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    • I
      IrishHeart
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      @Giles laughing to Derek and Clive is one of my great memories from the 6th form common room at school.

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      • CutlasshoundC
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        Mine and @Giles favourite word.

        The C Bomb. A masterclass in the idiosyncrasies of the English language distilled into a single pure, beautiful, expressive word.

        I ain't got time to bleed.

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        • GilesG
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          @IrishHeart said in Nuances and Idiosyncrasies of the English Language:

          @Giles laughing to Derek and Clive is one of my great memories from the 6th form common room at school.

          I find it utterly unbelievable that this was broadcast in 1976......

          "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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          • Tago MagoT
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            If I send this to my mother she'll cut me out of her will

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            • I
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              @Giles agreed, but that’s what made it so hilarious. None of us had heard anything like it before, and we couldn’t stop using the same terminology on our mates.

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              • NocturamaN
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                A quote for every occasion…! 🫣

                For some reason, “Hamburger stands, but no fucking hamburgers” (from Joan Crawford’s ****) sticks in my head to this day! 😂

                #JustStopCrocs

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                • KasiK
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                  Bender..

                  Been out partying for 24 hours more, or weekend none stop
                  mash out of your head.

                  The world's insane
                  While you drink champagne
                  And I'm livin' in black rain 4Q 🖕

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                  • EdHE
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                    @T4920 This has reminded me of a question I have never had answered by a (proper) American:

                    Why is Arkansas pronounced "AR-kan-saw" and not "Ar-Kan-sas", if Kansas is pronounced just "Kan-sas"?

                    Take the dive...

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                    • SKTS
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                      @EdH same reason some pronounce my state Missour-ee and some pronounce it Missou-rah…because we Americans don’t always make a lot of linguistic sense.

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                      • GilesG
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                        Same reason that if you live in Clapham, you pronounce it Clarm 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

                        "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                        • T4920T
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                          The most definitive sign that the English language is out to troll us all is that it is linguistically sound to pronounce the town 'Loughborough' as 'Loo-gah-bah-roo-gah'

                          I've seen weirder place name during my time in Australia though...

                          “𝑁𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑙𝑒𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑢𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑏 𝑦𝑜𝑢. 𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑚𝑒𝑒𝑡 𝑖𝑡, 𝑖𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑡𝑜, 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑤𝑒𝑎𝑝𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑡𝑜𝑑𝑎𝑦 𝑎𝑟𝑚 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑡.”

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                          • EdHE
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                            Not saying us brits are any better... "Lieutenant" caught me out when reading aloud in English class at school:

                            Me: "... lieutenant ..." ("lew-ten-ant")
                            Teacher: "it's [lef-tenant]"
                            Me: "oh, it doesn't have an 'f' in my copy"
                            Teacher (getting angry already): "It's [lef-tenant] in English, [lew-ten-ant] is American"
                            Me: "oh, I must have an American translation"
                            Teacher: "stop being sarcastic"
                            Me: "I'm being sarcastic?"
                            Teacher: "That's a demerit"
                            Me: scratches head in confusion

                            Take the dive...

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                            • OaktaviaO
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                              @T4920 hahah, yeah I've seen something similar. Maryland is close to KY but not touching.

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                              "Possibly splitting hairs, but I consider @Oaktavia to be the beardy, dank High Magus of this denim game…" @neph93

                              WTB: IHJ-32 - XL/XXL

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                              • OaktaviaO
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                                @EdH don't try to make sense of American pronunciation, we're super improper and make zero sense, wait till you hear me say "Maryland" at the party.

                                IG: electricindigowizard

                                "Possibly splitting hairs, but I consider @Oaktavia to be the beardy, dank High Magus of this denim game…" @neph93

                                WTB: IHJ-32 - XL/XXL

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                                • OaktaviaO
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                                  My favorite is Appalachia pronounced regionally as "Apple-atcha" or by outsiders as "Apple-ay-shuh".

                                  IG: electricindigowizard

                                  "Possibly splitting hairs, but I consider @Oaktavia to be the beardy, dank High Magus of this denim game…" @neph93

                                  WTB: IHJ-32 - XL/XXL

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                                  • T4920T
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                                    @Oaktavia sounds like Marilyn? I went most of my life thinking 'Marilyn' was a state after hearing Maryland pronounced that way

                                    “𝑁𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑙𝑒𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑢𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑏 𝑦𝑜𝑢. 𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑚𝑒𝑒𝑡 𝑖𝑡, 𝑖𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑡𝑜, 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑤𝑒𝑎𝑝𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑡𝑜𝑑𝑎𝑦 𝑎𝑟𝑚 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑡.”

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                                    • seawolfS
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                                      I read recently about how it must be confusing to learn English as a second language. Imagine trying to tell the difference between a butt-dial and a booty-call.

                                      “Good design is actually a lot harder to notice than poor design, in part because good designs fit our needs so well that the design is invisible” - Don Norman

                                      @zeebeeleather

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                                      • OaktaviaO
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                                        @T4920 that's hilarious

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                                        "Possibly splitting hairs, but I consider @Oaktavia to be the beardy, dank High Magus of this denim game…" @neph93

                                        WTB: IHJ-32 - XL/XXL

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                                        • louisboscoL
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                                          @seawolf you could butt-dial a booty call but not booty call a butt-dial

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                                          • EdHE
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                                            @seawolf said in Random conversations:

                                            Imagine trying to tell the difference between a butt-dial and a booty-call.

                                            A fat-chance and a slim-chance are the same thing...
                                            Tooth/teeth, but not booth/beeth
                                            Mouse/mice, but not house/hice
                                            etc, etc

                                            English is such a bastardised and influenced language that it's apparently very hard to learn as a second language or as an adult. I've got a Ukrainian friend who, even after marrying a Brit over 20 years ago, and him not bothering to learn her language, still makes grammatical errors like the above.

                                            Take the dive...

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