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Re: Grammar/Pronunciation Thread

Post by AiA in Atlanta » Tue Aug 31, 2010 8:26 am

Sappho wrote:Well, in my neck of the woods, if it were happening, and it is not, it would be harassed and not hariss'd.

Ohhh... what about schedule... how do you say that one... I was raised to believe that there is no shhhh is schedule.

And I say 'aitch' for 'h' too.

There is no "ass" in harass.

I use the American pronunciation "ske-duul." The other sounds too Pommy for me.

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Re: Grammar/Pronunciation Thread

Post by Sappho » Wed Sep 01, 2010 5:18 pm

I've just watched an episode of star trek next gen and the opening lines claim... "to boldly go"... which is wrong. It should be... go boldly. Adjective placement all wrong.

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Re: Grammar/Pronunciation Thread

Post by Swami Dring » Wed Sep 01, 2010 5:24 pm

Sappho wrote:I've just watched an episode of star trek next gen and the opening lines claim... "to boldly go"... which is wrong. It should be... go boldly. Adjective placement all wrong.
Adverb.
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Re: Grammar/Pronunciation Thread

Post by Swami Dring » Wed Sep 01, 2010 5:31 pm

Probably the most mispronounced word in the history of the universe is "vulnerable".

Four syllables, and pronounced exactly as it looks.

Anyone who says "vunrebal" deserves to be shot in the ass.
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Re: Grammar/Pronunciation Thread

Post by J.W. Frogen » Wed Sep 01, 2010 5:55 pm

Shakespeare would probably be glad there were no grammar Nazis around during his day.....ith.

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Re: Grammar/Pronunciation Thread

Post by J.W. Frogen » Wed Sep 01, 2010 6:04 pm

Sappho wrote:I've just watched an episode of star trek next gen and the opening lines claim... "to boldly go"... which is wrong. It should be... go boldly. Adjective placement all wrong.
If Rodenberry wrote it then the rule must change.

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Re: Grammar/Pronunciation Thread

Post by boxy » Wed Sep 01, 2010 7:07 pm

Swami Dring wrote:Probably the most mispronounced word in the history of the universe is "vulnerable".

Four syllables, and pronounced exactly as it looks.

Anyone who says "vunrebal" deserves to be shot in the ass.
Who the fuck has time to put an L in there? :roll:

vun-ra-bol :P
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Re: Grammar/Pronunciation Thread

Post by HIGHERBEAM » Wed Sep 01, 2010 7:17 pm

Swami Dring wrote:Probably the most mispronounced word in the history of the universe is "vulnerable".

Four syllables, and pronounced exactly as it looks.

Anyone who says "vunrebal" deserves to be shot in the ass.
vul·ner·a·bil·i·ty, vul·ner·a·ble·ness, noun
vul·ner·a·bly, adverb
un·vul·ner·a·ble, adjective
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Re: Grammar/Pronunciation Thread

Post by Ferombah Hynde » Wed Sep 01, 2010 9:15 pm

boxy wrote:
Swami Dring wrote:Probably the most mispronounced word in the history of the universe is "vulnerable".

Four syllables, and pronounced exactly as it looks.

Anyone who says "vunrebal" deserves to be shot in the ass.
Who the fuck has time to put an L in there? :roll:

vun-ra-bol :P
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Re: Grammar/Pronunciation Thread

Post by AiA in Atlanta » Thu Sep 02, 2010 3:52 am

Sappho wrote:I've just watched an episode of star trek next gen and the opening lines claim... "to boldly go"... which is wrong. It should be... go boldly. Adjective placement all wrong.

In the original, Kirk opened with "civil-EYE-zation" instead of "civil-i-zation." He is Canadian and it showed. ;) Shatner's face is 3 times the size it was back in the 1960's and is more frightening than the episode with Captain Pike in the wheelchair.

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