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Post by sealaw90 on Feb 10, 2018 21:28:48 GMT -5
I'll take 4 syllables. Gary has a new avatar. In it we see a previously unseen Orange & White Tabby along with his favorite Black Cat. I love black cats. Truth be known, I love all cats. Pixie The tabby was Bo. He and Sam were adopted at the same time from PAWS and were good company for each other and for us for many years. I changed my avatar to a picture of Sam when he died a couple of years ago. Bo died Wednesday and it seemed a proper memorial to change my avatar to include both of them. Gary, I am so sorry to hear that anther fur baby passed away. I love the new picture though, a fitting tribute! |
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Post by gary on Feb 10, 2018 21:38:53 GMT -5
The tabby was Bo. He and Sam were adopted at the same time from PAWS and were good company for each other and for us for many years. I changed my avatar to a picture of Sam when he died a couple of years ago. Bo died Wednesday and it seemed a proper memorial to change my avatar to include both of them. Gary, I am so sorry to hear that anther fur baby passed away. I love the new picture though, a fitting tribute! Thank you. They’re both deeply missed. |
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Post by sealaw90 on Feb 10, 2018 21:43:17 GMT -5
Do any of you pronounce comfortable using all four syllables? Or do you pronounce it comfterble? I’m a 4-syllable guy. Me too. That makes 3. My immigrant grandparents, and parents, always said the 4 syllable version. I thought it was their accents that made them say it that way, and even though I was an American kid, I said it the same way as my family did. |
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Post by sealaw90 on Feb 10, 2018 21:50:48 GMT -5
Read this today and thought of this thread. Enjoy. Oxford comma |
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Post by gary on Feb 11, 2018 12:52:01 GMT -5
Thank you. They’re both deeply missed. Gary, I am sorry for your loss. Both were beautiful. Fur babies offer so much comfort and are sometimes the source of humor even though they seem to hate it when you laugh around them. Thank you. |
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Post by gary on Feb 11, 2018 20:50:45 GMT -5
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Post by Pixie on Feb 11, 2018 23:49:19 GMT -5
How about often? Do you emphasize the t or pronounce it, offen? There is a T in there. It isn't silent; I pronounce it. Pixie |
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Post by gary on Feb 12, 2018 7:22:49 GMT -5
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Post by maquereau on Feb 12, 2018 7:57:47 GMT -5
Am I to assume that the board members also pronounce "soften" with a distinguishable "t" sound?
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Post by maquereau on Feb 12, 2018 8:03:53 GMT -5
And while we are on or in the vicinity of the topic, have people read any of the comic novels by Wodehouse involving Mr. Psmith?
Yes, the "P" is silent.
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Post by aa7 on Feb 12, 2018 12:46:25 GMT -5
I must admit I have used both depending on the audience. As a teaching assistant when speaking to a large freshman class of college students, I pronounced it with the t. I found myself pronouncing it with a silent t when working in a rural region. I thought adopting the local pronunciation would make me seem more an insider or "one of them." They probably just thought, she went to law school? Really? How do you pronounce there without a t?! |
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Post by JudgeKnot on Feb 12, 2018 13:08:17 GMT -5
I must admit I have used both depending on the audience. As a teaching assistant when speaking to a large freshman class of college students, I pronounced it with the t. I found myself pronouncing it with a silent t when working in a rural region. I thought adopting the local pronunciation would make me seem more an insider or "one of them." They probably just thought, she went to law school? Really? How do you pronounce there without a t?! How do you pronounce it with a silent t? Wouldn't it just be "I?" |
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Post by jagvet on Feb 12, 2018 13:14:18 GMT -5
Do any of you pronounce comfortable using all four syllables? Or do you pronounce it comfterble? Uh-oh. I do both. Depends. Now I am ashamed. |
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Post by jagvet on Feb 12, 2018 13:24:48 GMT -5
"Often" has a silent "t." "Which" is pronounced "hwich" (that's one I usually do wrong), "Picture" sounds like "picked your" nose, not "pitcher" or even "pickshur." "Bat-ter-ry", not "batt-ry." These and other laws of the language were beaten into me by my great public school teachers half a century ("sent-u-ree"), not "sentch-ree") ago.
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Post by dshawn on Feb 12, 2018 14:45:39 GMT -5
IMHO some of this is flavored by where you grew up and is very much dependent on the situation. I think I have a pretty solid command of the English language and its rules, yet, timing and location matter.
For example, when I am in court I certainly do my best to pronounce those useless Rs that offen appear at the end of words. Intellectually I know it is "my brothER." Yet, if I pronounce that R when among family and friends they will think I have lost my mind or forgot where I came from. I have a motha, fatha, brotha, and sista. I know the term for sixty minutes is an "hour". Still, "owa" is likely to be heard in normal discourse.
On the flipside, if that "r" is missing at the end of a word and we think it should be there we will do our level best to put one in. My education and brain tell me that "FloriDA" is correct. Nevertheless, when I really get going you will undoubtedly hear "Florider." Forget ever hoping to hear that stupid, superfluous, "g" in words ending in "ing." What a waste of time and effort (BTW --that is pronounced "f-it" for brevity's sake). Speakin' and singin' work just fine. If you don't realize that "ayuh" can be meant in the positive and/or the negative (sometimes simultaneously) well, then you ain't from here. If you don't pronounce "cot" and "caught" exactly the same way just to confuse people, that is just wicked wrong.
So, while I love the formal rules of English, and while my brain knows the proper pronunciation of most words, fill the room with family and friends, or worse, throw on your sneekas kid, make a run to the packie and get us all some scotch, and you are very likely to need a translator. I am proud of my roots. These peculiarities in local dialects are one of the things that make life interesting. It is not good or bad--it just is.
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Post by goldenretrievermom on Feb 12, 2018 23:11:26 GMT -5
Did I really just read a post of bayou's that said " . . . me and the wife . . . ."?
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Post by Pixie on Feb 12, 2018 23:52:29 GMT -5
Did I really just read a post of bayou's that said " . . . me and the wife . . . ."? Uh, yes you did. I wasn't going to comment on it and hoped no one else saw it, but it is now apparent it has been spotted. |
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Post by advocatusdiaboli on Feb 13, 2018 1:47:46 GMT -5
I hate people who refer to lovers or paramours as a "friend." Do you live with anyone? I live with a friend. Do you have any children? Three. Who is the father/mother of these children? My friend.
I really do not object-or really even care-about the particulars of people's intimate lives, but both sense and sensibility dictate that any relationship involving an exchange of bodily fluids has surpassed the bounds of friendship.
In this regard, I always liked the Census Bureau's acronym POSSLQ-Person of the Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters-descriptive, but suitably ambiguous.
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Post by advocatusdiaboli on Feb 13, 2018 2:00:10 GMT -5
Also, people who confuse "imply" and "infer."
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Post by Pixie on Feb 13, 2018 8:33:33 GMT -5
Did I really just read a post of bayou's that said " . . . me and the wife . . . ."? And that wasn't the only error. Evidently he is baiting us—he and that complicit wife of his. I think she is the brains of the operation. Pixie |
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