Bbbbut legislation threatens our government's right to protect the American people by spending $15 million a day in some shithole on the other side of the world!
nice, my course coordinator who is also incharge of IT department just left the classroom I am currently in so now I can freely eat my sandwich, coffee, doritos and make a lot of chewing noise in the classroom =D (Eating is not permitted in classrooms in my college but who cares =D)
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> cruller: The name comes from early 19th century Dutch kruller, from krullen "to curl". Crullers are traditionally eaten in Germany and some other European countries on Shrove Tuesday, to use up fat before Lent.
Oh, apparently they’ve respelt it.
> The German origin is probably why traditional crullers can be found more easily in the Midwest, where many German immigrants settled. Some family-owned bakeries still call them "krullers."
But not in the German-run bakeries in SE WI.
I think is the one of those words that DARE has a section on.
“I wouldn' say no teh a bit o' yer birthday cake, neither.”
“He usually gets me ter do important stuff fer him.”
(Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)
Hagrid’s pronunciation for ‘to’ is spelled ‘ter,’ in the book, so ‘teh seems to be an article which is told in Wiktionary. It seeming not a co...
Do we have a canonical answer on "come" and "give" used in regional dialects as past tense? E.g., "He come in here last night finally and give me the fifty bucks he owed me."
I’m forever being confused by the non-rhotic Mississippi accent. They also have some prosaic dialect words, but that is easier, since it doesn’t cause me to mis-lex/identify the words themselves; rather, it just signals to me there is a word being used in a way I am unfamiliar with. But the accent really confuses my lexer something fierce.
I am from New England (northeastern US) and it's my understanding that we have a non-rhotic dialect in this region, which is unusual compared to the rest of the US.
It is common to drop the final r in a word, and that is the most singular feature of the dialect, as Tom Bosley's character in Murd...
Supposedly rhotic dialect do not have intrusive-r, which is why the Canadian report is so odd.
> Rhotic dialects do not feature intrusive R. A rhotic speaker may use alternative strategies such as a hiatus between the two consecutive vowel sounds, or the insertion of a glottal stop to clarify the boundary between the two words. Varieties that feature linking R but not intrusive R (that is, tuna oil is pronounced [ˈtjuːnə (ʔ)ɔɪl]), show a clear phonemic distinction between words with and without /r/ in the syllable coda.
> Anyway, this brings us to the point of today’s post, the related phenomenon of hypercorrective intrusive r. This is a largely American peculiarity whereby someone with a traditionally non-rhotic accent (as found in New York City and New England) hypercorrects and pronounces r regardless of whether it precedes a vowel. Hence we get “I’ve got no idear what to wear!” and “He liked to drawr cats.”
I was thinking the same thing. Everything I read suggested that there ought to be something following to induce the r sound, but I hear it without anything following.
I am from New England (northeastern US) and it's my understanding that we have a non-rhotic dialect in this region, which is unusual compared to the rest of the US.
It is common to drop the final r in a word, and that is the most singular feature of the dialect, as Tom Bosley's character in Murd...
> R-droppers are also called non-rhotic English speakers, though I find this term rather obscure and academic. There are two types of r-droppers, which I call Systematic R-droppers and Simple R-droppers.
> Systematic R-droppers are found in the northeastern U. S., in much of England, and in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, much of the Caribbean, and other places. Systematic R-droppers have linking and intrusive r’s. John F. Kennedy is an excellent example of a Systematic r-dropper. In a speech he gave prior to being elected, he says “The hungry children I sawr in West Vaginia.”
> This quote has one intrusive r, and one dropped r, both highlighted in red. In another speech during the Cuban missile crisis he says, starting at 4:55: “...Soviet foreign minister Gromyko told me in my office that he was instructed to make it cleah once again, as he said his govament had already done, Soviet assistance to Cubar, and I quote, ...”, which again has one intrusive r, and two dropped r’s, again highlighted in red.
> Simple R-droppers are found in parts of the Lowland South. As a general rule, they do not have linking and intrusive r’s. All of the areas in the South marked as r-droppers on my map are Simple R-dropper areas. (It turns out that Hawai’i Creole English is also of this type.)
> In a nutshell, because these young New Englanders have converted completely* from non-rhotic to rhotic, their rhoticity in a word like ‘start’ might be said to ‘distract’ them from the fronted /a/.
The real funny thing is that the LEGO subreddit only has 35k subscribers, and only some 50 of them are online right now. Goes to show how many people browse Reddit without registering.
> Industry sources say that representatives of Google's executive board are deep in negotiations with an internal "skunkworks" start-up originally dedicated to researching online marketing opportunities, but which has since expanded to cover the entirety of evil services. The morally errant division, nicknamed Googollum, is understood to be arguing internally that the Internets stole the precious social networking, they did, and gave it to the Facebooks, and must be punished.
> While some at the company have suggested that it mustn't steal the Internets' privacies, other Googollum workers, who asked not to be identified, have said that no-one would notice, and anyways, what has the nasty Internetsies done for Google lately?
> Talks are ongoing, although setbacks did occur when Googollum's management, speaking at the company's Friday meeting, refused to tell anyone where the Google Plus development team was hidden, and went on to eat the Google Reader product manager raw.
@RegDwighт Aww you want your best bud to subscribe you?
You shall not pass! Wait, I mean, you shall pass! And don't come back.
@tchrist Ah.
> In response to last week's exceedingly polite Canadian Supreme Court ruling on text message privacy, EFF will print a limited edition run of "Sorry if this is a bother, but I'd really prefer if you returned with a warrant, eh" stickers for Canadian mobile devices.
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“I wouldn' say no teh a bit o' yer birthday cake, neither.”
“He usually gets me ter do important stuff fer him.”
(Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)
Hagrid’s pronunciation for ‘to’ is spelled ‘ter,’ in the book, so ‘teh seems to be an article which is told in Wiktionary. It seeming not a co...
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