but to bleach out all humor from that, it is a little more labor intensive to type it out in some editor, make a screen shot, save the png and then import into a tweet...
when instead you can just reply to your previous tweet one after another.
@Cerberus Isn't it though? Greece is full of people who labor under the misapprehension that they speak English so they do this sort of thing themselves instead of getting a translator.
@Cerberus Absolutely. They just looked it up in the dictionary and took the first meaning. This is the same style of translation that has given us "peasant's intestines" for something that would be better translated as "village-style tripe" or "rustic tripe" or something along those lines.
@Cerberus Fish are like the oldest thing that are still like us (have most of the features and organs that we do), but they' missing some tell-tale things.
Butts for one.
The big fleshy parts
@Cerberus or stomach. It's the texture that puts me off.
andouille is OK because really who knows where any of that stuff comes from anyway
what is the official medical term for hamstrings? And why are the quads so chunky in comparison when you'd think the extensor would provide more power for running than the flexor?
@caub I don't think the analogy is perfect because of the physics and slightly different anatomy (the shoulder is way more complicated than the pelvis because of all the neck stuff messing things up.
that is if one were trying to subclass 'limb' for two purposes.
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 It took me at least 2 years of living in France before I could hear the difference clearly. It's one of those sounds that sound very similar to non natives.
Another follow-up question: do French vowels ever modify the pronunciation of other vowels far away? I.e. separated by at least 1 consonant? (Engilsh example: hose is pronounced with a long o. Without the e, it would be pronounced with a short o.)
@Randal'Thor That's one of the few that actually make sense! Change has a silent e which makes the a long but hang doesn't. So, that change and hang don't rhyme is perfectly reasonable as is, by extension, that changed and hanged don't either.
@terdon Only if you look at the base (e.g. infinitive) forms of the verbs. Looking at the words "hanged" and "changed" on their own, it seems ridiculous.
@Cerberus I can't think of an example, but usually that's because when the infinitive form ends in a consonant, the -ed form doubles the consonant - so it could still be about two consonant letters (e.g. "buzed" would probably be diphthongised, but "buzzed" isn't).
@Randal'Thor That's the vowel-consonant-vowel "rule", which states that in such cases, the first vowel will be long. Hence mete but met, hate but hat etc.
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…
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