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Zebediah:
I'm the uncle who tells you that you need to find a better hiding place for your porn stash, because your mom will totally find it where it is now. I won't reveal that she already damn well knows where it is, because I'm trying to leave you some dignity here.
And I will not, under any circumstances, tell you where your mom's porn stash is hidden. That'd be just plain wrong.
Redball:
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 30 Jul 2013, 10:24 ---While the au probably should make "ont" the "proper" pronunciation, it's always sounded odd to me. I'll usually say "ant", but sometimes I actually will use "ont" (like "root"/"rout" for route, I usually use the former for that, but not always.) I wonder if we should make a pronunciation thread. For that matter, I wonder if we already did and I just don't know about it.
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All that came to mind is English is weird.
Method of Madness:
English is weird enough before it goes and weirds itself even more.
SageJiraiya:
I think English is successful because of that weirdness. Even though it's ridiculously hard to learn, English is such a melting pot of words and grammatical idiosyncrasies that it is applicable to nearly any context.
The crazy words we have and use make great stories, dialogues, science, as well as music.
SageJiraiya:
Regarding root v rowt:
I use root for everything. I guess it is just a generalized term.
I rarely say rowt. I didn't use it in Pokemon; that's for sure.
Considering the networking machine is usually pronounced rowter and not rooter, I think the differentiation may have been popularized to avoid confusion with the word root, like android devices, and plants.
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