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i would assume that comes from the way "posh" sounding accented people from england said the word "ass" because they have a tendency to elongated pronounciation of a's, it turned out as sounding like arse i would assume so anyways, logically thinking |
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see my post above ^ |
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Bloddy, Soddin, Wanker! |
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yeah, kind of like how some people thought 'autechre' was to be pronounced 'ortekker' after hearing sean and rob pronounce it with their accents. |
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well you see, in that case it IS pronounced like that, because that is a name names have different pronounciation propertys than normal words take my handle for instance i made the word up (just like autechre made their name up) i pronounce it oss-sil-ick so that's how it's pronounced because i made that word you see? |
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i pronounce your handle as map-a-taz-ee that might be wrong you might pronounce it different whatever you pronounce it as is how it's pronounced because you made it up (i'm assuming you made it up anyways) |
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tom-ay-tow, tom-ah-tow is understandable, arse is just weird. ever hear older white guys say "wash"? they say warsh. same shit i guess. |
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yeah, that's it it's just a trend in how people spoke, and it's just not been eradicated over the years |
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dont forget about me, mine is pronounced PI-mp-mas-tah. |
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Different strokes for different folks eh? |
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I say toe-may-toe and you say toe-mo-toe |
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Hey horsie, you still out there? ready to apologiize? |
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who the hell says toe-mo-toe? |
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btw, welcome to xltronic just make sure you don't piss anyone off on here, else hell will rain down on you heh j/k :) |
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TOE-mә-TOE |
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nah. we're all good for the most part. |
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[quote] who the hell says toe-mo-toe? [/quote] The english were saying it last time I heard but that era may be over with. And thanks for the welcome! As for pissing people off? I hardly ever do if I do it's by accident. |
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i would have said that i pronounce it toe-maa-toe (just to accentuate the longer a sound) but now i'm being picky ;) |
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sorry to be picky again, but no-one here says tomoto which is how you phonetically wrote the word tomato |
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hmpf. the MOE is fucking me up. |
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So exactly how or why did we (Americans) get degraded to being illiterate, fat and lazy bastards? |
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yup. :p |
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what moe? btw as a tip, you see the red numbers next to the date on someones post? if you wanna reply to a particulat post, click on those numbers and then start typing in the edit box |
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okay mah! toe-mah-toe! Cut me some slack I'm at work tryin not to get on the internet by my ogre boss! |
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i know that mister man. sorry, i dont know why i keep typing moe. i mean mo. |
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Okay I clicked your #. Now what happens? |
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ogre's your boss? |
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i am only posting a theory, but i would guess that the reason that there are phonetic differences in our pronounciations is that most of the people who migrated into america (in the beginnings) would have been of a poorer class (wanting a better life in the new land) and would have come from a background where they didn't care how they pronounced stuff, just as long as they got the message across here's an example of a modern day usage of "lazy speaking" there is an area in the uk called the north. now many people here like to use t' instead of the or to (or both in some cases) example i'm going t' shops okay? instead of i'm going to the shops |
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Note that "I could care less" is a commonly used phrase. Therefore it is almost certain that people use it because of imitation. Using this phrase is a short cut from the normal process of using thought to form lexically sound sentences by constituent words one by one. Either the phrase started out as "I couldn't..." and then the mutation occured ("I could...") and was successful replicating in peoples minds (imitated). Or the first person who started it said it wrong the first time and it caught on regardless of it's lexical flaw. Perhaps this flaw was not noticable enough to prevent it being imitated in other people's vocal chords or writing. I'd wager that the (incorrect) phrase started out on some tv show or movie somewhere. The mass broadcasting would make it replicate well. |
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i was going to say how much i also hate when people say this phrase. but now this thread has been ruined. |
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Intruder's rreally dumb. |
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I could care less about this thread :D |
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"so when some non speaking ass euro decides he wants to bad mouth my shit" This is precisely the sort of thing we're talking about :D On a serious note, poor communication can have serious consequences... Poorly written wills and contracts are a legal minefield and need I mention the charge of the light brigade? |
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THIS THRREAD IS OF VALUE |
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there was some white guy who used to live in africa (but now in america) awhile back who was trying to get some sort of "african american" scholarship or something because the written fine print wasn't very specific about what was meant by african american. |
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i was really going to reply with something worthwhile, but by the time i got to the end of the thread i realized how stupid it all was. |
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(pardon for the late response, I just awoke from a 4 hour nap) I know, I was actually referring to the quote "what a stupid country" but I've forgiven you so all is well. |
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Ah yes, polictical correctness, the enemy of good English... see, if they'd been able to say "black american" there'd be no confusion. One that really does my nut is when someone refers to "he or she" when the person is unknown. It's "he". It looks stupid when you have text like this: He or she may apply for this job because he or she has an interest in care. You get some fantastic "politically correct" grammar that you can't begin to parse logically. I've actually seen, "We are an equal opportunities employer. We especially welcome applications from women and ethnic minorities." What, you're so equal you make a distincition? Also, the second sentence suggests that ethnic minorites are all male (or genderless). Worst of all is when they jump between "he" and "she" from page to page. I've seen this in a game manual and I genuinely thought it was using he and she to distinguish between two people. Pretty confusing as it was a one player game. |
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i'm wit choo. |
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...but what about the coin man!?!??!!? |
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yeah, he's cool. i just don't know how your body can handle that. they had to completely remove his stomach. just goes to show you...you can't do that. |
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yes , excatly. i wish he was here so i could talk to him. |
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what would you say? |
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i would just say 'how are things?' im sure he'd be a lot more interesting then the ol' folks round here... i mean.. he has to be. |
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you would think. heh. you have to wonder what else might be wrong with him, though. i mean, was he otherwise a normal person? that'd be weird. |
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I could have sworn that a long while back I came across a real word that was meant to be a substitute for "he or she". The definition was something like "noun reffering to someone when the gender is unknown". I wish I remember what it was. Richard dawkins, in the forward of the selfish gene, dedicated a good couple of paragraphs to the problem of using he or she when writing. Also susan blackmore (who read dawkins and thus was triggered by the same idea) proposed that the dominant use of "he" when referring to unknown genders in conventional writing historically was a meme that eventually, after sooo many times seeing it might truly affect girls' opinions of themselves and their gender by the thought being replicated in their head so frequently. |
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I propose "hermaphrodite" as the new gender unspecific word, heh heh. Or "it". Either of these are always good to refer to qrter of course. |
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Languages change because the meaning and use of words and phrases changes in different dialects leading to new languages. The details are sorted until something new arrives. This is a part of cultural evolution. |
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Hermaphrodite is the living thing that has both sexual organs. Unless ofcourse you were joking. |
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He was not. Stop being so fucking insulting. |
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