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2024-01-03, 02:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Domino Quartz's Delightfully Quaint Random Banter Thread #248
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2024-01-03, 04:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
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2024-01-03, 05:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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2024-01-03, 05:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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I'm just surprised nobody harped on the fact that it's "spelled". Spelt is a type of grain. =p
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2024-01-03, 07:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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2024-01-03, 07:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
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2024-01-03, 08:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Domino Quartz's Delightfully Quaint Random Banter Thread #248
Tbf a lot of the time 'what is correct in the UK' is both. The one exception is chips: if they're thick and served with vinegar referring to them as 'fries' is cause for a mobbing.
I have a very specific accent that comes from one street in the home counties, causes plenty of confusion. It's why I pronounce 'trans woman' as 'bloody gorgeous'.
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2024-01-03, 08:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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2024-01-03, 09:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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I also answer to Bookmark and Shadow Claw.
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2024-01-04, 12:02 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Domino Quartz's Delightfully Quaint Random Banter Thread #248
I think the British spellings are a lot of fun. Spelt, whilst, amidst, amongst, betwixt ... Maybe there are others, but the wiki page about this doesn't mention them.
Looking it up gives me info about an "unetymological t," whatever that means. This paper about rare affixes in English mentions the t suffix, but I didn't find it useful.
@Metastachydium, do you have any special insight about this? :OLast edited by TaiLiu; 2024-01-04 at 12:03 AM.
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2024-01-04, 05:08 AM (ISO 8601)
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2024-01-04, 05:30 AM (ISO 8601)
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You ever get asked to cite something that's common knowledge and then when you go looking for it there's no actual one place that has all the information and a number of promising links end up not having any citations?
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2024-01-04, 07:03 AM (ISO 8601)
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Note to self, A-Wiz has never heard Americans speak.
For reals, you're ignoring New York Common, New York Jewish, Midwestern Donchyano, Mid-Atlantic (which needs to make a comeback), Poor Bostonian, Rich Bostonian (see Major Charles Emerson Winchester III), etc etc. You're taking Californian as a single entity instead of Valley Girl and Surfer, and worst of all, you're conflating all Southern. Here's a quick and dirty primer on Southern drawls.
Oh, and French Canadian isn't an American accent. It's a Canadian accent. And i think even the Canadians might bristle at that. Shoulda gone with Cajun accent.Last edited by Peelee; 2024-01-04 at 07:03 AM.
Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
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2024-01-04, 07:09 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Domino Quartz's Delightfully Quaint Random Banter Thread #248
Fine, it averages out to like one per state, still depressingly homogeneous.
Oh, and French Canadian isn't an American accent. It's a Canadian accent. And i think even the Canadians might bristle at that. Shoulda gone with Cajun accent.
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2024-01-04, 08:31 AM (ISO 8601)
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“Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.”
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2024-01-04, 09:51 AM (ISO 8601)
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Hate me if you want. But that's your issue to fix, not mine.
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2024-01-04, 10:18 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Domino Quartz's Delightfully Quaint Random Banter Thread #248
In addition to what everyone else said, people from Canada call themselves Canadians. People from the US call themselves Americans. People from Mexico call themselves Mexican (or the Spanish equivalent). Heck, Puerto Rico is a US territory and people from there call themselves Puerto Ricans.
If you want to ignore what people call themselves and label them much more generically, you certainly can, but it's also a stance i wouldn't expect from some people.Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
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2024-01-04, 10:36 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Domino Quartz's Delightfully Quaint Random Banter Thread #248
You're trying to spread a county's worth of accents across a country!
I mean this all stems from me making a joke about how American accents are less varied, of course in this instance I'm going to be overly generic if I feel the resulting joke is better!
Although it would really help if we had a separate term for 'citizens of the USA', instead of reusing the name for those who live on the continent
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2024-01-04, 10:38 AM (ISO 8601)
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“Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.”
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2024-01-04, 10:42 AM (ISO 8601)
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2024-01-04, 12:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
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2024-01-04, 12:57 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Domino Quartz's Delightfully Quaint Random Banter Thread #248
Side effect of the utilitarian name, I'm afraid. "They're states. They're united. They're in America" doesn't leave a whole lot of leeway for developing demonyms.
Though come to think of it, I have heard "North Americans" used to refer to people across the continent.FeytouchedBanana eldritch disciple avatar by...me!
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2024-01-04, 03:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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2024-01-04, 03:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Domino Quartz's Delightfully Quaint Random Banter Thread #248
They kinda do, if wetsuits count.
The history of the English language is not really my strict sense domain, but I can elaborate on the current consensus regarding these, I believe. You can't find this type of -t among standard suffixes and it is described as "unetymological" because it is understood not to be your classic derivational or inflectional affix, but rather an excrescent, an epenthetical sound that carries neither semantical nor morphological value and is believed to have entered the composition of these words for (at this point and as far as I can tell) obscure phonetical reasons. I'm inclined to suspect it might have spread further by analogy, but I cannot prove that offhandedly and I'm too lazy to look into possible modern examples.
Now, do mind that this is only the case for the adverbs. Irregular verb forms such as spelt have an entirely different origin. There, the -t is simply an archaic form of the Germanic dental tense/aspect marker and as such a proper inflectional suffix, which is much older than whatever altered the pronounciation of the adverbs (Old English versus Late Middle/Early Modern).
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2024-01-04, 04:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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I have seen enough posts showing a kids tests or homework with correct answers marked as incorrect with explanations that prove that whoever graded them doesn't know what the **** they're doing that if I became all-powerful I feel one of the first things I'f so is create a fae like entity whose sole purpose is to show up, smack someone who gives an unfair grade across the face with a mackerel, explain why they're wrong, and then keep smacking them until they admit that they're a dumbass and fix the grades.
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2024-01-04, 04:56 PM (ISO 8601)
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