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Offline Marianne Dashwood

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Re: I don't have an accent
« Reply #50 on: March 12, 2012, 01:46:44 PM »
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Re: I don't have an accent
« Reply #51 on: March 12, 2012, 02:29:35 PM »
I just realized that "I do not" is not an answer to the question asked. I pronounce museum with two syllables.  :ninja:
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Re: I don't have an accent
« Reply #52 on: March 12, 2012, 02:45:16 PM »
How do you say it?
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Re: I don't have an accent
« Reply #53 on: March 12, 2012, 04:44:04 PM »
Annie's points are true, but that chicken is actually a Red Sex Link, not a Rhode Island Red.
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Re: I don't have an accent
« Reply #54 on: March 12, 2012, 06:24:32 PM »
Quote from: Zalmoxis on March 12, 2012, 02:29:35 PM
I just realized that "I do not" is not an answer to the question asked. I pronounce museum with two syllables.  :ninja:

As does she. She says /mju 'zɪm/
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Re: I don't have an accent
« Reply #55 on: March 12, 2012, 06:24:43 PM »
Which is weird.
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Re: I don't have an accent
« Reply #56 on: March 12, 2012, 06:33:28 PM »
I wonder if that's related to the common Utah (and probably other places) pronunciation of idea as [ai'dɪ].
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Re: I don't have an accent
« Reply #57 on: March 12, 2012, 08:06:18 PM »
I say eye-dee-uh. I don't understand you guys with your [ai'dI] and upside down e's and such.
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Re: I don't have an accent
« Reply #58 on: March 12, 2012, 09:06:22 PM »
Quote from: Marianne Dashwood on March 12, 2012, 06:24:43 PM
Which is weird.
It is. But assuming my deciphering of the notation is correct, I've heard it before, and more than once.
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Re: I don't have an accent
« Reply #59 on: March 12, 2012, 09:26:38 PM »
Quote from: Jonathon on March 12, 2012, 06:33:28 PM
I wonder if that's related to the common Utah (and probably other places) pronunciation of idea as [ai'dɪ].
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Re: I don't have an accent
« Reply #60 on: March 12, 2012, 09:29:58 PM »
Quote from: spacepook on March 12, 2012, 08:06:18 PM
I say eye-dee-uh. I don't understand you guys with your [ai'dI] and upside down e's and such.

But your mom was a linguist! Isn't she raising you right? ;)

Quote from: BlackBlade on March 12, 2012, 09:26:38 PM
The evil sibling to Sundɪ and Mundɪ!

I'd write those as ['sʌndi] and ['mʌndi], with a tense vowel ("ee") rather than a lax one ("ih").
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Re: I don't have an accent
« Reply #61 on: March 13, 2012, 06:52:54 AM »
Now I don't know how I say it naturally because my mind has been tainted by this thread. I do know that I don't say idea like [ai'dɪ].
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Re: I don't have an accent
« Reply #62 on: March 13, 2012, 11:35:19 AM »
I've never felt that I had an accent despite the fact that I live in almost-Southern Missouri (which is notorious for early onset Southern-ish accents).  Oddly, however, I've been told I sound like I'm from Minnesota or other Northern states despite having never even visited there.
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Re: I don't have an accent
« Reply #63 on: March 13, 2012, 11:55:46 AM »
Yah, shure, yah betchah!
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Re: I don't have an accent
« Reply #64 on: March 13, 2012, 12:04:15 PM »
I really hope I don't talk like the people in the movie Fargo.  :D
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Re: I don't have an accent
« Reply #65 on: March 13, 2012, 12:09:11 PM »
Or like Sarah Palin.
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Re: I don't have an accent
« Reply #66 on: March 13, 2012, 12:15:07 PM »
Maybe I AM Sarah Palin.
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Re: I don't have an accent
« Reply #67 on: March 13, 2012, 12:15:32 PM »
That's probably true. I mean, you ARE the Pink Ranger, after all. It just makes sense that you'd also be Sarah Palin.
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Re: I don't have an accent
« Reply #68 on: March 13, 2012, 12:22:38 PM »
You betcha!   ;)
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Re: I don't have an accent
« Reply #69 on: March 13, 2012, 12:45:20 PM »
Quote from: SteveRogers on March 13, 2012, 12:04:15 PM
I really hope I don't talk like the people in the movie Fargo.  :D
Quote from: Jonathon on March 13, 2012, 12:09:11 PM
Or like Sarah Palin.
I wasn't thinking of either, snookums.
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Re: I don't have an accent
« Reply #70 on: March 13, 2012, 01:27:58 PM »
Ah.  See.  I haven't watched that show, so I didn't recognize the quote.   :)
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Re: I don't have an accent
« Reply #71 on: March 13, 2012, 01:46:24 PM »
Quote from: SteveRogers on March 13, 2012, 01:27:58 PM
Ah.  See.  I haven't watched that show, so I didn't recognize the quote.   :)
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Re: I don't have an accent
« Reply #72 on: March 14, 2012, 12:01:21 AM »
I looked up the chicken meme, and this is apparently anti-joke chicken. 
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Re: I don't have an accent
« Reply #73 on: March 14, 2012, 02:59:59 PM »
I prefer meme cat.

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Re: I don't have an accent
« Reply #74 on: March 14, 2012, 03:08:07 PM »
Huh. I didn't realize that file attachments were enabled.
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