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UnkleDan posted:Birth. Yup, I made a hasty typo. As someone else pointed out I really should have said "childbirth." troubled teen posted:it may be acceptable, but it annoys the hell out of me because I've always been taught that a 'vowel sound' should have 'an' before it, and a 'consonant sound' should have 'a' before it. Did you even read what I wrote? "an historic" is only proper if you don't voice the "h" sound. It ends up being "an istoric" with only the slightest trace of an "h" sound. Anyone using "an" while loudly pronouncing the h is an idiot. E: Thanks to whomever brought up the "an honorable" usage. For some reason, I couldn't think of a good "soft h" example. Apex Rogers fucked around with this message at Feb 21, 2008 around 21:51 |
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brt...it is not a typo for brb. It means be right there 
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| # ? Feb 21, 2008 22:24 |
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Eddie Van Halen did the guitar solo in Beat It. I can't believe I never knew that.
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| # ? Feb 21, 2008 22:34 |
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I just looked it up and "bludgeoneer" is a real word too! Not that ever have a reason to use it, but at I had thought it was a funny-sounding word that I had made up.
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| # ? Feb 21, 2008 22:44 |
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Apex Rogers posted:Yup, I made a hasty typo. As someone else pointed out I really should have said "childbirth."
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| # ? Feb 21, 2008 23:48 |
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Apex Rogers posted:Yup, I made a hasty typo. Don't you mean "AN hasty typo"?
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| # ? Feb 21, 2008 23:52 |
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Didn't see this posted but if it was feel free to call me a moron. Hell, do it anyway. I was looking at my winamp playlists and noticed Radioheads "4 minute warning" goes for four minutes. I don't know why I found that surprising but I did.
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| # ? Feb 22, 2008 00:00 |
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CygnusTM posted:You may not like it, but since it is common in usage in the US, it is correct. Yes, it breaks the rule, but we have plenty of exceptions to rules in English. It may be a colloquial bastardization but it isn't "proper" just like many other colloquialisms like "ain't" and aren't proper English. It sounds terrible, to boot, and it makes you sound like an idiot. As for the H being pronounced more, I agree. My mother pronounced it, and so I learned it that way, and people stopped giving me grief for it before I left elementary school, so it's definitely become less common. My brother has said that American English is largely the result of David Merriam of Merriam-Webster Dictionary fame plotting to differentiate American culture from English culture and purposefully devising new ways of saying and spelling words. I have no idea if this is true or not and haven't found evidence of it in the brief time I've spent searching for an answer.
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porkchoppie posted:I hear newscasters say "an historic" all the time. Take a break from the anime every once in a while--you might be surprised what you learn. So did you also take an history class in high school?
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I just realized the other day that "Liam" is derived from the name William.
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d[-.- posted:b] I don't think I usually referred to it that way. I used to just say "my history class" or "my world history class" or "I'm taking a class on American history". I used to think it sounded really weird to say "an historic" too, but the guy I quoted said that he has NEVER EVER even heard of anyone saying that, which boggles my mind. Even if you think it's wrong, surely you've heard of it?
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| # ? Feb 22, 2008 00:50 |
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Microsoft Excel --> Cell I was just like, why the gently caress would you name a charting/tabling program Excel? That's dumb.
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| # ? Feb 22, 2008 03:31 |
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UnkleDan posted:I don't think he was calling you out on it, and besides that you edited your post. Without correcting yourself. Come on. Wow. You really "nailed me" on that one. At the risk of making too big a deal about a typo (and possibly responding to a troll), I'll just say that my edit involved adding the line beginning with "E:" and didn't involve re-reading the existing post and correcting errors. I don't really give a poo poo whether you think I knew the difference between the terms, but calling me out like this is petty and pointless. donquixotic posted:Don't you mean "AN hasty typo"? And this also appears to be a troll. d[-.- posted:b] No, because nobody pronounces "history" with a silent "h." Some people will pronounce "historic" without the "h" and thus use "an" in front of it. This is not a difficult concept, people.
