JCC Ender Sigh rags on 'Murica

You really should quote the Duke of Edinburgh and Prince Consort, Phillip. Much better.

"People think there's a rigid class system here, but dukes have been known to marry chorus girls. Some have even married Americans."

 

ah yes, the duke of edinburgh, known for his wonderful, always timely sense of humor

 

He said to a gathering of Labour MPs, "Ah, so this is the feminist corner then?"

That's trolling like you can't get away with otherwise, Maik. We should envy this man.

 

Big Suze's (Sophie Winkleman) uber-sexy poshness



particular attention in this scene on the pronunciation of "he's looking for someone more subservient on the internet", "irowq?", and "barolo"

 

one shoudl use their powers for good, not evil

 

I can't watch the clip as one is at work, but I assume you're enamoured by the correct pronunciation of Iraq as "Ihrahq" and not the incorrect, stroke-victim approach of "I-rack"?

 

true but jez, the other character in the scene, pronounces it roughly the way you (and i) do as well... big suze has a subtle twist in there that makes it sexy. you have to hear it for yourself when you have a chance

 

Personally I think that BANGladesh is a lot worse in terms of country name mispronunciations.

 

I snuck a listen on the phone. But I mean that's just the posh accent; do you not have that in the US? I mean, Sydney has a tonne of Brits because it's basically London with beaches and summer, so you get the range of accents including the posh darling set.

 

americans see an "a" and we pronounce it just as harsh as we can

see also "pakistan"

 

No arguments there; but so is "Lay-oss". "I-rack" just seems to be the way stupid people say Iraq. In fact if you look at Bush Sr vs Bush Jr, you see the difference right there...

 

not much no. i also think the chavvy "uzz" pronounciation of "us" is sexy so maybe im just easy/weird

 

"shanghai" is another one i encounter in my daily life and am made to feel like im the crazy one for doing the requisite work on the "shahng"

 

So are ya Chinese or Japanese?

 

that's the first question i ask every asian person i meet

//anthropology skillz

 

I get confusion on how I say that, but I'm not going to screw pronunciation up because of laowei ears. It should be "Shunghai".

The problem is pretty much that when we Western devils were trying to turn Chinese into a form our uncultured eyes and mouths could pronounce, we started with a terrible version called Wade-Gilles. So you get names like Peking for Bei Jing (Bei means north, like in Tai Bei - north Taiwan; and Jing is basically "capital") or Taichung for Tai Zhong (Tai for Taiwan, Zhong meaning "middle"), Hsinchu for Xinzhu etc.

Chinese is a bastard to master, as it's tonal and the placement of the tongue inside your mouth is totally different to English. You curl it up to the roof a lot more to get the zhi chi shi sounds ("zhur, chur shur")/ When you say "Shanghai", you have to start the "Sh" sound with your tongue touching the roof of your mouth near your mouth.

One think you can say for sure is that people in Firefly don't speak a word of Chinese.

 

I don't know if this has already been said, but holy ****, that looks like Montie.

 

its like monty and adam goldberg had a crack baby

 

i have diverse tastes.

for instance, on the same show, i also find dobby's chavvier accent sexy



i cant find a clip where she does a really drawn out "uohzzz" for "us" that, say, lauren socha on misfits does, but she definitely does them. the "us" in this clip is pretty much swallowed, interesting enough

she does an archetypal "thourrh" and "wot" in this clip tho

 

Yes, I do know what thread this is and I risk opening myself to being mocked. And it's probably more appropriate to post this in the "History" thread.

All I want to say is:

As Americans commemorate the next few days, remember that no matter what the United States has faced in its history, in both adversity and triumph, the flag has always flown high. May it always do so.

13th anniversary of September 11th
200th anniversary of Battle of Baltimore (September 12th-15th)

 

Well your post does sound rather pretentious, you know.

 

Pro-tip: posting some unironic "patriotic" claptrap in a thread that exists explicitly for the purposes of making LOL MURRICA jokes does not make you a martyr.