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English & Linguistics / Re: Strange Proununciations

« Last post by Ela on January 05, 2025, 09:54:44 PM »

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.

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English & Linguistics / Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...

« Last post by Tante Shvester on October 10, 2024, 11:19:46 AM »

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English & Linguistics / Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...

« Last post by Tante Shvester on October 10, 2024, 11:19:16 AM »

U ➡️⬅️

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English & Linguistics / Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...

« Last post by Tante Shvester on October 10, 2024, 11:17:23 AM »

, , , , , 🦎

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English & Linguistics / Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...

« Last post by rivka on October 08, 2024, 06:07:02 PM »

The UCLA one sounds about right.

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English & Linguistics / Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...

« Last post by Jonathon on October 08, 2024, 05:55:57 PM »

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English & Linguistics / Re: English-to-English translation

« Last post by rivka on October 06, 2024, 10:46:23 PM »

Heh. I like the Kiwi version.

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English & Linguistics / Re: English-to-English translation

« Last post by Jonathon on October 06, 2024, 06:13:27 PM »

Yeah, looks like it.

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English & Linguistics / Re: English-to-English translation

« Last post by Tante Shvester on October 05, 2024, 11:44:02 PM »

For Eskimo, I guess.

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English & Linguistics / Re: English-to-English translation

« Last post by Jonathon on October 05, 2024, 09:13:59 AM »

We just started watching an Australian show too, and we learned "esky" as a generic term for a portable cooler.