I love all the accents and all the pronunciations! And mispronunciations too. Except “supposably“ drives me 🦇 but that’s specifically because of someone truly terribly who said it that way.
Well, it's just good to know that when the chips are down and things look grim you'll feed off the girl who loves you to save your own ass!
Xander ,'Chosen'
Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
javachik - Feb 28, 2023 7:41:20 pm PST #20924 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
Trudy Booth - Feb 28, 2023 9:48:45 pm PST #20925 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
I just console myself that mispronouncing words you know the meaning of generally means you learned them from reading, not conversation.
Me toooo!
When I first read it I thought “semen” was pronounced “seh-min” and I still think my way is better.
JenP - Mar 01, 2023 9:15:27 am PST #20926 of 30000
I betcha actual seamen would appreciate that tweak, actually.
msbelle - Mar 01, 2023 10:10:31 am PST #20927 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Never heard or read or used the word Desultory that I recall, had no idea of pronunciation or meaning.
Also never seen or heard of Wimby.
I feel out of touch and poorly read.
-t - Mar 01, 2023 11:09:10 am PST #20928 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I had to google Wimby.
We are apparently not getting raises this year as word was we would be told about them prior to the March 1 paychecks and here it is payday and no raise. Which is not really surprising, we had a bad revenue year, but I'm annoyed that no one bothered to actually say so. Possibly they will mention it at the "town hall" in two weeks but I doubt it. Not putting me in a good mood for the upcoming employee engagement survey.
P.M. Marc - Mar 01, 2023 11:09:14 am PST #20929 of 30000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Never heard or read or used the word Desultory that I recall, had no idea of pronunciation or meaning.
I learned it from Simon and Garfunkle's A Simple Desultory Philippic (or How I Was Robert McNamara'd into Submission).
Kate P. - Mar 01, 2023 11:14:55 am PST #20930 of 30000
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
PMM, that's what "desultory" always makes me think of too!
-t - Mar 01, 2023 11:24:20 am PST #20931 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I never knew the title of that song. In fact, I might not have known it was Simon and Garfunkel, which does seem like a thing I should know.
It is still bugging me that I can't remember what song archipelago is in. I can almost hear the line, but not enough to identify anything and no more than that.
Dana - Mar 01, 2023 11:28:59 am PST #20932 of 30000
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
Damn, I haven't heard that song since...probably since I moved out, because it was on a record album my parents had.
EpicTangent - Mar 01, 2023 1:04:27 pm PST #20933 of 30000
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Turns out I'm also pronouncing desultory wrong - but I'm certain I've heard it pronounced that way before! So I think it's just going to be like "satiety" in that I'm going to choose to believe that my pronunciation is correct because the real pronunciation is dumb.