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Synchronized is just syn + chrono.
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# ¿ Sep 6, 2016 06:01 |
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 12:00 |
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Calypso (the nymph, probably not the style of music) comes from the same root as "apocalypse", because the latter is literally "unveiling" and thus to "Revelation", thus to the book of Revelation, thus to the modern usage of "end of the world".
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# ¿ Nov 7, 2016 23:33 |
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sweeperbravo posted:A similar thing happened on Hey Arnold. Gerald's voice change was worked into the actual script, but Arnold's voice actor changed 4 times with no in-show acknowledgement. To be fair, I think most of us as kids didn't notice it unless someone else pointed it out.
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# ¿ Feb 16, 2017 16:56 |
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The opposite of "inept" isn't "ept", which is obviously not a word... but it is, in fact, adept.
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# ¿ Aug 2, 2017 17:45 |
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starkebn posted:Yeah, family / town / location name pronunciations like that are the exact definition of shibboleth quote:And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it was so, that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay;
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# ¿ Oct 8, 2017 03:25 |
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There's a "CHI-lie" outside Rochester, NY. Because you couldn't pronounce Chili literally any other way.
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# ¿ Oct 24, 2017 03:11 |
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Proteus Jones posted:Except for that one song, it was... wait, no. It was about sex, too.
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# ¿ Nov 2, 2017 19:00 |
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rodbeard posted:The book was actually kind of accurate with regards to how hosed up and cartoonishly evil the chocolate industry was and really it's only kind of gotten better. (somehow that scene doesn't seem to be on YouTube, what the hell, it's from like season one of Futurama I just assumed everything from that far back was spliced out and posted to the internet)
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# ¿ Dec 8, 2017 16:11 |
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Elizabethan Error posted:Depp isn't Gene Wilder, Burton's reliance on CGI is obnoxious to watch and blah blah blah exposition blah blah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzmzZaB0kss&t=94s the whole idea of having them all played by one guy is really good for just being weird as hell and fitting with the general Wonka aesthetic
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# ¿ Dec 13, 2017 22:42 |
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Bertrand Hustle posted:I'm still not over Kilometers Davis.
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# ¿ Dec 30, 2017 23:51 |
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Pastry of the Year posted:Wi-Fi stands for wiber-fiber
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# ¿ Jan 4, 2018 20:37 |
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:Man, what the gently caress is this?
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# ¿ Jan 22, 2018 21:13 |
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numerrik posted:You mean a touk?
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# ¿ Jan 23, 2018 17:32 |
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Yeah we do the ABC song and our pronunciation of 'Z' does gently caress up the rhyming structure but we just go with it.
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# ¿ Jan 31, 2018 18:14 |
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syscall girl posted:I'm saying if you read it in a book it looks like it should be pronounced like "caught" much like "gaol" should have a hard 'g'
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# ¿ Mar 14, 2018 15:09 |
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Flyball posted:I knew that gaol meant the same thing as jail (because Mr. Toad got locked up), but thought that it was something like a weird spelling of goal. Soysaucebeast posted:"Convoluted" for me. I knew the word "convulsed" so I thought it was con-vul-ted for the longest time. My dad made fun of me for years for that one.
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# ¿ Mar 14, 2018 23:46 |
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Hirayuki posted:Camo-MEAL or camo-MILE? A good mispronunciation either way, though.
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# ¿ Mar 15, 2018 18:00 |
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Unkempt posted:While I'm at it, in English some cheese is blue. If you're not French it isn't 'bleu' for some loving reason.
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# ¿ Jun 6, 2018 14:52 |
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Oh, the dwarves also all vanished one day. How? To where? Nobody has any drat idea. None. They started dicking around with some pretty crazy advanced stuff and then one day they just weren't around anymore. They built a god. They literally put together an artificial loving god on their own. This may or may not be related.
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# ¿ Apr 19, 2019 18:08 |
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Mister Mind posted:In the comic book “Watchmen,” young Jon Osterman is being trained by his father to literally be a watch man. (this isn't something I just figured out but I felt real smart when I figured out why he made that specific mispronunciation)
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# ¿ May 2, 2019 13:13 |
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Leon Sumbitches posted:..... Go on.....
