Amusing/Entertaining/Interesting things you stumbled upon on the Internet

Achimrst

                              

Achimrst

                                                 

Amanu

http://www.playbuzz.com/michellecallahan10/which-mythical-creature-are-you-compatible-with?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=ff&utm_campaign=ff

I got dragon. 

Trevize

Amanu said:

http://www.playbuzz.com/michellecallahan10/which-mythical-creature-are-you-compatible-with?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=ff&utm_campaign=ff

I got dragon. 

Me too, it seems. Fitting,

Evidently per http://www.playbuzz.com/khaleesi2710/what-mythical-creature-are-you-most-like I am a dragon as well.

Huh.

Kayeil

       

Athelas

Amanu said:

http://www.playbuzz.com/michellecallahan10/which-mythical-creature-are-you-compatible-with?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=ff&utm_campaign=ff

I got dragon. 

Hmm.

Athelas got Phoenix, while I got Unicorn.

Arador

Pfft, I got Dragon like 3 RL years ago. Hunt Moar!

Synbios

[barbershop quintuple-function]

Achimrst

Synbios said:

[barbershop quintuple-function]

Achimrst

                                      

Eld

Synbios said:

[barbershop quintuple-function]

So the moral of the story is that you should never trust a barber who doesn't know that the integral of e^(i(kx-ωt)) diverges? Though if the haircut were actually time-dependent, as suggested by the wavefunction, it would actually be pretty impressive.

Berenene

Kayeil said:

       

I must be pronouncing that wrong because it doesn't rhyme with pony when I say it...

Lorielan

Pony and Bologna only rhyme in the US, you don't get to pin that on the English language.

Trey

       

Cynlael

@Trey

Achimrst

                                             

Krypton

Lorielan said:

Pony and Bologna only rhyme in the US, you don't get to pin that on the English language.

Not even necessarily in the U.S.

I reserve the rhymes-with-pony pronunciation for only the "baloney" spelling.

Eld

Krypton said:

Lorielan said:

Pony and Bologna only rhyme in the US, you don't get to pin that on the English language.

Not even necessarily in the U.S.

I reserve the rhymes-with-pony pronunciation for only the "baloney" spelling.

I'm glad I'm not the only one.

Trey

       

Synbios

Kayeil said:

       

Cough doesn't rhyme with rough? You kidding me?

Adet

Synbios said:
Cough doesn't rhyme with rough? You kidding me?

In no particular order, and with the caveat that I'm not a linguist(ician), these are approximations to British Standard English (RP)):

cough /kɔf/
through /θruː/
tough /tʌf/ (and rough /ɹʌf/)
ought /ɔːt/
dough /dəu/
borough /'bʌrə/
drought /draʊt/
hiccough /hɪkʌp/
Loughborough /lʌfbərə/

English is fun!

Each has a different pronunchiation of the "-ough-" string, except for Loughborough, which is simply included because it has two different pronunctiations of "-ough-" within the same word.

Cynlael

      

Eld

Adet said:

Synbios said:
Cough doesn't rhyme with rough? You kidding me?

In no particular order, and with the caveat that I'm not a linguist(ician), these are approximations to British Standard English (RP)):

cough /kɔf/
through /θruː/
tough /tʌf/ (and rough /ɹʌf/)
ought /ɔːt/
dough /dəu/
borough /'bʌrə/
drought /draʊt/
hiccough /hɪkʌp/
Loughborough /lʌfbərə/

English is fun!

Each has a different pronunchiation of the "-ough-" string, except for Loughborough, which is simply included because it has two different pronunctiations of "-ough-" within the same word.

Most of those look about right for General American pronunciations as well. For my dialect of American English, at least, cough and ought have the same vowel (I would pronounce ought as /ɔt/), and borough is more like /'bʊroʊ/. I'm rather confused by your rendition of dough, though (hey, a rhyme!). For dough, did you mean the diphthong to be /əʊ/? If so, I think that agrees pretty well with my version.

Adet

Eld said:
 For dough, did you mean the diphthong to be /əʊ/? If so, I think that agrees pretty well with my version.

Yes... not sure where I got /əu/ from.

Tharvis

wonder if the crafter council ever reacted like this: 

Klendathu

Adet said:

Synbios said:
Cough doesn't rhyme with rough? You kidding me?

In no particular order, and with the caveat that I'm not a linguist(ician), these are approximations to British Standard English (RP)):

cough /kɔf/
through /θruː/
tough /tʌf/ (and rough /ɹʌf/)
ought /ɔːt/
dough /dəu/
borough /'bʌrə/
drought /draʊt/
hiccough /hɪkʌp/
Loughborough /lʌfbərə/

English is fun!

Each has a different pronunchiation of the "-ough-" string, except for Loughborough, which is simply included because it has two different pronunctiations of "-ough-" within the same word.

Skye

Trey said:

       

I snorted water out of my nose when I saw this.

Trey

"but maybe" got me

Achimrst

                                            

Amanu

I hate mobile