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- Fri Jun 29, 2018 9:59 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
- Replies: 3108
- Views: 665480
- Wed Jun 27, 2018 4:51 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Words you've learned recently
- Replies: 248
- Views: 83865
Re: Words you've learned recently
Heulsuse crybaby
- Wed Jun 27, 2018 10:30 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Which -an adjective based on "Rousseau" do you prefer?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7927
Re: Which -an adjective based on "Rousseau" do you prefer?
I kind of hate them all.
I'd be inclined to use Rousseauesque, even though the -esque ending typically expresses a different nuance.
I'd be inclined to use Rousseauesque, even though the -esque ending typically expresses a different nuance.
- Tue Jun 26, 2018 3:19 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The Innovative Usage Thread
- Replies: 2452
- Views: 426620
Re: The Innovative Usage Thread
"an avengance"
- Tue Jun 26, 2018 10:15 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
- Replies: 3108
- Views: 665480
Re: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
Which is particularly interesting given that the local pronunciation of the name is [əjˈvisə].Sumelic wrote:One common British pronunciation of "Ibiza" is actually "eye-beetha", with the "price" diphthong in the first syllable.
- Mon Jun 25, 2018 1:17 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
- Replies: 933
- Views: 211956
Re: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
I seemed to have worked through it. The husband is starting a blog to talk about his diagnosis and I gave him some pointers and told him I'd be following it. His better half is still in denial, so the poor sod is going to need all the support he can get.
- Fri Jun 22, 2018 10:20 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Re: Third-person imperatives - how do they work?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5903
Re: Third-person imperatives - how do they work?
By the way, I think that 1st and 3rd imperative is usually considered a separate mood called the jussive . Depends on your analysis. It may make sense for languages like Spanish where there's a means of forming second-person imperatives that's distinct from the use of mandative subjunctive forms fo...
- Fri Jun 22, 2018 9:51 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
- Replies: 933
- Views: 211956
Re: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
More evidence (if any were needed) that I'm an awful person: So I had two "friends" who used to visit us frequently. They lived in Wisconsin and liked to come to Chicago for the weekend. We let them stay in our guest room. One time they had the bad luck to stay over the weekend right after we'd gott...
- Wed Jun 20, 2018 12:21 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Re: Third-person imperatives - how do they work?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5903
Re: Third-person imperatives - how do they work?
Second person imperatives are pretty simple and I'm told that English first person plural imperative is basically the construction "let's X", but what about third person? I'm struggling to think of something which sounds like a third person imperative. Languages which use third-person forms for dir...
- Wed Jun 06, 2018 1:35 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Quick question about English transitive verbs w/o objects
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5361
Re: Quick question about English transitive verbs w/o object
Is there a name or technical term for the way English treats transitive verbs like "to feed", whereby they usually take an object ("The bird feeds its young"), but when it takes no object it's understood as having an unstated reflexive object ("The bird feeds"; i.e. "The bird feeds itself")? " ambi...
- Mon Jun 04, 2018 12:20 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
- Replies: 2639
- Views: 318600
Re: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
I guess I'm just not macho enough myself, because when I see people who are scared, confused, anxious, I find it hard to summon up the hatred to just write them off as "arseholes". Is it great that people are too damaged or fragile to be able to do the right thing in difficult circumstances? No. Bu...
- Mon Jun 04, 2018 12:04 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
- Replies: 2639
- Views: 318600
Re: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
Anyways, something I’ll also add a bit to the conversation: if you know you have a problem, whether mental, emotional, or otherwise, then the only way to change is if you first recognize or admit there’s a problem. No amount of therapy really is going to help unless that person takes the first step...
- Fri Jun 01, 2018 10:36 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
- Replies: 2639
- Views: 318600
Re: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
To be fair, it's not uncommon for people - particularly fathers - to avoid awkward conversations with people they don't want to upset or offend. Or to assume that other people don't want to have anything to do with them, and hence make that a self-fulfilling prophecy by 'not imposing' on them. Or h...
- Wed May 30, 2018 10:42 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
- Replies: 2639
- Views: 318600
Re: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
When you told us about the divorce, I didn't realise it was that kind of situation. That sucks.
