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PostPosted: Wed Apr 26, 2006 3:18 pm 
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Open Mind wrote:

Do you think it is appropriate to regard genres as proper nouns and write them with capitals? This could avoid confusion, e.g. Progressive Rock (a genre that is well-defined and therefore is not progressive) vs. progressive (= ground-breaking) Rock, or Melodic Death Metal (Gothenborg style and stuff) vs. melodic Death Metal (well, Death Metal with a melodic edge).


Yes, I think that's proper. I always write genre names with a capital, but I'm not sure whether that's strictly correct or not.


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rio wrote:
Open Mind wrote:

Do you think it is appropriate to regard genres as proper nouns and write them with capitals? This could avoid confusion, e.g. Progressive Rock (a genre that is well-defined and therefore is not progressive) vs. progressive (= ground-breaking) Rock, or Melodic Death Metal (Gothenborg style and stuff) vs. melodic Death Metal (well, Death Metal with a melodic edge).


Yes, I think that's proper. I always write genre names with a capital, but I'm not sure whether that's strictly correct or not.

It's a good thing to discuss that, I sometimes to that too, but never when I'm reviewing. I use them in the genre defenition, but not in the review itself. It's gramatically incorrect.


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i always thought it was ying too

i guess now i can go around feeling a little less ignorant, and a little more intelligent by getting mad at people for calling it ying


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same with pronouncing maitre d' as maiter dee....

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Radagast wrote:
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Man, I heard a weird one today: automagically. :lol: A lady I work with said it TWICE! I was like, "Did you just...uh...did you say automagically??" and she says, "Yeah, that's how we say it." I was like "We who?" and she says, "My whole family!"

What the fuck? Hahahaha. Who says automagically?? Hahaha! Please tell me this is an isolated incident?

A friend of mine pronounces "especially" as "expecially." The fucking worst part is he knows its wrong but "thats juts the way I say it." What the fuck?


Oh, God, I forgot the "expecially" bit.


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My wife pronounces "ask" as "ahks". It drives me batty.


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Man, I heard a weird one today: automagically. :lol: A lady I work with said it TWICE! I was like, "Did you just...uh...did you say automagically??" and she says, "Yeah, that's how we say it." I was like "We who?" and she says, "My whole family!"

What the fuck? Hahahaha. Who says automagically?? Hahaha! Please tell me this is an isolated incident?

A friend of mine pronounces "especially" as "expecially." The fucking worst part is he knows its wrong but "thats juts the way I say it." What the fuck?

I know! It was ridiculous, when I asked this lady if she said it, she just kind of waved it off, like "Pffft! Whatever. That's how I say it." What the fuck, indeed!


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My little brothers have started saying "glass" as "glass". For non-Brits, that's saying "glace" (first syllable of glacier) instead of "glarse". Grrrrr.


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My wife pronounces "ask" as "ahks". It drives me batty.

What the...? Is she from New York?

Zad, what the hell? "Glace?" Why would anyone even consider saying that?


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The correct pronunciation of "glass" rhymes with "ass", unless you are a feeble southern weakling, in which case it rhymes with "arse".

So Zad is being very wierd, unless he pronounces "glacier" as "glassier".


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I have a dyslexic friend that spells "meet" as "meat" persistently. I lost count of the number of times he writes things like "I can't believe nobody wants to meat me". :lol:


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rio wrote:
I have a dyslexic friend that spells "meet" as "meat" persistently. I lost count of the number of times he writes things like "I can't believe nobody wants to meat me". :lol:

Har har. Silly dyslexics, always good for a laugh.


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PostPosted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 6:03 pm 
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My wife pronounces "ask" as "ahks". It drives me batty.

What the...? Is she from New York?

Zad, what the hell? "Glace?" Why would anyone even consider saying that?

She's either black, or a seriously defiled white woman. :roll:


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Radagast wrote:
rio wrote:
I have a dyslexic friend that spells "meet" as "meat" persistently. I lost count of the number of times he writes things like "I can't believe nobody wants to meat me". :lol:

Har har. Silly dyslexics, always good for a laugh.

That sounds like stupidity, not dislexia, though.


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PostPosted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 9:54 pm 
From a friend's blog on MySpace:

I am at work at the law office right now. What am i doing you ask? I am sitting here, waiting for my boss to insult me with some instructions... because I think that he truly thinks I am mildly retarted.

You don't say?


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Eyesore wrote:
From a friend's blog on MySpace:

I am at work at the law office right now. What am i doing you ask? I am sitting here, waiting for my boss to insult me with some instructions... because I think that he truly thinks I am mildly retarted.

You don't say?
Waitwaitwait... back up!!!


YOU have FRIENDS!?


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From a friend's blog on MySpace:

I am at work at the law office right now. What am i doing you ask? I am sitting here, waiting for my boss to insult me with some instructions... because I think that he truly thinks I am mildly retarted.

You don't say?

Waitwaitwait... back up!!!

YOU have FRIENDS!?

Actually, to be honest, I was friends with this chick for a minute until she got all crazy. I met her at a party, she was a singer, so we sparked up a conversation. She gave me her number and I thought it would be cool to maybe record some shit with/for her. I never liked her, never wanted to hook. We ended hanging out a bunch and she was wicked cool. She had a—to make this thread-relevant—bazillion friends, it was hard to follow her stories. You know, I'm not mindless, I don't just like to nod and go, "uh-huh."

So I would ask questions, one time I go, "Now, isn't this the guy you said was in love with you?" I was just trying to figure out who it was she was talking about as I'd actually met this guy. Her response was, "Dude, you're not my boyfriend." Bahahahahaha! WHAT? It was so off the wall. I told her to calm the fuck down. Then she did it again another time, same thing, this time I was like, "Goddamn, you know a lot of people, I can't keep up with who you're talking about!" and her reply was more of the same bullshit. Again I told her to fucking calm it, then decided to stop calling here.

The last time I spoke with was at the mall, she worked there, I was there with my brother who has a fucking learning disability that is quite apparent. She fucking knew this shit as I'd discussed it with her. You don't fuck with, or talk shit about, my brother. I'll choke slam a bitch! Hehe. Anyway, he says something, which is generally childish and it was, she kind of turns so he can't see and gives me this look like, "What kind of fucking retard is he?" I almost pissed in her eye and Super Fly Snooka'd her ass off the food court table!! \m/

Anyway, that was the last I saw of her. This is her, if you'd like to see the real "retart."

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rio wrote:
The correct pronunciation of "glass" rhymes with "ass", unless you are a feeble southern weakling, in which case it rhymes with "arse".

So Zad is being very wierd, unless he pronounces "glacier" as "glassier".


That's what I meant. They say (gl)'ass', I say (gl)'arse'.


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I'm suprised Radagast didn't post this

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I may have a new avatar soon...


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