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CowperKettle

04:19

Elena Mihailovna Shirman (1908-1942) was a Russian Jewish poet killed in the Second World War. == Early life and education == Elena Mihailovna Shirman was born on February 3, 1908, in Rostov-on-Don, Southern Russia. Her father was a navigator and her mother was a teacher. She studied at the Library College in Rostov-on-Don before transferring to the Russian Language and Literature Department of the Rostov State Pedagogical Institute, from which she graduated in 1933. After graduation she worked in a library and at several museums. From 1937 to 1941 she studied under Ilya Selvinsky at the Gorky...

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M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

11:33

@userr2684291 L believe lt couid be a typo

CowperKettle

11:45

> (Ramaekers and Blau, 2004)

How do I pronounce these surnames? I want to transliterate them into Russian.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

12:37

@CowperKettle Where are they from?

IIRC ae stood for either of /ae/ or /eI/ depending on the guy's nationality

Usually /ae/ though

userr2684291

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ | think so as well.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Thank you for thinking so well.

"couid" sounds like something Bugs Bunny would say

userr2684291

Ramaekers should be read as ray-makers, I'd think.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

If he (?) is European, probably yeah

userr2684291

I don't think English-speaking people care.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

12:46

Other places than Europe, esp. Asia, would have ae as /ae/ though

@userr2684291 He's translating for Russian scientists to read.

Kinda scary actually o.O

userr2684291

Well, I just said how I think English-speaking people would say it.

In Croatian I'd say something like rameker.

How those people pronounce them themselves is another thing, and I'm sure C. K. wouldn't ask us that – how would we know...

I assume because they asked here, they wanna know how these are pronounced in English.

userr2684291

13:15

ell.stackexchange.com/questions/208286/comma-in-or-rather I found this pretty funny: "I was shocked to discover that or rather is used with and without comma in a dictionary".

I'm shook as well.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

13:34

Hello shook as well

I'm shook as hell

If hell has forest fires, it's probably got earthquakes too

userr2684291

I'm eating strawberries.

CowperKettle

Rademaker

Rademaker is a Dutch occupational surname originally meaning wheelwright or wainwright.[1] A large number of spelling variations are seen, the most common of which are (with number of people in the Netherlands[2] and Belgium[3] in 2007 combined): Raaijmakers (4086), Raaymakers (301), Rademaker (3094), Rademakers (2037), Raemaekers (939), Raeymaekers (2112), Raijmakers (1398), Ramaekers (3244), Ramaker (2122), Ramakers (2058), and Raymakers (504). People with these surnames include: Rademaker(s)Abraham Rademaker (1677–1735), Dutch painter and printmaker Augusto Rademaker (1905–1985), Brazilian...

names.org/n/ramaekers/about#pronunciation

It sounds like "rah-makers" there

userr2684291

13:50

Not to me. To me it sounds like they say ruh-makers. But when I look it up on YT I find this guy youtube.com/watch?v=kIWn9aOpVY8, who says ray.

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CowperKettle

16:56

I Don't Know - Med School Parody of "Let It Go" from Frozen (University of Chicago Pritzker SOM)

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Man_From_India

Is it really wrong to say -

> We starting early arrived at noon.

I think this sentence is similar to Everyone standing nearby had turned to gape at them.

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userr2684291

19:01

I haven't listened to the original yet (don't plan to), but the parody sounds quite dull. The girl's also not much of a looker.

@Man_From_India Only on the face of it. Maybe you can claim it's the same thing provided abstract enough grammar labels.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@userr2684291 You do sound like the type that only watch movies with some dark or mature take-home message

And be nice! — Araucaria Apr 21 at 22:51

Crap, lock me away

userr2684291

19:17

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ I don't really watch movies. Sometimes I watch shows, and most of the time it's the same shows over and over again.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Shows get boring really fast

Also they all seem prone to the same annoying tropes

I keep wanting to save time to watch shows but only end up watching something on TV when I'm wasting time

But I guess if someone got used to only watching shows they might not enjoy movies all that much

userr2684291

I like repetitive shows, and dislike it when they introduce new elements.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@userr2684291 Point, that's one of the tropes they can't ever be immune to.

And all you can do about it is pray they don't take it to the level that contradicts stuff from the earlier shows

userr2684291

But... Breaking Bad was a great show, for example. I did kind of want them to just continue cooking, for instance, because I guess I'm just into their accruing more and more money, making the system more efficient, slowly taking over everything, extending into space, etc. – that would've been perfect. I'm not about money, but that was the premise of the show, so it'd've been nice if it had continued in that direction.

I don't watch movies nowadays because I often regret watching them. The last movie that I watched I had to just turn off because it bored me, and that happened one hour and thirty minutes into the movie. The movie was around two hours long. Sometimes I get lucky and turn it off after the first ten or twenty minutes.

Like Inception. And I tried watching it a couple times because everyone kept telling me it was great, but I couldn't get past the 20 minute mark.

Bored me to death, lol.

I did like DiCaprio in most of his other movies that I watched.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

19:49

@userr2684291 . . .

What is your definition of excitement seems to be my and most other people's definition of boredom.

Idle games bored the heck out of me

Q: Please, smoke with good manners

In Tokyo, I saw this sign next to the smoking area. It says Please smoke with good manners in the area surrounded by planters. The part "with good manners" sounds a bit weird to me. Is it just me, or is it not idiomatic? One can have/teach/forget manners He dressed well and had imp...