Um, ya.
Okay, I have to share this. Whenever I read "ya," (as opposed to, I suppose, "yeah" or even "yea"), I hear it in that really exaggerated Fargo/Prairie Home Companion accent.
There are a LOT of people on the Internet who have that accent. At least, in *my* mind's ear. I can't help it -- I "hear" everything I read, and "ya" comes out as pure Fargo.
Omnis -- and I'm not picking on you, because you're far from the only person on the interwebs that spells it that way; I'm just asking because it caught my attention and you happen to be the lucky fellow who posted it -- do you say it out loud that way, too? The Fargo accent, that is? I don't know anyone who does, and I'm curious.
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I realize that I'm a big freak for things like "hearing" what I read. I can't explain it. But then I also have a whole issue about people who type "he" for "hee" (as in laughter). I cannot stand it. Because "he" is a goddamn pronoun, people!
Ahem. Right. Like I said, BIG FREAK.
I'm just poking my head in here briefly because it is slow at work, but it looks like GC and Nora, especially could use ~ma.
Steph L., I hear it the same way. I also have a problem with "yanno". I was pronouncing it like "yan- oh" for quite some time before I realized it was "y'know"
I guess my more entertaining self could always do that naked.
Oh, my dear Shir, you are so in the right thread. Somewhere, omnis is smiling and he's not quite sure why.
And Tep? You look amazing in that picture. Thanks for going through teh guest-pass hullabaloo to let us see it.
Everybody else: Happy New Year. May it be as good to us as we are to each other.
I also have a problem with "yanno". I was pronouncing it like "yan- oh"
That's how it sounds to me, too.
"Ya" doesn't bother me the way that "he" (as an expression of amusement) does, because "ya," while not the colloquial form *I* choose to indicate the affirmative, is an acceptable form.
But "he" for "hee" will never sit right with me because it's abuse of a pronoun, and SOMEONE has to defend the poor pronouns!!!
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Like I said, I know I'm a freak. I'm good with that.
Whenever I read "ya," (as opposed to, I suppose, "yeah" or even "yea"), I hear it in that really exaggerated Fargo/Prairie Home Companion accent.
I do this, and I also hear "yea" pronounced as "yay" in a kind of Olde Timey Englishe accent.
It would never in a million years occur to me that "he" was a laugh unless it were a string of them like hehehehehe.
The acronym I see almost everywhere but here is KWIM for "know what I mean?" and I hate it because the K in know is silent and so the acronym is totally nonintuitive for me.
KWIM?
...Okay, that just reads as a mis-spelling of quim, to me.
Okay, that just reads as a mis-spelling of quim, to me.
Okay, I'm glad I'm not the only one...
Me four, although I have never seen it before now. I am bad at the internet acronyms. I usually know what they mean from seeing them in context, but not what they stand for. IDK and IDEK look like knitting stitch abbreviations to me.
quim quim quim quim quim quim quimmmity quim
edit: of course a minion walks into the office while that's posting.
