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Post by BEHIND YOU!!! on Oct 17, 2005 16:42:34 GMT -5
<points> Look!!!1 Duncariel's using my brackets! Bbwhahahaha. Can I be a Darkside... er... AMBASSADOR... <coughbutifthatdoesn'twork...cough...negotiationswithalightsabercoughYOUSEENNOTHINGcough>
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Post by Jandalf on Toast on Oct 18, 2005 16:48:05 GMT -5
A lieutenant can...lieutenise. (cackles) And THIS IS MY OFFICIAL RULING: Everyone must pronounce lieutenant as "left-tenant" instead of "loo-tenant". Why? Because I'm Canadian. Heh. Although it doesn't really make a difference, either way...but shhhh! Awrighty, Shadow... (eyes suspiciously) Welllllll...I guess... Just so long as I don't get dissected somewhere along the line. Heeheehee. Thy badge, O Wraithy "Admin"!
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Post by Tiana, eh? on Oct 18, 2005 23:20:34 GMT -5
(thinks) You know, you should edit the stamps on those so the Imperial and Republic symbols... heh. And since when did Canadians pronounce it left-tenant? I've always pronounced it Luu-TEN-ant. And I'm just as Canadian as you. Though I've actually pronounced it Lie-you-ten-ant before...
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Post by Jandalf on Toast on Oct 19, 2005 19:38:50 GMT -5
It's left-tenant, and that's for absolute certain. Because if my former history teacher-who-is-also-a-sergeant-in-the-Canadian-artillery wouldn't know, I don't suppose many would.
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Post by Tiana, eh? on Oct 19, 2005 22:57:58 GMT -5
I refuse to go along with that one. It's leutenant with a luu. Tell me where that BLASTED f comes in on LEUT. If it were spelt lephuenant, or leftenant, I would pronounce it that way! It's with an EU, though, and EU gets a OO sound. And put it into proper chunks. Leu-ten-ant. The t doesn't come in on the first syllable. (blinks) And did I spell syllable right? There's no way LEFT comes out of LEU-TEN. (folds arms) Either your history teacher has the most ridiculous sense of spelling in existance, or someone's decided Canadians deserve a ridiculous accent. There is no f, nor ph, nor any other possible way an f could come out of leutenant. If I meet anyone that pronounces it that way, then perhaps I will make amends to my extreme post of the moment, but there is no f. And unlike the Matrix, that doesn't mean there can be an imaginary one.
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Post by Tiana, eh? on Oct 19, 2005 23:04:54 GMT -5
Fine, then I'm not Canadian, so where AM I from?? HUH? Point momentarily conceeded. I'm receeding from my country and moving to Coruscant because they pronounce things right.
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Post by Jandalf on Toast on Oct 21, 2005 14:48:46 GMT -5
I just figured it followed under the same rules which make the word "colonel" sound like "kernel". The English language... Just plain crazy. Heh. But we were told that when privates came into the army and pronounced it the American way, they were mocked openly.
...Then again, they were apparently mocked openly for thousands of other reasons, such as the shape of their berets if the things weren't quite "broken in" yet. (cackles) The way the army works, I'm supposing.
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Post by Tiana, eh? on Oct 21, 2005 22:48:15 GMT -5
...I pronounce that one "corn-nol" half the time. Meh. (wonders about Colonel) I can't even spell that word, so I don't worry about how I say it.
(wonders about Jandalf's post edit. Has a tendency to wonder about things like that)
(including the idiot who decided words needed to be pronounced differently for the sake of tormenting girls who are BLASTED tired of people shoving things in her fact that she's doing wrong and making her even MORE suseptable to being warped by people around her)
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Post by Master Warious on Oct 24, 2005 9:59:29 GMT -5
I pronounce 'Colonel' the way the French do which makes far more sence.
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Post by Tiana, eh? on Oct 24, 2005 12:49:42 GMT -5
Hmmm... stupid pronounciations. I will make my own accent! That's it, there's the key... I speak the Shadow Realms accent... HAHA! I win! Or something of the like... heh...
