Chat Thread 34: Something I Shouldn't Be Chatting About

Rook · Post by **Rook** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 4:16 pm

Ouch... I'm sorry to hear that Grey. I know what its like to be stuck in a class with a bunch of morons too. But, we just got to keep our cool right?

CaptainPea · Post by **CaptainPea** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 4:34 pm

My current French class is half-filled with kids who just entered the school from a French-immersion program. They're nice folks and all, but it's very annoying how much better at French they are (and, on the flipside, it's very annoying to them how relatively bad we are). The result is that nobody's learning a thing, because the teacher is (in a half-baked effort to accommodate both groups) switching between teaching stuff that everybody already knows and stuff that the immersion students already know but is too hard for the likes of me. I've all but decided to give up French after this because my comprehension actually seems to be regressing.

So anyways, now that I'm done yelling about class.

Sleet wrote:My Spanish teacher once showed us a Spanish movie with Spanish subtitles. It helped a lot, actually.

Oh, that's a good idea. French is really hard to understand spoken, at least for Amurkans like me. I mean, eventually we'd have to learn to understand it on sound alone, but this sounds like a good bridge between "listen with an English translation" and "just listen and understand it".

Post by **Sleet** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 4:41 pm

French just sounds like a lot of vowels to me. And people say it sounds sexy...

Fri Jan 06, 2012 4:44 pm

Sleet wrote:French just sounds like a lot of vowels to me. And people say it sounds sexy...

I find Japanese sounds sexier to me. I hated French. I dropped it after the required three years. (I wanted to take Latin, but my school dropped the program. I was limited to French or Spanish and I wanted to be different.

Rook · Post by **Rook** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 4:48 pm

I don't know. French is pretty fun. Especially when you can use it in public. I went to go see the Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows movie, and I understood pretty much everything that the French people were saying.

Post by **Sleet** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 4:57 pm

A lot of languages sound better on one gender than the other. Like how men speaking Russian sounds much less smooth than women, for instance.

CaptainPea · Post by **CaptainPea** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 5:03 pm

Sleet wrote:French just sounds like a lot of vowels to me. And people say it sounds sexy...

I think it does rely much more on the difference between vowels than English does. I remember Ebly once saying that Americans turn all vowels into As. Perhaps a little hyperbolic, but it does point out that the language allows a lot of leniency with vowels- the name of my own state has a wide range of pronunciations- "mare-ah-lind", "mare-uh-lend", "mare-eh-lund", and so on. French uses some vowel sounds that English doesn't, and from my experience at least is less tolerant of interchanging them.

While we (and by we I mean I) are on the subject of pronunciation, I'm curious as to the way people here pronounce certain words.
Chief among them, "crayon". How many syllables? (In the same vein, "mayonnaise.")

Also, what about "envelope" and "either/neither", both of which have two common pronunciations? I've found that I seem to say "ee-ther" and "ny-ther", oddly. "Envelope" I'm not sure how I pronounce naturally, but I think sounds better as "on-velope", so when I'm thinking about it I usually choose that one.

Post by **Sleet** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 5:12 pm

en-VEL-up. :B *smacked*

Fri Jan 06, 2012 5:20 pm

CaptainPea wrote:While we (and by we I mean I) are on the subject of pronunciation, I'm curious as to the way people here pronounce certain words.
Chief among them, "crayon". How many syllables? (In the same vein, "mayonnaise.")

Also, what about "envelope" and "either/neither", both of which have two common pronunciations? I've found that I seem to say "ee-ther" and "ny-ther", oddly. "Envelope" I'm not sure how I pronounce naturally, but I think sounds better as "on-velope", so when I'm thinking about it I usually choose that one.

Crayon = 2 syllables
mayonnaise = 3

I interchange the pronunciations of envelope and either/neither. but for the (n)either one, I usually go with the same ones as you.

Rook · Post by **Rook** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 5:34 pm

Crayon= 2 syllables
Mayonaise= 2 syllables

I actually do the opposite of what you do. I say "Eye-ther and "nee-ther."

CaptainPea · Post by **CaptainPea** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 5:50 pm

I see.

I have a friend who ribs on me for pronouncing "crayon" as a one syllable word (the dictionary would agree with him). I pointed out that it's the same essentially the same thing as pronouncing "mayonnaise" with two syllables, but then I realized that he doesn't do that either.

He also looked at me funny when I pronounced "turbine" as in "turban", but I think it's more natural like that (and unlike crayon, the dictionary sides with me on this one).

Sleet wrote:en-VEL-up. :B *smacked*

Well that's a different word entirely, which is one of the few situations in which I would declare an alternate pronunciation of a word "wrong" (it's the same reason that I'm adamant that "aunt" is not a homophone of "ant", but that's one I know I'm never going to win). You might direct your vision three inches upward and point out that pronouncing "turbine" as "turban" breaks my own rule, but since when have I been consistent.

(It's actually because I choose my opinions by spinning a giant novelty game show wheel.)

Post by **Sleet** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 6:10 pm

I say "crayon" and "mayonnaise" as one and two syllables, respectively.

Fri Jan 06, 2012 6:11 pm

technically, I avoid that whole mayonnaise thing by just saying mayo.

The Grey Wolverine · Post by **The Grey Wolverine** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 7:23 pm

I don't shorten mayonnaise, mostly because I never eat the stuff and the only time I ever say it is when asking "Is mayonnaise an instrument?"

