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FakeGAF 7: The Dark Thirst Rises
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trab pu kcip
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you shall be called Gobbs from now on. as your punishment for interchanging js and gs like a madman.
RobotNinjaHornets
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Get dunked
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
How about we just remove the confusion and call him Obbs.
trab pu kcip
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I like Gobbs because it sounds a bit like goblin.
RobotNinjaHornets
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trab pu kcip
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the council has decided! can we get a mod in here to make it official?
RobotNinjaHornets
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I want to let this die but
- there are examples of words starting with soft G as well as hard G, however, the general grammatical rule indicates a soft G
- the inventor of the format said it's a soft G
Your given counter argument: Some things start with a hard G. Okay, brilliant, some things also start with soft G, but in addition we have the grammatical guideline as well as the creator of the word telling us it's soft G.
you guys would be absolutely slain in a debate class if these are your only arguments
RobotNinjaHornets
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How do you pronounce twat Jobbs?
timetokill
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Oh my god your LASIK stories are scaring the hell out of me
I'll probably want to get it someday and you guys are not helping
I'll probably want to get it someday and you guys are not helping
Being persecuted for relying on facts and substance is more typically an american thing. I expected better
RobotNinjaHornets
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liliththepale
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gib gibbon giddy gift gig gigabit giggle gild gill gilt gimbal gimme gimp gingham ginkgo gird girl girt girth git give gizmo
"grammatical guideline" my ass. That's a worse myth than I before E.
I don't pronounce Voldemort the stupid way without a T, so why should I pronounce GIF the stupid way? Creators are full of shit sometimes. Language is a living organism, so if everyone else says hard G then it's hard G.
There's honestly no confusion on the issue. What you do have is some shut in nerds who never talked to anyone except online, so they could invent their own phonetics without sounding silly back in the prehistoric days of the Internet.
But then something magical happened. Internet usage was taken over by normal people and GIF images saw a resurgence. It's no coincidence that the logical pronunciation took precedence.
"grammatical guideline" my ass. That's a worse myth than I before E.
I don't pronounce Voldemort the stupid way without a T, so why should I pronounce GIF the stupid way? Creators are full of shit sometimes. Language is a living organism, so if everyone else says hard G then it's hard G.
There's honestly no confusion on the issue. What you do have is some shut in nerds who never talked to anyone except online, so they could invent their own phonetics without sounding silly back in the prehistoric days of the Internet.
But then something magical happened. Internet usage was taken over by normal people and GIF images saw a resurgence. It's no coincidence that the logical pronunciation took precedence.
you wouldn't call him what he calls himself cause then you'd be dead
liliththepale
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No, the only "just because" person is you. You've never been a language prescriptivist. Whenever someone counters you on a matter of language you (rightly) point out that language is a living organism. But now just because it goes against your personal inertia you've decided to stick it out for the minority pronunciation.
GIF has a hard G because its nearest phonetic neighbors have a hard G, and because the word its derived from has a hard G. That's not "just because". That's direct inference.
GIF has a hard G because its nearest phonetic neighbors have a hard G, and because the word its derived from has a hard G. That's not "just because". That's direct inference.
liliththepale
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That's not really what's meant by "just because" in isolation. It's more of a "just because I say so" thing.
I'm aware. I'm making fun of jobbs
I've always used a soft G (since long before the format was popularized) so it's hard for me to change just because a lot of people now use a hard G.
...But I'll grant you that since the majority does seem to pronounce it with a hard G, I'm being hypocritical by holding out. I guess I'll have to consider switching teams.
I stand by my reasoning though, especially with respect to creator deference
liliththepale
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I've had so many false pronunciations embedded in my head until embarrassingly corrected later in life. In high school I caught a bunch of slack for accidentally pronouncing maniacal as maniac-ull, and butcher as butt-cher. Per my teacher at the time, I butchered the pronunciation of butcher. Then it wasn't until college that I learned with humility about the difference between infinite and finite (finnit, according to me).
I'm sure there were other words I tripped up on as well. It happens to the best of us.
I'm sure there were other words I tripped up on as well. It happens to the best of us.
The only cogent argument provided was the living organism argument, which you turned against me successfully. Nothing else made sense at all.
Everyone's wrong, therefore it's right, basically.
RobotNinjaHornets
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Well since you don't want to humour me
I assume you pronounce twat to rhyme with what, given that's how all Americans I've ever heard say twat pronounce it
Except, there are examples of twat being used in the 1600s to rhyme with hat. Before your country even existed
Therefore, if you always deferred to the creators on how to pronounce things, it should rhyme with hat, no?
So either change your pronunciation of twat or admit you're a hypocrite
I assume you pronounce twat to rhyme with what, given that's how all Americans I've ever heard say twat pronounce it
Except, there are examples of twat being used in the 1600s to rhyme with hat. Before your country even existed
Therefore, if you always deferred to the creators on how to pronounce things, it should rhyme with hat, no?
So either change your pronunciation of twat or admit you're a hypocrite
Well since you don't want to humour me
I assume you pronounce twat to rhyme with what, given that's how all Americans I've ever heard say twat pronounce it
Except, there are examples of twat being used in the 1600s to rhyme with hat. Before your country even existed
Therefore, if you always deferred to the creators on how to pronounce things, it should rhyme with hat, no?
So either change your pronunciation of twat or admit you're a hypocrite
Twat rhymes with hot, not what. So I don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
I'm trying to sketch someone from the portrait thread. I like my sketch but it doesn't look enough like them so I'm irritated.
Leave.
What? Ive never heard it pronounced that way. What's your native language?
Around here "what" usually sounds like "hut", and no one says "twut" that I've ever heard.
RobotNinjaHornets
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Ok. Well. The actual point still stands.
lol wut
I like your voice
Also hat and twat are definitely the best example. But hat doesn't sound the same from accent to accent. At least theres some relative consistency
Pratt and twat don't rhyme in America that I've ever heard.
Pratt rhymes with hat.
Twat rhymes with hot.
What rhymes with butt.
Nomadic Sparks
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Who cares lawrd
You fail at speaking.
liliththepale
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The danger of twat rhyming with hat, which is what I've always understood, is that it also rhymes with Matt :O
Tony, why the Chris Pratt hate?
Tony, why the Chris Pratt hate?
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/twat click the speaker button. that's the way I say it.
Does NOT rhyme with Matt.
liliththepale
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Yeah, that makes sense. I just don't remember ever hearing someone say it that way, and I've had a reasonable amount of experience under that word's derision.
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