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Rivertree
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Posted: January 18 2011 at 04:50 |
Atavachron wrote:
I think the US Continental Congress was but a few votes away from making German the national language
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if that would have come true ... then we probably had to post in German language here? well, that could make things much easier for me ...
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Atavachron
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Posted: January 18 2011 at 03:16 |
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''Schanger''. |
sounds dirty
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Noak
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Posted: January 18 2011 at 00:33 |
In swedish it's spelled ''Genre'' but pronounced ''Schanger''. It's f**ked up.
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Atavachron
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Posted: January 17 2011 at 19:48 |
I think the US Continental Congress was but a few votes away from making German the national language
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harmonium.ro
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Posted: January 17 2011 at 09:44 |
Lizzy wrote:
harmonium.ro wrote:
CCVP wrote:
That's the problem with English, its too much of an imprecise language.
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You mean that the ortography of English is not phonemic, but that doesn't make it imprecise.
I love that my native language (Romanian) is the most phonemic language I know, which gives it a great clarity and makes it easy to learn. One letter can only be pronounced one way, and once you've learn them, there are no special cases to keep in mind.
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Ahem: ce, ci, ge, gi, che, chi, ghe, ghi. :P Russian is also pretty phonemic as well. Anyway, genre is pronounced just like in French, but with a very posh British accent.
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You nitpicker
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Ronnie Pilgrim
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Posted: January 17 2011 at 06:47 |
Español, así como
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Formentera Lady
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Posted: January 17 2011 at 06:34 |
harmonium.ro wrote:
CCVP wrote:
That's the problem with English, its too much of an imprecise language.
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You mean that the ortography of English is not phonemic, but that doesn't make it imprecise.
I love that my native language (Romanian) is the most phonemic language I know, which gives it a great clarity and makes it easy to learn. One letter can only be pronounced one way, and once you've learn them, there are no special cases to keep in mind.
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Same with Czech. Once you learn how to pronounce a letter, you can pronounce every Czech word correctly. (Except for very subtle differences of hard and soft 'i'. And better not ask about the grammar, though.)
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Dean
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Posted: January 17 2011 at 05:06 |
Steven Brodziak wrote:
aginor wrote:
I did not know the right pronounsiation for the word Collonel before last spring, or so.
I mostly said it as it was written not in the actual way to say it, which is körnel |
Actually, I believe it IS pronounced Kelonel, I think sloppiness changed it. the L seems to be replaced by an r giving us popcorn! |
It was pronounced Kernel long before anyone ever bothered to spell it, we used the Old French pronunciation of the military rank then later adopted (for reasons unknown) the Italian spelling for the word itself. The same is true of Lieutenant - the British pronunciation of Left-tenant comes from the Old French Luef-tenant, where as the spelling (and USA pronunciation) comes from the Modern French.
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What?
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Steven Brodziak
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Posted: January 17 2011 at 04:42 |
Dean wrote:
^ that kind of depends on how you are pronouncing Zsa Zsa |
I pronounce Zsa Zsa just as I do Genre!
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Well, there it is. (Amadeus)
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Steven Brodziak
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Posted: January 17 2011 at 04:36 |
Dean wrote:
I know you were
After all, it's not the Engs it's the Englas, with the actual name originally being "Engla-land" (not "Enga-land" as some no-neck football hooligans would be prone to chant). Engla is of course related to Anglais, or Crème Anglais - a crème pâtissière or confectioner's custard whose name comes from the latin Angulus, meaning "a corner" because the pâtissière that invented this custard was usually situated on the corner of the main street. The Gauls (original inhabitants of the land now known as France and not the Franks, who were in fact German, nor the Normans, who also came from Germany, along with the original Angles who came from Jutland - however the mighty Saxon came from Barnsley) added their word for "ground", (which for those not paying attention, is "terre" named after the apples that grow in "the ground" [or "potato" as it is properly pronounced]), making "Angle-terre" as their name for the island of peoples who like to sit in "a corner" while partaking of their favourite pastimes of eating cream custard, (in the form of custard cream bisquits), fishing and measuring the circular displacement of two lines sharing a common vertex, from where we get the two modern words of "Angling" and "Angles" [it should be noted that the famous book by Izzak Walton entitled "The Compleat Angler" is a total misnomer and has nothing what so ever to do with trigonometry, at least none that I could find and I skimmed it twice, in both directions, unless he was refering to the angle subtended by the fishing-line and the surface of the lake/pond]. One interesting fact regarding the Englas is three of them together make a triangle, (whose sides are traditionally labelled "E", "L" and "P" accordingly), which any Prog music aficionado will know is a vital piece of equipment in a modern percussionists arsenal of percussion instruments, and thus the Engla-ish invented the modern symphony orchestra from it's humble beginnings as a bell-like instrument made from a piece of chromium plated brass tube bent into the shape of an isosceles triangle and used by Mike Oldfield for his seminal album and several less than seminal ones - of course a brass tube without the unnecessary bending forms another vital part of the modern symphony orchestra in the form of the cor anglais (etymologically the "cor" is derived from the apple in "pomme de terre" making the whole derivation circular and self-referential). It's worth noting at this point that Isosceles was a famous Roman general who invaded Bretagne (now modern Britney) somewhere between 1CE and teatime, famous of course for having a head shaped like a square-based pyramid. It should also be noted that Bretagne (now modern Britney ~ famed for the manufacture of lances and javelins) was once known as Little Britain while Engla-land (and it's associated kingdoms) were known as Grande-Bretagne. Over time Engla-land became shortened by removing the superfluous "la" (french for "the", but the soft girlie "the" ... also a note to follow "so") - musicologically this is incorrect - to create the correct cadence the "eng" should have been replaced by "so", however the resulting "So-la-land" would have been an oxymoron given the annual number of sunny days annually experienced on the island each year. Transposing the lead note a whole tone (or two semi-tones if you prefer) gives a more accurate and descriptive solution, leaving us with "La-la-land".
