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From a tweet: "I mean, to me it's very obvious that this whole thread was a classic action of a guy who was born epic privileged, but clarity."
Is "epic" here also a flat adverb? It struck me as odd.


JAL

I had to read that three times before I even realized that the word 'do' was missing, so I think it's just a typo.

Yea, I'm pretty confident they just forgot "do."

BTW, is the following a feature of AAVE or Southern English? "Over there it's a bench for lazy people." I would prefer repeating "there" or some other adverb of location but I recently heard a Southern African American utter the above sentence.

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Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.

"I'm shook" = "I'm shaken emotionally".

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[bɹ̠ˤʷɪs.təɫ]
Nōn quālibet inīquā cupiditāte illectus hoc agō
Yo te pongo en tu lugar...
Taisc mach Daró

I've noticed Brits tend to say 'Theresa' with a voiced /z/ and Americans with a voiceless /s/.

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Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.

I wouldn't be surprised if it's typical of children, but my (almost-three-year-old) son has interpreted a lot of verbs as ending in /ju:/.

For example, he will say things like:
"Mommy carry-you!" to mean "Mommy, carry me"
"Mommy give-you book!" to mean "Mommy, give me the book"
"Mommy, pick-you up!" to mean "Mommy, pick me up"

and so on.

Our daughter went through a similar phase, but she ended it pretty quickly. He's just kept at it for months. It's a little endearing...

This week in Extreme Word Reduction: I heard myself saying very weird stuff.

- "Qu'est-ce que j'ai fait de mes clés ?" (what did I do with my keys?) as [kʃʃe fɛn me kle].
- "Quand ça sera le moment" (when the time comes) as [kz̃ ʁɐl mo mɒ̃] with something like a syllabic nasalized fricative! (which I can't manage to type in IPA.)
- "Qu'est-ce qu'il fait ?" (what's he doing?) as [ks̩ sʲi fɛ].

Similarly, a friend of mine tells that his dad, who speaks the Porvoo dialect of Finland Swedish, regularly says Det är så bra ("it's good") as [hɛsɔˈbrɑ]. It's not that drastic contraction, but it also includes the regional shift [d] > [h] in unstressed positions, which adds interesting flavour.

People down here in Memphis keep asking me "Where are you staying?" to ask where we're living. Is this use of 'to stay' a Southernism?

*Edit* Typo.

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Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.

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Dibotahamdn duthma jallni agaynni ra hgitn lakrhmi.
Amuhawr jalla vowa vta hlakrhi hdm duthmi xaja.
Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro.

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