I'm now seeing (hearing) poor Meriadoc being called Mary.
Why couldn't you be dealing drugs like normal people?
Snyder ,'Empty Places'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
§ ita § - Mar 18, 2004 9:13:33 am PST #1521 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Wolfram - Mar 18, 2004 10:00:19 am PST #1522 of 10002
Visilurking
Before we get off this topic, can someone clear up if it's pronounced Buff-is-ta or Buff-ees-ta?
Vortex - Mar 18, 2004 10:02:08 am PST #1523 of 10002
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Before we get off this topic, can someone clear up if it's pronounced Buff-is-ta or Buff-ees-ta?
The latter. Like Sandanista.
P.M. Marc - Mar 18, 2004 10:12:05 am PST #1524 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Of course, I don't even know what kind of accent I have anymore. I certainly don't sound like a local native, but I don't think I sound Bama or Philly either.
Philly/PA with a hint of the South, to my ear. You've got a slightly softened version of the accent that my PA friends/roomies of old had (I assume they still have them, but college was an age ago.)
I think I pronounce milk melk. Unless it's a verb. Then it's milk.
John, that reading sounds like it was great. I have The Envy.
msbelle - Mar 18, 2004 10:17:45 am PST #1525 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
My grandmother who was raised in Misourri, pronounces it Mi-zur-uh. I pronounce is differently depending on where I am.
The joys of growing up in Texas but not with Texan parents and then moving to NYC is the tendancy to mark my speech by whom I am around. Recently I have been encourgaed by a few people to redevelop the Texan qualities of my speech.
Micole - Mar 18, 2004 11:23:30 am PST #1526 of 10002
I've been working on a song about the difference between analogy and metaphor.
Mary is a long A, marry is a short A, and merry is a short E. (New Yorker.) I was also startled to find out from an author's note that one of my friends pronounced Carrie to rhyme with "hairy."
The mispronounced words discussion has confused me so thoroughly that I am now convinced I have never pronounced a single word of English correctly. (This casts some doubt on the Mary/marry/merry discussion above.) I now feel too self-conscious to speak, and plan to spend the rest of my life passing notes or writing on a small whiteboard I will hang around my neck, a la Willow and Buffy in "Hush," since at least I know how to spell.
Micole - Mar 18, 2004 11:23:35 am PST #1527 of 10002
I've been working on a song about the difference between analogy and metaphor.
Micole - Mar 18, 2004 11:23:44 am PST #1528 of 10002
I've been working on a song about the difference between analogy and metaphor.
P.M. Marc - Mar 18, 2004 11:36:28 am PST #1529 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I was also startled to find out from an author's note that one of my friends pronounced Carrie to rhyme with "hairy."
::blink::
there's another way to say it?
Alicia K - Mar 18, 2004 11:39:46 am PST #1530 of 10002
Uncertainty could be our guiding light.
Fred Pete! Mukwonago! Sorry. So another fellow Wisconsinite and got excited. And you can't forget Oconomowoc.
My hometown is Wausau, and it got a mention in the Liberace TV bio-movie some years back. They mispronounced it to sound like "Warsaw." It's WAH-sah.
Fred Pete, did you say RAY-seen or ruh-SEEN for the city of Racine? I grew up saying it ruh-SEEN and it always threw me when I heard other Wisconsin folks saying it the other way.