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YOUHAVENOHOPE 02/05/18 7:04:32 AM #1:	why the fuck are you still writing those words out with those Ks then seems silly to me comeon man... --- http://i.imgur.com/kpXTakw.gif http://i.imgur.com/Pto3yPa.jpg http://media.giphy.com/media/NBVBnHv8bV13q/giphy.gif <cite>YOUHAVENOHOPE posted [p:895493157] in TIL I lear... [t:76285052]...</cite> <quote>why the fuck are you still writing those words out with those Ks then seems silly to me comeon man...</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
DocileOrangeCup 02/05/18 7:05:06 AM #2:	Bo choi --- https://i.imgtc.com/usDFlRA.jpg https://i.imgtc.com/GSrk8Nh.jpg https://i.imgtc.com/yo9VSX9.jpg https://i.imgtc.com/BnnNepT.jpg this space for rent (really) <cite>DocileOrangeCup posted [p:895493167] in TIL I lear... [t:76285052]...</cite> <quote>Bo choi</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
scar the 1 02/05/18 7:12:18 AM #3:	You learned that today? That's like... really basic knowledge. --- Everything has an end, except for the sausage. It has two. <cite>scar the 1 posted [p:895493319] in TIL I lear... [t:76285052]...</cite> <quote>You learned that today? That's like... really basic knowledge.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
omega cookie 02/05/18 7:13:49 AM #4:	What a shitty gimmick. --- FFRK: BRKB - Eiko - Guardian Mog FFBE: 885,063,087 - Orlandeau - 931 ATK <cite>omega cookie posted [p:895493348] in TIL I lear... [t:76285052]...</cite> <quote>What a shitty gimmick.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Yomi 02/05/18 7:15:43 AM #5:	I flipped out once I learned that you are not supposed to pronounce the L in "salmon." In Spanish we say "salmn" with all the letters clearly spelled out so it never even crossed my mind >_> I also didn't know the correct pronunciation of "gauge" until like two months ago, I was foolishly pronouncing the "gau" just like in "gauntlet." lol. --- .0027 \| Helicopters fly over the beach, Same time every day, same routine. <cite>Yomi posted [p:895493389] in TIL I lear... [t:76285052]...</cite> <quote>I flipped out once I learned that you are not supposed to pronounce the L in "salmon." In Spanish we say "salmn" with all the letters clearly spelled out so it never even crossed my mind >_> I also didn't know the correct pronunciation of "gauge" until like two months ago, I was foolishly pronouncing the "gau" just like in "gauntlet." lol.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
scar the 1 02/05/18 7:17:00 AM #6:	Yomi posted... I also didn't know the correct pronunciation of "gauge" until like two months ago, I was foolishly pronouncing the "gau" just like in "gauntlet." lol. I still read it like that in my head. Part of me believes that it's actually not wrong to pronounce it like that, only that "gage" is accepted too. But only part of me. --- Everything has an end, except for the sausage. It has two. <cite>scar the 1 posted [p:895493423] in TIL I lear... [t:76285052]...</cite> <quote><cite>Yomi posted...</cite> <quote>I also didn't know the correct pronunciation of "gauge" until like two months ago, I was foolishly pronouncing the "gau" just like in "gauntlet." lol.</quote> I still read it like that in my head. Part of me believes that it's actually not wrong to pronounce it like that, only that "gage" is accepted too. But only part of me.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Garioshi 02/05/18 7:17:23 AM #7:	english is the least phonetic language ever --- <cite>Garioshi posted [p:895493430] in TIL I lear... [t:76285052]...</cite> <quote>english is the least phonetic language ever</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Polycosm 02/05/18 7:20:05 AM #8:	scar the 1 posted... You learned that today? That's like... really basic knowledge. pronounced kuh-nawledge --- BKSheikah owned me so thoroughly in the 2017 guru contest, I'd swear he used the Lens of Truth to pick his bracket. (thengamer.com/guru) <cite>Polycosm posted [p:895493488] in TIL I lear... [t:76285052]...</cite> <quote><cite>scar the 1 posted...</cite> <quote>You learned that today? That's like... really basic knowledge.</quote> pronounced kuh-nawledge</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Hornezz 02/05/18 7:23:21 AM #9:	Comb, tomb and bomb should rhyme, really. --- In dentibus anticis frustum magnum spinaciae habes. <cite>Hornezz posted [p:895493544] in TIL I lear... [t:76285052]...</cite> <quote>Comb, tomb and bomb should rhyme, really.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
flat_tyre 02/05/18 7:24:34 AM #10:	Yomi posted... I flipped out once I learned that you are not supposed to pronounce the L in "salmon." In Spanish we say "salmn" with all the letters clearly spelled out so it never even crossed my mind >_> I also didn't know the correct pronunciation of "gauge" until like two months ago, I was foolishly pronouncing the "gau" just like in "gauntlet." lol. Our language really is screwed up :o can't blame you for that at all. I wonder... if you wrote the word "queue" and showed it to someone learning English, how many of them would pronounce it right?? --- < < < A BOOTS WAS PILFERED! > > > - Fire Emblem <cite>flat_tyre posted [p:895493567] in TIL I lear... [t:76285052]...</cite> <quote><cite>Yomi posted...</cite> <quote>I flipped out once I learned that you are not supposed to pronounce the L in "salmon." In Spanish we say "salmn" with all the letters clearly spelled out so it never even crossed my mind >_> I also didn't know the correct pronunciation of "gauge" until like two months ago, I was foolishly pronouncing the "gau" just like in "gauntlet." lol.</quote> Our language really is screwed up :o can't blame you for that at all. I wonder... if you wrote the word "queue" and showed it to someone learning English, how many of them would pronounce it right??</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
