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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.
Sea Kittening sounds like making baby sea kittens. In fact, that brings up the important question: does sea kitten cover all ages of fish? Are there elderly sea kittens? Or do they at some point become the less cute sea cats?
Oh! And the SO set up the telescope he bought me for tonight's giganto full moon. He's awesome! And I was shocked at how much I could see just with my little telescope. I could clearly see Mare Crisium and all kinds of neato stuff like the rays from Tycho. So cool!
Peta is ridonkulous.
Shouldn't it be Sea Kittening Hurts?
Only if they end the sentence with "the baby Jesus".
Chure and teeVEE.
Kitties are adorable. Love Cash's cut and color!
I think I say tv as a spondee.
A what, now?
ETA: OK, I looked it up. I think maybe I do, too, now that you mention it. But if I had to pick a syllable to stress, it would be the V.
TV is mostly spondee, but can go one way or t'other based on the overall rhythm of the sentence. Dig my prosodic anarchy!
I've been trying to remember if I've ever heard a class or region of Americans say anything other than ma-CHURE. Individuals, maybe, but not as a consistent thing. And there are definitely gradations of CHURE vs CHER. But no TURE.
TV is absolutely spondee.
I pronounce the T in mature.
Am I the only one who never learned the word spondee? Doesn't even look like a real word, people. Spondaic, on the other hand...
I like it. Spondee. Spondee, spondee, spondee. Hey, my spellchecker doesn't like it. And spondee isn't a spondee. Also, it sounds like an insult.