I rest my case.
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I must say, I haven't laughed so hard in so long reading EVERYONE'S remarks. RFLMAO Thanks! still 2 pages to go!
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Well, there it is. (Amadeus)
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Steven Brodziak
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Posted: January 17 2011 at 04:32 |
aginor wrote:
I did not know the right pronounsiation for the word Collonel before last spring, or so.
I mostly said it as it was written not in the actual way to say it, which is körnel |
Actually, I believe it IS pronounced Kelonel, I think sloppiness changed it. the L seems to be replaced by an r giving us popcorn!
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Well, there it is. (Amadeus)
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Dean
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Posted: January 17 2011 at 04:19 |
^ that kind of depends on how you are pronouncing Zsa Zsa
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What?
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Steven Brodziak
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Posted: January 17 2011 at 04:04 |
I'd say it's like Zsa Zsa Gabor, so you take that. Zson rae. Or Zson Ruh.
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Well, there it is. (Amadeus)
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ExittheLemming
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Posted: January 16 2011 at 16:43 |
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CPicard
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Posted: January 16 2011 at 16:33 |
aginor wrote:
ok, how many can pronounce Ejafjallajökul, the people at CNN, FOX news and CBS news failed misserable at that |
We don't pronounce it: we suffer it.
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Icarium
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Posted: January 16 2011 at 16:07 |
I did not know the right pronounsiation for the word Collonel before last spring, or so.
I mostly said it as it was written not in the actual way to say it, which is körnel
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Icarium
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Posted: January 16 2011 at 15:57 |
ok, how many can pronounce Ejafjallajökul, the people at CNN, FOX news and CBS news failed misserable at that
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Lizzy
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Posted: January 16 2011 at 15:48 |
harmonium.ro wrote:
CCVP wrote:
That's the problem with English, its too much of an imprecise language.
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You mean that the ortography of English is not phonemic, but that doesn't make it imprecise.
I love that my native language (Romanian) is the most phonemic language I know, which gives it a great clarity and makes it easy to learn. One letter can only be pronounced one way, and once you've learn them, there are no special cases to keep in mind.
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Ahem: ce, ci, ge, gi, che, chi, ghe, ghi. :P Russian is also pretty phonemic as well. Anyway, genre is pronounced just like in French, but with a very posh British accent.
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Property of Queen Productions...
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CPicard
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Posted: January 16 2011 at 15:44 |
harmonium.ro wrote:
CCVP wrote:
That's the problem with English, its too much of an imprecise language.
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You mean that the ortography of English is not phonemic, but that doesn't make it imprecise.
I love that my native language (Romanian) is the most phonemic language I know, which gives it a great clarity and makes it easy to learn. One letter can only be pronounced one way, and once you've learn them, there are no special cases to keep in mind.
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Oh, fine, I will try to learn it one of these days. I hope it to be more understandable for me than German (sorry, Karl, sorry, Ralf, sorry, Florian, but I don't get your grammar!) By the way, don't fool yourselves, guys: the French language is a bitch. "Seau", "sot", "sceau" or "saut" are pronounced the same way. You could even have hard times with "parler" (to speak), "ils parlaient" (they spoke) or "il parlait" (he spoke): same pronounciation again!
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harmonium.ro
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Posted: January 16 2011 at 15:33 |
CCVP wrote:
That's the problem with English, its too much of an imprecise language.
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You mean that the ortography of English is not phonemic, but that doesn't make it imprecise. I love that my native language (Romanian) is the most phonemic language I know, which gives it a great clarity and makes it easy to learn. One letter can only be pronounced one way, and once you've learn them, there are no special cases to keep in mind.
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