YOUHAVENOHOPE 02/05/18 8:14:24 AM #11:	I don't get why English speakers dont just make up a new word if they're just gonna pronounce it wrongly --- http://i.imgur.com/kpXTakw.gif http://i.imgur.com/Pto3yPa.jpg http://media.giphy.com/media/NBVBnHv8bV13q/giphy.gif <cite>YOUHAVENOHOPE posted [p:895494756] in TIL I lear... [t:76285052]...</cite> <quote>I don't get why English speakers dont just make up a new word if they're just gonna pronounce it wrongly</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
TrojanPony 02/05/18 8:16:45 AM #12:	The K wasn't always silent. It's vestigial. --- "GameFAQs isn't going to be merged in with GameSpot or any other site. We're not going to strip out the soul of the site." - CJayC <cite>TrojanPony posted [p:895494819] in TIL I lear... [t:76285052]...</cite> <quote>The K wasn't always silent. It's vestigial.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
YOUHAVENOHOPE 02/05/18 8:19:50 AM #13:	@iClockwork what do you think about this --- http://i.imgur.com/kpXTakw.gif http://i.imgur.com/Pto3yPa.jpg http://media.giphy.com/media/NBVBnHv8bV13q/giphy.gif <cite>YOUHAVENOHOPE posted [p:895494891] in TIL I lear... [t:76285052]...</cite> <quote>@iClockwork what do you think about this</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
A5modeu5 02/05/18 8:22:33 AM #14:	Dearest creature in creation, Study English pronunciation. I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse. I will keep you, Suzy, busy, Make your head with heat grow dizzy. Tear in eye, your dress will tear. So shall I! Oh hear my prayer. Just compare heart, beard, and heard, Dies and diet, lord and word, Sword and sward, retain and Britain. (Mind the latter, how it's written.) Now I surely will not plague you With such words as plaque and ague. But be careful how you speak: Say break and steak, but bleak and streak; Cloven, oven, how and low, Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe. Hear me say, devoid of trickery, Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore, Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles, Exiles, similes, and reviles; Scholar, vicar, and cigar, Solar, mica, war and far; One, anemone, Balmoral, Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel; Gertrude, German, wind and mind, Scene, Melpomene, mankind. Billet does not rhyme with ballet, Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet. Blood and flood are not like food, Nor is mould like should and would. Viscous, viscount, load and broad, Toward, to forward, to reward. And your pronunciation's OK When you correctly say croquet, Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve, Friend and fiend, alive and live. Ivy, privy, famous; clamour And enamour rhyme with hammer. River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb, Doll and roll and some and home. Stranger does not rhyme with anger, Neither does devour with clangour. Souls but foul, haunt but aunt, Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant, Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger, And then singer, ginger, linger, Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge, Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age. Query does not rhyme with very, Nor does fury sound like bury. Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth. Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath. Though the differences seem little, We say actual but victual. Refer does not rhyme with deafer. Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer. Mint, pint, senate and sedate; Dull, bull, and George ate late. Scenic, Arabic, Pacific, Science, conscience, scientific. Liberty, library, heave and heaven, Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven. We say hallowed, but allowed, People, leopard, towed, but vowed. Mark the differences, moreover, Between mover, cover, clover; Leeches, breeches, wise, precise, Chalice, but police and lice; Camel, constable, unstable, Principle, disciple, label. Petal, panel, and canal, Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal. Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair, Senator, spectator, mayor. Tour, but our and succour, four. Gas, alas, and Arkansas. Sea, idea, Korea, area, Psalm, Maria, but malaria. Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean. Doctrine, turpentine, marine. Compare alien with Italian, Dandelion and battalion. Sally with ally, yea, ye, Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key. Say aver, but ever, fever, Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver. Heron, granary, canary. Crevice and device and aerie. Face, but preface, not efface. Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass. Large, but target, gin, give, verging, Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging. Ear, but earn and wear and tear Do not rhyme with here but ere. Seven is right, but so is even, Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen, Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk, Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work. --- --- http://backloggery.com/a5modeu5/sig.gif <cite>A5modeu5 posted [p:895494955] in TIL I lear... [t:76285052]...</cite> <quote>Dearest creature in creation, Study English pronunciation. I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse. I will keep you, Suzy, busy, Make your head with heat grow dizzy. Tear in eye, your dress will tear. So shall I! Oh hear my prayer. Just compare heart, beard, and heard, Dies and diet, lord and word, Sword and sward, retain and Britain. (Mind the latter, how it's written.) Now I surely will not plague you With such words as plaque and ague. But be careful how you speak: Say break and steak, but bleak and streak; Cloven, oven, how and low, Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe. Hear me say, devoid of trickery, Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore, Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles, Exiles, similes, and reviles; Scholar, vicar, and cigar, Solar, mica, war and far; One, anemone, Balmoral, Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel; Gertrude, German, wind and mind, Scene, Melpomene, mankind. Billet does not rhyme with ballet, Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet. Blood and flood are not like food, Nor is mould like should and would. Viscous, viscount, load and broad, Toward, to forward, to reward. And your pronunciation's OK When you correctly say croquet, Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve, Friend and fiend, alive and live. Ivy, privy, famous; clamour And enamour rhyme with hammer. River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb, Doll and roll and some and home. Stranger does not rhyme with anger, Neither does devour with clangour. Souls but foul, haunt but aunt, Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant, Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger, And then singer, ginger, linger, Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge, Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age. Query does not rhyme with very, Nor does fury sound like bury. Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth. Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath. Though the differences seem little, We say actual but victual. Refer does not rhyme with deafer. Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer. Mint, pint, senate and sedate; Dull, bull, and George ate late. Scenic, Arabic, Pacific, Science, conscience, scientific. Liberty, library, heave and heaven, Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven. We say hallowed, but allowed, People, leopard, towed, but vowed. Mark the differences, moreover, Between mover, cover, clover; Leeches, breeches, wise, precise, Chalice, but police and lice; Camel, constable, unstable, Principle, disciple, label. Petal, panel, and canal, Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal. Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair, Senator, spectator, mayor. Tour, but our and succour, four. Gas, alas, and Arkansas. Sea, idea, Korea, area, Psalm, Maria, but malaria. Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean. Doctrine, turpentine, marine. Compare alien with Italian, Dandelion and battalion. Sally with ally, yea, ye, Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key. Say aver, but ever, fever, Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver. Heron, granary, canary. Crevice and device and aerie. Face, but preface, not efface. Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass. Large, but target, gin, give, verging, Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging. Ear, but earn and wear and tear Do not rhyme with here but ere. Seven is right, but so is even, Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen, Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk, Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
flat_tyre 02/05/18 8:31:48 AM #15:	See? People here are capable of writing works of art when inspired by ce. :D >_> --- < < < A BOOTS WAS PILFERED! > > > - Fire Emblem <cite>flat_tyre posted [p:895495247] in TIL I lear... [t:76285052]...</cite> <quote>See? People here are capable of writing works of art when inspired by ce. :D >_></quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
