are we not pronouncing the -gh with disgust when reading posts now
― untuned mass damper (mh), Sunday, 22 September 2019 01:42 (four years ago) link
That nakedness can be referred to as a “birthday suit,” because at birth you’re naked.
― Sam Weller, Sunday, 22 September 2019 09:41 (four years ago) link
to my eternal shame fgti i self-changed to this spelling after meeting a girl that spelled it dara when i was small enough that this was an outrage
― provisional ilx (darraghmac), Sunday, 22 September 2019 09:51 (four years ago) link
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