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The most off-topic WCDT discussion ever
mtmerrick:
This further goes to back of my theory that phonics in English is a load of bullshit and should not be taught to impressionable children.
Redball:
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 09 May 2013, 13:50 ---Oh, same for me. I'm a certifiable nor'easter. Hell, where I come from, the word "yup" has two syllables (eye-up)
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Carl, have you ever heard the "Bert and I" recording? Droll little stories/anecdotes told in a down-east accent?
Smallest:
--- Quote from: Akima on 09 May 2013, 15:36 ---I once wrote a poem that contained the word "crushed", and was bashed for treating it as two syllables. It certainly has two "beats", I think, but there is only one vowel-sound. On-line syllable counters sometimes treat it as one, sometimes two, so... I don't know.
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You were missing an accent; your either have crushed (crush'd) or crushèd (crushehd). Either way the shd noise doesn't count as a syllable.
--- Quote ---The grave accent, although not standardly applied to any English words, is sometimes used in poetry and song lyrics to indicate that a vowel usually silent is to be pronounced, in order to fit the rhythm or meter. Most often, it is applied to a word ending with -ed. For instance, the word looked is usually pronounced /ˈlʊkt/ as a single syllable, with the e silent; when written as lookèd, the e is pronounced: /ˈlʊk.ɨd/ look-ed). It can also be used in this capacity to distinguish certain pairs of identically spelled words like the past tense of learn, learned /ˈlɜrnd/, from the adjective learnèd /ˈlɜrn.ɨd/ (for example, "a very learnèd man").
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ankhtahr:
All this phonetics talk forces my interest in british accents/dialects into my mind again. I admit I've been watching too much Doctor Who lately, which offers many interesting specimen. I even listened to BBC Scotland for a while, just because I like the accent.
In Scottish English all this would be even worse. I mean, seriously, an accent in which even the word "girl" sounds like it has two syllables has got to be difficult to make poems with.
westrim:
--- Quote from: mtmerrick on 09 May 2013, 15:54 ---This further goes to back of my theory that phonics in English is a load of bullshit and should not be taught to impressionable children.
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When I was young, I went to visit family in Georgia, and got slipped into an elementary school with my cousins while the adults went and did adult things. I recently found a report the school did, noting that for the couple days I was there I struggled with their phonics program, blaming it on the California education system. This amused me, since as I recall my actual struggle was with changing the words from something I could spell and read just fine to weird hyphened gobbledegook.
My point is, total bullshit.
--- Quote from: Kugai on 09 May 2013, 17:58 ---I think my signature answers that.
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Speaking of your signature, there's a slice of cake next to your age in your forum profile. Is it your birthday?
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 09 May 2013, 06:13 ---
--- Quote from: Loki on 09 May 2013, 02:02 ---Well, he had qualifications.
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Ha, I just noticed that what Tai said after he Marten passed was almost in iambic pentameter. (Although I think I remember someone here telling me a while ago I was wrong about "hired" being two syllables, something I still disagree with.)
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--- Quote from: Jeph ---That is possibly the nerdiest panel 4 I have ever written. To the 5% of my audience who gets all three jokes, I salute you and your English degrees.
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Unless I'm missing something, the jokes are the application, her response, and Dewey decimal system, which would make you, for the strips purposes, right.
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