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[Agent M]

Thanx! I hate it when people are mad at me. Again a million sorrys!! (sorries?)

3 more days of school, La La La la La La La!!!!

Evil will always lose.- Miep Gies

[Wilf]

Personally, I think "sockyopath" is a perfectly good attempt at pronouncing sociopath. After all, books very rarely tell you how to prononuce words. It took me a long time to figure out how to pronounce "idiot" (my mind kept blanking out the second 'i'). I was unable to equate with the word that I heard. (Which was gerenally prononuced 'id-yut' where I come from, so can you blame me).
Hmmm... now I think I;m rambling, so I'll stop here.

[Birdhead]

Well, it may be- except that it quite obviously comes from social, and also, one expects that, at 14, he would have heard the word before.
Apart from that, I suppose it's OK; but it was extremely funny.
T

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[Nathan]

Birdhead: If your brother has studied Latin (and learned 'Classical Reconstructed' pronunciation, as seems to be usual these days [at least in the US]), that could explain his use of a hard 'c' in attempting to pronounce 'sociopath' (though not his pronunciations of the 'i' or the 'o'), as he would probably be attempting to draw a parallel between 'sociopath' and 'socius' (or a related Latin word). I have been known to pronounce English words as if they were Latin on occasion (especially those English words which are derived fairly clearly from a Latin word I know well). I live in fear of pronouncing 'Jovian' as if it were a Latin word (i.e., with an 'I' instead of a 'J' and a 'w' instead of a 'v') and absolutely confusing whomever I am talking to.

Re 'alne'/A Wizard Alone: I was referring to "...I got 'sobriquet' from alne -which is a good book,..." near the bottom of your post at the top of the page. I imagine that you are correct about 'alne' meaning 'Alone' --in retrospect, that would make perfect sense --I just couldn't figure it out when I first read your post.

Nathan

Ubi materia, ibi geometria. --Johannes Kepler

Non doctrinam, sed perspicuitatem quaero.

[This message was edited by Nathan on 06 June 2003 at 16:14.]

[Birdhead]

Oh, click, blush, I hate typos with a vengeance.

And yeah, he studies latin, and has done so for about a year and a half. I've done so for four and a half years and I have never pronounced it so... Oh well. I'll get over it, but until I do I'm going to tell the story as often as possible. As I can't remember many funny incidents from babyhood, I hardly ever get to be an embarassing elder sister, that's my chance.

As for the Is and the Js- when we were 13, the Latin class learnt to pronounce each other's names Latin-like. so, Tuia, Mega, Alicia with a hard c, and so on. But it was most funny for Jordan- and I still call her Iordana on occasion. But only with the enlightened group that took Latin. I have also been known to pronounce my Vs as Ws, especially after I've just had Latin- and that's the worst, because you sound so blinking stupid!
T

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[Sam]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by EWizard11:
I have a bad habit of saying "Ying!" at inappropriate times. Also of using big words for the sole purpose of confusing people. Such as the word "incessantly".

That is nothing compared to mi fav. word wich is "paradiechlorolbenzine" OK? OK. OK. Gimme a break I'm WEIRD

BUHBYENOW

L8er

Sam (Hifun55)

[Birdhead]

But that's a chemical, right, I think it's a fuel. What's the point of using that word in conversation?
T

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[Sam]

Yeah it's a chemical but its used in mothballs; I used it in conversation because I'm boring, bored, my friends betrayed me AGAIN , and like I said I'm REALLY WEIRD!

L8er

Sam (Hifun55)

[This message was edited by Sam on 07 September 2003 at 18:09.]

[Quill]

Hey, that works for me. The different ways one can manouver the topic of mothballs into a conversation must stretch the imagination.

Murmurings

[Birdhead]

Stretch is not the word. Twist might come closer. Turn-into-an-Escherian-maze might be an even better verb, but I agree that it's not particularly concise....
T

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[Sam]

Is that supposed 2 b a compliment? No not that, what is it supposed to mean?

~Sam (Hifun55)~
"So," Harry said, "so does that mean that... that one of us has to kill the other one... in the end?" -HP year 5

[Agent M]

I just reread my last post in here. Man was I a jerk or what?

*Agent~M*

"Thank you Jack" "Your welcome" "No not you, we named the monkey Jack" -Pirates of the Caribbean
Look closely at your next subway token. And speak to strangers.- SYWTBAW 20th Ed.

[Sam]

Agent M: you're not a jerk. Ok it wasn't All that nice but everyone has a moment like that. Come to think of it I have one at least once a week, but I'm trying to stop that so hang w/ me sorry I forgot you asked me not to do abreviations!

~Sam (Hifun55)~
"So," Harry said, "so does that mean that... that one of us has to kill the other one... in the end?" -HP year 5

[Sam]

Birdhead: You never answered my question. What did you mean by your last post?

~Sam (Hifun55)~
"So," Harry said, "so does that mean that... that one of us has to kill the other one... in the end?" -HP year 5

[Birdhead]

It wasn't an insult... or a compliment... maybe it was a joke.
Agent M: it was??? I missed that somehow. Fill me in?
T

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