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Next you're going to tell me you've never heard of anyone eating mayo directly out of a jar either.

Moose-tache wrote: ↑Wed Nov 29, 2023 6:36 amThe real question, and I mean this 100% seriously, are there any Chicagoans who pronounce Malört "muh-lert"?

Not IME (and I know quite a few Malört drinkers and end up talking about it several times a month). The usual pronunciation is /məˈloɹt/, with the umlaut simply ignored.

This reminds me, back when I was a very weird teenager on my way to becoming a very weird adult, I experimented a couple of times with eating sauerkraut with chopsticks. That makes sense to me, especially if you eat it directly from the jar. (I generally sauté or braise my sauerkraut before eating....

äreo wrote: ↑Tue Nov 28, 2023 4:10 pm Metric in general is whatever, but I will always be a Fahrenheit stan. It's more precise

And if you're willing to use decimals?

If you think it's recent, where do you think the CTA came up with it? From...the dude? We were using the approximation "Gerta" for the Genius of the German People in high school in St Louis, despite the fact that if there'd been a student of that name, he'd probably have been called /ˈɡeɪ...

linguistcat wrote: ↑Tue Nov 28, 2023 10:48 am Solresol of cuisine: All ingredients make sounds and are limited to 7

All possible ingredients make sounds if you know how to manipulate them.

Apparently a standard American German kind of developed before German finally went extinct in places like here in Wisconsin. One key detail is that StG rounded front vowels became unrounded front vowels, which is still reflected in traditional pronunciations of German names here. In Wisconsin or th...

Darren wrote: ↑Mon Nov 27, 2023 2:47 pm
Raphael wrote: ↑Mon Nov 27, 2023 4:53 am Oh, I think in Australian English, "kilo" is sometimes used for "kilometer".
I have never heard this. Kilometres are shortened to "kay"s.

"klicks" in US military slang.

The real question, though, is where you stress the full form.

Nachtswalbe wrote: ↑Mon Nov 27, 2023 3:03 pm - Meat: fish, chicken and poultry

Um like what do you think chicken is?

Seems to me if the goal is a "universal" cuisine, then the logical strategy is to eliminate the most common allergens and taboos. This would mean not just dairy and soy, but also wheat (because celiac disease is widespread in many areas), peanuts, tree nuts, eggs, and shellfish. Actually, ...

I don't know exactly what was said, as I obviously was not there, and I can read neither Linguoboy's nor Linguoboy's friend's minds, but Linguoboy didn't say that he explicitly suggested they include a more diverse group of people, just that they have more people. If Linguoboy had suggested the for...

So yesterday a did a photo shoot for a friend's project. There were seven other models and we all knew each other so we were able to joke around and have a lot of fun, but-- I couldn't help but notice that--despite the fact that my friend said in his invite he was looking for "all sizes, shapes...

Sorry, but I can't read this without thinking of a particular Nate Bargatze routine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXy3uII-xn0

If you're impatient with ads then get a better adblocker, but jeez, don't pat yourself on the back for it. If you ethically object to Youtube, then don't watch it. You are not some kind of hero for demanding free entertainment. Well ok, rereading it I do realize it sounds rather silly. :oops: It's ...

I cannot tell you how exactly that happened, but at some point, German innovated a neuter plural ending -er which triggers umlaut. There are plenty such neuter plurals, such as Häuser 'houses', Bücher 'books' and Löcher 'holes'. I thought it was pretty well established that this alternation was gen...

My strategem was to get hired to work there.

Unfortunately the chances are looking better than I would have thought. For me the most distressing aspect of those polls is how Biden is tanking among young voters. It's not clear how much of this is due to recent factors (e.g. his staunch support of Israel), which could be less important months f...

So, is Biden going to lose to a convict? What happens next? The predictive power of presidential polls is lousy this far out. A lot can happen between now and next November--including several more convictions. Unfortunately the chances are looking better than I would have thought. For me the most d...

Moose-tache wrote: ↑Sun Nov 05, 2023 7:00 pmI read everything linguoboy writes in Truman Capote's voice, so the sarcasm is default.

That's what I thought. But when linguoboy said Montserrat could serve as its own name, and the person in question insisted on only Maria, it kind of sounds like they were both stand-alone names, each separately representing the virgin Mary. Hence, I asked him a clarifying question. Both can be stan...

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