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Post by Skye Muad'Dib on Oct 24, 2005 18:08:28 GMT -5
I'm going to have a Core accent, they rock! Shadow realm accent would be cool, but I'm lightside...
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Post by Master Warious on Oct 25, 2005 9:18:49 GMT -5
I'm classified as 'No accent'. Unless I make one. i'm good at imitating accents....just not differentiation between German and Russian...
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Post by Tiana, eh? on Oct 27, 2005 20:00:06 GMT -5
I'm going to have a Core accent, they rock! Shadow realm accent would be cool, but I'm lightside... It's not what you think... (deep breath) THISPLOTISCOPYWRITEDTOTIANABECAUSESHEINTENDSONPUBLISHINGWITHITSOMEDAY SODON'TSTEALITSHEWORKEDREALLYREALLYHARDONIT. The Shadow Realms are a dying Mirror set apart from the rest of the galaxy/universe/WHATEVER. Their star's going, a la Magician's Nephew. Because of this the people are forced to live in underground cities, and whenever they can, they force teleportations into the Star Wars galaxy equvilent thereof, where the kids can grow up as Jedi-types. Living in a hard enviorment makes people there a bit harder to the world, but that doesn't mean they aren't good. There's the typical balance of good and evil... it's called the Shadow Realms because of the fading light, rather than being evil. Depending on your location (north, south, Royalist, whatever), you'll have a different accent. Southrerners tend to have an accent like... er... if you've heard the song on the Spirits Within soundtrack, the one sang by a guy... like that. Sort of half swallowed. Royals have a Core-like accent, the lowlife more Celtic hardened. (you can be turned into ye, what into whit, though depending on how hard of an accent they have, it may or may not be written as such). Northerners have a more throaty accent, edgy on Canadian and Ukrainian, I think. Heh. Sorry. Just wanted to clear up that any references I make to the Shadow Realms aren't evil. It's just a reference to mine and Jandalf's writing, and basically the slang-ish term for the universe that's dying. (it's actually Achani, or something like that.) [/rant] I'm not sure what accent I have, rl. It's sort of a slam with Canadian, Core, Ukrainian, and Scottish. Moreless "no accent".
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Post by Master Warious on Oct 28, 2005 16:34:09 GMT -5
*pats Eowyn on the back* It's okay...they didn't know.
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Post by Skye Muad'Dib on Oct 28, 2005 17:04:15 GMT -5
*is cowed in fear* sorry...
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Post by Tiana, eh? on Oct 28, 2005 17:06:33 GMT -5
Oh, don't be afraid, I was just explaining! I like explaining... snrk.
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Post by Dûncariel is Dead. on Oct 30, 2005 0:04:11 GMT -5
Heh. The people in Canada asked us why Montanans don't have accents. Made me laugh. So I started faking British....
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Post by Jandalf on Toast on Nov 1, 2005 2:50:38 GMT -5
(dies) Oh...that's too funny...
Heh. Just like the British lady I work with. She's hilarious...told us she didn't see why everyone kept on saying "Oh, I love your accent!" when she didn't have one to begin with...heh heh. We were all the ones with the accents, after all. (cackles) She's been rubbing off on me, too. I've started saying "adverts" instead of "ads", and then I went and explained to Mom that no, it wasn't pronounced Wor-ces-ter-shire sauce, but rather simply Wor-ster sauce, except it really is a lot easier to say with a British accent...oh, it's like the fun never ends! Snrk.
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Post by Master Warious on Nov 1, 2005 14:08:04 GMT -5
Wow...it sounds like you have fun at work...
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Post by Dûncariel is Dead. on Nov 1, 2005 20:36:06 GMT -5
«cracks up»
Yeah. Apparently, all the people who had been to visit with the family I stayed with were from Texas. And that's an appalling accent, if you've ever heard it. They speak a completely different language down there. 'Might could', 'Usta could'. That's normal... and they can turn the accent on and off. It's really weird. Montanans tend to talk slowly, because of all of the Californians that've moved here and are stupid. At least, that's how a farmer explained it to me. But out English is un-accented. People from Oregon have more of an accent than people from Montana. It's funny.
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