DevsBro 02/05/18 8:41:46 AM #16:	It's because English is such a mismash of other languages. This is why in spelling bees they'll sometimes ask for the origin of the word. So if it's French, they'll know that long O sound is like forty letters (French is the worst language ever. Fun fact, the dumbass "chic" word that wannabe fancy people write and that dumbass "sheek" word that wannabe fancy people say are the same word). English does have phonics that apply in most cases, but they're really complicated, have a lot of ifs in them. Like in the word "frame," the e at the end is silent, by the same rule as in "scene", "bone", "shine" and "tune". This is also why spelling bees can even be a thing, beyond trivia or whatever --- http://backloggery.com/devsbro/sig.gif http://i.imgur.com/kU5vu5N.png Never pepper popcorn <cite>DevsBro posted [p:895495545] in TIL I lear... [t:76285052]...</cite> <quote>It's because English is such a mismash of other languages. This is why in spelling bees they'll sometimes ask for the origin of the word. So if it's French, they'll know that long O sound is like forty letters (French is the worst language ever. Fun fact, the dumbass "chic" word that wannabe fancy people write and that dumbass "sheek" word that wannabe fancy people say are the same word). English does have phonics that apply in most cases, but they're really complicated, have a lot of ifs in them. Like in the word "frame," the e at the end is silent, by the same rule as in "scene", "bone", "shine" and "tune". This is also why spelling bees can even be a thing, beyond trivia or whatever</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
iClockwork 02/05/18 8:42:43 AM #17:	YOUHAVENOHOPE posted... @iClockwork what do you think about this I think the meltdown is uneeded. --- Sometimes people come along and they want to change things. I am one of those people and I will assist in furthering our country for the better. - Xsquader <cite>iClockwork posted [p:895495565] in TIL I lear... [t:76285052]...</cite> <quote><cite>YOUHAVENOHOPE posted...</cite> <quote>@iClockwork what do you think about this</quote> I think the meltdown is uneeded.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
YOUHAVENOHOPE 02/05/18 8:51:04 AM #18:	DevsBro posted... It's because English is such a mismash of other languages. <_< well actually the silent K is a direct descendant of German but i mean, you're not wrong --- http://i.imgur.com/kpXTakw.gif http://i.imgur.com/Pto3yPa.jpg http://media.giphy.com/media/NBVBnHv8bV13q/giphy.gif <cite>YOUHAVENOHOPE posted [p:895495835] in TIL I lear... [t:76285052]...</cite> <quote><cite>DevsBro posted...</cite> <quote>It's because English is such a mismash of other languages. </quote> <_< well actually the silent K is a direct descendant of German but i mean, you're not wrong</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
flat_tyre 02/05/18 8:51:39 AM #19:	DevsBro posted... French is the worst language ever. French is awesome, probably the nicest souding language I've ever heard. Fun fact - everyone gets 10x sexier when they speak French. --- < < < A BOOTS WAS PILFERED! > > > - Fire Emblem <cite>flat_tyre posted [p:895495854] in TIL I lear... [t:76285052]...</cite> <quote><cite>DevsBro posted...</cite> <quote>French is the worst language ever.</quote> French is awesome, probably the nicest souding language I've ever heard. Fun fact - everyone gets 10x sexier when they speak French.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
scar the 1 02/05/18 9:15:08 AM #20:	French pronunciation is quite consistent! --- Everything has an end, except for the sausage. It has two. <cite>scar the 1 posted [p:895496616] in TIL I lear... [t:76285052]...</cite> <quote>French pronunciation is quite consistent!</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
DevsBro 02/05/18 9:16:39 AM #21:	French pronunciation is quite consistent! It can be consistent all it wants. It's still ridiculous. --- http://backloggery.com/devsbro/sig.gif http://i.imgur.com/kU5vu5N.png Never pepper popcorn <cite>DevsBro posted [p:895496660] in TIL I lear... [t:76285052]...</cite> <quote><quote>French pronunciation is quite consistent!</quote> It can be consistent all it wants. It's still ridiculous.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
scar the 1 02/05/18 9:50:58 AM #22:	DevsBro posted... French pronunciation is quite consistent! It can be consistent all it wants. It's still ridiculous. ~~that's racist~~ --- Everything has an end, except for the sausage. It has two. <cite>scar the 1 posted [p:895497947] in TIL I lear... [t:76285052]...</cite> <quote><cite>DevsBro posted...</cite> <quote><quote>French pronunciation is quite consistent!</quote> It can be consistent all it wants. It's still ridiculous.</quote> that's racist</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
teepan95 02/05/18 10:05:09 AM #23:	YOUHAVENOHOPE posted... DevsBro posted... It's because English is such a mismash of other languages. <_< well actually the silent K is a direct descendant of German but i mean, you're not wrong The German word for knee is Knie. The k is not silent --- I use Gameraven and you should too. #desisoyboy <cite>teepan95 posted [p:895498496] in TIL I lear... [t:76285052]...</cite> <quote><cite>YOUHAVENOHOPE posted...</cite> <quote><cite>DevsBro posted...</cite> <quote> It's because English is such a mismash of other languages. </quote> <_< well actually the silent K is a direct descendant of German but i mean, you're not wrong</quote> The German word for knee is Knie. The k is not silent</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Tezlok 02/05/18 10:13:02 AM #24:	I usually defend TC but not this time I don't believe him How could he just now know that you don't say the K? Has he never heard someone say those words out loud before? I think he is lying <cite>Tezlok posted [p:895498818] in TIL I lear... [t:76285052]...</cite> <quote>I usually defend TC but not this time I don't believe him How could he just now know that you don't say the K? Has he never heard someone say those words out loud before? I think he is lying</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
