Add me to the list of people pronouncing desultory wrong. If enough of us are pronouncing it wrong, then I think we get to declare our version a regional dialect.
Wash: Little River just gets more colorful by the moment. What'll she do next? Zoe: Either blow us all up or rub soup in our hair. It's a toss-up. Wash: I hope she does the soup thing. It's always a hoot, and we don't all die from it.
'Objects In Space'
Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Calli - Mar 01, 2023 1:36:49 pm PST #20934 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
meara - Mar 01, 2023 1:55:55 pm PST #20935 of 30000
Um, if satiety is suh-TIE-ety, why do we pronounce satiated and say-she-ated??
Dana - Mar 01, 2023 2:13:45 pm PST #20936 of 30000
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
I was so sure that I knew how to pronounce satiety that I didn't look it up, and I now see that pride goeth before the fall.
Beverly - Mar 01, 2023 2:18:24 pm PST #20937 of 30000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Desultorily. De-sul-TOR-i-ly.
I'm startled by British characters saying Ruhmember and Pruhvarication. Also LaBORatory and AluMINium.
Cass - Mar 01, 2023 3:09:14 pm PST #20938 of 30000
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
I was so sure that I knew how to pronounce satiety that I didn't look it up, and I now see that pride goeth before the fall.
Not the only one with tattered pride on this one. I'm right there with you.
brenda m - Mar 01, 2023 3:19:38 pm PST #20939 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
We should just change it.
I was listening to a radio program a while back and they played an old ad from like the 30s for Cheerios, educating people about the importance of the pro-tee-ins to you diet.
JenP - Mar 01, 2023 3:41:31 pm PST #20940 of 30000
I know a person who pronounces binary as BYE-uh-nary. It always catches me. Not BI-nuhry or BI-NARY. But as if there were another letter there in between bi and nary. I mean, it doesn't ruin my day or anything, but I think she's the only one I've ever heard say it that way.
I was responsible and made noodles instead of ordering in tonight. Gold star for me.
I also finished an onerous first email in a series today (onerous only because I made the task such), so I think the dam is broken and the rest of the series will flow more easily now, yay.
And now, we do the crossword puzzle and start S3 of The Mandalorian, I think? Two PP shows in the lineup right now. No complaints!
EpicTangent - Mar 01, 2023 4:22:26 pm PST #20941 of 30000
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Um, if satiety is suh-TIE-ety, why do we pronounce satiated and say-she-ated??
See above Re: DUMB
I was so sure that I knew how to pronounce satiety that I didn't look it up, and I now see that pride goeth before the fall.
Not the only one with tattered pride on this one. I'm right there with you.
We should just change it.
I'm glad to have you all onboard!
DebetEsse - Mar 01, 2023 4:27:04 pm PST #20942 of 30000
Woe to the fucking wicked.
I feel like with a little collective action we are well on our way to accepted alternative pronunciation
erikaj - Mar 01, 2023 4:35:18 pm PST #20943 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
I finally had to ask about "LatinX", like, is the x silent? Because, I don't give a ton of speeches anymore, but here in the Southwest, some folks in the audience will be it.(I learned it's lateenex) Just didn't want to be the one reading off the poster, right?