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Jerry Cotton posted:Tell her Billy Corgan and Karl Pilkington are not the same person and she'll believe it. (Of course they are the same person but The difference is Karl Pilkington only pretends to be a burbling moron.
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MisterBibs posted:Song that plays at the end of Mega Man 3 is over 3 minutes long. Nearly a minute of it never plays in the game. There are a few other cases like that. The title theme for Animal Crossing on the Gamecube has a section that is usually cut off but you can hear it in its entirety if you open the cd lid before the demo starts.
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The druid from the Asterix books is called getafix. Get a fix. Because he makes the DRUGS.
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His original name in French was Panoramix. As in panorama, all seeing.
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Fagtastic posted:The druid from the Asterix books is called getafix. Pretty much all the names are like that.
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Fagtastic posted:The druid from the Asterix books is called getafix. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Asterix_characters There's a whole wiki page dedicated to Asterix's characters and their names in foreign languages.
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Skyrim. Like, the rim of the sky. Like the edge of the world. Like the polar regions where it's really fuckin' cold.
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I just found out a couple days ago that Drake was in Degrassi.
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OctoberBlues posted:I just found out a couple days ago that Drake was in Degrassi. Hooooboy, you should watch that show. I grew up with it and hated that whiney little moron. So when DRAKE came on the scene, I laughed my balls off. For those of you that don't know, his real name is Aubrey Graham.
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The word disaster literally means "bad star", as in an event that is ill-starred or ill-fated. Neat.
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I've recently figured out how the "have your cake and eat it too" phrase even works. It's not having a cake and then eating it, which is perfectly reasonable, it's trying to eat a cake but still have one at the same time 
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Xun posted:I've recently figured out how the "have your cake and eat it too" phrase even works. It's not having a cake and then eating it, which is perfectly reasonable, it's trying to eat a cake but still have one at the same time i always understood the saying and used to get very confused when people would say it didn't make sense.
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Fagtastic posted:The druid from the Asterix books is called getafix.  Xun posted:I've recently figured out how the "have your cake and eat it too" phrase even works. It's not having a cake and then eating it, which is perfectly reasonable, it's trying to eat a cake but still have one at the same time 
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May 24, 2016 12:37
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Elfgames posted:i always understood the saying and used to get very confused when people would say it didn't make sense. As a kid I didn't understand it because I thought "have" can mean the same thing as "eat" and I thought there was some subtle distinction I was missing. I think "You can't possess a whole uneaten cake and also eat that same cake" would be a little more clear but a lot less snappy.
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I listened to Weird Al a lot as a kid. His song "Fat" is basically just a bunch of fat jokes, most of which I understood. Then this line rolls around: When I go to get my shoe shine, I've got to take their word For whatever reason my brain assumed it was some stereotype of shoe shiners I had never heard before. Like, people who shined shoes were notoriously blunt about criticizing people's looks or weight. It took me many, many years before I realized he meant he was so fat he couldn't see his shoes. I'm not even sure how I missed that.
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Xun posted:I've recently figured out how the "have your cake and eat it too" phrase even works. It's not having a cake and then eating it, which is perfectly reasonable, it's trying to eat a cake but still have one at the same time I'm glad to know I wasn't the only one who was confused about this phrase.
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I found out that I've always pronounced "fifth" incorrectly when one of my pupils corrected me today. I've always said it with a hard T 
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Like fith instead of fifth?
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Like, rhyming with gift.
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^^^ what would lead you to think "fifth" wouldn't sound like fourth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, etc.?  On a related note, I haven't been able to figure out if people pronouncing words like "northern" or "southern" as if they were spelled "-thren" is just a random thing or an actual regional dialect thing. Anyone know?
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The Orange Mage posted:On a related note, I haven't been able to figure out if people pronouncing words like "northern" or "southern" as if they were spelled "-thren" is just a random thing or an actual regional dialect thing. Anyone know? My son also used to say "lantren" instead of "lantern" when he was little, so  Maybe it's a random thing after all.
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YYZ posted:I found out that I've always pronounced "fifth" incorrectly when one of my pupils corrected me today. I've always said it with a hard T Don't feel bad, English is almost the only language where that sound even exists, so non-English speakers nearly always struggle with it. Most Dutch speakers will invariably pronounce it as a hard 't'. I remember someone laughing at me for pronouncing the word 'thumb' approximately correctly.
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Tusen Takk posted:Like fith instead of fifth? He just screams "FIT!" and rips off his shirt.
