William S. Burroughs’ son, of the same name, accidentally shot his best friend in the neck with a rifle when he was fifteen
nobody vaguely related to these people should be allowed near any sort of gun!
― mh, Wednesday, 25 September 2019 02:40 (four years ago) link
Shooting for his Adam's apple?
― nickn, Wednesday, 25 September 2019 02:58 (four years ago) link
A charwoman isn't a tealady - it's a different meaning of char, similar to chore.
― fetter, Wednesday, 25 September 2019 07:21 (four years ago) link
I could post on this thread 100 times a day, but it would only prove how stupid I am.
― pplains, Wednesday, 25 September 2019 14:12 (four years ago) link
Been reading a lot on the Civil War lately, because I'm a middle-aged dad trying not to think about the mortgage payment.
And that's how I finally connected soldiers on the front line, what striking union members do when they protest and these things:
https://i.imgur.com/xujWe4b.jpg
― pplains, Wednesday, 25 September 2019 14:15 (four years ago) link
xp yes the addition of a -gh is very manly.
If I was a boy named Fiona I'd def change it to Fionagh
― fgti (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 15:32 (four years ago) link
Hughgh.
― Let them eat Pfifferlinge an Schneckensauce (Tom D.), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 15:55 (four years ago) link
scooby doo's birthname is scoobert doo
― mark s, Friday, 27 September 2019 18:20 (four years ago) link
lol, stop
― Steampunk wasn't in my vocapulary 6 days ago. (Old Lunch), Friday, 27 September 2019 18:22 (four years ago) link
That might be the funniest thing I've read all week.
― Steampunk wasn't in my vocapulary 6 days ago. (Old Lunch), Friday, 27 September 2019 18:23 (four years ago) link
tbf Scooby-Doo had existed for 19 years before someone said his name was Scoobert, in order to be funny
but do NOT take it too far!:
https://www.mic.com/articles/182603/scooby-doos-real-name-isnt-scoobert-doobert#.PMWlLWCvm
(read to the end)
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Friday, 27 September 2019 18:54 (four years ago) link
I used to trollfully insist that Stevie Wonder's real name is Steven Wonderful. This is about that level of stupid.
― Steampunk wasn't in my vocapulary 6 days ago. (Old Lunch), Friday, 27 September 2019 18:59 (four years ago) link
JUst learned this week that there's a fashion haircut called a combover.Would have thought the attempted baldness disguise was prevalent enough that they would need to find a new name for something like that.Its the tall gelled short back and sides thing that has one side combed over. Would have thought it was some kind of variation on a 'Meet me at McDonalds'. I think its popular among footballer types etc.
But really, I would have thought the referent was always going to be the 'I think people will not recognise the bald patch if I grow the sides longer and hide it, or Trump it' thing.
& would therefore think that it would be something that a trendsetter would attempt to avoid naming things after since it is a middle aged folly. But omigosh the youth of today.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 28 September 2019 10:58 (four years ago) link
We shall overcomb
― Instant Carmax (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 28 September 2019 11:00 (four years ago) link
Steven Wonderful is good, but nothing beats Steveland
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Saturday, 28 September 2019 14:42 (four years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EFkRNH_XoAI-ZVL?format=png
― mark s, Saturday, 28 September 2019 17:04 (four years ago) link
That’s Scrappert Cornelius Doo to you, young man.
― Tim, Saturday, 28 September 2019 19:20 (four years ago) link
el scrapo
― mark s, Saturday, 28 September 2019 19:26 (four years ago) link
Escoobar
― Tim, Saturday, 28 September 2019 19:30 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/r78g4MI.jpg
― YouGov to see it (wins), Saturday, 28 September 2019 19:34 (four years ago) link
Nice
― Instant Carmax (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 28 September 2019 20:42 (four years ago) link
we were talking coffee and wondering if Sanka was still around. it is. and for the first time i wondered about the name and realized it was a portmanteau for sans caffeine. the (american) pronunciation of sank-uh threw me all these many years.
― andrew m., Monday, 30 September 2019 16:36 (four years ago) link
If we used Spanish as our model it’d be Sinca
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 30 September 2019 16:49 (four years ago) link
My new seltzter co must somehow then be named “Conga”
― Hunt3r, Monday, 30 September 2019 21:28 (four years ago) link
So Sanka rhymes with Tonka.
