dit odd when it was said in a class I was in last week as a haircut the teacher was giving people.

https://haircutinspiration.com/comb-over-haircut/

https://media.haircutinspiration.com/photos/20181204005531/comb-over-blackfishbry-500x649.jpg

we were talking coffee and wondering if Sanka was still around. it is. and for the first time i wondered about the name and realized it was a portmanteau for sans caffeine. the (american) pronunciation of sank-uh threw me all these many years.

I never know how to say "sans" as in "sans serif" out loud, like in Comic Sans or whatever. If I (try to) pronounce it in a French manner it sounds kind of like... just a weird meaningless sound in an English sentence. If I say "sanz" I feel like an uncultured barbarian. Help!

Are we counting the x (-ks-, hard then soft) pronunciation of flaccid as hard? It always sounds weird to me because I usually hear it to rhyme with "placid" but iirc it's technically correct and I can't think of any other -cci-/-cce- words which don't use that sound. Well, not since I finally realised how to pronounce e.g. Occitan and occidental a few years ago at an embarrassingly old age.

All the letterpress people I hang about with say sanz, and I just copy them.

Thinking about it, though, comic sans pronounced to rhyme with Fonz would be excellent.

I know one letterpress person and they're the opposite of an uncultured barbarian so I'll go with that, then. Hooray.

Rhymes-with-Fonz seems theoretically more comprehensible than a nasal sound with a silent final s, but I think that's the compromise I've ended up with after chickening out of the silent s at the last moment, and can confirm that nobody has ever known what the hell I've been talking about.

https://forvo.com/word/sans_serif/#en

TopQuark otm

GraB otm

Shit, I pronounce it sonn suh-reef, I am a pretentious twat. Not sure I've ever had cause to say it loud though so I've probably got away with it.

how else would anyone say it? that's literally the way to say it

mind you, i say 'Comic SANZ' so... bully for me

In French, “sonn”. In typography, “sanz”, even if you are a French typographer. No exceptions.

Hmm…

son exception

yo is it true frogs got sonned by a typo kid after a sans sebeef??????

Pretty sure Shakespeare pronounced it "sanz"

Those alternative forms are delicious:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/saunz

sanz kant danz

Saying Comic SANZ ... actually sorta fits the zany, anything-goes vibe of that font.

did somebody say "comic sanz"??

http://www1.pictures.gi.zimbio.com/Horatio+Sanz+Celebrity+Guests+Visit+VMA+Style+4Bdj9FbbwB1l.jpg

The thing is, it's a word that comes from French, just like many English words do, but if you are speaking English to other English speakers, there's nothing wrong with giving it an English (or American) pronunciation.

I don't know, most direct loan words from French involve at least an attempt at a French pronunciation. Don't they?

I pronounce it ‘sans serif’ and ‘fucking awful typeface that should never be used’.

2 more cool options for flaccid:

ch sound. fla-chid. quite the flaccid bocce bowl, my friend.

k-si sound. flak-sid. i'm accidentally flaccid!

most direct loan words from French involve at least an attempt at a French pronunciation

I would give you carte blanche to think that, meanwhile I will wear lingerie in Baton Rouge, Des Moines, and Coeur d'Alene. I will eat hors d'oeuvres in Paris, Texas, while painting in a trompe l'oeil style, for that is my brusque genre and my nonchalant milieu.

How is Baton Rouge pronounced? I knew Americans would fuck up the pronunciations, that goes without saying.

like....which of those words aint pronounced frenchlike, save paris which yknow is fairly commonly accepted either way

Bat'n rooj

Des Moines = d'moyn

duh moyn

I know that one.

ok imma have to hear ye say it obv