[does one google]wtf, America
― chilis=lyrics...hypocrits (sic), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 22:00 (five years ago) link
we’re a very literal conglomeration of people from the diaspora
― mh, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 00:25 (five years ago) link
lol
― Dan S, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 00:29 (five years ago) link
this is an egg timer btw
https://groceries.morrisons.com/productImages/380/380070011_0_640x640.jpg
― chilis=lyrics...hypocrits (sic), Wednesday, 9 May 2018 07:04 (five years ago) link
"Vintage" means the process of making wine (and, by association the year in which that process takes place); from the French, obv. It does not mean "old". When it's used to mean old (vintage cars, vintage clothing) it's being used metaphorically; vintage wine is not simply old wine.
― mahb, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 09:32 (five years ago) link
that's good, makes perfect sense but never considered it
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 10:53 (five years ago) link
Yeah that's a great example
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 9 May 2018 11:07 (five years ago) link
"Unequivocally" does not have the letter "b" in it. Feeling pretty stupid atm
― Dan I., Friday, 11 May 2018 18:22 (five years ago) link
Trying to figure out where a 'b' would even go. 'Unequivocallyb?'
― Delightful in Microdoses (Old Lunch), Friday, 11 May 2018 18:30 (five years ago) link
(Not goosing you, btw. I both said and wrote 'unwieldly' well into adulthood.)
― Delightful in Microdoses (Old Lunch), Friday, 11 May 2018 18:31 (five years ago) link
thread delivers
― flappy bird, Friday, 11 May 2018 18:31 (five years ago) link
guessing "Unequivocably"
― chilis=lyrics...hypocrits (sic), Friday, 11 May 2018 18:32 (five years ago) link
Unbequivocally
― Westworld more like Worstworld right? (Phil D.), Friday, 11 May 2018 18:35 (five years ago) link
Suddenly hearing the word as uttered by Mushmouth.
― Delightful in Microdoses (Old Lunch), Friday, 11 May 2018 18:36 (five years ago) link
Last night I learned that Thandie Newton, of whom I've ~been aware~ as an actress since Mission: Impossible 2, pronounces her name "Tandy." Boy, would I have had egg on MY face if I ever met her.
― Westworld more like Worstworld right? (Phil D.), Friday, 11 May 2018 18:37 (five years ago) link
woah
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 11 May 2018 18:42 (five years ago) link
Don’t put all your eggs in one basket
Damn that took me 34 years
― Ross, Friday, 11 May 2018 19:14 (five years ago) link
I found out pretty late in life that "mores" (as in "social mores") is the word that rhymes with "morays," not a word that rhymes with "s'mores."
― bed, bath, and beyond the thunderdome (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 11 May 2018 19:22 (five years ago) link
yeah i think it is often spelt with an acute accent over the e
― Stevolende, Friday, 11 May 2018 19:25 (five years ago) link
I'm certain that I only know the correct pronunciation because of an ethics class I took.
― Delightful in Microdoses (Old Lunch), Friday, 11 May 2018 19:27 (five years ago) link
Character is the most important thing of all
― Peaked redundancy (Ross), Friday, 11 May 2018 19:45 (five years ago) link
That's a moray
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 11 May 2018 20:05 (five years ago) link
"when an eel bites your heel and the pain makes you squeal..."
stevolende, I guess that is so, but it isn't strictly speaking correct, is it? The word is an import from latin, not French.
― bed, bath, and beyond the thunderdome (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 11 May 2018 20:09 (five years ago) link
social moires
― mh, Friday, 11 May 2018 20:24 (five years ago) link
blurred lines...
― bed, bath, and beyond the thunderdome (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 11 May 2018 20:59 (five years ago) link
and relevant xkcd is https://xkcd.com/1814/
― bed, bath, and beyond the thunderdome (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 11 May 2018 21:00 (five years ago) link
Perhaps relatedly? A few years ago, there was a news story on the radio about the plight of the cops in Egypt. Sounded like things were pretty bad for Egyptian cops.
I'm like huh? until I realized they were saying Copts.
Earlier today I was on a work conference call with some people in India, and we were discussing a business proposal where everything was expressed in dollars and needed to be changed to rubies.
Rubies? Are we seriously talking about being paid with chests full of gemstones? WTF? Is this like a fairy tale or something?
Then I realized everybody had been saying "rupees."
― bed, bath, and beyond the thunderdome (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 14 May 2018 19:52 (five years ago) link
don’t go to vietnam
― karl wallogina (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 15 May 2018 02:36 (five years ago) link
That "arms akimbo" means hands on hips with elbows out (the George Reeves Superman stance), not arms flailing about.
― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 15 May 2018 03:22 (five years ago) link
That the name pronounced "al-o-WISH-us" is the same word as the name spelled "Aloysius."
― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 15 May 2018 03:33 (five years ago) link
How did your head spell it before?
― chilis=lyrics...hypocrits (sic), Tuesday, 15 May 2018 19:12 (five years ago) link
My name is Alloy Zeus, look upon my works, ye mighty...
― emil.y, Tuesday, 15 May 2018 19:15 (five years ago) link
Until the moment of revelation (which may have come while reading the back of an Elvis Costello album), I'd never really thought about how al-o-WISH-us was spelled.
― Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 16 May 2018 04:47 (five years ago) link
Marsala and masala are not at all the same thing.
― Dan I., Wednesday, 16 May 2018 15:02 (five years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dd-XieyVQAAcWu6.jpg:small
― mookieproof, Thursday, 24 May 2018 16:20 (five years ago) link
comes up on jeopardy every so often
― adam the (abanana), Thursday, 24 May 2018 16:29 (five years ago) link
What do you call a dude with the misfortune to still be named “Elbridge” in 2018Probably “Gary”
― valorous wokelord (silby), Thursday, 24 May 2018 16:51 (five years ago) link
wait the *pronunciation* of 'gerrymander' comes up on jeopardy?
― mookieproof, Thursday, 24 May 2018 16:56 (five years ago) link
it's a hard game
― flappy bird, Thursday, 24 May 2018 17:11 (five years ago) link
pronounced jame
― Poisoned by Johan's pea soup. (Tom D.), Thursday, 24 May 2018 17:12 (five years ago) link
Only recently occurred to me that the name of the Bumper-to-Bumper auto parts chain refers to what's between the front bumper and back bumper, not in the human centipedal use that traffic reporters employ during a jam.
― pplains, Thursday, 24 May 2018 17:37 (five years ago) link
on a similar tip, I used to think collision centers were places where they conducted crash tests, not auto body shops where they repair the damage caused by motor vehicle collisions
― the yolk sustains us, we eat whites for days (unregistered), Thursday, 24 May 2018 17:54 (five years ago) link
fwiw I didn't know the correct pronunciation of Gerry until now, despite the fact that I live a little behind the gerrymander's neck and used to live on his butt/thigh. in a better world, it would be considered a point of local pride to live within the original gerryymander, and there'd be pizza places named after him, highway signs tracing the path from head to tail, commemorative statues in every town common, tshirts and bumnper stickers sold in every local gift shop, etc.
― the yolk sustains us, we eat whites for days (unregistered), Thursday, 24 May 2018 18:05 (five years ago) link
He's not remembered for any of that
puts me in mind of
https://www.theonion.com/it-is-my-hope-that-i-will-be-remembered-as-a-great-man-1819583650
Though it may be immodest of me to say, it is my dearest hope that I, the Fourth Earl of Sandwich, shall be remembered as a great man by all. I long to know what will be foremost in the everyman's thoughts when he hears the name Sandwich. Will it be my Lordship of the Admiralty? Or my able and devoted service as Secretary of State? Either is a fair guess, I believe. Yet, part of me suspects that it will be an object that is destined to bear my name for eternity, just as people now have begun to refer to a metal stove as a Franklin, after its inventor. Other men, as well, have been so honoured, and I must note that none of these other so-called great men represented England at the Breda Conference negotiations. There, now I am thinking! Perhaps it will be treaties that will come to be known for eternity as Sandwiches. Great leaders of countries will say, "Let us enact a Sandwich, that our two nations shall cease to be enemies. By the terms of this most sacred and honorable Sandwich, let us have peace in our great lands." That would be a most fitting tribute to me, considering my tireless contributions to the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1748.
Yet, part of me suspects that it will be an object that is destined to bear my name for eternity, just as people now have begun to refer to a metal stove as a Franklin, after its inventor. Other men, as well, have been so honoured, and I must note that none of these other so-called great men represented England at the Breda Conference negotiations.
There, now I am thinking! Perhaps it will be treaties that will come to be known for eternity as Sandwiches. Great leaders of countries will say, "Let us enact a Sandwich, that our two nations shall cease to be enemies. By the terms of this most sacred and honorable Sandwich, let us have peace in our great lands." That would be a most fitting tribute to me, considering my tireless contributions to the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1748.
― and she could see an earmuff factory (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 24 May 2018 18:29 (five years ago) link
OK so I had no idea that those SoBe drinks from the 90s were called that after South Beach. I never really thought about it and didn't know that was an abbrev for South Beach. Was there last month and saw some lizards and then thought of the bottle and had a light bulb moment.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 24 May 2018 20:47 (five years ago) link
SoBe began as the South Beach Beverage Company, a drink manufacturer based in Norwalk, Connecticut from 1996-2001.
what in tarnation
― (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻ (mh), Thursday, 24 May 2018 20:53 (five years ago) link
SEE??
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 24 May 2018 20:57 (five years ago) link
In breaking news for Elbridge T. Gerry, if everyone pronounces gerrymander as 'jerrymander', then they are pronouncing it correctly. It's a word, not a person, and you are being the worst kind of pedant.
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 24 May 2018 21:01 (five years ago) link
For me the word where that comes into play is "forte" as in "basketweaving is my forte."
Its origin is from French, and refers to the strong point of a sword. There is no accent on it and it is supposed to be said "fort" (according to the worst kind of pedant).
If you say "for-tay," like the musical term for "loud" (which comes from Italian), you're technically wrong but everyone will know what you mean. But if you say it "fort" people will look at you funny (except for a few chance pedants).
As a consequence I avoid it in speech, preferring "strength" or "strong suit" or "specialty."
― and she could see an earmuff factory (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 24 May 2018 21:11 (five years ago) link
I prefer thang
― Poisoned by Johan's pea soup. (Tom D.), Thursday, 24 May 2018 21:16 (five years ago) link