YOUHAVENOHOPE 02/05/18 10:20:14 AM #25:	teepan95 posted... YOUHAVENOHOPE posted... DevsBro posted... It's because English is such a mismash of other languages. <_< well actually the silent K is a direct descendant of German but i mean, you're not wrong The German word for knee is Knie. The k is not silent i meant that the K comes from German I left off "...where they pronounce the K" --- http://i.imgur.com/kpXTakw.gif http://i.imgur.com/Pto3yPa.jpg http://media.giphy.com/media/NBVBnHv8bV13q/giphy.gif <cite>YOUHAVENOHOPE posted [p:895499156] in TIL I lear... [t:76285052]...</cite> <quote><cite>teepan95 posted...</cite> <quote><cite>YOUHAVENOHOPE posted...</cite> <quote><cite>DevsBro posted...</cite> <quote> It's because English is such a mismash of other languages. </quote> <_< well actually the silent K is a direct descendant of German but i mean, you're not wrong</quote> The German word for knee is Knie. The k is not silent</quote> i meant that the K comes from German I left off "...where they pronounce the K"</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
teepan95 02/05/18 1:05:54 PM #26:	YOUHAVENOHOPE posted... teepan95 posted... YOUHAVENOHOPE posted... DevsBro posted... It's because English is such a mismash of other languages. <_< well actually the silent K is a direct descendant of German but i mean, you're not wrong The German word for knee is Knie. The k is not silent i meant that the K comes from German I left off "...where they pronounce the K" Oh I see. Fun fact: I can't pronounce the 'ch' in words like "milch" correctly. I pronounce it "sch" like "schule" --- I use Gameraven and you should too. #desisoyboy <cite>teepan95 posted [p:895507714] in TIL I lear... [t:76285052]...</cite> <quote><cite>YOUHAVENOHOPE posted...</cite> <quote><cite>teepan95 posted...</cite> <quote> <cite>YOUHAVENOHOPE posted...</cite> <quote> <cite>DevsBro posted...</cite> <quote> It's because English is such a mismash of other languages. </quote> <_< well actually the silent K is a direct descendant of German but i mean, you're not wrong </quote> The German word for knee is Knie. The k is not silent</quote> i meant that the K comes from German I left off "...where they pronounce the K"</quote> Oh I see. Fun fact: I can't pronounce the 'ch' in words like "milch" correctly. I pronounce it "sch" like "schule"</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
scar the 1 02/05/18 1:18:28 PM #27:	teepan95 posted... YOUHAVENOHOPE posted... teepan95 posted... YOUHAVENOHOPE posted... DevsBro posted... It's because English is such a mismash of other languages. <_< well actually the silent K is a direct descendant of German but i mean, you're not wrong The German word for knee is Knie. The k is not silent i meant that the K comes from German I left off "...where they pronounce the K" Oh I see. Fun fact: I can't pronounce the 'ch' in words like "milch" correctly. I pronounce it "sch" like "schule" Is it supposed to be the ach-laut like in Bach or the ich-laut like in ich and zwanzig? --- Everything has an end, except for the sausage. It has two. <cite>scar the 1 posted [p:895508441] in TIL I lear... [t:76285052]...</cite> <quote><cite>teepan95 posted...</cite> <quote><cite>YOUHAVENOHOPE posted...</cite> <quote><cite>teepan95 posted...</cite> <quote> <cite>YOUHAVENOHOPE posted...</cite> <quote> <cite>DevsBro posted...</cite> <quote> It's because English is such a mismash of other languages. </quote> <_< well actually the silent K is a direct descendant of German but i mean, you're not wrong </quote> The German word for knee is Knie. The k is not silent</quote> i meant that the K comes from German I left off "...where they pronounce the K"</quote> Oh I see. Fun fact: I can't pronounce the 'ch' in words like "milch" correctly. I pronounce it "sch" like "schule"</quote> Is it supposed to be the ach-laut like in Bach or the ich-laut like in ich and zwanzig?</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
orcus_snake 02/05/18 1:23:52 PM #28:	flat_tyre posted... Yomi posted... I flipped out once I learned that you are not supposed to pronounce the L in "salmon." In Spanish we say "salmn" with all the letters clearly spelled out so it never even crossed my mind >_> I also didn't know the correct pronunciation of "gauge" until like two months ago, I was foolishly pronouncing the "gau" just like in "gauntlet." lol. Our language really is screwed up :o can't blame you for that at all. I wonder... if you wrote the word "queue" and showed it to someone learning English, how many of them would pronounce it right?? I just say "Q" and call it a day :v --- "Warwick are you jungling" "No I'm standing by the wolves because I miss my family" <cite>orcus_snake posted [p:895508751] in TIL I lear... [t:76285052]...</cite> <quote><cite>flat_tyre posted...</cite> <quote><cite>Yomi posted...</cite> <quote>I flipped out once I learned that you are not supposed to pronounce the L in "salmon." In Spanish we say "salmn" with all the letters clearly spelled out so it never even crossed my mind >_> I also didn't know the correct pronunciation of "gauge" until like two months ago, I was foolishly pronouncing the "gau" just like in "gauntlet." lol.</quote> Our language really is screwed up :o can't blame you for that at all. I wonder... if you wrote the word "queue" and showed it to someone learning English, how many of them would pronounce it right??</quote> I just say "Q" and call it a day :v</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
