Sexy Shibboleths
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Something like this is a minor plot point in a Heinlein novel; an attempt to determine whether a person is a bad guy or not depends on whether he pronounces "Taliaferro" as it's spelled, or as "tolliver."
As noted by @buddy 5 hrs ago in the topic title, 'shibboleth' is the general term for this, and goes back as far as Judges 12:5–6.
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I'm sure most of you have already seen this:
Got multiple
"Unknown error saving post, try again. Error: 0 error" doing that.
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TDEMSYR. Some of the pronunciations sort of make sense — they're lazy and leave out consonants or entire syllables. But this not only leaves out something like two and a half syllables, it ADDS sounds for letters that aren't in the word.
Take Woolfardisworthy. That's pronounced "Woolsery".
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Łódź - roughly "woodsh".
Polish is pretty weird in pronounciation.
Danish is strange as well. "Dag" for "day" can be pronounced like the english "day" or like "dou" (ou like in pouch). Consonants have a tendency to be silent and the "d" sound in "med" (with) is a sort of weird mixture between "th" (as in "though") and a silent letter that apparently only Danes can pronounce correctly.
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Filed under: .. people try to pronounce "Worcestershire Sauce";
What's-this-here-sauce.
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Ahhh WOOster.
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"pass me the woo, worch., screw it, pass the A-1 steak sauce.:"
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"pass me the woo, worch., screw it, pass the A-1 steak sauce.:"
"How do I get toAberaistwaithAberyüstwüththis-place-here?" (person points at Aberystwyth on a map)
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Polish is pretty weird in pronounciation.
I suspect that, like with Gaelic, whoever mapped the sounds onto the Latin alphabet chose poorly.
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Also, can we stop putting "sexy" in front of everything? It's long past getting tedious.
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we sexy still think it's sexy fun!
so sexy no?
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I have literally done about 3 of these.
sexy is now part of the community here, and those who dislike it must learn to tolerate it, just like bots, and infinniscroll, and discourse.
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sexy is now part of the community here, and those who dislike it must learn to tolerate it, just like bots, and infinniscroll, and discourse.
+ sexy 63!
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Also, can we stop putting "sexy" in front of everything? It's long past getting tedious.
It also alliterates alot.
But not always.
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"How do I get to <s>Aberaistwaith</s> <s>Aberyüstwüth</s> this-place-here?" (person points at Aberystwyth on a map)
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Just as you say, sir.
I'm sorry, Jeeves, I misspelled your name before, what a bounder and a cad I am!
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I'm sorry, Jeeves, I misspelled your name before, what a bounder and a cad I am!
I fear so, sir.
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i dunno.... because japan?
seriously. that place is both weird and awesome!
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I think it looks more pleasantly surprised than scared ...
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It's probably that I can't get myself to like the new emojis, no matter what :-(
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i hope to have time this weekend to fix that, in the form of a userscript.
so fear not good citizen! help is coming!
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Well, you can use the fakemoji™ template on my profile to use other images as emojis until @accalia's userscript is done.
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As an English English-speaker, and having had a mother who is an English English teacher, I can assure you that there is nothing wrong with the use of the word "told" rather than, say "said," in that sentence.
The use of "job" on the other hand is incorrect.
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Why does the emoji looks rather shocked?
Because it walked in on your mom and the mailman. They where ... euh ... sorting the mail!
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, I can assure you that there is nothing wrong with the use of the word "told" rather than, say "said," in that sentence.
Meh. Maybe "by default" is better than "right/wrong", then. All I am saying as I have never heard anyone, native speaker or otherwise, use that construct, other than Indians, and I find it interesting in a linguistoarchaelogical sense.
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Meh. Maybe "by default" is better than "right/wrong", then. All I am saying as I have never heard anyone, native speaker or otherwise, use that construct, other than Indians, and I find it interesting in a linguistoarchaelogical sense.
But he's also talking about the way Limey's talk, and they're already a bit weird.
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But he's also talking about the way Limey's talk, and they're already a bit weird.
Gor Blimey guv'nor, I fink you're telling porkies up the apples and pears
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But he's also talking about the way Limey's talk, and they're already a bit weird.
I've never heard a Britster (or Irish) person say that, either. Ditto Japanese and Chinese people, Germans and other miscellaneous Europeans, or Turks. But I think all the Indian people I've spent a non-trivial amount of time talking to do it. That's what fascinates me about it.
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That's what fascinates me about it.
There's a lot to be said for being easily amused.
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mamgle is roughly pronounced mahm gleh and literally means motherfucker.
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The use of "job" on the other hand is incorrect.
Ah, but what if they're only doing the needful!?
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WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE!!!!!!
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There was a chain in Central PA, Western Sizzlin', I think, that had the best...
"Sizzlin' Sauce"
No, never for a steak. A dash for your burger, if you like, and then it goes on your fries.