Gee whiz
― coetzee.cx (wins), Sunday, 4 November 2018 18:15 (five years ago) link
I'd always though that the phrase 'basket case' came from the idea that patients at insane asylums spent their time weaving baskets, but apparently
The term originated from WWI, indicating a soldier missing both his arms and legs, who needed to be literally carried around in a litter or "basket."
― soref, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 14:12 (five years ago) link
it's right there in the movie
― clynical repression (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 6 November 2018 14:27 (five years ago) link
i think i had the same confusion thanks to "they're coming to take me away, ha-ha," and had it corrected by an anecdote told by a mournful ringo somewhere in the beatles anthology documentary.
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 6 November 2018 14:32 (five years ago) link
im thinking more to the original story- to what extent do you understand your contacts mispronunciation to be intentional? or more like, negligent?
― Hunt3r, Sunday, November 4, 2018 9:00 AM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
again i don't think it's intentional -- possibly negligent/laziness
i guess my reasoning is i'm not even a native spanish speaker and i can get this silly thing right, not sure why someone who is obsessed with watching all types of movies can't get guillermo (del toro's name) right
i've never heard anyone else pronounce it gwai-lermo
aside from that, he's a cool dude
this discussion turned out to be a much bigger deal than i had meant it to be tbh
― F# A# (∞), Tuesday, 6 November 2018 17:11 (five years ago) link
pronunciation is such a cool thing. it is a skill. it is a preference. it is a byproduct of education. it is a physiological capability. it is the result social preference. it is a pose. i'm not sure if it is inherent or intentional.
i'm sure some of those are redundant if not very overlapping. still, when observing non-standard pronunciation, it is natural to ask "what am i seeing" for sure.
― Hunt3r, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 17:20 (five years ago) link
― I like Poeltls (fionnland), Tuesday, 6 November 2018 17:29 (five years ago) link
Gee-yare-mo (how my grandfather's name was pronounced)Gee-jare-mo (how it's pronounced where I live)Gee-share-mo (the aforementioned Argentinian pronunciation)
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 23:00 (five years ago) link
wrong
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 6 November 2018 23:04 (five years ago) link
xpThe first seems more in line with Mexican Spanish to me.
― nickn, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 23:05 (five years ago) link
it's more complex than that. argentina they pronounce "ll" as the s in measure.
then as to whether the ll is pronounced as a palatal lateral approximate or palatal approximant or affricate - i.e. the same as "Y" see here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ye%C3%ADsmo
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 6 November 2018 23:09 (five years ago) link
so in mexico guillermo is generally pronounced GEE YER MO
guillermo reet up ye ya bas
― lie back and think of englund (darraghmac), Tuesday, 6 November 2018 23:14 (five years ago) link
Gee YAIR mo (rather than yer, I think)
― nickn, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 23:21 (five years ago) link
hard "G" too, btw
I'm gonna start calling him Jiller-moe til somebody slaps me
― fgti is for (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 7 November 2018 00:11 (five years ago) link
so yeah in theory spanish differentiates between ll, y, and i, and depending on the country the differences are more pronounced
in mexico and a few other countries, i've noticed spoken spanish makes little distinction between ll and y, especially if spoken fast, whereas a word with ll or y pronounced individually yields the proper pronunciation
i remember taking a spanish linguistics class and the prof going around having native spanish speakers pronounce specific words, and even among people from the same country, there were slight differences
anyway, this is way too specific, any of the pronunciations mentioned above would be cool with me, but gwai, gwai? WHY dawg?
― F# A# (∞), Wednesday, 7 November 2018 00:23 (five years ago) link
actually when he first said that i thought of 鬼佬 and laughed a little internally
― F# A# (∞), Wednesday, 7 November 2018 00:25 (five years ago) link
THat is the Japanese(?) word for western outsider innit?
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 7 November 2018 08:51 (five years ago) link
Cantonese slang term for Westerners, apparently.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 7 November 2018 08:53 (five years ago) link
That's why I had the bracketed question mark in there have heard the term but wasn't 100% sure which Asian location it came from.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 7 November 2018 21:59 (five years ago) link
I was shocked to learn that Virginia Madsen and Michael Madsen are siblings.
― Real Compton City G, Wednesday, 7 November 2018 22:31 (five years ago) link
Huh, did not know that either
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 7 November 2018 22:35 (five years ago) link
michael can i get your sister email why because she look intersting
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 7 November 2018 22:55 (five years ago) link
A "tube steak" is a hot dog (in its non-slang meaning)
― Josefa, Wednesday, 7 November 2018 23:12 (five years ago) link
xps
haha yeah chinese
― F# A# (∞), Wednesday, 7 November 2018 23:42 (five years ago) link
I used to own and operate a hot dog stand and every morning homeboy in short jogging shorts and Oakleys would shout TUBE STEAKS at me
― Rhine Jive Click Bait (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 8 November 2018 03:00 (five years ago) link
The existence of the narwhal.