orcus_snake 02/05/18 1:25:55 PM #29:	Also when you are listing a group that includes you do you say: X, Y, Z, and myself/ me/ I? --- "Warwick are you jungling" "No I'm standing by the wolves because I miss my family" <cite>orcus_snake posted [p:895508868] in TIL I lear... [t:76285052]...</cite> <quote>Also when you are listing a group that includes you do you say: X, Y, Z, and myself/ me/ I?</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
kirbymuncher 02/05/18 1:27:59 PM #30:	DevsBro posted... So if it's French, they'll know that long O sound is like forty letters (French is the worst language ever. Fun fact, the dumbass "chic" word that wannabe fancy people write and that dumbass "sheek" word that wannabe fancy people say are the same word). it's kinda funny you hate on french for this when pronouncing things in french is actually quite easy once you know a few rules of how letter combos work. french has a lot of annoying parts imo but being able to read a word and know how to say it is one of the parts it definitely gets right --- THIS IS WHAT I HATE A BOUT EVREY WEBSITE!! THERES SO MUCH PEOPLE READING AND POSTING STUIPED STUFF <cite>kirbymuncher posted [p:895508997] in TIL I lear... [t:76285052]...</cite> <quote><cite>DevsBro posted...</cite> <quote>So if it's French, they'll know that long O sound is like forty letters (French is the worst language ever. Fun fact, the dumbass "chic" word that wannabe fancy people write and that dumbass "sheek" word that wannabe fancy people say are the same word). </quote> it's kinda funny you hate on french for this when pronouncing things in french is actually quite easy once you know a few rules of how letter combos work. french has a lot of annoying parts imo but being able to read a word and know how to say it is one of the parts it definitely gets right</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
teepan95 02/05/18 1:53:17 PM #31:	scar the 1 posted... teepan95 posted... YOUHAVENOHOPE posted... teepan95 posted... YOUHAVENOHOPE posted... DevsBro posted... It's because English is such a mismash of other languages. <_< well actually the silent K is a direct descendant of German but i mean, you're not wrong The German word for knee is Knie. The k is not silent i meant that the K comes from German I left off "...where they pronounce the K" Oh I see. Fun fact: I can't pronounce the 'ch' in words like "milch" correctly. I pronounce it "sch" like "schule" Is it supposed to be the ach-laut like in Bach or the ich-laut like in ich and zwanzig? The latter --- I use Gameraven and you should too. #desisoyboy <cite>teepan95 posted [p:895510471] in TIL I lear... [t:76285052]...</cite> <quote><cite>scar the 1 posted...</cite> <quote><cite>teepan95 posted...</cite> <quote> <cite>YOUHAVENOHOPE posted...</cite> <quote> <cite>teepan95 posted...</cite> <quote> <cite>YOUHAVENOHOPE posted...</cite> <quote> <cite>DevsBro posted...</cite> <quote> It's because English is such a mismash of other languages. </quote> <_< well actually the silent K is a direct descendant of German but i mean, you're not wrong </quote> The German word for knee is Knie. The k is not silent </quote> i meant that the K comes from German I left off "...where they pronounce the K" </quote> Oh I see. Fun fact: I can't pronounce the 'ch' in words like "milch" correctly. I pronounce it "sch" like "schule"</quote> Is it supposed to be the ach-laut like in Bach or the ich-laut like in ich and zwanzig?</quote> The latter</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
r4X0r 02/05/18 2:04:48 PM #32:	DevsBro posted... It's because English is such a mismash of other languages. This is why in spelling bees they'll sometimes ask for the origin of the word. So if it's French, they'll know that long O sound is like forty letters (French is the worst language ever. Fun fact, the dumbass "chic" word that wannabe fancy people write and that dumbass "sheek" word that wannabe fancy people say are the same word). English does have phonics that apply in most cases, but they're really complicated, have a lot of ifs in them. Like in the word "frame," the e at the end is silent, by the same rule as in "scene", "bone", "shine" and "tune". This is also why spelling bees can even be a thing, beyond trivia or whatever The e at the end is silent because it's a signal letter which combined with the single consonant indicates the long vowel sound in all of those examples. It's why shine and shin sound the ways they do, as well as the archaic "shinne." Take the British spelling of the word "programme." The double m means the short a. We just simplified it in American English. Tone and tonne is another example. --- Smiled as fierce as a forty pounder. <cite>r4X0r posted [p:895511194] in TIL I lear... [t:76285052]...</cite> <quote><cite>DevsBro posted...