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- Sat May 18, 2024 10:32 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: A planet that moved around its star at more than 99% the speed of light.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 98
A planet that moved around its star at more than 99% the speed of light.
What would the night sky of such a planet be like to intelligent life on such a planet? Would they be seeing the universe evolve super fast?
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 1:49 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Do you think it will ever be possible to go back in time?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 1169
Re: Do you think it will ever be possible to go back in time?
It is unknown whether or not travel to the past is possible. Unlike perpetual motion which is impossible according to physics as it is currently understood, the laws of physics have not been shown to absolutely forbid backwards time travel.
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 1:43 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Do you think it will ever be possible to go back in time?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 1169
Re: Do you think it will ever be possible to go back in time?
Even travel to the future (outside the ordinary rate) which is easier than travel to the past is likely not going to be possible for the next few centuries.
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 1:55 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Do you think it will ever be possible to go back in time?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 1169
Do you think it will ever be possible to go back in time?
And of so, why aren't we getting any visitors from the future? Do we just live in a boring time?
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 1:06 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The "How Do You Pronounce X" Thread
- Replies: 1782
- Views: 4936228
Re: The "How Do You Pronounce X" Thread
How do you pronounce?
"want"
"wanna"
"wash"
"water"
"wasp"
"watch"
"watt"
"wand"
"wander"
"wallet"
"want"
"wanna"
"wash"
"water"
"wasp"
"watch"
"watt"
"wand"
"wander"
"wallet"
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 6:53 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: English questions
- Replies: 1406
- Views: 449348
Re: English questions
I never have this except in the standard attaboy/attagirl. Oh, is that what ‘attaboy’ is supposed to mean? (Mind you, not that that makes sense anyway… ‘that’s a boy’?) 'that's my boy' makes sense According to Wiktionary and Merriam Webster online "attaboy" is an alteration of "that'...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 8:03 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: English questions
- Replies: 1406
- Views: 449348
Re: English questions
I never have this except in the standard attaboy/attagirl.
- Fri Jan 12, 2024 6:29 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The "How Do You Pronounce X" Thread
- Replies: 1782
- Views: 4936228
Re: The "How Do You Pronounce X" Thread
How do you pronounce?
"length"
"strength"
"penguin"
"Jenkins"
"length"
"strength"
"penguin"
"Jenkins"
- Wed Jan 10, 2024 4:16 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The "How Do You Pronounce X" Thread
- Replies: 1782
- Views: 4936228
Re: The "How Do You Pronounce X" Thread
Hold up, Travis, your TRAP is just plain [ɛ]? It's not a diphthong? Also I also have the NCVS and my <ketchup> is definitely DRESS (which is also [ɜ]-ish for me). It's homophonous with "catch-up" (as in "playing catch-up") for me. "Ketchup" with Travis's TRAP vowel wou...
- Tue Jan 09, 2024 2:33 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The "How Do You Pronounce X" Thread
- Replies: 1782
- Views: 4936228
Re: The "How Do You Pronounce X" Thread
Well, one note though - TRAP has changed to FACE unambiguously before /ŋ/, such that I do not think of it as TRAP, but this should be no surprise to you. Same here. The vowel I use before the velar nasal is FACE in words like "bank", "thank", "rang", etc., but not in c...
- Tue Jan 09, 2024 2:40 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: "healthful"
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8389
Re: "healthful"
A high school textbook in health class had the word "healthful". The health teacher while reading out loud from the textbook changed it to "healthy", so even she found the word odd apparently.
- Sun Jan 07, 2024 5:51 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: 101 pronunciation.
- Replies: 17
- Views: 95908
Re: 101 pronunciation.
In my experience "one hundred one" and the like is uncommon in America outside of math classes and among people other than math teachers who for some strange reason insist that saying "and" in such numbers in incorrect.
- Sun Jan 07, 2024 3:46 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: 101 pronunciation.
- Replies: 17
- Views: 95908
Re: 101 pronunciation.
I have never heard those dogs being referred to as "one hundred one Dalmatians".
- Sun Jan 07, 2024 3:20 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: 101 pronunciation.
- Replies: 17
- Views: 95908
Re: 101 pronunciation.
Yeah, really. I would say that as "one hundred point five". I have never heard of "and" being used there.Moose-tache wrote: ↑Sun Jan 07, 2024 3:17 pm Where on Earth does "one hundred and five" imply 100.5?
- Sun Jan 07, 2024 3:18 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: 101 pronunciation.
- Replies: 17
- Views: 95908
Re: 101 pronunciation.
How do you say numbers like "101"? Like "one hundred and one" or "one hundred one"? I say "one hundred and one". Math teachers at school told us not to say "and" in numbers like "101", "102", "103", etc. telling us that...
- Sun Jan 07, 2024 2:00 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: 101 pronunciation.
- Replies: 17
- Views: 95908
101 pronunciation.
How do you say numbers like "101"? Like "one hundred and one" or "one hundred one"? I say "one hundred and one". Math teachers at school told us not to say "and" in numbers like "101", "102", "103", etc. telling us that ...
- Wed Jan 03, 2024 8:03 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The "How Do You Pronounce X" Thread
- Replies: 1782
- Views: 4936228
Re: The "How Do You Pronounce X" Thread
I never remember hearing anyone say "ketchup" with a vowel as low as [æ]. That pronunciation may have existed once, but I am not sure if it still exists in any varieties presently. Travis has TRAP in the word, but for him that TRAP vowel is [ɛ] and the DRESS vowel is [ɜ]. This seems to sug...
- Wed Jan 03, 2024 10:58 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The "How Do You Pronounce X" Thread
- Replies: 1782
- Views: 4936228
Re: The "How Do You Pronounce X" Thread
How do you guys pronounce ketchup ? I ask because I am used to it being pronounced with /æ/, which I realize as [ɛ], rather than with the /ɛ/ implied by the spelling, which I would pronounce as [ɜ]. It could be due to the word "ketchup" failing to participate in the Northern Cities Vowel ...
- Wed Jan 03, 2024 8:34 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: "healthful"
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8389
Re: "healthful"
I once heard a commercial for Beneful dog food where they said "healthful, flavorful, Beneful". They were of course using "healthful" because it ends the same way as "flavorful" and "Beneful".
- Sun Dec 31, 2023 9:59 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Language change in real time
- Replies: 34
- Views: 8885
Re: Language change in real time
Do people who have the cot-caught merger merge them to a vowel more like GenAm LOT or more like GenAm THOUGHT? For the longest time I thought (having heard a few people who merge them to something like [a], even more fronted than my LOT) that this merger wasn't as common as it's said to be, with oc...