The answer to the question 'why does [group of people] pronounce [word] like [this]?' is almost always because they have an accent.
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The answer to the question 'why does [group of people] pronounce [word] like [this]?' is almost always because they have an accent.
Voltron headcanon
“Quiznak” was never actually an Altean swear word. Coran just accidentally turned it into one while spending time with little Allura.
Because of the war, the destruction of Altea, and the cryosleep, Allura never learned that it wasn’t a real curse word in the first place — and thanks to the Paladins, it eventually became one for real.
bring back calling people git, ninny, dork, silly sausage, silly goose, twit, tit, baboon, buffoon, clown, fool, preposterous, out the gate, cooked, out of touch, psychotic
instead of delusional, insane, stupid, idiot, dumb, evil, nasty, morally reprehensible
Something occurred to me about neopronouns. I was talking with a friend who uses he/they about pronouns and how they think their pronouns are boring, while I think it’s nice that he has pronouns that are socially recognized as pronouns whereas my e/eir/em use gets multiple questions and debates. Despite them being around for over a century. Which made me think about words that entered the English language in the last 100 years. That people use without batting an eye.
So here’s my (slightly bitter) list of words to use the next time someone says they can’t wrap their head around older words:
- TV/ television
- microwave (yes technically the word existed, but not in the modern definition)
- bikini (again, only the Atoll existed until the invention of the clothing garment)
- LCD (the words existed separately, but never as an acronym together)
- computer (which changed definition from a human to a machine)
Feel free to add more. I only gave this a few seconds of thought so I might add more later
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Lmfao, you don't know what I would or wouldn't identify as if pan as a label didn't exist. Neither do I.
Maybe I'd identify as bisexual - maybe I wouldn't. Maybe I would have coined my own sexuality, or some other mspec label would have come into existence instead and I would have chosen that. Maybe I'd be omni or poly. Maybe I'd just be queer. Maybe I wouldn't have realized I'm queer at all.
We'll never know, because this is a world where pan does exist, and that's what I identify as, and I do not identify whatsoever with any other sexuality labels aside from pan and queer.
I am not bisexual, and no amount of you saying I am or that I would be in this hypothetical other reality will ever change that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I agree w/ the anon, it's rovina. In the libretto of Don Giovanni, it's also written as rovina actually.
not in my bärenreiter score, which is the definitive score used by opera companies:
Recently heard someone use the word “fandom” to refer to tabletop RPG players, and like the term felt incredibly wrong to me in that context. I’m wondering if the phrase has just become a stand-in for any group that happens to share an interest, or if the recent popularity of Critical Role and associated media has transformed the way people conceptualize that community into more of a more modern media->consumer relationship.