love. now see. that is love.
The Bay City Rollers, now that's music.
Giles ,'Sleeper'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
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.
msbelle - Jan 12, 2009 7:17:57 pm PST #1044 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Burrell - Jan 12, 2009 7:19:13 pm PST #1045 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Okay in my head I can hear the difference between ma-CHURE, ma-CHER, and ma-TURE, but not the difference between tee-VEE and TEE-vee. Am I being dumb?
§ ita § - Jan 12, 2009 7:26:06 pm PST #1046 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I am a being of love.
JenP - Jan 12, 2009 7:29:36 pm PST #1047 of 30000
No - the first is a clear pronunciation difference and the second is just a stress difference. The different stress between TEE-vee and tee-VEE doesn't change the sound of the word the way the difference in stress between harASSment and HARassment, for example, changes the actual sound of the word, so maybe that's the difference... that you're not hearing.
Not entirely sure what I just said, but it made sense in my brain.
I think the real question here is, did you know the word spondee before? (Like a dog with a bone, I am.)
Burrell - Jan 12, 2009 7:37:46 pm PST #1048 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Well, I studied lit, so I better know what a spondee is. But the truth is, somewhere along the way in grad school I unlearned almost everything I ever knew about poetic meter. I'm not sure why. I think it was a classic Freudian reaction formation against DeManian close reading.
javachik - Jan 12, 2009 10:08:39 pm PST #1049 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
msbelle, I never program using the actual Tivo box anymore. I just go to mytivo.com and do it there. Much easier!
Ailleann - Jan 13, 2009 2:42:02 am PST #1050 of 30000
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda
javachik, I can't get that address to find anything. Is it through tivo.com's website, or is it a different site?
Jesse - Jan 13, 2009 3:01:21 am PST #1051 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
My southern grandmother would say TEE-vee. Also IN-surance. If that helps at all.
Note: I am not 100% sure my actual southern grandmother talks like this, but that's the kind of accent I'm hearing.
Emily - Jan 13, 2009 3:51:11 am PST #1052 of 30000
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Well, I studied lit, so I better know what a spondee is.
Er, so did I, but I don't. Alas.
My mother and her sisters say cell-PHONE. Which doesn't seem weird until you hear it.
Jessica - Jan 13, 2009 3:56:19 am PST #1053 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Spondee is a new word to me. I like it! Spondee spondee spondee.