03-29-2004, 02:13 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-29-2004, 02:16 AM by Occhidiangela.)
Ya got a damn lot 'o gall exposing your lack of wit to me.
If you bother to check the pronunciation guidance proffered to fourth graders, you would know that a vowel, followed by a single consonant and an E is "generally" pronounced long. Hence, Spokane rhymes with Rain and Spain, not to mention to cocaine, train, and peebrain. (OK, I confess, I have no idea why Love is not pronounced "loave.")
Of course, you, the entire population of Spokane, and doubtless countless others prefer to pronounce the word as though it had no E on the end. How nice, Ebonics for white people.
That contextual illiteracy puts you all in the distinguished company of the population of Mexia, Texas, and Refugio, Texas, all of whom eschew simple pronunciation rules and pronounce their towns' names "Muh Hair" and "Reh furio" rather than "Mex EE Ah" via English or "Me Hee Ah" via Spanish and "Reh foo gee Oh" via English and "Reh foo hee Oh" via Spanish.
EDIT: The g on gee got lost.
In short, you have by your lackwit post consigned yourself, and apparently a great number of your Washingtonian peers, to the intellecutal gutter alongside the silly Texan Rednecks and damp dorsals who you 'sophisticated' Urban wankers talk down at and to all the time.
How does it feel to be suddenly on a first name basis with lackwits?
You are welcome for the lesson.
-Occhi
Quote:QUOTE (Occhidiangela @ Mar 20 2004, 05:36 PM)
I've been to Maine
I've been to Spain
I've been to Spokane
If you'd actually been to Spokane, you would know that the above doesn't rhyme.Â
If you bother to check the pronunciation guidance proffered to fourth graders, you would know that a vowel, followed by a single consonant and an E is "generally" pronounced long. Hence, Spokane rhymes with Rain and Spain, not to mention to cocaine, train, and peebrain. (OK, I confess, I have no idea why Love is not pronounced "loave.")
Of course, you, the entire population of Spokane, and doubtless countless others prefer to pronounce the word as though it had no E on the end. How nice, Ebonics for white people.
That contextual illiteracy puts you all in the distinguished company of the population of Mexia, Texas, and Refugio, Texas, all of whom eschew simple pronunciation rules and pronounce their towns' names "Muh Hair" and "Reh furio" rather than "Mex EE Ah" via English or "Me Hee Ah" via Spanish and "Reh foo gee Oh" via English and "Reh foo hee Oh" via Spanish.
EDIT: The g on gee got lost.
In short, you have by your lackwit post consigned yourself, and apparently a great number of your Washingtonian peers, to the intellecutal gutter alongside the silly Texan Rednecks and damp dorsals who you 'sophisticated' Urban wankers talk down at and to all the time.
How does it feel to be suddenly on a first name basis with lackwits?
You are welcome for the lesson.
-Occhi
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John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete
In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete