Typically someone 3 times your own size is fat as fuck, you can probably take him, he'll tire quickly. I never could stand people calling them toons. It just sort of, I don't know, seemed to undermine the whole thing. Granted I understand it's a waste of time, but still you don't have to be shitty about it.
I wasn't seriously suggesting he actually hit his friend in the balls. Thats just mean.
I do remember getting into a conversation with the manager at my local GAME store regarding the still-in-development Oblivion.
"Oh yeah, it's looking good. Now that Half-Life 2 is out, which they had to wait for because it uses the same engine, it can finally get released."
Hunh, he must have been thinking of Bloodlines. They DID, according to the devs, have to delay the release because HL2 was going to be the first game to use Source. Which makes very little sense, since the final version still ended up being buggy and unfinished (and, yes, awesome, just to save someone having to correct me).
People referring to the martyrdom perk in CoD4 as 'marty dom' is more humorous than annoying, but it still happens way too much. I can sort of understand little kids not knowing the word but it seems like it's usually grown men that mess up the pronunciation.
It has been mentioned before, but the abbreviation for the PlayStation 3 is not P3. God that irritates the shit out of me.
One thing that bothered the fuck out of me was when my friend would tell me about how he was playing WoW, instead of saying it the god damn way the word is, he said woah.
What the fuck?
I am also guilty of saying zee-lot, but I try to correct myself.
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I'm fine now though.
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In high school, someone asked me if I had an Xbox and then asked if I had played "Hollow."
My grandma is also pretty bad with pronunciations. The only two I can remember are "Pokeyman" and saying "Dream Castle" instead of "Dreamcast" at first. She eventually got Dreamcast right, but continues to say Pokeyman.
Our first console was an Intellivision. From that day onward, for my dipshit stepfather, every game console ever made was (something)-vision. I remember trying to explain why he was confusing clerks by asking for a "nintendovision", and he just -did not get it-.
Speaking of mistaking game titles for character names... my little brother adorably gets it wrong the other way around. He'll comment that I'm playing "Samus", "Link" or "Snake". Mostly because he first got introduced to a lot of these characters through Smash Bros.
I correct him every once in a while, but I find it so funny that he does the opposite of the common mistake that I usually just sort of smile to myself.
This thread just proves how retarded the English language is. If you need a group of people to find out how a word in their native language (for most of us, anyway) is pronounced, something is wrong.
This thread just proves how retarded the English language is. If you need a group of people to find out how a word in their native language (for most of us, anyway) is pronounced, something is wrong.
Most of the words discussed are not English words.
This thread just proves how retarded the English language is. If you need a group of people to find out how a word in their native language (for most of us, anyway) is pronounced, something is wrong.
Most of the words discussed are not English words.
What I mean to say is how the words are pronounced in English. The rules are so complicated and messed up that it's hard to make sense of any of it.
If you think English is complicated and messed up, that's because you've never learned any other language in the world with the notable exception of Spanish.
That could be very true, but there's a reason English is considered one of the hardest languages in the world to learn. From what little I know of other languages, a lot of them have more universal rules that at least give you a clue as to how the word is pronounced, even if you haven't heard it.
Hell, after a couple of hours of studying Thai from a book I was pronouncing words pretty accurately.
I'm pretty certain English is considered one of the easiest languages to learn in the world. Hence part of why most of the world speaks at least some of it.
English certainly has a richness to it and is beautiful in its flexibility, but it is, at its core, a simple grammar with little variation in phonemes (at least compared to the majority of languages I'm at least somewhat aware of; obviously I know jack shit about Thai).
What languages do you speak? Aside from French and English. I know a little Japanese and that's also a language that's not too difficult phonetically.
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See the thing is though, is that we're just trying to be correct, but if we were to say this pronunciations in public, no one would correct us, so its not like we're making fools of ourselves.
We have rules to go buy, but we have exceptions to each and every rule as well. This is because like 90% of our language is borrowed from other languages.
Words like Colonel for example. That obviously has nothing to do with the english nature.
These are the only two I'm comfortable enough to have a conversation in, and maybe I'm somewhat biased in that I find things that I don't know to be complicated, but I've gleamed little bits and pieces of most European languages, some Japanese (though I can't read their alphabets) and a tiny bit of Russian (same). The only language I'm feeling confident in saying is almost definitely easier than English, is Spanish (though once again, feel free to think I'm biased on that considering it's so close to French).
I'll say this much, though: as a native French speaker, I actually have an easier time with English grammar and spelling. There is a stupid amount of crazy rules in French that are just not even an issue in English, and very few are the other way around.
I'm pretty certain English is considered one of the easiest languages to learn in the world. Hence part of why most of the world speaks at least some of it.
That's an interesting interpretation from a French speaker. I'd always heard it was one of the hardest, but that was hearsay from native English speakers.
Of course when you've mastered a language, you can step back and look at all the little rules and advanced words that break the rules and say "whoa, this is too complicated." But for functional English, all the basic words? I don't doubt that it's no worse than most languages.
I'm pretty certain English is considered one of the easiest languages to learn in the world. Hence part of why most of the world speaks at least some of it.
