Comments | lynnez59: So apparently God decided to gift me and my fellow Dec. 16thers snow today

lynnez59

So apparently God decided to gift me and my fellow Dec. 16thers snow today

Dec 16, 2010 11:18

So, yeah, it's snowing quite steadily and the roads are pretty much covered. My boses went ahead and let us all head out so I am home and they're more than willing to pick us up tomorrow in their giant SUVs if the roads are sheets of ice (which they probably will be). So I got a snow day for my birthday...not exactly what I wanted but I guess it'll ( Read more... )

it doesn't snow in va

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daystarsearcher December 16 2010, 17:53:32 UTC

Remember the CI episode where Goren realizes the suspect and the witness are related because of their unique speech pattern, where they enunciate the middle 't's like 'city' and 'pretty?' They say that this is odd because most Americans pronounce 't's in the middle of a word as 'd's. FALSE. Most speakers of American English, when encountering a 't' or a 'd' between two vowels (regardless of where it is in terms of the whole word) will pronounce it as a sound intermediate to 't' and 'd,' known as a tap or a flap depending on how you articulate it.

Speaking of t's, say the word 'tan' aloud, and then the word 'tree.' Odds are, you are probably not enunciating a perfect 'tree' but rather a sound closer to "chree." The "ch" sound is made up of a 't' plus a 'sh,' and on the journey from the 't' to the 'r' most people drop in a 'sh' just to make it easier. A similar thing happens when moving from 'd' to 'r'. Say "drop." Did you really make a 'd' sound? Or did it sound more like 'jrop?'

This concludes your random linguistics seminar for

daystarsearcher December 16 2010, 18:29:15 UTC

P.S. Happy birthday!

lynnez59 December 16 2010, 18:55:10 UTC

Thank you!

I love it! lynnez59 December 16 2010, 18:54:47 UTC

Oh, that's one of my favorite episodes.

And I did say those words and it's true - I do say jrop. Basically you're saying Americans are lazy...lol

Thanks for playing along

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lynnez59 December 16 2010, 18:55:57 UTC

Oh I didn't realize you were that close to me. I grew up in NN/Hampton side of the water. In richmond now though.

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lynnez59 December 17 2010, 22:30:34 UTC

Thank you!

That might be the cutest picture ever!

Here, have a few gifs of Buffy hitting boys, cuz boys are stupid goddessdster December 16 2010, 23:36:15 UTC

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

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Re: Here, have a few gifs of Buffy hitting boys, cuz boys are stupid lynnez59 December 17 2010, 22:33:11 UTC

I love you.

And I love Buffy beating boys up, because really they kind of deserve it...

larissabeth December 18 2010, 05:02:30 UTC

i feel like a moron. I don't know how my comment got where it did. I'm sorry