I jitsu like how aluminum sounds
The only Ferengi I trust deal in Latinium.
It’s the name of another precious metal with one letter removed. Star Trek writers are so lazy.
Always find it funny how the French and British traditionally hate on each other but the British will defend to the death the stupid French shit we stole for our language
the amount of times I’ve seen people get pissed off at the American English removal of the useless “u” is actually fucking silly
I mean we hate on the french, but it’s mostly good natured ribbing. Also wasn’t most of the french imposed on us post invasion rather than stealing?
The English ‘stole’ words from the French in the same way half the European world ‘stole’ Roman roads, words, and customs.
They were colonised by the Normans you silly codswallop. The British retain French words because they were forced on them by the aristocracy a thousand years ago.
I remember the battle of Hastings like it was yesterday.
It’s even sillier when you realize (hah!) that -or came from Latin, and -our came from Old French, and both had been used interchangeably in English for at least a century when Samuel Johnson decided to use -our in his dictionary, and Noah Webster decided to use -or. So Britons and Yankees are equally (in)correct.
Not listening to countries that say “zed” for the letter z.
Bed, ced, ded, ed, ged, ped, ted, ved? No? Zee.
And they just love to add unnecessary U’s to everything while they sip their tea with their fucking pinkies up.
Would you also like us to say aee, fee, hee, jee, kee, lee, mee, nee, oee, qee, ree, see, uee, wee, xee and yee?
Are those letters that make the same “ee” sound when you pronounce the letter on its own? Like every one that I listed.
I’m suggesting that if you take your logic and apply it to all the letters equally, you’ll end up with the changes I listed. If that seems wrong, then the case for consistency isn’t as strong as you first suggested.
I understood what you were suggesting, it was just weak.
Americans say “zee”, which is comparable to the letters I gave as examples.
between zee and zed, zee makes more sense with it being inline with other letter’s pronunciations. What does zed come from?
Admittedly, I do not know the history of the character’s development.
We canadians also say Aluminum and I would like to be represented in this comic as a target of mockery alongside the US thank you.
Sorry, I’m siding with my American compatriots on this one. Yours sounds silly.
“Aluminium” sounds like something a fantasy writer would call aluminum in their novel just to make it sound magical.
Al is Arabic for “the,” “um” was because the scientist forgot what he wanted to say, “in” means inside, and “um” also means the scientist forgot what to say and likely ran away.
Dubya would start a nukular war over it.
Go and get some platinium and if you want to go old fashioned you may like aurium.
Too many syllables.
a LU min um
a lu MIN yum
or something idk
al loo mee nee uhm
ITT a bunch of weird pedantic nerds that hate language and don’t read enough books.
What gets me is an Americanism that seems to have only taken hold in the last 10 years or so - Normalcy. Apparently it’s been in use since 1920 but I’m sure it’s only recently become ubiquitous in the US. The word is NORMALITY my American friends. Normalcy is a horrible Frankenstien word which sounds and looks horrible written. =p
I know someone that has started saying “normalicy” and I want to scream every time
“Normalcy” was regarded as a mistake for ages and they took the piss out of people for using it, but then it gradually took over. It does sound exactly like a toddler forgetting “normality” and just making something up though.
39 yo American. This is the first time I have ever seen or heard of the word normality… And I read a decent amount of British regency literature.
Read hitch hikers guide to the galaxy
So normalcy is normality for you? Fascinating! =D
It was the term used by the people that actually isolated the substance but, as England likes to do, they colonized the term to their standards and then pretended that was the right way.
Prize | Prise
What
Is ‘z’ even in the British alphabet?
Yeah, but they call it zed.
That always made me do a double take in hades. Everytime he was called ‘prince zed’ by sisyphus I had to take a second to think about what was being said.
I (in the UK) say “prize” if it’s something you’re winning, and “prise” if you’re trying to open something with a crowbar.
That is “pries,” from “pry,” my friend
Cursed
Curzed
Pronounce ‘bottle of water’ right now OP
bo’o ‘o’ wa’a
Get up, come on, get down with the sickness!
I just laughed so hard that I scared the cat. I did not expect that. Fucking hell lmfao
Don’t you mean “boddul of warder”?
Edit: I changed the recording a little bit.
Edit 2: I find it funny how I’ve posted my voice a bunch in the past and yet fuckin’ this is what has people messaging me thirsting over my voice. Friendly reminder. I’m gay. And now scared.
This is modern art
I don’t even like podcasts, but where do I subscribe to your’s??
I don’t have the patience or a blood sugar for a podcast. Too much effort. And I don’t even know what I’d talk about…
o… of what?!
This is a top class response 👏
Don’t worry, I’m done now lol
😂 Absolutely zero rage here. This genuinely brightened my day! You have a fantastic voice!
Hey, one of us has to have a good day, right?
Thanks <3
Your voice and speech cadence are genuinely GOD TIER. I swear to god people would pay money to get narrated by a voice HALF as good as yours! Take pride in that
I swear to god people would pay money to get narrated by a voice HALF as good as yours!
Who’s to say people don’t?
I just wish more people did.
I’m fucking hungry.
But thank you <3
Lmao. Well done.
Thank you very much. And to you for managing to score that username. I thought me getting just a first name as my main account was good but damn.
Thanks! I was very early on the Reddit APIpocolypse exodus, haha.
Same lol my main account hits the 2 year mark like 2 weeks after lemmy.world’s two year anniversary
You’re gay and canadian? Notice me, senpai!
>.>
<.<
You did drop the t to a glottal stop in your last glass of water, though, just saying! :P
I am indeed gay and I am indeed Canadian. Newfie specifically. I just suppress the fuck out of my accent.
Also it does sound like a glottal stop in the last one but only if the volume is lower. If you increase the volume a bit you’ll hear the T. I had to check for myself to be honest. Was listening to it quietly at the stop and “WAIT WAIT WAIT” before turning the volume up and “Ah okay.”
Damnit! My secret-keeping low volume speakers have foiled me again!
You have my deepest sympathies.
I want this as the voice on my GPS
Pastry Pete, is that you?
… Who? Also I just re-recorded it with more to it. Does that make it better or worse lol
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OMFG this is amazing
Now it’s the last one because I really do have to go.
The five syllable elements are all weird radioactive things. If Al has five syllables it might make my beer can radioactive or poisonous. Better keep the syllable count on Al to four or less like all of the other normal elements.
