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Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« Reply #200 on: December 07, 2010, 09:58:14 AM »
There's no way I'd eat that delicious piece of cake without a glass of milk.

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Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« Reply #201 on: December 07, 2010, 09:59:37 AM »
Wait, you're pregnant?  I did not know this.

She announced it a few weeks ago in the Pregnañcy Room on Sakeriver.
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« Reply #202 on: December 07, 2010, 10:05:21 AM »
The word "moist" makes me crave chocolate cake.

It's so delicious and moist!
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Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« Reply #203 on: December 07, 2010, 10:07:15 AM »
The word "moist" makes me crave chocolate cake.

It's so delicious and moist!
Lie.

The worst thing about the PC implementation of Portal is that very little of the wall-scrawl was legible.

Wait, you're pregnant?  I did not know this.

She announced it a few weeks ago in the Pregnañcy Room on Sakeriver.

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« Reply #204 on: December 07, 2010, 10:14:49 AM »
I found it all to be legible.  Maybe you've got a sucky PC.

<--- has only played the PC version.
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Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« Reply #205 on: December 07, 2010, 10:18:17 AM »
The amount of detail you're able to see depends greatly on the quality of your graphics card.
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Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« Reply #206 on: December 07, 2010, 10:20:28 AM »
The amount of detail you're able to see depends greatly on the quality of your graphics card.

Probably that's my problem.

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Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« Reply #207 on: December 07, 2010, 10:32:36 AM »
Also because you were adopted. So that's funny too.
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« Reply #208 on: December 07, 2010, 10:39:59 AM »
Also because you were adopted. So that's funny too.
*snort*
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« Reply #209 on: December 07, 2010, 10:54:34 AM »
Is that from something?
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Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« Reply #210 on: December 07, 2010, 11:00:32 AM »
Portal.
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« Reply #211 on: December 07, 2010, 11:42:25 AM »
Yes?
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« Reply #212 on: December 07, 2010, 01:05:10 PM »
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Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« Reply #213 on: December 07, 2010, 03:22:46 PM »
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She announced it a few weeks ago in the Pregnañcy Room on Sakeriver.

Trying to pronounce that ñ is going to drive me crazy all day.

And congrats! :)
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« Reply #214 on: December 07, 2010, 05:29:39 PM »
It drives me crazy on a regular basis. I wish someone would change it.

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Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« Reply #216 on: January 22, 2011, 06:39:49 PM »
Jack Benny said that the longest word in the English language is the one that comes right after "And now a word from our sponsor . . ."
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Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« Reply #217 on: February 03, 2011, 10:04:13 PM »


alt text: "If you Huffman-coded all the 'random' things everyone on the internet has said over the years, you'd wind up with, like, 30 or 40 bytes *tops*."
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Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« Reply #218 on: February 04, 2011, 10:18:20 AM »
Sarah Palin!*  They're right!

*used here as a trochaic expletive
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Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« Reply #219 on: February 04, 2011, 12:03:50 PM »
You know that a whole lot of English words are trochaic, right?
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Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« Reply #220 on: February 04, 2011, 12:30:17 PM »
Even iamb is trochaic.
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Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« Reply #221 on: February 04, 2011, 12:39:01 PM »
Don't we naturally put an emphasis on the first syllable of two syllable words as when we talk, we often don't worry about enunciating the later syllables because people's brains fill in the blanks.

I'm trying to think of two syllable words that are not trochaic and I'm coming up short.
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« Reply #222 on: February 04, 2011, 12:45:49 PM »
Aplomb, cafe, enlarge, to name a few.
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Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« Reply #223 on: February 04, 2011, 01:03:23 PM »
Aplomb, cafe, enlarge, to name a few.
Thanks, I should have just ruminated a bit longer.
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Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« Reply #224 on: February 04, 2011, 01:14:13 PM »
Don't we naturally put an emphasis on the first syllable of two syllable words as when we talk, we often don't worry about enunciating the later syllables because people's brains fill in the blanks.

Stress depends on part of speech and derivation. (Latinate words typically have different stress patterns than English or other Germanic words.) And I'd disagree with the second half—I don't think there's that big of a drop-off in enunciation. Actually, the most common stress pattern cross-linguistically is right-headed trochees, which usually creates penultimate stress, like in Spanish. (And don't go telling me that there are lots of exceptions to the rule in Spanish. Part of the problem is that the rule as it is generally stated is is wrong.)
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