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| # ? Feb 22, 2008 03:39 |
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^^Shut the gently caress up dude, you corrected someone and made a mistake yourself thus looking a little stupid. Instead of taking this in your stride you're throwing a little hissy fit.Xaranthius posted:I just realized the other day that "Liam" is derived from the name William. I'm called Liam and this one all ways suprises people for some reason. I'm pretty sure it's the Irish version of William. Holy Cow fucked around with this message at Feb 22, 2008 around 03:45 |
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I'm going for the win here.I just figured out last week how to blow my nose. I had this horrible head cold and couldnt breathe out of the thing at all. I'm going around talking like a nasal spray commercial or some poo poo. My fiance keeps yelling at me to go blow my nose. I go to the bathroom and honk a little and wipe my nose and then sniffle. Over and over. Finally she runs in and yells at me..IF YOU DONT BLOW YOURE loving NOSE IM GOING TO LEAVE YOU FOR YOUR BROTHER. Also pointing out that I need to blow harder. I get a little pissed and finally blow as hard as I can. Wallah! I have a kleenex with gelatinous blob caught in it and considerably less pressure in my head. In the days since I've realized that blowing your nose once or twice is better than wiping your nose every five minutes. I always just thought people in movies and cartoons were exaggerating the level of noise that blowing your nose makes. I'm 23 years old.
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| # ? Feb 22, 2008 03:44 |
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Mexicola posted:Wallah! Voilą. 
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| # ? Feb 22, 2008 03:54 |
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Apex Rogers posted:No, because nobody pronounces "history" with a silent "h." Some people will pronounce "historic" without the "h" and thus use "an" in front of it. This is not a difficult concept, people. Apparently it is, because Americans shouldn't be pronouncing historic with a silent h. Look at the root.
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| # ? Feb 22, 2008 04:03 |
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Just gonna go on record as an American who'd do a massive double take if I heard anyone say "an historic", or pronounce "historic" without the "h" in general.
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| # ? Feb 22, 2008 04:19 |
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Holy Cow posted:^^Shut the gently caress up dude, you corrected someone and made a mistake yourself thus looking a little stupid. Instead of taking this in your stride you're throwing a little hissy fit. No, I'm just trying to set the record straight. I don't like being misrepresented, so I tend to go overboard presenting my own side of things, no matter how trivial the detail. I'm sure it just looks like I'm throwing a hissy fit, but all I'm trying to do is explain what happened. It's an irrational behavior that I need to work on, kind of like an OCD type of thing. E: I should have just replied with something like, "Haha, I must've missed the typo when I made the edit v  v"d[-.- posted:b] All I am trying to do is explain the logic behind the usage. I never said which nationalities use it in which way, my comments were very general. E: Just sounding it out in my head, the phrase "This is a historic event" seems a bit more awkward than "This is an historic event." Using a long "a" in the first example followed by such a soft consonant just feels weird to me. I think it's almost more about the difference in vowel sounds between "a" and "an" than a matter of article/letter agreement. Apex Rogers fucked around with this message at Feb 22, 2008 around 05:00 |
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I have always said "A historic". Actually now that I think of it I would say "an" for "an historic event" but nothing else. I pronounce the h, like "hi-store-ick" and the hi not like hi, more like him.
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Holy Cow posted:^^Shut the gently caress up dude, you corrected someone and made a mistake yourself thus looking a little stupid. Instead of taking this in your stride you're throwing a little hissy fit. I believe that's because William the Conqueror was quite a bit of a shite arse to the Irish, so they won't say his whole name anymore. Also, I usually pronounce the "h" in history when I'm paying an homage to someone from the past. We don't all speak the King's English, ye know.
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Equinox. Equi-nox. "Equal night". The equinox is the day that there are (essentially) equal durations of day and night at every location regardless of latitude.  When I was a kid I used to read it as "Equin-ox" and wonder what the hell horses and oxes had to do with astronomy.
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| # ? Feb 22, 2008 06:50 |
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Hey. Hey. Guess what. People from different parts of America pronounce "historic" differently. Depending on what region you are from you will either say "an" or "a" in front of it. You are not an idiot unless you are trying to sound awkward on purpose. Everyone calm the gently caress down about this poo poo.
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| # ? Feb 22, 2008 07:13 |
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Its called "First Aid" because its Aid thats applied first, before the medics/doctors/surgeons come into the picture. 
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GoldenWeapon posted:Its called "First Aid" because its Aid thats applied first, before the medics/doctors/surgeons come into the picture. I remember at school when they were teaching us what to do in lieu of first aid knowledge (were we really unworthy of that knowledge?) and they called it "emergency aid" - it consisted solely of checking airways and all that shite, but technically since it is the aid first applied it is by definition "first aid" but don't try to argue this point with some reject from St. John's Ambulance, they loving hate it
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Sigma-X posted:It may be a colloquial bastardization but it isn't "proper" just like many other colloquialisms like "ain't" and aren't proper English.