Post by **Sleet** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 7:52 pm

That is the only time I care about mayonnaise. The same goes for horseradish.

sonic id furreh!!! · Post by **sonic id furreh!!!** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 8:49 pm

the only time i eat mayonnaise is when it's on a BLT.... BLTs are soooooooooooo good

TensaZangetsu · Post by **TensaZangetsu** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 8:51 pm

sonic id furreh!!! wrote:the only time i eat mayonnaise is when it's on a BLT.... BLTs are soooooooooooo good

Mayo is for sandwiches.
^^...

it still hurts

Post by **Sleet** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 8:54 pm

Mayo is for smoothies.

Also, BLTs are sandwiches.

Wanderer · Post by **Wanderer** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 8:56 pm

Mayonnaise in smoothies? :I what kind of smoothies do you drink?

Post by **Sleet** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 9:07 pm

Mayonnaise smoothies.

sonic id furreh!!! · Post by **sonic id furreh!!!** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 9:08 pm

TensaZangetsu wrote:
sonic id furreh!!! wrote:the only time i eat mayonnaise is when it's on a BLT.... BLTs are soooooooooooo good
Mayo is for sandwiches.
^^...
it still hurts

what still hurts?

CaptainPea · Post by **CaptainPea** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 9:20 pm

I think a smidgen of mayonnaise can improve a lot of sandwiches, but I don't think it should be slathered on everything. It's not bad, but it has a fairly limited function.

Sleet wrote:Mayonnaise smoothies.

Delicious

KJOokami · Post by **KJOokami** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 11:10 pm

Cray-ahn. Two syllables.

May-uh-naze. Three syllables.

Ehn-vel-ope.

And the either/neither is a strange case. When I write them down, my mind automatically pronounces them in my head as ee-ther/nee-ther, but when I actually say them I tend to pronounce them as eye-ther/nye-ther. Go figure.

The Grey Wolverine · Post by **The Grey Wolverine** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 11:29 pm

Mericle Whip, that shtuff is NASTY.

Fri Jan 06, 2012 11:31 pm

The Grey Wolverine wrote:Mericle Whip, that shtuff is NASTY.

I spy a controversial topic. I need a second opinion to decide if it's allowed

I like miracle whip.

sonic id furreh!!! · Post by **sonic id furreh!!!** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 11:33 pm

i never had it, but i'm going to say it's gross

Rook · Post by **Rook** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 11:41 pm

Miracle whip? I dunno, cool whip is my kind of whip...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ScyVd-hXNk

Dark Ocean · Post by **Dark Ocean** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 11:45 pm

Never had Miracle Whip, but it was advertised in Skate 3 so it must be good.

yehoshua · Post by **yehoshua** » Sat Jan 07, 2012 12:09 am

Just how miraculous is this whip?

Rook · Post by **Rook** » Sat Jan 07, 2012 12:41 am

It's a Dog send of all whips.

Psykeout · Post by **Psykeout** » Sat Jan 07, 2012 12:54 am

I wanted to make a mayonnaise instrument but A) I am not able to procure such copious amounts of Mayo, and B) I am not musically gifted enough to play such a contraption.

CaptainPea · Post by **CaptainPea** » Sat Jan 07, 2012 1:01 am

Buy several bottles of mayo, and squeeze an increasing amount from each one such that they all have different levels of mayo. Hit them with a drumstick. If you're lucky and my wild guess is somehow right, they might make somewhat different sounds.

Once at a party I gathered up all the unused little unfurling-one-note-kazoo party favors and realized that they weren't all on the same note. I arranged them roughly by pitch and crafted them into an instrument with the help of a hat and some tape. It couldn't play much of a tune, but there was some novelty to it.

I'm a hoot at parties.

Post by **Sleet** » Sat Jan 07, 2012 2:38 am

That sounds like something I'd do. A musician, a scientist, and someone with no sense of "socially unacceptable" in one.

Tattorack · Post by **Tattorack** » Sat Jan 07, 2012 9:26 am

CaptainPea wrote:Buy several bottles of mayo, and squeeze an increasing amount from each one such that they all have different levels of mayo. Hit them with a drumstick. If you're lucky and my wild guess is somehow right, they might make somewhat different sounds.

Once at a party I gathered up all the unused little unfurling-one-note-kazoo party favors and realized that they weren't all on the same note. I arranged them roughly by pitch and crafted them into an instrument with the help of a hat and some tape. It couldn't play much of a tune, but there was some novelty to it.

I'm a hoot at parties.

That's ridicules, weird and funny at the same time!
(yay, back on chat!)

GameCobra · Post by **GameCobra** » Sat Jan 07, 2012 8:06 pm

Miracle whip turns a sandwich into the best combination of additioning that i can only describe it like milk and cereal on bread.

TensaZangetsu · Post by **TensaZangetsu** » Sat Jan 07, 2012 8:08 pm

GameCobra wrote:Miracle whip turns a sandwich into the best combination of additioning that i can only describe it like milk and cereal on bread.

miracle whip.. is meh

Post by **Dissension** » Sat Jan 07, 2012 8:14 pm

Miracle Whip isn't bad! = P

TensaZangetsu · Post by **TensaZangetsu** » Sat Jan 07, 2012 8:30 pm

who said it was bad?

The Grey Wolverine · Post by **The Grey Wolverine** » Sat Jan 07, 2012 10:34 pm

I did, that shtuff is nasty!

Zukio · Post by **Zukio** » Sat Jan 07, 2012 11:53 pm

I don't like Mayo at all, I use Ranch.