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May. 15th, 2018
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I think I’m going to try to sit down and outline it– I can’t outline for shit, but, summarize anyway, and see if I can’t get a few things down, and then table it because I’m trying to write something else at the moment. But it’s something that I’ve had mentally percolating since, like, 2013, so. I should probably acknowledge that.
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I think I’m going to try to sit down and outline it– I can’t outline for shit, but, summarize anyway, and see if I can’t get a few things down, and then table it because I’m trying to write something else at the moment. But it’s something that I’ve had mentally percolating since, like, 2013, so. I should probably acknowledge that.
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la-tarasque replied to your post “tin”
From the POV of a non-native speaker: vowels in English are an endless source of fascination! You think you’ve figured them out and then bang! another accent, and it’s nothing like you thought it was.
I cannot begin to conceptualize what English must be like to non-native speakers. I just can’t.
I have a vague awareness of accents in various of the foreign languages I’ve studied– a few specific instances of differing pronunciations in different regional variations of Spanish, and such, and the fact that while I can mostly follow a conversation in Puerto Rican Spanish I have zero prayer of comprehension of Mexican Spanish [to be fair, that’s mostly speed and not accent per se], and Spanish Spanish is like, not the same thing at all– but I’ve no real idea of whether English is significantly worse or not, in all those respects.
I mean, it must be; more people speak it in more places, so it stands to reason. But.
I can’t actually follow Scots-dialect English in realtime, I need hints and preferably subtitles.
And like, there’s the obvious stuff, like how different vowels are between American and British accents. But there’s also more subtle stuff like how you pronounce a hard T (the answer is, not very hard, in most dialects; my Southern US nephew as he first learned to write thought “tree” was spelled “c-h-r-e-e” because that’s how it’s pronounced there, and I had a sincere misunderstanding with a British person when I first arrived on that island over the contents of a container marked “t-u-n-a” which she pronounced “chooner”).
Anyway. It’s such a mongrel weirdo of a language, and then so many people use it so differently. It’s genuinely awful that it’s become the ascendant language of the Internet and aviation and so many other things, because it really ought not to be. It’s inexpressibly convenient to me, mind, but that doesn’t really make up for how terrible it is. LOL.
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la-tarasque replied to your post “tin”
From the POV of a non-native speaker: vowels in English are an endless source of fascination! You think you’ve figured them out and then bang! another accent, and it’s nothing like you thought it was.
I cannot begin to conceptualize what English must be like to non-native speakers. I just can’t.
I have a vague awareness of accents in various of the foreign languages I’ve studied– a few specific instances of differing pronunciations in different regional variations of Spanish, and such, and the fact that while I can mostly follow a conversation in Puerto Rican Spanish I have zero prayer of comprehension of Mexican Spanish [to be fair, that’s mostly speed and not accent per se], and Spanish Spanish is like, not the same thing at all– but I’ve no real idea of whether English is significantly worse or not, in all those respects.
I mean, it must be; more people speak it in more places, so it stands to reason. But.
I can’t actually follow Scots-dialect English in realtime, I need hints and preferably subtitles.
And like, there’s the obvious stuff, like how different vowels are between American and British accents. But there’s also more subtle stuff like how you pronounce a hard T (the answer is, not very hard, in most dialects; my Southern US nephew as he first learned to write thought “tree” was spelled “c-h-r-e-e” because that’s how it’s pronounced there, and I had a sincere misunderstanding with a British person when I first arrived on that island over the contents of a container marked “t-u-n-a” which she pronounced “chooner”).
Anyway. It’s such a mongrel weirdo of a language, and then so many people use it so differently. It’s genuinely awful that it’s become the ascendant language of the Internet and aviation and so many other things, because it really ought not to be. It’s inexpressibly convenient to me, mind, but that doesn’t really make up for how terrible it is. LOL.
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s-leary:
buzzfeed:
cyle:
weirdbuzzfeed:
blueoniattack:
weirdbuzzfeed:
addictionmarvel:
weirdbuzzfeed:
minixxblog:
buzzfeed:
Yes, that is an explosion of pollen. Yes, I feel like sneezing now.
did this tree just bust a nut
Scientifically, yes!
Why are you so excited
:-)
That makes the bulldozer a giant dildo, right?
:-(
masturbation is okay though, nothing wrong with using a giant dildo.
what happened to this post
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