AaronS Posted November 14, 2020 Share Posted November 14, 2020 david yow picked my nose once. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
joethefoodie Posted November 14, 2020 Share Posted November 14, 2020 7 hours ago, AaronS said: david yow picked my nose once. Onstage, offstage, or backstage? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
AaronS Posted November 14, 2020 Share Posted November 14, 2020 I was in the front. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sneakeater Posted November 14, 2020 Share Posted November 14, 2020 Nobody famous ever picked my nose. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sneakeater Posted November 30, 2020 Share Posted November 30, 2020 You can now write "zapped his ass" in The Times. Useful to know. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sneakeater Posted November 30, 2020 Share Posted November 30, 2020 It's like, you can now write "fuck" in The New Yorker. But they STILL put a diaeresis over second successive voiced vowels. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
StephanieL Posted December 1, 2020 Share Posted December 1, 2020 4 hours ago, Sneakeater said: It's like, you can now write "fuck" in The New Yorker. But they STILL put a diaeresis over second successive voiced vowels. As they should. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sneakeater Posted December 1, 2020 Share Posted December 1, 2020 Oh come on. You can't tell what "reelect" is without a weird vowel marking? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sneakeater Posted December 1, 2020 Share Posted December 1, 2020 (Or, in the immortal words of Benjamin Dreyer, it's fine to have a house style -- but it shouldn't be recognizable from space.) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Wilfrid Posted December 1, 2020 Share Posted December 1, 2020 I can't tell a diaeresis from an umlaut. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Behemoth Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 On 12/1/2020 at 3:08 PM, Wilfrid said: I can't tell a diaeresis from an umlaut. I had to google. So Queensrÿche actually makes sense*? Whole new perspective. *it still doesn't. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Behemoth Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 I think will start using this in my English texts at work to confuse the hell out of the Germans. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
AaronS Posted December 6, 2020 Share Posted December 6, 2020 20 hours ago, Behemoth said: I had to google. So Queensrÿche actually makes sense*? Whole new perspective. *it still doesn't. I have to say that I know very few real metal heads who don’t secretly love operation mindcrime. the rest of it is garbage. or do you mean something else? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Behemoth Posted December 6, 2020 Share Posted December 6, 2020 I just mean the umlaut. I was a teenage metalhead. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Wilfrid Posted December 6, 2020 Share Posted December 6, 2020 I always found Mötley Crüe to be the silliest. I have had great fun over the years pronouncing the name Mertley Crewe. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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