The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology

HardwareGeek · 2015-11-19 Reply Admin

Jaloopa:

DCRoss:
BEE-tuh

Standard pronunciation in the UK. BAY-tuh sounds strange to my ears.

Greek pronunciation: VEH-tuh (or something reasonably close to that).

Filed under: Also, THEL-tuh (th voiced, as in the, not thing)

HardwareGeek · 2015-11-19 Reply Admin

DCRoss:
to borrow a phrase

That's not a phrase. It's two sentences, one of which is compound (two sentences spliced together with a semicolon), and more clauses and phrases than I felt like bothering to count.

HardwareGeek · 2015-11-19 Reply Admin

anotherusername:
It was a lengthy post about French pronunciating things correctly that depended on the assumption that the French pronunciate anything correctly in the first place. So, it begged the question.

I didn't (Belgium off, toaster!) complain because I recognized that this is, at least arguably, true.

Gurth · 2015-11-19 Reply Admin

anotherusername:
Mostly because we've borrowed so many words from French, German, and about a zillion other languages, none of which follow the English rules for pronunciation...

Partly … but also partly because during certain times when people gave serious thought to English spelling, there was the idea that homonyms shouldn’t be spelled the same, in order that the meaning would be apparent from just the word by itself. Then there’s the additional problem that modern English spelling largely reflects pronunciation of a few hundred years ago, rather than having been updated to stay current. (French also suffers from that, mainly in the last letter(s) of words being written but not pronounced.)

Luhmann · 2015-11-19 Reply Admin

HardwareGeek:
■■■■■■■ off, toaster!

I think your toaster got lost, I never received it.

HardwareGeek · 2015-11-19 Reply Admin

Just keep using Discourse; it has more toasters than anybody could ever want.

Luhmann · 2015-11-19 Reply Admin

I'm still waiting for the flying toasters

HardwareGeek · 2015-11-19 Reply Admin

Luhmann:
I'm still waiting for the flying ~~toasters~~cars.

They promised us we'd have flying cars in the future. The future is now. Where are my flying cars?

DCRoss · 2015-11-19 Reply Admin

HardwareGeek:

DCRoss:
to borrow a phrase

That's not a phrase. It's two sentences, one of which is compound (two sentences spliced together with a semicolon), and more clauses and phrases than I felt like bothering to count.

It's a phrase which brought a few friends along for context.

anotherusername · 2015-11-19 Reply Admin

Gurth:
**French also suffers from that**, mainly in the last letter(s) of words being written but not pronounced

I'm pretty sure they enjoy it.

HardwareGeek · 2015-11-19 Reply Admin

anotherusername:

Gurth:
**French also suffers**

I'm pretty sure they enjoy it.

There's a word for that.

anotherusername · 2015-11-19 Reply Admin

HardwareGeek:

anotherusername:

Gurth:
**French also suffers**

I'm pretty sure they enjoy it.

There's a word for that.

autoschadenfreude?

HardwareGeek · 2015-11-19 Reply Admin

Not the word I what thinking of, but sure, why not? That, too.

Luhmann · 2015-11-19 Reply Admin

Isn't that when you are happy you crashed your car?

DCRoss · 2015-11-19 Reply Admin

HardwareGeek:
That's not a phrase. It's two sentences, one of which is compound (two sentences spliced together with a semicolon), and more clauses and phrases than I felt like bothering to count.

And phrases shouldn't go out alone. The English language might be out there.

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