- Tue May 22, 2018 2:57 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: A Very Brief Explanation of the British Election
- Replies: 323
- Views: 97650
Re: A Very Brief Explanation of the British Election
Raphael wrote:Meanwhile, somewhat related to the general British politics theme, there's this little thread on twitter:
#DEDMatthew Hankins wrote:BREXIT TV
'No Deal or No Deal'
Baffling game show in which contestants vote to take home £900 less than they started with
- Tue May 22, 2018 9:24 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Confusing headlines and other trips down the garden path
- Replies: 1058
- Views: 228779
Re: Confusing headlines and other trips down the garden path
Sunday I watched a four-hour mashup of the plays of Aristophanes. Each section ended with a moral and the moral for the second section (which incorporated The Knights ) was "Never trust someone with sausages." I actually sought out the actress at intermission to ask her, "Does this mean that if some...
- Fri May 18, 2018 10:42 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
- Replies: 2639
- Views: 318600
Re: Venting thread that still excludes eddy
I'm having the worst allergies of my life. My left ear canal has been clogged and hurting for a week and a half. I've been on painkillers almost that entire time--and I practically never use painkillers. That's too bad. Do you have these allergies a long time already or are they a new development? ...
- Wed May 16, 2018 11:09 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
- Replies: 2639
- Views: 318600
Re: Venting thread that still excludes eddy
I'm having the worst allergies of my life. My left ear canal has been clogged and hurting for a week and a half. I've been on painkillers almost that entire time--and I practically never use painkillers. I didn't think my sense of smell was that badly impacted but today I found out that I've had a g...
- Mon May 14, 2018 2:41 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Incorrect pronunciations you have (or have had) to unlearn
- Replies: 669
- Views: 156985
Re: Incorrect pronunciations you have (or have had) to unlea
My brothers and I ended up with a lot of spelling pronunciations from D&D: lycanthrope and wyvern with /ih/, lamia with /ah/ or /a/, caecilia with /k/, etc. I think undine might have come with a pronunciation guide, since my natural instinct was to use /iy/ though /ay/ sounds acceptable as well.
- Thu May 10, 2018 2:45 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
- Replies: 2878
- Views: 652192
Re: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
One advantage/downside of IoT (which it is depends on how you see things) is you get to have amenities like Pornhub-powered refrigerators. finally! I've noticed that I always prefer my beers very cold after watching youtube but lukewarm after watching porn and I look forward to my fridge accomodati...
- Thu May 10, 2018 10:08 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
- Replies: 3108
- Views: 665480
Re: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
My /t/ is never aspirated there. If it surfaces at all, it's as [ʔ] accompanied by nasalisation of the preceding vowel.bbbosborne wrote:[æt'læntʰɪkʰ] the [t] may allophone with [ʔ], and the [tʰ] may just disappear completely (when it does the kʰ loses its aspiration).
- Wed May 09, 2018 1:03 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Incorrect pronunciations you have (or have had) to unlearn
- Replies: 669
- Views: 156985
Re: Incorrect pronunciations you have (or have had) to unlea
I was surprised visiting Albuquerque that people use true Spanish pronunciations for many names. I heard Jemez with monophtongs, not normal eng vowels. Perhaps it's a function of how familiar the speaker is, though .... The person speaking was familiar with both Spanish & Navajo. My local informant...
- Tue May 08, 2018 4:40 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Incorrect pronunciations you have (or have had) to unlearn
- Replies: 669
- Views: 156985
Re: Incorrect pronunciations you have (or have had) to unlea
I didn't have these incorrect pronunciations very long, but I still had to unlearn them: In preparation for visiting New Mexico last month, I read up a bit on Pueblo history. Most of the pueblos have Spanish names, so I pronounced them as I would in Spanish. That worked fine for places like "Laguna"...
- Mon May 07, 2018 2:57 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Confusing headlines and other trips down the garden path
- Replies: 1058
- Views: 228779
Re: Confusing headlines and other trips down the garden path
Nothing garden-pathy about this, but it is damn confusing: Japan PM said offended by dessert served in shoe at Netanyahu home (Times of Israel)
- Fri May 04, 2018 1:17 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Confusing headlines and other trips down the garden path
- Replies: 1058
- Views: 228779
Re: Confusing headlines and other trips down the garden path
Yesterday I passed a sign in a shop window which said "HAND CANING" and I was like, "I thought that method of discipline went by the wayside years ago."