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unfortunately gyac your pronunciation of eelk-zor was surprisingly persuasive

ilksuh

Behead all those who vote for anything other than option #1.

"Alone Again Or."

xp
typical eye-ell-ex-or savagery

Contrary to Popular Belief, the Truth Is Not Relative.

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The capital punishment I had in mind was the guillotine btw, to keep proceedings as humane as possible.

Throw in a few tanks and we may yet find peace

I would simply never pronounce it

coward

Ilk-sore

Or Il-ksore, I don't mind

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― hey, trust the fungus! (pomenitul), Thursday, 17 September 2020 15:03 (eleven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

absolutely otm

how do you people pronounce FUXXOR ffs?

imago i'm disappointed

also: wouldn't it be cool if there was a way to embed vocaroo links?

fucksore

fuck-sore

the prosecution rests your honour

I pronounce it like option 1 eye-ell-ex-or, except gyac pronounces the "or" like "er" - as in "'er indoors", whereas I go more for the sound at the end of "condor"

oh no

Ill-Egg-Zur

Ill-Shore, perhaps?

I say "elixir", exactly, always, it's the most appealing collection of phonemes that the world implies and the homophone is nice

FUXXOR

"fucks 'er", but I never say this word

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― hey, trust the fungus! (pomenitul)

As we all know, I am against violence on the boards. However, I must begrudgingly agree with this stance.

*word, not world obv xp

The first is about right but it's very truncated (in light of how few letters there are). I say it fast and mostly eliminate the gap between the ell and the ex. The O is also somewhat exaggerated.

So perhaps it's more like I'll/exOr or IlexOR.

One-Fif-Tee-Ten-Ze-Ro-Arrrrrr

eye-ell-ex-or

do y'all pronounce "ilx" like "ilks," "ilm" like it rhymes with "film," and "ile" like it's a river in egypt?

There’s a clip fella

ɪlˈliksər

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― hey, trust the fungus! (pomenitul), donderdag 17 september 2020 17:03 (forty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

The right answer here is ilksor. It'd be different if it was just eye-ell-ex, but since it's not, it's ilksor.

I prefer the guillotine btw.

Sleep, that's where I'm an eye'll-exor

For (most) American speakers:

i-l-x 'er: /aɪ ɛl ɛksɜɹ/
ilk-sir: /ɪlksɜɹ/
ilk-sore: /ɪlksoɹ/

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oh yes, and Old Lunch gives a beautiful example of the pin/pen merger in Southern English:

eelk-sir: /i:lksɜɹ/

it's ilksor

May God have mercy on your soul and that of the rest of your… ilk.

I L X (the 0r is silent)

I L X (the 0r is silent)

the only time I say this to myself is when I'm spelling it out to do a google search for a thread

(the pin/pen merger is supposed to be just before nasal consonants but I don't see why it can't precede a liquid)

I think option 1 in the link has the last syllable wrong. It's "or," not "er."

I ell ex ore. Not I ell ex er.

The option was discussing the noun as in “fellow ilxor”, fwiw.

To protect the trademark ILX should always be used as an adjective, like Lego.

how do you people pronounce FUXXOR ffs?

the key concept in grasping how to pronounce FUXXOR is that one never pronounces FUXXOR aloud and simply elides it as gracefully as possible within one's interior monologue

a beautiful example of the pin/pen merger in Southern English:

there actually two variants of this merger ime -- the upper south where both are pronounced "pin" and the lower south where both are pronounced "pen" ... idk my friends from Tennessee and Texas say "pen/pen" and my dad from West Virginia says "pin/pin" (or sometimes pi-uhn/pi-uhn such that it is two syllables)

I can definitely hear that two-syllable southern "pin" in my head. It's subtle, but it's there.

I doubt I've ever said ilxor, but I imagine it to be ilk-sore.

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My partner refers to it as ick-sell-Orr on the scant occasions when it calls for being said out loud

I read that as "incelcior"

wow my ilm poll is a transparent ripoff of this one, i blame being very tired all the time

ilxelsior

I read that as "incelcior"

― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 30 October 2020 01:00 (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol

bumpin'

voted

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No. Try again.

wtf, who are you people?

But OL, I do not mentally pronounce ilx or ILX as "ilks", but as "eye-ell-eks", based on its stepwise derivation from the acronyms of its many boards using the formula I Love (x), e.g ILM, ILE, ILB, ILF, etc. Once having accepted "eye-ell-eks" as good and proper reflection of its acronymic, rather than phonemic, provenance, it is but a baby step to "eye-ell-eks-or". QED

Thank you, fellow eye-ell-ex-ors!

Stop, no, this is so wrong.

Look, I will accept 'ill-zor' as a compromise, but that's my final offer.

the dominant culture's gonna dominate, OL. that's what dominant cultures do.

xp how is eye-ell-ex-or any different from Ill-Egg-Zur

enunciation

Dominant culture should be deeply ashamed rn. Sad times. Sad times.

I’m taking this as a positive omen for Tuesday!

Elixir.

Guess I'm wrong

That's a beautiful thought, Mark. It is sad that it is wrong, but what can you do.

there is no correct way to pronounce ilxor because the x could be anything. the x could contain the set of all letters that have ever existed, for example

it is known

btw, I Love ILX, because it is a place where I can get away with saying something like "good and proper reflection of its acronymic, rather than phonemic, provenance".

So are a proportion of the population reading “GenXers” as “genkserz”

Another gen x problem!

eye-ell-christ-orz

ILX = eye ell ex
ILXor = elixir

eloquio et dignitate

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the poll is over
you were with me all the while

whereas I go more for the sound at the end of "condor"

Or Falkor.