The name St. John only made sense to me when I imagined the speaker Francophiling it.
My heart expands / 'tis grown a bulge in't / inspired by / your beauty effulgent.
William ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Burrell - Mar 23, 2011 11:15:44 am PDT #29902 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
le nubian - Mar 23, 2011 11:22:40 am PDT #29903 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
When I was in grad school, I was a participant in a linguistics grad student's study. I don't know how it came out, but I essentially had to talk to her for an hour and she asked me where I was from and where my parents were from.
I am certain I had (have?) a set of fucked up pronunciations because I speak in part slang/part west coast/part southern/part east coast. And my slang is all over the place from different ethnicities (I literally will say "bomb diggety" and "chisme" in the same sentence).
I guarantee I'm pronouncing stuff wrong and probably do so on a daily basis.
My favorite word to mispronounce?
allegory. I know how to pronounce it, but I will mispronounce it like nobody's bidness. All the time.
Jesse - Mar 23, 2011 11:24:42 am PDT #29904 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I also mispronounced a lot of British words but that's their fucking fault. "Gloucester" is Gloster? Fuck you for tricking me on purpose, England! "Worcestshire" is Wurstersheer? WTF?
I totally argued with javachik on the spelling of Gloucester. I was like, "It's totally pronounced the way it's spelled!" which it sort of is, if you agree that "glouce" would be pronounced "gloss."
DavidS - Mar 23, 2011 11:26:48 am PDT #29905 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
if you agree that "glouce" would be pronounced "gloss."
Finishing putting on your lip glouce and we'll talk about it.
Jesse - Mar 23, 2011 11:28:10 am PDT #29906 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I'm just saying!
shrift - Mar 23, 2011 11:34:33 am PDT #29907 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Teeth-ma released. Dentist praised my extremely healthy teeth, and told me I'd probably never get a cavity.
sumi - Mar 23, 2011 11:37:41 am PDT #29908 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
There's a French show jumper whose first name is Penelope.
But it is actually pronounced: Penny lop.
So confusing.
Connie Neil - Mar 23, 2011 11:43:10 am PDT #29909 of 30001
brillig
I am well familiar with "the crick that runs up the holler," AKA, "the creek that runs up the hollow". Shout out, Southwestern Pennsylvania!
Here in Utah there's a town called Eureka. It is not pronounced the way a Greek philosopher in a bath would pronounce it. In Utah, it is "YER-icka." And the town of Hurricane is "HER-eh-kin."
sumi - Mar 23, 2011 11:43:20 am PDT #29910 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
Consuela - Mar 23, 2011 11:45:12 am PDT #29911 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I love the fact that California has both the town of Eureka and the town of Yreka, and they are definitely pronounced differently.