I like "teeter totter" cause a) I like the owrds "teeter totter" and 2) I like the way you really annunciate your "t"'s. I'ma guess it's from years of being called "ida".
Angel: Will you just shut up for once?! Illyria: What? Angel: My God, the speechifying. Has it ever occurred to you that now might not be the best time for when-we-were-muck stories?
'Time Bomb'
Natter 36: But We Digress...
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Aims - Jun 30, 2005 8:29:35 pm PDT #6216 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Sean K - Jun 30, 2005 8:30:38 pm PDT #6217 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
It would make it easier, I suppose.
Sean K - Jun 30, 2005 8:31:51 pm PDT #6218 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
But apparently the way I say "teeter totter" is distinctive.
I suspect my gf would pronounce it similarly to you, ita, and she's from Texas. She over pronounces her "t"s often
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§ ita § - Jun 30, 2005 8:40:42 pm PDT #6219 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
She over pronounces her "t"s often
I don't over pronounce my Ts. I just pronounce them.
::gives secret handshake to Sean's GF::
Mr. Broom - Jun 30, 2005 8:41:52 pm PDT #6220 of 10001
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor
By "distinctive," do you mean you aspirate the second T in each word? ETA: Gotcha.
Sean K - Jun 30, 2005 8:43:54 pm PDT #6221 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I just pronounce them.
That's exactly what she said.
§ ita § - Jun 30, 2005 8:46:36 pm PDT #6222 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
My Ts are usually both unvoiced and aspirated, and it doesn't depend on stress in the sentence or position in the word.
eta:
That's exactly what she said.
Well, they're there, aren't they? Might as well use them.
Aims - Jun 30, 2005 8:46:55 pm PDT #6223 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I have an...ethical question, I guess.
While I never graduated from college, I do put the 2 schools I went to to show that I did, in fact attend college, on my resume. I do NOT put that I graduted, nor do I put GPA's. I don't put dates, either. If a potential employer assumes I have a degree but never asks me if I graduated(to which I would absolutely say, "No"), can they get pissy when they find out I don't? I mean, I know they "can"... I'm honestly not trying to make it look like I have a degree, I just want to show that I continued my education past high school.
How could I show that I did go to school after high school in a way that wouldn't be so...open to assumption?
Mr. Broom - Jun 30, 2005 8:48:31 pm PDT #6224 of 10001
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor
My Ts are usually both voiced and aspirated, and it doesn't depend on stress in the sentence or position in the word.Voiced? I'm not being Condescendy Linguistics Guy here, but I thought a voiced T was a D. Now I'm extra curious.
§ ita § - Jun 30, 2005 8:49:53 pm PDT #6225 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Aimée, I don't know. I don't put GPA down or that I graduated either -- one person did ask me why I didn't graduate, which was awkward -- I tool 3.5 years to finish. Should have been three, but I got lazy about making up a course I was sick for. Who wants to talk about that in an interview? But he thought I dropped out before my final semester.
Maybe say you studied XYZ, and not use the terms BA or BSc, or whatever's appropriate?