Washingtonians

[Kaneke]

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tee hee ...

add me to that list, my goof-up is the word "mimicry"

correctly pronounced mimmik ree (mimic-ry) ... but to me it reads as mimmih kry (mimi-cry)

but Julia is right, the way Webster shows the pronunciation of phoneme, will be understood at least !

I remember my mother joking about "English as she are spoke" ...

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Speaking of heaters, the oil-filled radiant heater I bought last year has a timer and controls which I cannot for the life of me figure out, so I'd taken to just turning it off and on when needed. It's 63 in the living room right now and I'm basically using the halide ceiling lights and the television for heat!

If it were just me who couldn't make the thing work I'd feel like it was just one more thing I'm not wired for, like driving or playing the flute, but my Ubergeek Sysop DH can't consistently reprogram the controls without referring to the instructions, even after a year, and that's just silly. What's sillier is that you can't use it on manual mode without having to reprogram it. ARGH.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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Well ya know what they say about when all else fails ??

 

[Cowgirlgrace]

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Maybe plain English but certainly not used in daily language. If I ever say it again I think I'm gong to pronounce it Fo neems. It flows better and makes more phonetic sense. Pho is fo (long o), phone is fon (long o) but it needs the e on the end. In order for it to be eems you need the e that's after the n which means it can't be Fone and also eems it has to be Fo neems. So may be standard English orthography but fone eems just doesn't sound right to me. But I have to say, if nemes was a word I would tend to pronounce it with a short e but that's just me.

Hmmm, finally looked up phonemes in the dictionary and it is pronounced Fo neems, not fone eems! But I guess Webster could be mistaken.

I wasn't writing orthography, I was doing my best to give you what it sounds like when it's spoken ...

of course it depends on where you put the emphasis on the syllables, but with equal stress on the syllables pronouncing it fo neems, you will sound like someone who can read English but isn't a native speaker .. or who is unfamiliar with the field ... the nasal sound is usually included in the stressed first syllable (breath pulse)

back when, I used to write continuity for radio, it was necessary at times to use awkward spellings to assist the news/ad readers to pronounce some words/names correctly

these days I am sure the sports announcers have something like that on their teleprompters, when talking about players with names like Nnamdi Assomughi (and the like)

LOL, native speaker, breath pulse? WTH Geez you guys. Well, ok whatever you say. All I know is what Webster says and I'm sticking to it. Anyway the orthography and plain English part was in reply to Stump. You guys are way too smart.

Actually, I think Rustler is the smartest!

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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I wasn't writing orthography, I was doing my best to give you what it sounds like when it's spoken ...

of course it depends on where you put the emphasis on the syllables, but with equal stress on the syllables pronouncing it fo neems, you will sound like someone who can read English but isn't a native speaker .. or who is unfamiliar with the field ... the nasal sound is usually included in the stressed first syllable (breath pulse)

back when, I used to write continuity for radio, it was necessary at times to use awkward spellings to assist the news/ad readers to pronounce some words/names correctly

these days I am sure the sports announcers have something like that on their teleprompters, when talking about players with names like Nnamdi Assomughi (and the like)

LOL, native speaker, breath pulse? WTH Geez you guys. Well, ok whatever you say. All I know is what Webster says and I'm sticking to it. Anyway the orthography and plain English part was in reply to Stump. You guys are way too smart.

Actually, I think Rustler is the smartest!

Well of course I am and that makes you second for recognizing that fact.

 

[Cowgirlgrace]

OMG, I just looked at my pick ticket for produce delivery to the co op today. I've been having way too much fun here. Got to go get busy.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

OK so with all our english / phonetics /schumetics lesson kin ya tell me is "y'know" REALLY proper english er not.

I aint gotta clue cause I is just a dumb rednek.

 

[hallerlake]

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That will work.

 

[hallerlake]

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PINK ??? SILLY GIRLY make an AVATAR !!! I am not secure enough to wear / drive PINK. It's a good color.

The pink is gone for this season!
(Besides, I did put a pink border around my avatar!

Thanks, justbugged for the info.
My garage stays pretty warm.
I would imagine they don't need much watering.

Once they're dormant, they don't need to be watered.

 

[Kaneke]

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colloquial American English --- yeah !

a proper Englishman would beg to differ ... but then, that is true to his nature

ya gotta write sometimes the way things sound/happen/occur .. not the way your English teacher would prefer in an essay

dumb??? nope, you talk just fine ... (English is fun to play with, since there are several interpretations for the word "dumb" ... as with so many others )