Also just noticed that I say Sank-uh, but also San-tuh.
― pplains, Monday, 30 September 2019 22:01 (four years ago) link
The combover
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqhvJrcMV9c
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 30 September 2019 22:06 (four years ago) link
new fella at my barbers seems to be tryin to push me in this or a similar direction i dunno how to break it to him that i had a bald patch before he was born ill be ok like
― all over bar the shouting (im here for the shouting) (darraghmac), Monday, 30 September 2019 22:29 (four years ago) link
So apparently disgusting Americans pronounce "flaccid" with a hard C
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 05:41 (four years ago) link
I've never heard anyone pronounce it like that.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 06:44 (four years ago) link
Wtf
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 07:10 (four years ago) link
Both pronunciations exist on both sides of the pond, it seems. I agree that the hard C is gross.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 08:10 (four years ago) link
oh right, looks like the trendy haircut is spelt as 2 words.. Still sounds the same when said though. Foun dit odd when it was said in a class I was in last week as a haircut the teacher was giving people.
https://haircutinspiration.com/comb-over-haircut/
https://media.haircutinspiration.com/photos/20181204005531/comb-over-blackfishbry-500x649.jpg
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 08:17 (four years ago) link
I never know how to say "sans" as in "sans serif" out loud, like in Comic Sans or whatever. If I (try to) pronounce it in a French manner it sounds kind of like... just a weird meaningless sound in an English sentence. If I say "sanz" I feel like an uncultured barbarian. Help!
Are we counting the x (-ks-, hard then soft) pronunciation of flaccid as hard? It always sounds weird to me because I usually hear it to rhyme with "placid" but iirc it's technically correct and I can't think of any other -cci-/-cce- words which don't use that sound. Well, not since I finally realised how to pronounce e.g. Occitan and occidental a few years ago at an embarrassingly old age.
― a passing spacecadet, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 08:33 (four years ago) link
All the letterpress people I hang about with say sanz, and I just copy them.
Thinking about it, though, comic sans pronounced to rhyme with Fonz would be excellent.
― Tim, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 08:56 (four years ago) link
I know one letterpress person and they're the opposite of an uncultured barbarian so I'll go with that, then. Hooray.
Rhymes-with-Fonz seems theoretically more comprehensible than a nasal sound with a silent final s, but I think that's the compromise I've ended up with after chickening out of the silent s at the last moment, and can confirm that nobody has ever known what the hell I've been talking about.
― a passing spacecadet, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 09:31 (four years ago) link
https://forvo.com/word/sans_serif/#en
TopQuark otm
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 09:33 (four years ago) link
GraB otm
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 09:37 (four years ago) link
Shit, I pronounce it sonn suh-reef, I am a pretentious twat. Not sure I've ever had cause to say it loud though so I've probably got away with it.
― Stockhausen Serves Empirical Jism (Matt #2), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 09:43 (four years ago) link
how else would anyone say it? that's literally the way to say it
― frame casual (dog latin), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 09:48 (four years ago) link
mind you, i say 'Comic SANZ' so... bully for me
― frame casual (dog latin), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 09:49 (four years ago) link
In French, “sonn”. In typography, “sanz”, even if you are a French typographer. No exceptions.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 10:14 (four years ago) link
Hmm…
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 10:17 (four years ago) link
son exception
― all over bar the shouting (im here for the shouting) (darraghmac), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 10:19 (four years ago) link
yo is it true frogs got sonned by a typo kid after a sans sebeef??????
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 10:20 (four years ago) link
Pretty sure Shakespeare pronounced it "sanz"
― honk hunk blue (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 10:44 (four years ago) link
Those alternative forms are delicious:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/saunz
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 10:52 (four years ago) link
sanz kant danz
― L'assie (Euler), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 12:02 (four years ago) link
Saying Comic SANZ ... actually sorta fits the zany, anything-goes vibe of that font.
― pplains, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 12:21 (four years ago) link
did somebody say "comic sanz"??http://www1.pictures.gi.zimbio.com/Horatio+Sanz+Celebrity+Guests+Visit+VMA+Style+4Bdj9FbbwB1l.jpg
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 12:26 (four years ago) link
The thing is, it's a word that comes from French, just like many English words do, but if you are speaking English to other English speakers, there's nothing wrong with giving it an English (or American) pronunciation.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 12:46 (four years ago) link