You know . . . the thing about ellipses . . . is that the people who use them thing they are the punctuation mark . . . well . . . or marks . . . that fits every occasion . . . or had you not noticed . . .
> Sometimes, there's a man, well, he's the man for his time and place. He fits right in there. And that's the Dude, in Los Angeles. And even if he's a lazy man - and the Dude was most certainly that. Quite possibly the laziest in Los Angeles County, which would place him high in the runnin' for laziest worldwide.
You'd think they'd take at least one from each of the lexical sets, and more checks for rhoticization or h-dropping or vowel coloring, and for prosody.
I also noticed that -everybody- spoke 'root' for 'route' but that was in isolation, and I expect more people to say 'rowt' if they were really using it.
are you seriously claiming that in your dialect "root" as in "the things at the base of a plant" rhymes with "foot", "those funny-shaped things at the ends of your legs"?
Merriam-Webster lists both ˈrüt and ˈrau̇t as possible pronunciations for route but only
ˈrau̇-tər for router.
Is it really wrong to pronounce router as 'rüter ?
@Cerberus I didn't fall -all- the way down that rabbit hole. ONly spent 1/2 hour listening. What is up with people, they kept talking and talking about -things- instead of doing the stupid words.
@Cerberus no, you throw them through the trees, the roll unwinds and drapes the toilet paper through the branches. It is impossible to get off. Then it rains, and it is even more impossible to get off. lasts for weeks.
There once was a man from Japan whose limericks just wouldn't scan. When asked why this was, he answered, "Because I always cram as many syllables into the last line as I possibly can.
I once read a lim'rick by Faust It summoned the devil of course For my soul he would grant Anything I could want Right now I just want this limerick to rhyme
@Cerberus yes, but they somehow didn't seem prompted to talk a lot, but they went ahead and -talk-talk talked -forever before they got to the words. It was good to hear them for a bit, but most just kept rambling.
@Cerberus no not to the house, it doesn't really drape well over the house (and really you'd have to throw to the back yard then to the front and that's harder to do with littel effect.
On annoying pronuncifications, I've lately noticed some people saying the plural of house as housses instead of houzes. What's that about? What's next, wifes and wolfs?
@MετάEd Have you read Steven Brust's Jhereg? There he has the Easterners (meaning humans of Hungarian extraction) call the dominant race "elfs" (instead of Dragaerans, who are genetically engineered hybrids) to simulate their foreign accent. It actually works quite well.
@KitFox Was that supposed to be a joke on her?
@KitFox That was indeed the implied sense.
@KitFox No my dear. We're talking about the quality of consonant not the vowel. You voice the final consonant.
Canadians with Canadian rising say house with a different vowel. The voicing of the s in the plural is standard English.
@tchrist Ah, I remember well from my childhood the range wars on the Iowa–Wisconsin border. Do you recall the time that a Wisconsin farmer threw a stick of dynamite over the border into the yard of his Iowa neighbor? And how the Iowan lit it and threw it back? Good times.
Of course some Iowans appreciated Wisconsin. I even knew somebody who moved from Iowa to Wisconsin – raised the average I.Q. of both states.
Merriam-Webster lists both ˈrüt and ˈrau̇t as possible pronunciations for route but only
ˈrau̇-tər for router.
Is it really wrong to pronounce router as 'rüter ?
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…