― Alba, Thursday, 8 November 2018 03:02 (five years ago) link
(they are called 'radio buttons' btw, because they work the way old radios worked - you can only have one button pressed at a time)
― koogs, Thursday, November 8, 2018 11:45 AM
― pplains, Thursday, 8 November 2018 18:02 (five years ago) link
I end up writing a lot of tech-y procedures/BRDs sometimes and use the term "radio button". Half the time people will question what they are, and I always, without fail make that tune in Tokyo motion accidentally. Then I switch it to "option button" in the document.
― Yerac, Thursday, 8 November 2018 18:05 (five years ago) link
Haven’t heard a tune in tokyo reference in like 30 years
― F# A# (∞), Thursday, 8 November 2018 18:09 (five years ago) link
Co-worker at the old job was the last I heard make the reference.
He was making reference to some ... heavy petting ... with his wife.
― pplains, Thursday, 8 November 2018 18:18 (five years ago) link
Just learned the phrase right now, though I think I've seen it in movies/TV before.
― nickn, Thursday, 8 November 2018 18:33 (five years ago) link
Honestly I’m surprised that tune in Tokyo never came up during the Kavanaugh hearings
― joygoat, Thursday, 8 November 2018 19:45 (five years ago) link
That Jim Crow was not a racist state governor or some such.
― Alba, Thursday, 8 November 2018 20:36 (five years ago) link
xpost Are you referring to the popular drinking game by that name?
― Ham Beats All Meat! (Old Lunch), Thursday, 8 November 2018 20:53 (five years ago) link
> The existence of the narwhal.
have you never seen Elf?
― koogs, Thursday, 8 November 2018 21:10 (five years ago) link
I have. Maybe I should have posted this on the 'natural history lessons from Elf you shockingly failed to take heed of' thread.
― Alba, Thursday, 8 November 2018 21:18 (five years ago) link
Unicorn of the sea innit?Whereas the unicorn of the land was a chinese whisper about a rhino
― Stevolende, Thursday, 8 November 2018 21:32 (five years ago) link
The confusing thing about the unicorn of the sea nickname is that unicorns aren't real.
― Alba, Thursday, 8 November 2018 21:35 (five years ago) link
Nonsense, of course they are, they're Scotland's national animal.
― ROCK MUSIC (Tom D.), Thursday, 8 November 2018 21:46 (five years ago) link
> The existence of the narwhalthis reminds me of when, sometime in my mid-thirties, I was with my kids at a zoo and came across a tapir and was like 'what is this? why didn't anybody tell me about this animal?'
― silverfish, Thursday, 8 November 2018 21:51 (five years ago) link
the greatest zoo-related experience of my life was when a tapir snuffled my hand with his prehensile l'il nose, but I was 8 or 9
― Sing The Mighty Beat (sic), Thursday, 8 November 2018 22:34 (five years ago) link
bombards are ur-cannons, developed by ottomans, and fired balls of...stone?! the dardanelles gun was bronze, 5m long, and could fire marbles 63cm in diameter. it was used for like 300 years.
these mortars were used to siege and defeat constantinople.
― Hunt3r, Friday, 9 November 2018 03:44 (five years ago) link
did we ever find out what greek fire was
― mookieproof, Friday, 9 November 2018 03:56 (five years ago) link
Nachos were invented by a man named Ignacio "Nacho" Anaya. i leared this today.
― ian, Friday, 9 November 2018 04:06 (five years ago) link
Richard Simon, co-founder of massive publishing firm Simon & Schuster, is the father of Carly Simon. I only find this surprising to learn today as my father published books, and he had a trove of Carly LPs.
― Sushi and the Banchan (Spectrist), Friday, 9 November 2018 07:43 (five years ago) link
Nachos were invented by a man named Ignacio "Nacho" Anaya.i leared this today.
― ian, Friday, November 9, 2018 4:06 AM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Nazis were a nickname based on the proliferance of the name Ignatz in Bavaria, & subsequently they never called themselves that.I think Ignatz and Ignacio are variations on the same name from different regions.
Nacho Nazi is therefore almost a duplication, innit.
― Stevolende, Friday, 9 November 2018 09:09 (five years ago) link
I did not know that (I'm sure we were taught in school that "Nazi" was a contraction of National Socialist and I suppose I never questioned it.
In similar-but-less-interesting shocking learns I learned yesterday that Vaclav is Czech for Wenceslas.
― Tim, Friday, 9 November 2018 09:37 (five years ago) link
I was also taught in school that it was an abbreviation of Nationalsozialist.
― Sing The Mighty Beat (sic), Friday, 9 November 2018 09:48 (five years ago) link