So I feel better that I didn't waste my time, and bad that I assumed she would ignore me.
Aw. I hate it when that happens.
Dawn: Any luck? Willow: If you define luck as the absence of success--plenty.
'Touched'
Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This
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.
shrift - Jan 09, 2014 8:22:20 am PST #16760 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Consuela - Jan 09, 2014 8:35:16 am PST #16761 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I hate it when that happens.
Yeah, I do generally try to blame ignorance rather than malice, so it's even worse when I should have, and I didn't.
msbelle - Jan 09, 2014 9:18:03 am PST #16762 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Kashi Mayan Harvest Bake for lunch.
Steph L. - Jan 09, 2014 9:20:07 am PST #16763 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
So if you were saying "Cat tree" you'd only say the 't' sound once. For some reason this realization really bothered me. But after experimenting I realized that saying the 't' twice sounds really weird.
I pronounce both "t"s. (Most annoying phrase for me to say? "Edited it." Try it. [This is not a prank, like making someone say "My dixie wrecked."])
billytea - Jan 09, 2014 9:34:46 am PST #16764 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
There's a Chinese tongue twister, "Forty four is forty four". In Chinese it becomes "Sì shí sì shì sì shí sì". The shifting tones make it particularly tricky.
-t - Jan 09, 2014 9:54:12 am PST #16765 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Lunch is the chicken soup i decided not to have for dinner yesterday. I think I made the right call.
NoiseDesign - Jan 09, 2014 9:54:41 am PST #16766 of 30000
Our wings are not tired
For those of you who have been taking these online courses what services have you found to be the best? I'd really like to find a good foundational accounting class to take. Coursera has one that looks good but it's not currently in session and there was no information about when it would be offered again.
Jesse - Jan 09, 2014 9:56:36 am PST #16767 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Most annoying phrase for me to say? "Edited it." Try it.
That reminds me of "lead us not into temptation," which I always think I'm pronouncing much more vigorously that other people around me.
Beverly - Jan 09, 2014 10:46:40 am PST #16768 of 30000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I had a rigourous speech coach in drama school, whose aim it was for speech to be understood, unmiked, from the back of the theater. We were instructed, no matter how it sounded *to us*, to hit every pronounced consonant, and further, to elide words ending in vowels into the beginning consonant of the next. We thought he was barking, but when we listened to each other, we quickly understood the method behind his madness. Ending and beginning consonants in proximity would both be pronounced, "cat tree." and a phrase like "cannot allow" would be "cannotallow," the only separation being one of inflection, rather than actual pause.
The chorus teacher in high school had much the same approach. Apparently, one should be punctillious about one's consonants.
Dana - Jan 09, 2014 10:48:49 am PST #16769 of 30000
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
Consonants get swallowed in a chorus, especially bigger ones. You have to overpronounce like an idiot to get them to come across.