cahmengear
I was following along nicely with all the pronunciation talk until this word. I can't deaccentize it.
I am not...I am not the damsel in distress. I am not some case. I have to work this. I've lived in a cave for 5 years in a world where they killed my kind like cattle. I am not going to be cut down by some monster flu. I am better than that. What a wonder...how very scared I am.
Fred ,'A Hole in the World'
Natter 32 Flavors and Then Some
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
JenP - Jan 31, 2005 4:24:36 pm PST #2640 of 10002
sarameg - Jan 31, 2005 4:25:10 pm PST #2641 of 10002
Hey, now, my marmee drove a cahmengear.
Hee. See, my parents were from the midwest (my dad, a swedish immigrant community, hence the lack of Js) and educated in SoCal. So when dad had a postdoc at Harvard, it was a wee bit confusing.
Boston also made dad stop driving to work from Scituate(? Either that or Felton, but I think that was where they lived in CA amidst the redwoods. I get confused. It was near World's End.) Dented his grill the first day, he did, in insano traffic. Mind you, this was probably 35 years ago.
DXMachina - Jan 31, 2005 4:26:35 pm PST #2642 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Hey, now, my marmee drove a cahmengear.
I used to drive a cahmengear.
(Jen it's a Karmann Ghia, made by VW.)
sarameg - Jan 31, 2005 4:27:27 pm PST #2643 of 10002
Jen, Karmen Ghia. (or however that is spelled.) A really cute little car my dad loved that alas, didn't have a back seat. My arrival and Mass's salting (and thus bad rust issues) prompted him to sell it. And he STILL talks about that car.
Hil R. - Jan 31, 2005 4:28:52 pm PST #2644 of 10002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Karmann Ghia
Oh!
(I was trying to get that into a NY accent, and had all the right sounds, but couldn't figure out any way for those sounds to arrange into words.)
Jesse - Jan 31, 2005 4:31:14 pm PST #2645 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Scituate
That's MA. I have fambly there!
JenP - Jan 31, 2005 4:32:06 pm PST #2646 of 10002
Karmann Ghia
Oh, OK, I feel better now. Because I'd never heard of that before. Thank you.
Sadly, though I know I've posted this before, I'm going to repeat it here, because there is, as of yet, no Groundhog Day Thread (discussion of which now belongs in that thread. Weird): my mispronunciation that caused the most stunned stares of disbelief was Chatham, MA. I said, I think, KAY-thum. It's CHAT-um. It was funny.
sarameg - Jan 31, 2005 4:34:45 pm PST #2647 of 10002
Hee. OK, so Felton is CA. When I was 19, I went up to Boston for fall break and found the summer beach house my parents lived in and wandered World's End. It was very pretty (height of leaf season.)
sarameg - Jan 31, 2005 4:37:32 pm PST #2648 of 10002
Also, my nose has either become super sensitive or I'm over the lowlevel congestion (known as a 3-4 day cold for most. Me, I spend months notsick, but mildly congested.)
It's weird. Suddenly I can smell the slightest odors. Which means grossout when my officemate eats his lunch. Some kinds of tuna and turkey smell a lot like catfood or dogfood when you are not the one consuming them.
Nora Deirdre - Jan 31, 2005 4:41:52 pm PST #2649 of 10002
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
I cannot believe that the town of Worcester has not been brought up. Perhaps it's small potatoes compared to other town/city pronounciations, or perhaps it is such a classic conundrum that it is cliche, passe, and generally lost all of its mojo.
Tom and I are watching "Serenity." Man, that show rocks. I haven't seen it since it went off the air.