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Blarfk posted:Hey. Hey. Guess what.
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boscokitty posted:Of course, we also call soda "pop" here, so... Western PA?
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It wasn't until last weekend that I finally realized that Spawn is a ripoff of Ghost Rider
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b4ifuru18 posted:And i just figured out that the first four lines is him calling out DMX How so? "You might see me joggin', you might see me walkin' you might see me walkin' a dead rottweiler dog with his head chopped off in the park with a spiked collar hollerin' at him cause the son of a bitch won't quit barkin'" Based on all the wild poo poo DMX was doing around that time I don't see how that's calling him out at all. Yeah he barks like X does but Em would have been a lot more direct back in his glory days. And if memory serves the two were actually cool around that time. Arwox posted:
I'm pretty sure I found this out from SA so hopefully it hasn't been posted already, but Dr. Elliot Reid (Sarah Chalke) was the 2nd Becky on Roseanne. Again it's not like she was disguised or anything, but it was still a strange moment when I realized how I knew her when I caught an old episode of Roseanne. caveman thug shit fucked around with this message at Feb 22, 2008 around 16:46 |
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Kate from the Drew Carey show and Jordan from scrubs are played by the same actress!
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Oncogene posted:Eddie Van Halen did the guitar solo in Beat It. And Eric Clapton played lead guitar on While My Guitar Gently Weeps. Although both of those are more "stuff you found out" than "stuff you figured out."
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| # ? Feb 22, 2008 16:37 |
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Blarfk posted:Hey. Hey. Guess what. 
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Cojawfee posted:Wow, so you are the Lord? What should we do? Although it doesn't alter the fact that PiratePing thought Jesus and the people around him dressed like hippies and/or disco divas, the conceit of the film is that it's a group of actors retelling the story, not the biblical characters themselves (they arrive on a bus at the start and set up the "show" then get back on it at the end). The dress mainly just echoes fashions at the time of filming (1973) and most other seemingly anachronistic elements are explained by it too. I'm not religious and I hate most musicals but I loving love that show  My friend was in his early twenties before he realised that the "Lib" in "Women's Lib" was short for Liberation - he'd always understood the meaning of the phrase and just never questioned that word. I'm pretty sure I've done that on a couple of occasions too but I'm damned if I can remember them...
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| # ? Feb 22, 2008 19:44 |
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Burrito. Burr-ito. Little burro. I really feel like I should have thought of this before now.
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Chief Bluntsalot posted:I'm pretty sure I found this out from SA so hopefully it hasn't been posted already, but Dr. Elliot Reid (Sarah Chalke) was the 2nd Becky on Roseanne. Again it's not like she was disguised or anything, but it was still a strange moment when I realized how I knew her when I caught an old episode of Roseanne. Holy poo poo, I knew she looked familiar! Wow, that really brings me back.
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Chilly McFreeze posted:Burrito. Burr-ito. Little burro. So you're saying you just figured out Burrito means Little Donkey? I think you're a tad off base on this one, champ. E: Well, I guess.. Whatever.. Wiki posted:The word burrito literally means "little donkey" in Spanish. The name burrito possibly derives from the appearance of a rolled up wheat tortilla, which vaguely resembles the ear of its namesake animal, or from bedrolls and packs that donkeys carried. v v That's still a stretch.I wasn't saying you had the translation wrong just the fact that Little Donkeys and my Freebirds burritos have nothing to do with each other
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Chilly McFreeze posted:Burrito. Burr-ito. Little burro. Similarly, I recently realized that "mosquito" literally means "little fly".
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Blarfk posted:Western PA?
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CHOICE COD posted:Similarly, I recently realized that "mosquito" literally means "little fly". Maybe it means "little mosque". As soon as GWB gets wind of this he's going to wage a war on all the tiny little TERRISTS plaguing our country. West Nile Virus = biological warfare
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boscokitty posted:Nope, southeastern OK. Heh, in fact, if you look at this map: http://tastyresearch.files.wordpres...opvssodamap.png , my county says "pop" and most of the counties around it say "coke." I never knew that. Holy poo poo, that's a lot of stupid.
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