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Re: Off Topic
Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2017 4:18 pm
by Xenon
PluMGMK wrote:Yod-dropping, as I mentioned before. But not exclusively American by any means!
On a related note, does anyone use a "you" in "solution"?
No, and I wouldn't even pronounce alluminium as I suggested unless it was in a formal context. I make a lot of deliberate errors when speaking colloquially. It's just social conventions really, I'm out there to be liked and not to be seen as some strange Olde English guy who cares about pronunciation.
Fifo wrote:Hi XENON, nice to see you back~!
How are you doing, you fine young thing?
Re: Off Topic
Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2017 4:30 pm
by Reese Riverson
Xenon hasn't been around too much lately, unfortunately.
I remember the good ol' days when he and I were both mod earlier on.
Re: Off Topic
Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2017 5:30 pm
by Fifo
Xenon wrote:Fifo wrote:Hi XENON, nice to see you back~!
How are you doing, you fine young thing?
Fine, as I said earlier I’ve finally got the time to record my Beatles Love Songs vinyl to my Mac. What about you?
Re: Off Topic
Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2017 5:33 pm
by Reese Riverson
Fifo's making me want to get another turn table, with all this talk of vinyl... my old one's okay but I want a DD model.

Re: Off Topic
Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2017 5:40 pm
by Fifo
Hoodcom wrote:Fifo's making me want to get another turn table, with all this talk of vinyl... my old one's okay but I want a DD model.

Quartz lock would be nice – I have a belt drive non-quartz-locked turntable and the speed issues bother me.
There do seem to be two
potentiometers on the bottom of my turntable but I don’t know which one is for 33⅓ and which one for 45rpm and I don’t wanna
screw anything up.
(Pun intended.)
Re: Off Topic
Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2017 6:37 pm
by PluMGMK
Master wrote:No you in solution, however.
Didn't think so. Funny that.
While we're at it, who says "dee-ity" and who says "day-ity" (for "deity")? Actually, maybe that should be one of Ray's polls…
Re: Off Topic
Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2017 2:54 am
by Reese Riverson
"dee-ity" is how I've always pronounced it.
Re: Off Topic
Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2017 6:27 pm
by Hunchman801
Xenon wrote:There should be a 'you' in there as well. Pretty sure the 'oo' sound is the result of another lazy Americanism.
Well apparently it's not, as Shroob explained a few posts above.
PluMGMK wrote:On a related note, does anyone use a "you" in "solution"?
Well if we're going to point out all the inconsistencies of English pronunciation that's gonna take a while. One of my favorites is finite and infinite.
PluMGMK wrote:While we're at it, who says "dee-ity" and who says "day-ity" (for "deity")? Actually, maybe that should be one of Ray's polls…
I say day-ity but English is not exactly my first language.
Re: Off Topic
Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2017 6:42 pm
by PluMGMK
Reminds me of the blog post I was gonna write about inconsistencies in English spelling. It span completely out of control so now it's just sitting there waiting to be "rewritten"… which I'll probably never get around to.

Re: Off Topic
Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2017 8:20 pm
by Hunchman801
Quite a few of my projects were left in such a state, too. And they still are.
Re: Off Topic
Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2017 9:24 pm
by incognito
PluMGMK wrote:Master wrote:No you in solution, however.
Didn't think so. Funny that.
While we're at it, who says "dee-ity" and who says "day-ity" (for "deity")? Actually, maybe that should be one of Ray's polls…
day-ity on my side, dee-ity sounds rather weird to my ear.
It reminds me when I talked about the pronunciation of Pokemon.
Re: Off Topic
Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2017 10:25 pm
by Shrooblord
Xenon wrote:Good to see you Shroob.
Hey, Xenon.
I say neither [dee-ih-ty] nor [day-ih-ty] but rather something in between like [deay-ih-ty] (if that makes any sense at all lol I need IPA characters to help me here). But it leans more towards [dee] than [day].
Re: Off Topic
Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2017 10:53 pm
by PluMGMK
Well if it's that muddled then 〈eay〉 may be the best spelling of it, given how that trigraph is used in Manx!

Re: Off Topic
Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2017 7:11 am
by Keane
I'm curious, how do you fellas pronounce banus? Me, personally, I say bay-nuss, but I imagine others might refer to it as bah-noos?
Re: Off Topic
Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2017 8:18 am
by nr0r
See I prefer the classic and original 'bay-nuss', as it sounds more pure and sound.
Re: Off Topic
Posted: Sat Apr 08, 2017 6:36 am
by Dart
Keane wrote:I'm curious, how do you fellas pronounce banus? Me, personally, I say bay-nuss, but I imagine others might refer to it as bah-noos?
Bae-ness is clearly the best way.

Re: Off Topic
Posted: Sat Apr 08, 2017 11:02 am
by Event-Bot
Keane wrote:I'm curious, how do you fellas pronounce banus? Me, personally, I say bay-nuss, but I imagine others might refer to it as bah-noos?
Pardon me, my humor sensors are freshly configured, was that post at any moment supposed to be funny at any level or considered as something else than a shitpost?
Re: Off Topic
Posted: Sat Apr 08, 2017 2:50 pm
by Pirez
Oh, event-bot is back. Did someone summoned a mafia-game?
Re: Off Topic
Posted: Sat Apr 08, 2017 3:15 pm
by incognito
If you want my thought on this he became pretty much renegade since his ultimate goal was reached after last year's RD.
Re: Off Topic
Posted: Sat Apr 08, 2017 3:42 pm
by Pirez
That's not very paragon.