Out of context quotes thread

Discussion in 'General Chatter' started by Wiwaxia, Mar 3, 2015.

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  1. Kaylotta

    Kaylotta Writer Trash

    @budgie
    I'm a professional singer, so am taught how to pronounce German 'correctly' - read: as uniformly as possible in Hochdeutsch and God help you if you need to sing a dialect - and, yeah, your prof should NOT be teaching you to say the ge- prefix as a closed e, or, even worse, as "gay" with the diphthong. General consensus among opera folk is that you should start with a somewhat lightened/rounded schwa (German schwas are variable though), with the brighter end something closer to an open e (which is what @IvyLB is describing).

    TL;DR: Basically Ivy's right (listen to her 'cause she speaks the language) and your prof is nuts.
     
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  2. Codeless

    Codeless Cheshire Cat

     
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  3. budgie

    budgie not actually a bird

    @Kaylotta I'm starting to suspect that prof said "The 'g' 'e' comes before the action" and I mentally slurred /ge: e:/ together into /ge:/. Because you and Ivy are right, that pronunciation really makes no sense, and I'm pretty sure even if it was dialectical he would have pointed out the dif between that and standard German (he has in other cases, like common greetings in various German-speaking regions). So much for the gay old past tense.

    @IvyLB I would definitely be interested in that, especially if there's a transcript so I can match sounds up to text.
     
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  4. swirlingflight

    swirlingflight inane analysis and story spinning is my passion

     
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  5. PotteryWalrus

    PotteryWalrus halfway hideous and halfway sweet

    I am one with the mint tea. The mintiness is in me now.
     
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  6. cleverThylacine

    cleverThylacine cuddles for the weird and the fierce

    talking about monster sex is always worth it
     
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  7. Aviari

    Aviari PartyWolf Is In The House Tonight

     
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  8. swirlingflight

    swirlingflight inane analysis and story spinning is my passion

    I'm starting to sense a theme here.
     
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  9. cleverThylacine

    cleverThylacine cuddles for the weird and the fierce

    RPers, man. We'll have sex with anything, especially in SFW RPs where we don't have to tell the whole class how we did it.

    Things not to fuck:

    1. The Triangle Demon
    2. Giant crab
    3. Gelatinous cube
    4. Cthulhu
    5. Your mom
     
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  10. budgie

    budgie not actually a bird

    See source for context and even more hilarity
     
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  11. Loq

    Loq rotating like a rotisserie chicknen

     
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  12. strictly quadrilateral

    strictly quadrilateral alive, alive, alive!

    "Australia doesn't exist because gods exist"
     
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  13. SpruceZeus

    SpruceZeus 2 spoopy 2 live, 2 creppy 2 die

     
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  14. palindromordnilap

    palindromordnilap Well-Known Member

     
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  15. Codeless

    Codeless Cheshire Cat

    'no anchorites until you've eaten all your spinach' @TwoBrokenMirrors
    Same convo: 'zombie bun nuns' @Moss
     
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  16. Loq

    Loq rotating like a rotisserie chicknen

     
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  17. epithimia

    epithimia Member

    You're the face. It's the best.
    [Five minutes later...]
    You have a face. It's sexy.
     
  18. LadyNighteyes

    LadyNighteyes Wicked Witch of the Radiant Historia Fandom

     
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  19. Stophelping

    Stophelping Building a house out of love

    "Plot twist in the Transformers gangbang!"
     
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  20. The Phoenixian

    The Phoenixian Not an eldrtich abomination, but getting there.

    Kill Six Billion Demons?
     
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