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MisterBibs posted:Back massager things actually work at releasing pain and tension from ones back and neck. Holy poo poo. Is this true? My neck and upper back have been randomly aching for some time now.
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AlphaKretin posted:That "Camus" is supposed to be pronounced "ka-moo". Now I can't take it seriously because I imagine it said the way Billy Connelly says "We're going to Peru!" in a Series of Unfortunate Events. That's not how you pronounce Camus at all. This is how you're supposed to pronounce it, ⟨y⟩ in IPA. I guess English doesn't really have this sound.
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AlphaKretin posted:This is what I get for taking information from an old, English (as in, not French) dictionary using their own weird non-IPA pronunciation thing. You knew not to pronounce the s, so you were on the right track. Next time you're in a discussion with your French philosopher friends, they will be very impressed.
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MisterBibs posted:Nope, I have no earthly idea how or why it happened. Someone just told me "You know the regulars and staff running StoreX hated {Where I Worked/Hung Out} and everyone who worked or went there, right?" Because you sold sports stuff and were therefore not proper nerds.
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Seems like they would just say 'ost. edit: I don't think anyone outside of Scandinavia knows how to pronounce Ø, I had to look it up myself.
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Apr 23, 2016 23:45
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I can't believe I had no idea what a lanyard was until I googled it just now.
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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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May 24, 2016 18:24
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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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KillHour posted:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_dialects_and_varieties Wouldn't it be the other way around? I thought that sound was mostly found in Peninsular Spanish, with Latin Americans pronouncing z as s.
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Jun 2, 2016 07:10
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stubblyhead posted:Avoiding shellfish is easy, because shellfish is gross. Mussels and scampi are great. The rest...eh. I've always considered lobster to be overrated.
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Jun 12, 2016 09:45
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Nuebot posted:I love cake but I hate frosting, any frosting at all and people keep giving me poo poo for it because "That's the best part!" they say while eating it by the spoonful off their cake slices. Lots of people hate frosting, I always assumed its main purpose was aesthetic and edibility was a secondary concern.
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Jun 20, 2016 07:40
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Intoluene posted:Iirc, English is fairly unique for having a special word for light red. Not really, but the specific etymological origin is unique. I'm pretty sure it's some variation of 'rose' in most European languages.
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Sep 13, 2016 11:24
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Jerry Cotton posted:
I had Latin for six years in high school and I don't remember a thing
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Oct 31, 2016 21:41
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if you didn't just go to a real school and had Latin for six years... yeah,
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Hyperlynx posted:...but this is a good explanation that fits all observed evidence, so it is our current "best fit" for the truth. And that's how Science works. Don't bodies of masses release gravitons or something
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Dec 2, 2016 18:39
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But sabre-toothed tigers were bigger than regular tigers, right? Otherwise what is even the point of these prehistoric animals
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Dec 12, 2016 12:33
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Sounds like it's worth its salt LOL
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Dec 20, 2016 16:53
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It does bother me a bit but technically the Latin c is supposed to be pronounced as k and no one does that either
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Hyperlynx posted:Fugazi and Fugees are two separate bands. But...they're nothing alike.
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Olive Garden tonight! posted:Less 'figured out' than 'learned', but I had no idea that Luxembourgish was a language. It is, and it is in better shape than you might think. I feel like adopting the German standard language would have been the wiser move regardless, but they're apparently not too keen on their eastern neighbors for historical reasons. They've fortunately managed to stave off Frenchification.
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cyberbug posted:Also Belgium has a province called Luxembourg right next to the country called Luxembourg which confused the hell out of me while I was driving over there. The Walloon part of the country was transferred to Belgium in 1839.
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That's how I do it, at least.
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HairyManling posted:Linkin' Park and Limp Bizkit are two separate bands. I can't exactly explain why, but until last night when I was listening to terrible early 2000's music and my son was telling me about these lovely bands that came from the era - my brain had always somehow grouped them into being the same band. Mind blown. I know goons are old but this is ridiculous
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May 20, 2017 14:35
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I just assumed it started in September everywhere
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Jun 29, 2017 15:45
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I'm pretty sure Summer officially starts on June 21st here...at least, I thought I was, now I'm wondering if it doesn't change from year to year.
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Jun 30, 2017 16:05
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Plus, it's a Dutch name. Germans (also everyone else) are unable to properly pronounce the sch sound.
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Aug 5, 2017 13:52
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purple death ray posted:Also seahorses? Not actually horses Get the gently caress out of here. No way. e: holy poo poo
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Aug 16, 2017 15:26
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:Look I mean, you're in a sub moderated by a person that mixes up Currie Graham with Kevin Spacey. I don't remember the details but there was that guy who thought Coldplay was a heavy metal band or something
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numerrik posted:I just figured out that my dad's hobby is speed running tower defense games and animal crossing even though he has no concept of speed running or the internet community. He functionally discovered it for himself I sometimes wonder what it would be like to have a dad that plays video games, mine thinks it's a foolish waste of time. Which, okay, I can't really argue with
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Aug 23, 2017 07:04
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Ask a question...that's a paddlin'
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Sep 3, 2017 11:22
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You actually do keep mispronouncing Adolf
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Sep 6, 2017 07:04
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MariusLecter posted:Migas, a dish made of fried tortilla strips and scrambled eggs, gets it's name from being the best breakfast friend[Amiga]. It's in feminine form because sexism. I've never heard of this dish before, but I thought migas was just Spanish for crumbs.
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Big Grunty Secret posted:Migas is Spanish (Castellano) for bread crumbs, but also refers to the delicious Mexican dish! But surely the name comes from migas rather than amigas.
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Sep 7, 2017 19:32
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I think it was a joke.
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Oct 20, 2017 07:10
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Garfield has no gender? What?
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Nov 7, 2017 18:42
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I keep thinking it sounds wrong when people correctly pronounce 'lever' and I don't know why e: oh, it's actually an American/British thing.
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Nov 8, 2017 23:48
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What's the Wonka joke?
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Dec 7, 2017 10:11
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syscall girl has mercilessly trolled us all
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Dec 8, 2017 08:01
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Whitlam posted:I did this same thing except with Meghan Markle. In Suits there's this scene where she says "what, did you think this just a permanent tan?" and I was like "... yes?" They are both mixed-race. No shame in not immediately applying the one-drop rule.
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InediblePenguin posted:I just realized that when Ricky Ricardo said Lucy had some splaining to do, or said she was specting when she was pregnant, that was hypercorrection because Spanish has a bunch of words that start with es that start with just s in English, like estupido.... or español That makes sense, in Spanish you always put an e in front when the word starts with s + another consonant. They pronounce ska 'eska'
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