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^^ yeah let's go with thisPhlegmish posted:Don't feel bad, English is almost the only language where that sound even exists, so non-English speakers nearly always struggle with it. Most Dutch speakers will invariably pronounce it as a hard 't'. I remember someone laughing at me for pronouncing the word 'thumb' approximately correctly. I'm English. I teach maths, so I use this word regularly. I do not have an excuse.
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The Orange Mage posted:^^^ what would lead you to think "fifth" wouldn't sound like fourth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, etc.? I know that there's an archaic word that the Scots had, Southron ("a person from the south) which they used for the English. Not common in modern usage, but Wikipedia also tells me it was used to refer to a person from the Confederate States. Sounds like there might be a connection, so there probably isn't. Still interesting though.
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Phlegmish posted:Don't feel bad, English is almost the only language where that sound even exists, so non-English speakers nearly always struggle with it. Most Dutch speakers will invariably pronounce it as a hard 't'. I remember someone laughing at me for pronouncing the word 'thumb' approximately correctly. Whenever a sentence starts with "English is special because", everything that follows is categorically untrue. But hey it made Bill Bryson some money.
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Geniasis posted:I know that there's an archaic word that the Scots had, Southron ("a person from the south) which they used for the English. Actually, most of Appalachia is traditionally populated by people of Scottish descent, so that could be a potential thread.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Whenever a sentence starts with "English is special because", everything that follows is categorically untrue. But hey it made Bill Bryson some money. He is right that the unvoiced dental fricative is very rarely found in other languages. Like, only 6 or 7 languages have it at all.
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YYZ posted:I found out that I've always pronounced "fifth" incorrectly when one of my pupils corrected me today. 
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YYZ posted:I'm English. I teach maths, so I use this word regularly. I do not have an excuse. It's a sound that humans were not meant to produce unless they've suffered from a massive stroke, so I'm not surprised even native speakers struggle.
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CerealCrunch posted:He is right that the unvoiced dental fricative is very rarely found in other languages. Like, only 6 or 7 languages have it at all. Several dozen, you mean.
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The band Black Rebel Motorcycle Club does not have one singer. It has two. Some songs is sung by one dude, some songs are sung by the other dude, and sometimes they all sing on the same song. [As in a chorus is sung entirely by one or both, and not just back up 'oooh ooh ahh ahh' type singing] How did I not realize this until now. The two men don't even sound the same.
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YeahTubaMike posted:I'm glad to know I wasn't the only one who was confused about this phrase. Quantum cakes ITT. It would make a hell of a lot more sense if it were the other way around. You can have a cake and then eat it. You cannot eat a cake and still have it after.
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Geniasis posted:I know that there's an archaic word that the Scots had, Southron ("a person from the south) which they used for the English. I've also heard "modren" instead of "modern": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cShYbLkhBc The Orange Mage posted:^^^ what would lead you to think "fifth" wouldn't sound like fourth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, etc.? I've heard "sixth" pronounced "sikth", too.
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Is it fifð or fifþ?
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FreudianSlippers posted:Is it fifð or fifþ? The latter. With an ð it would be a voiced fricative.
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Hirayuki posted:It reminds me of my grandmother, who would say "breakfrist" (among many other quirky pronunciations). A lot of small children say that, so it could be a mistake that she just never bothered to unlearn, like how some people go their entire lives saying "fink" instead of "think" or "somethink" instead of "something".
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AlphaKretin posted:This is relevant as all hell to the thread title, and I imagine the answer is "no", but do "fall" and "fail" come from the same root? Because I saw a sign in a park that warned of possible "tree failure" after rain and wind. This is from way back in the thread, but "tree failure" is an actual thing. It means the tree has defects or structural damage and may be in danger of falling over. I learned this cause a storm hosed up all the trees in my yard a few years ago. It was very inconvenient. Wedemeyer posted:The band Black Rebel Motorcycle Club does not have one singer. It has two. Some songs is sung by one dude, some songs are sung by the other dude, and sometimes they all sing on the same song. [As in a chorus is sung entirely by one or both, and not just back up 'oooh ooh ahh ahh' type singing] The same thing happened to me, but with Depeche Mode. I have been a fan of theirs since middle school and somehow never noticed that Martin Gore sings too. I was always like "huh, Dave Gahan sounds really different sometimes"
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Besesoth posted:Several dozen, you mean. Yeah but who even speaks Spanish or Arabic?
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