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How Germans Say "Squirrel."
"A Tramp Abroad" sits by the reading material in the bath
Ok so the first time I encountered the duel-syllabic pronunciation of "squerl" was with Brits. Sounds more like "skwee-rill" when my mates from Clapham said it.
What i can't figure out is why, "Al-u-Min-i-um?" An extra syllable AND but no extra vowel. I love it though-at least the Brits leave room for coloratura....pas comme les monstres de grammaire de la France
Here we go, level 2.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donaudampfschiffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft
"I can understand German as well as the maniac that invented it, but I talk it best through an interpreter."
- A Tramp Abroad
“Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Butter vs Margarine
This comment isn't so much directed at you as all of the internet.
Words in the English language often have alternate pronunciations that are totally acceptable and in a dictionary. Nitpicking alternate pronunciations is like complaining that someone's accent isn't as correct as yours.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/margarine
Mar-ga-REEN. Damn it.
Stand up Comic Demonstrates Difficulty to Learn Cantonese
That's the beauty of English, you can get pronunciation complacently incorrect, and even use the vaguely similar "vocal speak things" and the really most poor grammaticles and still be understood.
Stand up Comic Demonstrates Difficulty to Learn Cantonese
I've lived in HK for the past year and hear Cantonese constantly everyday. I've heard more than 15 different languages over many years and I can honestly say the only language that doesn't actually sound like it's real communication is Cantonese (due to the endlessly repeated similar sounds).
The speed at which it's spoken just compounds the difficulty to comprehend how everyone is actually understanding each other.
The closest I've been able to come to learning it so far is short specific/objective phrases, which I learn correct verbal usage by deliberately spelling the words wrong (phonically), using numbers and symbols in the middle of sentences so as to ensure I get the pronunciation right.
I will be asking a lot of people tomorrow to tell me how to say "9 old dogs bothering enough to get dumpling".. but I already suspect that what he's saying is legit.
Bill Burr on Abusing Women
I don't hate on Dane Cook because it's hip or in. I simply think he's not funny that relies on physical over-emphasis of uncreative observations. Hyperbolic pronunciations of words and repetitive loudness does not translate to funny.
And I, too, am a lover and connoisseur of stand-up. Have been since I was a kid.
He simply rode a wave of over-rated popularity. And now the rational comedy-lovers have pulled him back down to where he belongs - in the group of comedians who don't belong at the top.
xxovercastxx (Member Profile)
The latin pronunciation of the word would indeed be ow dee oh, meaning to hear or to listen to... it would certainly start ow, actually I'm not 100% sure of the last sound (which is missing in the car name anyway).
Correct or not for a German company, it is the latin pronunciation of a latin word which leads to the situation you are complaining about.
In the US, most people say "ow dee" but in Germany it's "aw dee". It's Latin for "Listen" and shares it's roots with "audio" which makes me think "aw dee" is correct. I've never heard anyone say "ow dee oh".
Walmart on strike
>> ^enoch:
you guys ever meet a slave so thoroughly convinced he was not a slave?
i present to you the comment above for your consideration.
Sorry man, but I feel a bit of investigative (British pronunciation) delving would find the long-winded My_design either a corporate shill or (insert other perceived derogatory corporate lackey chore) kin to the, oh-so-equitable and humanitarian Walton family of human garbage.
38 Seconds (Too Long) With Gustavo Almadovar
>> ^brycewi19:
It's the head-jerk to the left that makes it annoying and very pre-rehearsed.
I'm pretty sure head-jerk is part of the pronunciation.
Misconceptions About Temperature
>> ^raverman:
Why didn't i ever think of taking meat out of it's packet and putting it on a metal tray to defrost before now?
The kitchen sink works well for that but most people leave their meat in the styrene tray which is a pretty good insulator. ; )
Incidentally, alumium is the first pronunciation, but was later changed to aluminum, then aluminium by the guy who discovered it.
http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/aluminium.htm
Internationally, aluminium is the accepted spelling but aluminum is still strongly used in the US. Both are essentially correct as it's fairly common knowledge that they are the same thing, but it serves to be a bone of contention of course. ; )
Travel INSIDE a Black Hole
His pronunciation of the name Schwarzschild makes me cringe.
Herostratus (Member Profile)
You just made my day.
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Push '4' and '7' to hear them argue about pronunciation.
Captain Kirk Says "Sabotage"
Push '4' and '7' to hear them argue about pronunciation.
How Americans Sound To The British
I'm guessing that they're trying to give Americans a feeling for what it is like to listen to an American accent as a foreigner by mixing in gibberish words that still contain the American pronunciation features and also speaking their lines while using American sentence stress and intonation features. The result is a spoken dialogue that is mostly unintelligible in the sense that you can't pick out specific words but in general understandable in the sense that you can use the context cues, line delivery, and a few unchanged words to figure out what is going on.
If you've ever played any of the Sims games you should be familiar with the concept, as they did something similar with Simlish.
WikiWars - this should be a professional sport
>> ^jimnms:
>> ^lucky760:
>> ^brycewi19:
>> ^lucky760:
GIF isn't pronounced JIF, dummy-heads!
I know! I always have been pronouncing it with a hard "G", not a soft "G". If it were meant to be pronounced with a soft "G" then it would be spelled with a "J"!
Exactly. It's not called the Jraphics Interchange Format.
They'd probably also call that other image format "gay-pegs."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_Interchange_Format#Pronunciation a>
oooo Snap!
WikiWars - this should be a professional sport
>> ^lucky760:
>> ^brycewi19:
>> ^lucky760:
GIF isn't pronounced JIF, dummy-heads!
I know! I always have been pronouncing it with a hard "G", not a soft "G". If it were meant to be pronounced with a soft "G" then it would be spelled with a "J"!
Exactly. It's not called the Jraphics Interchange Format.
They'd probably also call that other image format "gay-pegs."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_Interchange_Format#Pronunciation