'Out Of Gas'
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
And in proof that it never closes... Shir, that "r" sounds similar to a French "r," which is formed with the tip of the tongue low in the mouth and the rear high, almost touching the soft palate.
Wikipedia seems to bear me out that both are (well, can be) uvular fricatives. [link]
I would pronounce "butter" and "budder" as basically the same, yes. If we ever share meatspace again, I shall demonstrate. It's a fairly common phonetic shift in American English, I'm pretty sure.
I'm sitting here at my desk muttering to myself. Crazy points +1.
Is it your new location? I don't know, could be useful to keep New Guy guessing.
Anyway, thanks for the clarification and I shall modify my internal and external pronunciations accordingly.
Aha. Je comprends maintenant. No, I definitely aspirate the ts in "little" and "butter" and their ilk. Tip of the tongue right at the teeth.
For a while there, I had awful ts. Glottal stops. I had a cockney accent. I was all "ee-ah." My mother exploded. Since then I've been hyper with my ts. As much as the rest of my accents have all faded, that's stayed pretty much in place.
It was pretty 'einous. Probably the strongest accent I ever had. How many cockneys was I exposed to? All of...one. I was totally (and pointedly) at a snotty upper-crust school.
How do I find you? Email, RL name? I'm new to OKC.Not sure. I can tell you my screen name. I was at a loss for a name, and figured, since I work in the tech side of arts, that made me a real 'Renaissance man', so my OKC name is "Renn_Man". Probably not helping any. I'm horrible with describing myself.
As for names. One would think with BC as a name, it wouldn't be a problem. I get called BJ a lot. The only way I could stop one person from calling me that was to ask if it was a Freudian Slip. She turned beat red, and quickly learned my name. My favorite was in grad school, the pizza delivery had my name written down as "BeeCée". One of the reasons I don't like my first name, is because there are no nick names. As a kid, I thought nick names was cool, and Brian only has "Bri", which sounds really dorky. My sister has similar problem with Dawn. My brother has the opposite problem. Richard. Ya, when he was transferred to Virginia, the branch manager introduced him as Dick.
Shir, I've been saying the R the whole time. I think at the F2F when I was handing off the earphones to everyone, I was saying your name wrong. Sorry about that. I guess when you come over, you'll have to train my tongue how to say your name properly.
There was more to Meara, but forgot. Must get back to work. Don't want to. Blargh. All I can do is think about CA. And watching Dexter last night didn't help. It seems they do a lot of filming in Long Beach, CA, where I used to live. I know I have 3 weeks to find out if I made the first cut, but, still not motivating me to work right now.
t crosses fingers that BC ends up back home in CA
Shir, my Israeli neighbor's daughter's name is Chen-li. And I could NEVER pronounce her name correctly. I'm sure she got used to most people using the English hard "CH" sound rather than the Hebrew pronounciation.
Glad to know the correct way to say yours. In case I meet you in person.
It seems they do a lot of filming in Long Beach, CA
Really? I always thought they filmed on location in Florida. How disappointing.
Okay, o_a. Thou shalt know me by my doubly Jossian screen name.