Well, people tend to lose their accents to some extent when they sing.
Yeah, but if you listen to them speak [link] , Rob really can't pronounce th or w sounds.
Kaylee: Can I? Zoe: Sure. He's out, though. Kaylee: He did this for me, once.
'Safe'
Natter 60: Gone In 60 Seconds
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.
Hil R. - Aug 12, 2008 7:49:36 am PDT #2790 of 10003
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Trudy Booth - Aug 12, 2008 7:52:40 am PDT #2791 of 10003
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Yeah, but if you listen to them speak [link] , Rob really can't pronounce th or w sounds.
At first I don't think anybody bothered to analyse it that closely -- accents fade when people sing. That probably would have been good enough if they'd never blown up.
megan walker - Aug 12, 2008 8:00:37 am PDT #2792 of 10003
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Perhaps the French were not acquainted with stress until they had to deal with English?
Then they would've just call "stress" "le English", no?
More likely, "l'Américain."
They have a word for it (la pression) but, as one might guess, that is more about feeling pressure, so no one ever uses anything but le stress for anxiety. There is also no easy way to use stress (to emphasize) as a verb, which was maddening in academia when I often found myself wanting to say just that.
I think one of the most maddening things about being bilingual is knowing there exists the perfect word for something, but in the wrong language.
amych - Aug 12, 2008 8:03:36 am PDT #2793 of 10003
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
There is also no easy way to use stress (to emphasize) as a verb, which was maddening in academia when I often found myself wanting to say just that.
Oh, thank god. I always thought I was just missing something obvious.
Nilly - Aug 12, 2008 8:25:14 am PDT #2794 of 10003
Swouncing
I think one of the most maddening things about being bilingual is knowing there exists the perfect word for something, but in the wrong language.
It may even be the point a person may describe himself as actually bilingual, no? Or at least one of the "big" point. When the precisely correct word, regardless of language, comes straight to mind?
Sophia Brooks - Aug 12, 2008 8:36:37 am PDT #2795 of 10003
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
OMG! this is late, but Kuma and Chile look so much alike! And also are cutie patooties!
No one in my office except for the guy who just graduated from college knew what an LOLcat was. Even after I showed them, they said they had never seen one! I am shocked! Also, sometimes I talk in LOLcat, and they must think I am crazy, not funny!
Lee - Aug 12, 2008 8:39:19 am PDT #2796 of 10003
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
We haven't done this for a while-- what's the last thing that made you smile?
Mine: figuring out an easy fix to that thing that could have been very bad this morning.
shrift - Aug 12, 2008 8:42:57 am PDT #2797 of 10003
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Went to Target. None of the dresses there had enough structure to support my figure. Woe.
Now I will make lunch, continue cleaning, and complete a background check questionnaire.
Kathy A - Aug 12, 2008 8:44:39 am PDT #2798 of 10003
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
A co-worker who is currently out on maternity leave popped in with her baby and her toddler, who got me smiling with his sudden obsession with the Goofy clock in his mom's cubicle and kept asking her, "Ma, time?" and she'd respond with the exact time.
Steph L. - Aug 12, 2008 8:44:45 am PDT #2799 of 10003
I look more rad than Lutheranism
No one in my office except for the guy who just graduated from college knew what an LOLcat was.
One of The Boy's cats is all black, and after I showed him I Can Has Cheezburger, he's started calling her Basement Cat.