That's an interesting interpretation from a French speaker. I'd always heard it was one of the hardest, but that was hearsay from native English speakers.
Of course when you've mastered a language, you can step back and look at all the little rules and advanced words that break the rules and say "whoa, this is too complicated." But for functional English, all the basic words? I don't doubt that it's no worse than most languages.
As another french speaker, I'll go ahead and say that english is incredibly easy to learn. Sure, I have an accent and I make various mistakes when typing in english, I don't claim perfection, but really, it's way easier.
I'm pretty certain English is considered one of the easiest languages to learn in the world. Hence part of why most of the world speaks at least some of it.
That's an interesting interpretation from a French speaker. I'd always heard it was one of the hardest, but that was hearsay from native English speakers.
Of course when you've mastered a language, you can step back and look at all the little rules and advanced words that break the rules and say "whoa, this is too complicated." But for functional English, all the basic words? I don't doubt that it's no worse than most languages.
As another french speaker, I'll go ahead and say that english is incredibly easy to learn. Sure, I have an accent and I make various mistakes when typing in english, I don't claim perfection, but really, it's way easier.
And I would've never guessed that either you or SimBen were not native english speakers. You're probably better than most natives.
This is way back on page nine or something, but isn't the official accepted terminology actually "Wiimote" for French markets? Like, it's on the box and everything?
Also, fuck you guys Willeth is not spelled Willith you ignorant fucks it's RIGHT THERE ON YOUR GOD DAMNED SCREEN
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This is way back on page nine or something, but isn't the official accepted terminology actually "Wiimote" for French markets? Like, it's on the box and everything?
Also, fuck you guys Willeth is not spelled Willith you ignorant fucks it's RIGHT THERE ON YOUR GOD DAMNED SCREEN
It's not Wiimote, no. It wouldn't make sense considering that remote isn't a french word anyway.
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If you're saying it in french it isn't Hay-lo.
Of course, if the rest of your sentence is in english, you're expected to say "Hay-lo".
I wasn't seriously suggesting he actually hit his friend in the balls. Thats just mean.
Hunh, he must have been thinking of Bloodlines. They DID, according to the devs, have to delay the release because HL2 was going to be the first game to use Source. Which makes very little sense, since the final version still ended up being buggy and unfinished (and, yes, awesome, just to save someone having to correct me).
It has been mentioned before, but the abbreviation for the PlayStation 3 is not P3. God that irritates the shit out of me.
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What the fuck?
What the fuck?
I am also guilty of saying zee-lot, but I try to correct myself.
I'm fine now though.
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My grandma is also pretty bad with pronunciations. The only two I can remember are "Pokeyman" and saying "Dream Castle" instead of "Dreamcast" at first. She eventually got Dreamcast right, but continues to say Pokeyman.
I grew up pronouncing it ker-ra-ti.
Can't say it any other way. that one is ingrained in my head.
I correct him every once in a while, but I find it so funny that he does the opposite of the common mistake that I usually just sort of smile to myself.
Edit: The relevant part of the video is at the end.
Most of the words discussed are not English words.
What I mean to say is how the words are pronounced in English. The rules are so complicated and messed up that it's hard to make sense of any of it.
Hell, after a couple of hours of studying Thai from a book I was pronouncing words pretty accurately.
English certainly has a richness to it and is beautiful in its flexibility, but it is, at its core, a simple grammar with little variation in phonemes (at least compared to the majority of languages I'm at least somewhat aware of; obviously I know jack shit about Thai).
We have rules to go buy, but we have exceptions to each and every rule as well. This is because like 90% of our language is borrowed from other languages.
Words like Colonel for example. That obviously has nothing to do with the english nature.
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I'll say this much, though: as a native French speaker, I actually have an easier time with English grammar and spelling. There is a stupid amount of crazy rules in French that are just not even an issue in English, and very few are the other way around.
That's an interesting interpretation from a French speaker. I'd always heard it was one of the hardest, but that was hearsay from native English speakers.
Of course when you've mastered a language, you can step back and look at all the little rules and advanced words that break the rules and say "whoa, this is too complicated." But for functional English, all the basic words? I don't doubt that it's no worse than most languages.
As another french speaker, I'll go ahead and say that english is incredibly easy to learn. Sure, I have an accent and I make various mistakes when typing in english, I don't claim perfection, but really, it's way easier.
Also, fuck you guys Willeth is not spelled Willith you ignorant fucks it's RIGHT THERE ON YOUR GOD DAMNED SCREEN
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It's not Wiimote, no. It wouldn't make sense considering that remote isn't a french word anyway.
QIX= "KIX", NOT "quicks"
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Man, I'm sure I've seen it on packaging over here. I'm going to prove you wrong, native French-speaker! Grr!
Also one that I just remembered that irks the fuck out of me: people calling it the Game Boy Advanced. God.
EDIT: Also I have a friend who calls FFXIII, "FFX 3". Does my head in.
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I've always said Ick-a-roo-ga. Ee (or eye)-ka-roo-ga just sounds weird.