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English & Linguistics / Re: Strange Proununciations
« Last post by Jonathon on May 26, 2025, 09:19:19 AM »It's a pretty common nonstandard pronunciation, along with "asteriks".
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English & Linguistics / Re: Strange Proununciations
« Last post by Ela on May 25, 2025, 03:39:33 PM »A newscaster just said "asterick" for asterisk. In what world is "asterick" a word? 
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English & Linguistics / Re: Interesting language stuff
« Last post by Porter on May 24, 2025, 10:28:18 PM »I could only make sense of it by thinking hard about what the Latin roots are for words like "atom", "hydrogen", "proton", "helium", "element", etc..
Most of those words, as commonly used, have nothing to do with their root.
I normally think of word "helium" is just the word for element #2. I could use it or hear it 10,000 without thinking about its connection to "helios".
Most of those words, as commonly used, have nothing to do with their root.
I normally think of word "helium" is just the word for element #2. I could use it or hear it 10,000 without thinking about its connection to "helios".
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English & Linguistics / Re: Interesting language stuff
« Last post by rivka on May 20, 2025, 09:50:30 PM »Indeed.
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« Last post by Brinestone on May 20, 2025, 06:06:36 PM »That is almost impossible to make sense of.
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English & Linguistics / Re: Interesting language stuff
« Last post by Tante Shvester on May 19, 2025, 10:56:03 AM »Here's an article about Atomic Theory written in Anglish, which is English purged of all words of non-Germanic origin. It reads like a fantasy novel.
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English & Linguistics / Re: Interesting language stuff
« Last post by rivka on April 03, 2025, 09:09:03 AM »38
English & Linguistics / Re: Quotes from work
« Last post by rivka on February 28, 2025, 01:06:32 PM »Quote from a financial-aid-related podcast I am listening to: "Well, when the zombie apocalypse finally does come, just sign me up for hiding in a cave with a bunch of financial aid administrators!"
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English & Linguistics / Re: Strange Proununciations
« Last post by Ela on January 30, 2025, 09:26:50 PM »Yeah, apparently it was a legit pronounciation. And it is close to the French pronounciation. But I've never heard it pronounced that way by an American before.
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English & Linguistics / Re: Strange Proununciations
« Last post by Noemon on January 30, 2025, 09:55:23 AM »There's was a story on NPR about President Jimmy Carter's malaise speech and the NPR reporter pronounced it ma-lez, which I guess is close to the French pronounciation, but not the way I've ever heard it pronounced in English.I heard that! It completely pulled my attention away from the content of the piece. I thought maybe she'd just kind of stumbled over the pronunciation, but then she did it again.