</cite> <quote>It's because English is such a mismash of other languages. This is why in spelling bees they'll sometimes ask for the origin of the word. So if it's French, they'll know that long O sound is like forty letters (French is the worst language ever. Fun fact, the dumbass "chic" word that wannabe fancy people write and that dumbass "sheek" word that wannabe fancy people say are the same word). English does have phonics that apply in most cases, but they're really complicated, have a lot of ifs in them. Like in the word "frame," the e at the end is silent, by the same rule as in "scene", "bone", "shine" and "tune". This is also why spelling bees can even be a thing, beyond trivia or whatever</quote> The e at the end is silent because it's a signal letter which combined with the single consonant indicates the long vowel sound in all of those examples. It's why shine and shin sound the ways they do, as well as the archaic "shinne." Take the British spelling of the word "programme." The double m means the short a. We just simplified it in American English. Tone and tonne is another example.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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scar the 1 02/05/18 2:07:38 PM #34:	teepan95 posted... scar the 1 posted... teepan95 posted... YOUHAVENOHOPE posted... teepan95 posted... YOUHAVENOHOPE posted... DevsBro posted... It's because English is such a mismash of other languages. <_< well actually the silent K is a direct descendant of German but i mean, you're not wrong The German word for knee is Knie. The k is not silent i meant that the K comes from German I left off "...where they pronounce the K" Oh I see. Fun fact: I can't pronounce the 'ch' in words like "milch" correctly. I pronounce it "sch" like "schule" Is it supposed to be the ach-laut like in Bach or the ich-laut like in ich and zwanzig? The latter It's inconceivable to me how people can struggle with that sound. But then again, it's also inconceivable how they can struggle with s or the rolling r, and I'm quite content with realizing that different sounds are differently easy to produce for different people. --- Everything has an end, except for the sausage. It has two. <cite>scar the 1 posted [p:895511391] in TIL I lear... [t:76285052]...</cite> <quote><cite>teepan95 posted...</cite> <quote><cite>scar the 1 posted...</cite> <quote><cite>teepan95 posted...</cite> <quote> <cite>YOUHAVENOHOPE posted...</cite> <quote> <cite>teepan95 posted...</cite> <quote> <cite>YOUHAVENOHOPE posted...</cite> <quote> <cite>DevsBro posted...</cite> <quote> It's because English is such a mismash of other languages. </quote> <_< well actually the silent K is a direct descendant of German but i mean, you're not wrong </quote> The German word for knee is Knie. The k is not silent </quote> i meant that the K comes from German I left off "...where they pronounce the K" </quote> Oh I see. Fun fact: I can't pronounce the 'ch' in words like "milch" correctly. I pronounce it "sch" like "schule"</quote> Is it supposed to be the ach-laut like in Bach or the ich-laut like in ich and zwanzig?</quote> The latter</quote> It's inconceivable to me how people can struggle with that sound. But then again, it's also inconceivable how they can struggle with s or the rolling r, and I'm quite content with realizing that different sounds are differently easy to produce for different people.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
r4X0r 02/05/18 2:10:54 PM #35:	teepan95 posted... YOUHAVENOHOPE posted... teepan95 posted... YOUHAVENOHOPE posted... DevsBro posted... It's because English is such a mismash of other languages. <_< well actually the silent K is a direct descendant of German but i mean, you're not wrong The German word for knee is Knie. The k is not silent i meant that the K comes from German I left off "...where they pronounce the K" Oh I see. Fun fact: I can't pronounce the 'ch' in words like "milch" correctly. I pronounce it "sch" like "schule" There's multiple accents and multiple ways to pronounce that sound. Somebody from Schwerin and somebody from Frankfurt and somebody from Munich are going to say that word differently. --- Smiled as fierce as a forty pounder. <cite>r4X0r posted [p:895511580] in TIL I lear... [t:76285052]...</cite> <quote><cite>teepan95 posted...</cite> <quote><cite>YOUHAVENOHOPE posted...</cite> <quote><cite>teepan95 posted...</cite> <quote> <cite>YOUHAVENOHOPE posted...</cite> <quote> <cite>DevsBro posted...</cite> <quote> It's because English is such a mismash of other languages. </quote> <_< well actually the silent K is a direct descendant of German but i mean, you're not wrong </quote> The German word for knee is Knie. The k is not silent</quote> i meant that the K comes from German I left off "...where they pronounce the K"</quote> Oh I see. Fun fact: I can't pronounce the 'ch' in words like "milch" correctly. I pronounce it "sch" like "schule"</quote> There's multiple accents and multiple ways to pronounce that sound. Somebody from Schwerin and somebody from Frankfurt and somebody from Munich are going to say that word differently.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
