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I wish they were mine. I had to return them to the dude I borrowed them from.

also here was my halloween costume. i was Zorg from The Fifth Element.

jesus fuck gulliver that is fuckin dope

please tell me there's a less distorted photo of that makeup job

Theta wrote:Have any of you ever heard somebody say [pəɹɛnθəsi] (i.e. the apparent singular of parentheses)?

this is super super super wrong and makes my pedantic blood boil

but then also i remember this song from high school ...

Speaking of numbers, here's another good example: 20 [̍tʰwʌni]. But in careful speech I'll say something closer to [ˈtʰwɛnti]. (And this despite the fact that my speech is pin-pen merged.) leaving aside the vowel (the twenny-twunny thing is another whole deal on its own), this is an example of medi...

ohh SKIN-ON. that genuinely took a minute.

someone in my neighbourhood operates a backyard sauna and lets people drop in on certain nights of the week and it is THE PERFECT THING for grey cold rainy times

fuck am i glad that exists

yeah it totally evokes such as agaricus bitorquis, The Mushroom That Can Bust Through Pavement

@Kereb: huh? [olfækʈʂɻi] for me. [olfæktəɻi] sounds overdone and jaunty. whether or not one elides that schwa is not the salient part of my comment; it was about whether it's a schwa or an "o" sound: I pronounce the "o" in the "-tory" ending since it's not a schwa here . SC was talking about the wa...

though there are words in which it is a schwa even in american varieties, like "olfactory"

hey if we're bumping this thread The Twisted Governor chill two rocks glasses in preparation. fill one glass with ice. into this glass pour two shots bourbon and half a shot hibiscus simple syrup 1 . add two dashes angostura bitters . stir. add a fresh large ice cube to the second glass and strain t...

What about this?: 23 17 17 is the bigger number, but 23 is the larger number. Do you natives agree with that above? No. I can't untangle this whole big/large issue for you but i can tell you that in this particular case the overlap between "big" and "large" in the usage i'm accustomed to is total. ...

Is it at all common to have an idiolectal pronunciation of a word not in accordance with any dialect? among users of this board? oh my no. we had one user who proudly told us how he pronounced both the m and n in "column", another who invented an entire accent of his own to speak his native swedish...

i've noticed it's really common in newspaper headlines for some reason

why can't Harriet and Duncan do like Chinese expats do and just be "Harriet" and "Duncan" in places that can handle those names, and pick completely unrelated names to use among the confused barbarians?
i mean in high school every other person was something like Ho Yin """""Gary""""" Ng, and the like

Yes, just like that. Why wouldn't it be?

oh god kill it with a shoe

jal wrote:It seems the "ideologically support" hasn't made it in the dictionary yet, if it actually exists.

it definitely exists. when someone says they "believe in a flat tax" they aren't saying they think that such a concept really is out there, they're saying they themselves support it.

Yeah I saw that one too. I thought the grounds on which Sal dismissed the large number of noun-verb pairs distinguished only by stress was silly. As Zompist says, it's bringing syntax in to a place where it just doesn't seem to apply (one other case in which this was used to dismiss the phonemic sta...

"to gó off the board" = to stick closely to what is indicated in the storyboard

"to go óff the board" = to deviate from what is indicated in the storyboard

Well, the "already" automatically triggers a subordinate clause, and the whole run from "already" to "Bale" has no garden path possibility, I think? confusion arises because "already" doesn't necessarily trigger a subordinate clause here. remember this is Headline Register, in which dropped copulas...

bump?

"roid him up a little more" My director commenting to another animator that a character with big muscley veiny arms could look even more exaggeratedly steroid-swollen. It was a one-off, an ad hoc verbing of an abbreviated noun but I thought of this thread because of how much meaning was in that one ...

no, it was cooked