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And you shouldn't - "yawn" definitely has an ɔː (ooh) in any pronunciation guide I know of. Frankly I'm not sure if that's jɑː or something like jæ at the beginning, but certainly not jɔː.
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Yeah, I think this conversation is way out of my ability to comprehend now...
[image]I'll come back when I invent the proper language packs and install them...
Filed under: Backlogged, Workitem ID 3,197,771. Status: Investigate
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My grandfather went by Dick. He thought that was his name, until he enlisted in the Navy before we entered WWII, at which point he learned that his name was actually Wayne. He had been named after an uncle, who fell out of favor with his mother shortly after he was born, so she called him Dick.
The only people who called him Wayne were people who didn't know him, and us, when we called to troll him about the Dodgers (he hated them).
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God-belgium Google and their AHD pronunciation symbols. IPA for life!
But anyway, it's ya-as-in-yarn, not ya-as-in-yawn.
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Yarn:
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/media/english/us_pron/y/yar/yarn_/yarn.mp3
Yawn:
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/media/english/us_pron/e/eus/eus75/eus75052.mp3
The first has an "aah" (ɑː) sound, the other has an "ooh" (ɔː) sound.
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:giggity:
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Oh crap, looks like even :giggity: Engine has segfaulted here.
Filed under: Folks, I might just need a cold reboot, there's a lot of silent failing going on here...
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If this helps, you're looking more for a sort of "Yare" sound, rhyming with "tare" or maybe "tear" (not the liquid that falls from your eye, but something you do with a piece of paper.)
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Well, no. But I mentally pronounced that name like the first syllable was Yare, until I went back and listened to the recording again and I guess pronouncing it more like Yarn (or Yar, like pirates say) is closer.
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Continuing the discussion from Single-User Mode:
We have an expenses form at work like that. You click into the box to give it focus, then enter something in the field, When you click into the next box (tab don't work), it notices that this field has lost focus, and there's a noticeable hiatus of a couple of seconds while it goes to the database to verify that what you have entered is a valid cost code / expenses allocation. Till that has happened, you can't do anything else, and in fact you then have to click into the next field again so as to get focus on the new field. Fortunately we don't usually have a great deal of expenses fields to enter (I've never had more than about 10 after a particularly interesting foreign trip) and it's only an occasional thing. But it's amusingly annoying.
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What I want to know is, why do Americans pronounce "and" like "ee-yand"? Does this mean they pronounce "or" like "eeyore"?
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Well, yes, I can understand that, but the way it was described in the article I got the impression every field did that, including the first one while the form is still empty.
Also, they way the page was described I assumed that AJAX was just a fool's dream at the time it was made.
Maybe I'm just extrapolating too much...
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WHICH IS IT? How can something be amusing and annoying at the same time? [image]
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I'm not sure I've heard an American do this. Perhaps I need to travel outside the States for this feature...
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Ee-yand?
... what America are you talking about? Like... Brazil maybe? Because nobody in North America does that.
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What I want to know is, why do British add "R" to the end of idea.
I actually googled that and it seems my ESL hearing is not misleading me oh my idear.
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Regional differences? I've never heard anyone say it that way. I have heard people put emphasis on the word so it comes out kinda like aa-yand but that's not the usual way it's said.
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In my regional dialect, "Yankee" is definitely /jæ.../
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:+1: (to you, not him)
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Get your ears checked. James is one syllable, Jamie is two.
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Maybe he pronounces it "jay-mess"?
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I don't see what's so contradictory. Many popular perfumes include a markedly offensive "note" that draws your attention and makes them unique -- some say better.
Most :wtf:s are both annoying and amusing, once understood:
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Filed under: At least forum access is still working, that's good, right?!
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I'm with @RFoxmich and @DJSpudplucker; I was expecting the ending either to be "script is responsible for data corruption that takes twice as long to fix as just entering the data manually would have done" (possibly not on the original load, but some months later when being used for a different data set), or "existence of script is inadvertently revealed to management with unpleasant consequences" (whether legal or organisational, such as the input data not being trusted so it all has to be redone by hand).
Instead we get a happy ending. I'm pretty sure this is just an effort to imbue us with false hope so that its inevitable crushing will be even more amusing.
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Wouldn't that make it a Confession, rather than a Featured Article?
So, our expectations were subverted, which is the raw material for a good story.
Trouble is, we just have a story of "government uses stupid inefficient software that nobody is motivated to change". Governments, managers, and co-ops are expected to create monstrosities -- the :wtf: comes when they actually outperform people who should know better.
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I expected the "first comment" to be a multi-word sentence, submitted one word per comment. I am disappoint, TDWTF.
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Probably just too distracted by all the drawring they do to pay attention to the things they are saying.
Filed under: Seriously, that one makes even less sense
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Probably the same reason that Americans pronounce "Aaron" and "Erin" the same.
(This was even sort-of lampshaded on a recent episode of a popular zombie-based TV show)
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Not all Americans (obviously) but I hear that a lot in the south. Stereotypical southerners don't pronounce "a" very often, and they replace lots of vowels with schwa ("uh" or "ah"). So "and" becomes "ee-yuhnd", and "hey" becomes "huh-ee".
"or" is different. The only vowel+"r" sound they can make is "ur". They make the other vowel+"r" sounds by adding "w" or "y". So "or" becomes "o-wur", "hair" becomes "hah-yur", "here" becomes "hee-yur".
They also can't pronounce the letter "i" at all. "I" becomes "ah", "him" becomes "hee-yum".
I work with several engineers who talk like this, really gets on my nerves after a while. Hard to take people seriously in a professional setting when they sound like morons.
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None of it sounds as silly as "aboot."
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-xG3D8OMQk
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Which accent are we talking about here?
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I don't know, but it makes up for Boston natives leaving the "R" off the end of beer and other words.
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Ew. That is one of the worst neologisms I've ever had the misfortune of reading.
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Not really. Well, some regional accent probably does, but they're supposed to be pronounced differently, like Frances and Francis.
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Does that give you cancer yet?
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They are stupid enough to even detect this. Also, at many government and semi-government agencies security standards are either pretty loose or aimed at exactly the wrong targets, as staff is vastly underpaid and underqualified.
In this particular case, the bosses actually expected data-entry staff to work unpaid overtime, including late-night rounds from home.
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Juice is already quite dead. It's basically fruit blood.
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You should go to his prison cell and let him know. I'm sure he'll be gratified that his job is done.
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I'd be more likely to bring him spoiled juice filled with all sorts of fun and exciting microbial colonies and tell him that the juice came back to life after being left alone for 3 days.
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http://i.wp.pl/a/f/jpeg/30560/wp_jaroslaw_kaczynski_zblizenie_lukasz_szelemej600.jpeg
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Dude. It's a government. It's Polish. They wouldn't get around to it until both of the story's heroes retire.