teepan95 02/05/18 2:50:33 PM #36:	r4X0r posted... teepan95 posted... YOUHAVENOHOPE posted... teepan95 posted... YOUHAVENOHOPE posted... DevsBro posted... It's because English is such a mismash of other languages. <_< well actually the silent K is a direct descendant of German but i mean, you're not wrong The German word for knee is Knie. The k is not silent i meant that the K comes from German I left off "...where they pronounce the K" Oh I see. Fun fact: I can't pronounce the 'ch' in words like "milch" correctly. I pronounce it "sch" like "schule" There's multiple accents and multiple ways to pronounce that sound. Somebody from Schwerin and somebody from Frankfurt and somebody from Munich are going to say that word differently. I'm referring to the Swabian pronounciation --- I use Gameraven and you should too. #desisoyboy <cite>teepan95 posted [p:895513931] in TIL I lear... [t:76285052]...</cite> <quote><cite>r4X0r posted...</cite> <quote><cite>teepan95 posted...</cite> <quote> <cite>YOUHAVENOHOPE posted...</cite> <quote> <cite>teepan95 posted...</cite> <quote> <cite>YOUHAVENOHOPE posted...</cite> <quote> <cite>DevsBro posted...</cite> <quote> It's because English is such a mismash of other languages. </quote> <_< well actually the silent K is a direct descendant of German but i mean, you're not wrong </quote> The German word for knee is Knie. The k is not silent </quote> i meant that the K comes from German I left off "...where they pronounce the K" </quote> Oh I see. Fun fact: I can't pronounce the 'ch' in words like "milch" correctly. I pronounce it "sch" like "schule"</quote> There's multiple accents and multiple ways to pronounce that sound. Somebody from Schwerin and somebody from Frankfurt and somebody from Munich are going to say that word differently.</quote> I'm referring to the Swabian pronounciation</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
dave_is_slick 02/05/18 2:56:27 PM #37:	A5modeu5 posted... Stranger does not rhyme with anger, Yes it does. So what that the G is different. --- The most relaxing version of Aquatic Ambiance I've ever heard: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl61y1XM7sM <cite>dave_is_slick posted [p:895514280] in TIL I lear... [t:76285052]...</cite> <quote><cite>A5modeu5 posted...</cite> <quote>Stranger does not rhyme with anger,</quote> Yes it does. So what that the G is different.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
dave_is_slick 02/05/18 2:57:27 PM #38:	A5modeu5 posted... haunt but aunt, Also rhymes --- The most relaxing version of Aquatic Ambiance I've ever heard: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl61y1XM7sM <cite>dave_is_slick posted [p:895514336] in TIL I lear... [t:76285052]...</cite> <quote><cite>A5modeu5 posted...</cite> <quote>haunt but aunt,</quote> Also rhymes</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
r4X0r 02/05/18 2:58:39 PM #39:	Stranger comes from French, anger comes from Germanic roots. French words favor the soft G while Germanic words favor the hard G. --- Smiled as fierce as a forty pounder. <cite>r4X0r posted [p:895514408] in TIL I lear... [t:76285052]...</cite> <quote>Stranger comes from French, anger comes from Germanic roots. French words favor the soft G while Germanic words favor the hard G.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
r4X0r 02/05/18 2:59:15 PM #40:	dave_is_slick posted... A5modeu5 posted... haunt but aunt, Also rhymes Depends on your accent. Many people pronounce aunt the same as ant. --- Smiled as fierce as a forty pounder. <cite>r4X0r posted [p:895514439] in TIL I lear... [t:76285052]...</cite> <quote><cite>dave_is_slick posted...</cite> <quote><cite>A5modeu5 posted...</cite> <quote>haunt but aunt,</quote> Also rhymes</quote> Depends on your accent. Many people pronounce aunt the same as ant.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
dave_is_slick 02/05/18 3:10:49 PM #41:	r4X0r posted... dave_is_slick posted... A5modeu5 posted... haunt but aunt, Also rhymes Depends on your accent. Many people pronounce aunt the same as ant. But why? AU is a pretty damn consistent sound in English. --- The most relaxing version of Aquatic Ambiance I've ever heard: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl61y1XM7sM <cite>dave_is_slick posted [p:895515144] in TIL I lear... [t:76285052]...</cite> <quote><cite>r4X0r posted...</cite> <quote><cite>dave_is_slick posted...</cite> <quote><cite>A5modeu5 posted...</cite> <quote>haunt but aunt,</quote> Also rhymes</quote> Depends on your accent. Many people pronounce aunt the same as ant.</quote> But why? AU is a pretty damn consistent sound in English.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
scar the 1 02/05/18 3:56:54 PM #42:	dave_is_slick posted... r4X0r posted... dave_is_slick posted... A5modeu5 posted... haunt but aunt, Also rhymes Depends on your accent. Many people pronounce aunt the same as ant. But why? AU is a pretty damn consistent sound in English. Except when it isn't. --- Everything has an end, except for the sausage. It has two. <cite>scar the 1 posted [p:895517937] in TIL I lear... [t:76285052]...</cite> <quote><cite>dave_is_slick posted...</cite> <quote><cite>r4X0r posted...</cite> <quote><cite>dave_is_slick posted...</cite> <quote><cite>A5modeu5 posted...</cite> <quote>haunt but aunt,</quote> Also rhymes</quote> Depends on your accent. Many people pronounce aunt the same as ant.</quote> But why? AU is a pretty damn consistent sound in English.</quote> Except when it isn't.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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