Author Topic: Funny English and Linguistics stuff... (Read 204006 times)

rivka · « **Reply #375 on:** July 01, 2011, 05:38:41 PM »

Same story, just on land instead of water. The original version dates bake to Aesop, so it's pretty old.

Dobie · « **Reply #376 on:** July 01, 2011, 06:00:00 PM »

Quote from: BlackBlade on July 01, 2011, 09:31:20 AM

Quote from: Jonathon on July 01, 2011, 09:12:48 AM
More like, when given the choice, we almost always choose food over not food.
Did any of you see that church video where a man's car breaks down, he wanders off into a ghost town, sees a pump that doesn't work, and then reads instructions that he needs to "just prime the pump" with a bottle of water hidden nearby. He is tempted by the water readily available, rather than the promise of endless water from the pump all while the voice keeps saying over and over more and more menacingly, "just prime the pump!". It ends with him collapsing from exhaustion soon after, and the camera shows an empty bottle which clues us in as to his decision, and finally they show a few drops dripping from the pump.

It was really creepy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cd4S8UoTe0U

BlackBlade · « **Reply #377 on:** July 01, 2011, 09:08:39 PM »

Hey thanks! I tried to find it on youtube but couldn't.

pooka · « **Reply #378 on:** July 02, 2011, 04:04:17 PM »

When I'm speaking Latin, I say /kikero/ and when I'm speaking English I say /sIsero/. Much like I say llama /lama/. I guess I never speak Spanish to say it /yama/.

Jonathon · « **Reply #379 on:** July 05, 2011, 10:07:47 AM »

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal on fake words.

Jonathon · « **Reply #380 on:** July 27, 2011, 09:13:38 PM »

Porter · « **Reply #381 on:** July 28, 2011, 08:22:20 AM »

<-- doesn't get it

Jonathon · « **Reply #382 on:** July 28, 2011, 09:44:53 AM »

Would it help to know that the pictures are irrelevant? It's just one speaker.

Tante Shvester · « **Reply #383 on:** July 28, 2011, 10:08:20 AM »

You might think that it would, but apparently it wouldn't.

Jonathon · « **Reply #384 on:** July 28, 2011, 04:15:36 PM »

The rollover text adds "or just the life I thought would make my teachers happy." If your biggest pet peeve is bad grammar, then you have a sad life.

pooka · « **Reply #385 on:** August 03, 2011, 09:17:18 AM »

The woman in the first frame looks eerily like my older sister.

Jonathon · « **Reply #386 on:** October 29, 2011, 12:30:37 PM »

Marianne Dashwood · « **Reply #387 on:** October 29, 2011, 01:51:41 PM »

Jonathon · « **Reply #388 on:** October 29, 2011, 02:28:15 PM »

There are a lot more here.

Marianne Dashwood · « **Reply #389 on:** October 29, 2011, 05:48:45 PM »

Those are awesome. I only get about 80% of them - it's the most intimidating internet intelligence has yet been.

pooka · « **Reply #390 on:** November 03, 2011, 12:39:12 PM »

I had to look up Conlang. Warning: link contains white on black comic sans!!!!!!!!!
http://conlangthemovie.com/Welcome.html

Marianne Dashwood · « **Reply #391 on:** November 08, 2011, 11:43:03 AM »

This has already been making the rounds for a while, but just in case you haven't seen it:

A German deconstructs English idioms

Marianne Dashwood · « **Reply #392 on:** November 08, 2011, 08:56:26 PM »

Best thing I've found on Wikipedia in a long time:

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Dropping r-colored vowels when singing has traditionally been nearly universal and a standard part of vocal training, but there are now numerous exceptions, including many Irish singers and many performers of Country music in particular and, to a lesser extent, recently-arising genres of music in general. This occurs to a lesser degree in hip-hop music; Flo Rida's "Low" is a pronounced example of this, with strong emphasis on the r-coloring of the final vowels in lyrics such as "throw my hands in the air" ([ˈʔeɪjɹ̩]) and "boots with the fur" [ˈfəɹ̩]. In this particular case, a vowel + r is pronounced as two syllables, a non-rhotic vowel followed by a syllabic r.

Jonathon · « **Reply #393 on:** November 08, 2011, 09:00:07 PM »

I'm not sure I understand the first part. Singer normally drop r-colored vowels?

Marianne Dashwood · « **Reply #394 on:** November 08, 2011, 09:04:18 PM »

I'm not sure - it may be a little bogus. They drop the r, but does that change the vowel? I think it was written by someone who really wanted to talk about the rhotic schwa in Flo Rida and was going to take any chance he could get.

Jonathon · « **Reply #395 on:** November 08, 2011, 09:17:24 PM »

Dropping the r, or rather dropping the r-coloring, would change the quality of the vowel, but that's definitely not the same as dropping the vowel.

BlackBlade · « **Reply #396 on:** November 09, 2011, 06:03:15 AM »

Quote from: Marianne Dashwood on November 08, 2011, 11:43:03 AM

This has already been making the rounds for a while, but just in case you haven't seen it:

A German deconstructs English idioms

Tiffany and I loved watching this.

The Genuine · « **Reply #397 on:** November 09, 2011, 06:03:33 AM »

Quote from: Marianne Dashwood on November 08, 2011, 11:43:03 AM

This has already been making the rounds for a while, but just in case you haven't seen it:

A German deconstructs English idioms

I suspect he's playing dumb, to be funny. Why does he care if the fish is saltwater or freshwater? There's no reason that level of detail is required for deconstructing the idiom.

BlackBlade · « **Reply #398 on:** November 09, 2011, 06:06:48 AM »

Quote from: The Genuine on November 09, 2011, 06:03:33 AM

Quote from: Marianne Dashwood on November 08, 2011, 11:43:03 AM
This has already been making the rounds for a while, but just in case you haven't seen it:

A German deconstructs English idioms

I suspect he's playing dumb, to be funny. Why does he care if the fish is saltwater or freshwater? There's no reason that level of detail is required for deconstructing the idiom.

I think the point is he's approaching the idiom from an efficiency standpoint, since we all know Germans are all closet engineers.

The Genuine · « **Reply #399 on:** November 09, 2011, 06:51:46 AM »

Isn't it inefficient to get hung up on irrelevant details?