Here's a pronunciation question inspired by ANTM: jaguar, jag-wahr or jag-u-ar?
I'm so sorry, but if it makes you feel any better, my fun-time-Buffy party night involved watching a robot throw Spike through a window, so if you want to trade... no wait, I wouldn't give up that memory for anything.
Buffy ,'Get It Done'
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.
Sue - Mar 23, 2011 3:56:15 pm PDT #29967 of 30001
hip deep in pie
dcp - Mar 23, 2011 3:56:45 pm PDT #29968 of 30001
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
I have no problem with the pronunciation. It's the spelling that's an issue. Blame them for that?
Blame a Frenchman: [link]
I disagree with the legislature and agree with Mark Twain -- the people should be called ar-kan-SOY-yers, not ar-KAN-sans.
Steph L. - Mar 23, 2011 3:57:19 pm PDT #29969 of 30001
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
How I learnt to get pegged and like it. Jezebel. NSFW language. Creepily SFW picture. Incredibly heteronormative assertions justified by "I was being funny!"
My god, this shit makes me crazy.
Oh my god, that guy is a douche. Seriously? Taking it up the Khyber Pass after asking your girlfriend to do it (rather, talking her in to doing it)? Does NOT remotely qualify you to "understand women." It means you are qualified to understand people who take it up the ass. That is all.
You're still a heteronormative douche with a boatload of assumptions. And you aren't funny.
Steph L. - Mar 23, 2011 3:58:22 pm PDT #29970 of 30001
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
Blame a Frenchman: [link]
Damn it, I really wanted that to be an actual Web site named "Blame a Frenchman."
I wonder if that URL is available...
Jesse - Mar 23, 2011 3:59:07 pm PDT #29971 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Here's a pronunciation question inspired by ANTM: jaguar, jag-wahr or jag-u-ar?
I just got to that! I would say jag-wahr, except if I'm talking about a car and mocking the ads.
sarameg - Mar 23, 2011 4:06:22 pm PDT #29972 of 30001
Jag-wahr. Or KITTY!!!
One of my coworkers is on NOVA. He's really articulate (a public outreach scientist) and has written a couple of books, but really, I like listening to him talk because he's got an awesome accent and voice. And huh, has a wikipedia page. Where I just learned he was born in Romania but raised in Israel, and served in the IDF as a paramedic. [link]
For some reason, I always thought he was Italian. Huh.
Polter-Cow - Mar 23, 2011 4:09:20 pm PDT #29973 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Badass of the Week: Hideaki Akaiwa.
Dude put on some SCUBA gear and dove right into the fucking tsunami to find his wife. And then his mom. And now random people.
Beverly - Mar 23, 2011 4:10:48 pm PDT #29974 of 30001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Chaos. Which I pronounced, aloud in fourth grade geography class as "chowse". I still say munciple in my head, and now H says it that way when he sees it on a sign. And also, tangenital.
I might be a tidge dyslexic.
Jesse - Mar 23, 2011 4:21:59 pm PDT #29975 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
For some reason, I always thought he was Italian. Huh.
Well, his name looks Italian to me....
sarameg - Mar 23, 2011 4:25:29 pm PDT #29976 of 30001
Also, the majority of our foreign-accented folk are Italian, but now that I think about it, his accent is not italian. But I've never really thought about it before.