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# ¿ Aug 16, 2019 12:41 |
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That's the opposite of my story about finding out the guy from MCR is also the guy who wrote Umbrella Academy. Might be more than one Gerard Way out there but I sure wouldn't know it
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# ¿ Apr 25, 2020 00:42 |
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I just learned the Donkey Kong legendarium has a dedicated wiki
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# ¿ Aug 14, 2020 15:38 |
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ShimaTetsuo posted:Quebec has a history of adapting american TV shows for our local audience and then having them be cancelled very quickly because no one watches them e.g. "La Job" (The Office) or SNL Quebec (this skit might look familiar) only lasted ~10 episodes each. Most people don't want to watch the knock-off version of anything if they know the original exists. The adaptation of Brooklyn 99 has not begun airing yet but who knows how long it will actually last. don't be so down on yourself you've also provided us with Quebecois Boomhauer
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# ¿ Aug 26, 2020 09:19 |
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bony tony posted:Similarly, Butcher Pete is about fuckin
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# ¿ Sep 22, 2020 20:35 |
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Carthag Tuek posted:first.last@provider.com addresses are hilarious. It's crazy how many people dont appear to know their own email.
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# ¿ Nov 23, 2020 17:15 |
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Sucrose posted:Something about the FBI investigating dirty lyrics really cracks me up. It's amazing how much American culture changed in 30-some years between say 1960 and 1990.
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# ¿ Mar 17, 2021 20:54 |
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Captain Hygiene posted:Much like in videogames, I will never trust anyone in real life who uses a constant-north map orientation rather than one facing relative to your own direction. (never mind that I mentally orient myself on a map based on what direction I'd turn to go a way, the map itself has to be pointed so north is up)
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# ¿ Apr 23, 2021 14:27 |
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Hirayuki posted:And then I went on to translate video games for SQEX, so a good deal all around. unless you're the one that did the Dragon Quest 3 GBC port/DQ Monsters 1+2 and you got a name change Seriously, there couldn't have been that many translators to begin with!
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# ¿ May 9, 2021 21:14 |
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Hyperlynx posted:I always figured it was that old-timey usage of "making love", from when it didn't mean "loving". (nixon made a joke juxtaposing the two definitions in public once to reporters but I cannot find the quote right now - that's right about when the turning point was where it fell out of use, too)
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# ¿ May 23, 2021 13:01 |
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Silver Falcon posted:Fffffffffffffffuck. Yaridovich has a spear for a head, named after a traditional Japanese spear weirdly, the Axem Rangers only wield axes and fly around on an axe-shaped ship rather than being axes
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# ¿ Jun 16, 2021 17:13 |
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Captain Splendid posted:Wait for it, guys... Sorry to spoil the entire thread by learning random facts too early.
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# ¿ Sep 6, 2021 14:16 |
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Internet Cliche posted:Many of the “old” cities in the US that were settled in the 1600s likely still have some cobbled streets. I know Richmond does, other likely candidates are Boston, Philly, Charleston, probably Baltimore.
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# ¿ Feb 23, 2022 18:04 |
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Slowpoke Rodriguez posted:Chuck Grassley is a shill for the agricultural industry. https://twitter.com/ChuckGrassley/status/627163793412374528 for some reason the second tweet image is not loading but The man has the absolute most insane lawnmower setup on Earth
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# ¿ Mar 8, 2022 13:36 |
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Failed Imagineer posted:Grassley spent many long hours at Dairy Queen researching u kno what (advanced lawnmower engineering)
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# ¿ Mar 8, 2022 20:45 |
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credburn posted:"Your equipment have been returned."
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# ¿ Mar 14, 2022 23:52 |
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3D Megadoodoo posted:ee: actually, it might just be that back in 2017 Americans had much less registered firearms than now
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# ¿ May 25, 2022 16:09 |
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Captain Splendid posted:Sense of "dealer in stolen goods" is thieves' slang, first attested c. 1700, from notion of such transactions taking place under defense of secrecy.
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# ¿ Nov 9, 2022 17:33 |
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I have news for you about Panoramix and Abraracourix and Agecononix and you know what let's just say all the characters who aren't historical or roman
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# ¿ Nov 26, 2023 21:07 |
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 12:00 |
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3D Megadoodoo posted:@
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# ¿ Jan 9, 2024 19:25 |