I use "feb YOU airy" even though it seems wrong.
I didn't know people pronounced it another way. I mean, of course they do, but...still.
Angel: You know, I killed my actual dad. It was one of the first things I did when I became a vampire. Wesley: I hardly see how that's the same situation. Angel: Yeah. I didn't really think that one through.
'Lineage'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Polter-Cow - Feb 01, 2012 8:02:54 am PST #19544 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
§ ita § - Feb 01, 2012 8:06:43 am PST #19545 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
There's a little "r" in there. Discreet, polite, refined. But it's there. Come on. How else do we separate ourselves from the people we need to be separate from?
I think I've watched too much Blitz TV. IO9 has a post with golf rules from WWII about how to handle a bombing, and I think it's pretty unremarkable, but I've watched too many shows that make it look like people just brushed shrapnel off their shoulders and went on eating, rather than reacting like hell was raining down from the skies. Work that stiff upper lip, people.
Steph L. - Feb 01, 2012 8:17:32 am PST #19546 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
How else do we separate ourselves from the people we need to be separate from?
Dang, ita, you know the answer to this one!
Stabby motions. (Whether you are holding a stabby implement is entirely up to you.)
Jesse - Feb 01, 2012 8:17:48 am PST #19547 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
SILENT R.
Polter-Cow - Feb 01, 2012 8:20:02 am PST #19548 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Exactly, Jersse!!
tommyrot - Feb 01, 2012 8:21:58 am PST #19549 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
There are a number of words where the way I pronounce them feels wrong, but the alternative feels like an affectation.
My brain is weird.
Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 01, 2012 8:26:25 am PST #19550 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I thought it was pronounced Februany (any, five-dollar foor long)?
Kat - Feb 01, 2012 8:27:56 am PST #19551 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
ITA with Jesse - silent R in February BUT NOT a silent first R in library.
Strix - Feb 01, 2012 8:28:44 am PST #19552 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I say "Feb-YOU-airy" but I NEVER say "LIE-berry" or "warsh."
My mom is a well-spoken woman who reads voraciously but CANNOT eradicate "warsh" from her speech. It drives me crazy, but, hey, she's 68. So I'll roll with the "Feb-YOU-airy."
tommyrot - Feb 01, 2012 8:29:21 am PST #19553 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
silent R in February BUT NOT a silent first R in library.
Totes.
I don't wanna know what's in the lie-berry.