I was just thinking "who the **** says 'ree-la-tor'?" and then said it out loud a few times, slightly altering the pronunciation each time. I'm pretty sure I don't **** it up, but I can now see what you are saying. It's more subtle than nucular, but I can tell you are right without needing to hear someone else mispronounce it.

Now I have one more thing to get annoyed by. Thanks, man.

That reminds me of something. My wife was a speech therapist. She's not a nit at all, but got annoyed by all the grad students and speech paths who pronounced cochlear "co-cu-lar". I've heard it myself a few times. As part of their code of ethics they don't try to change your accent and the like, but it's shocking how rampant it is among people whose job is to help children overcome speech problems.

Sounds proper to me even with the British accent, and definitely 2 syllables. You can even see both in their lip movements. The Brits usually get English pronunciation right.

Yes, b/c "superstar" usually refers to level of fame/success and "underrated" usually wouldn't be used in reference to how famous someone is. So I would take "underrated superstar" in casual conversation to mean "a very famous and successful person who is underrated at what they do." Lady Gaga or Kanye West might be examples of this (or not), though that is obviously for another thread.

If someone said "underrated superstar" in an attempt to mean, "a very famous/successful person who is actually more famous and successful than is generally acknowledged," that seems kind of stupid to me.

faq = fack imo

So you say, "It took me 2 Rs and 30 minutes to drive to Detroit."?

FYP

I'll bet money he's never uttered that sentence.

Madness are clearly saying our with only one syllable.

Hold the presses, people pronounce words differently in different places

Saw this in the LOL forum and figured the spelling nits here would get a kick out of it:

http://www.someecards.com/2011/04/06...gs-on-facebook

My favorites so far:

^^ these are great

What preceeds is a short expert of a literally review that I am submitting to a local magazine. Can you guys help me rebuy my prose.

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This exemplifies the neoclassical sensationalism dwarfed by the pseudowiltonian anarchy movement in the late 20th century. Divided amongst the proletarians and the demagogues alike was emblazoned an emblematic either of prophylactic subversion amongst the neo-popes of the third remark. Men took to the streets with a fervor superseded only by the heavenly diaspora that threatened to invade the epilectisms with a schism that divded only amongst the pope and the bishop themselves, But, alas, the movement failed to root and the shakesperian proloquoy was shielded only by the poreoreowroristic division of priorly established goat herds on a prima facie notion. The commoners have a saying which grasps this notion perfectly: "greetings to the heavens."

You're plagiarizing yourself!

Part of my degreement with The New Yorker gave me express pee villages to do with my submissions what I want @including resubmitting them@. And some have suggested that that passage is in some way flawed. I disagree vemently, but I just want to be sure.

Watching the NBA Finals right now and the one thing that's bothering me is all the announcers' pronunciation of the word "foul."

To me it should rhyme with "towel." But they say "faaal." Almost like "pal" or "gal."

When you start to notice this, you realize just how often the word "foul" is uttered in a basketball broadcast. That makes the pronunciation all that much more irritating.

For me, basketball rhymes with pronunciation.

+1 to using square brackets for "emphasis added" and similar editorial notes.

Speaking of punctuation: I'm disappointed at how few people, even in this thread, use em and en dashes. I suppose that's a function of their not being easy to type on most keyboards, but still.


zomg emu teenagers.

Does it matter whether or not you give em-dashes air? Is it just a function of individual/editor preference.

A] Blah blah blah yada—yada yada yada blah—but yada blah blah and yada.

B] Blah blah blah yada — yada yada yada blah — but yada blah blah and yada.

C] Other.

(I tend to go with B.)

I MUCH prefer B. A] can make it look like you are hyphenating a word.

I always put spaces, but it also depends on where I'm typing. On 2+2 I use a space and two dashes -- it looks like this -- but when I'm on MS Word it automatically turns two short dashes into one long dash, and that's even better.

In publishing that's the difference between "stuck dashes" and "unstuck dashes" -- and it's entirely a matter of house style.

I now want to be Facebook friends with Daniel.

Knew about this for a while, but it never fails to make me laugh.

Could somebody please tell me what the rule is regarding when to say "than I" or "than me". For example, which is correct out of:

(A) "He knows more than I do";
(B) "He knows more than me"?

Both? (no clue if that's right)