Sixth Post!

[hoisinsauce]

"The thing about illegally breeding fire-breathing possums is that you gotta keep a bucket of water handy."

*Those fools! Fire-breathing possums are greasy; water will only feed the flames! Oh, if only I could tell them of my empire...*

(Context: https://secretfanspace.dreamwidth.org/1839.html?thread=2678831#cmt2678831)

Talk fandom! Making things! Reading, writing, drawing, whatever! Miscellaneous life chatter! Meme's happy to see you again!

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Re: How's Life?

[(Anonymous)]

Whenever I'm in a European country, I forget the word for "yes". All I can think is "hai!". I don't speak Japanese. I have no idea why that is the one preferred by my panicked brain. If I try really hard, I end up cycling through the "yes" of like 3 neighbouring countries and then give up and just nod and laugh.

Re: How's Life?

[(Anonymous)]

"Verstehen Sie mich?"

"Hai! Oui! Si! aaaAaaargh"

Re: How's Life?

[(Anonymous)]

I wonder if the American equivalent of this would be forgetting the regional version of you (plural) and going between 'you guys,' 'y'all,' and 'youse.'

Re: How's Life?

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, do Americans have 'youse'? I think of it as a Scouse thing but I guess it's bc it's Irish?

Re: How's Life?

[(Anonymous)]

Then I came across a thing that went "some UK dialects rhyme 'singer' with 'finger', while others do not", and just, ????????????, how on earth do you pronounce those so that they DON'T rhyme???? "I'm a pop singer and I wear a ring on my FONGER"?????

Re: How's Life?

[(Anonymous)]

DA

They still mostly rhyme, but it might be talking about this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr4b3NsAZiA

I think most US dialects pronounce the g in ‘finger’ the way she says not to pronounce ‘singer’.

Re: How's Life?

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

Huh, defo no difference between the two in my accent! I just tried saying it a bunch, and although I sometimes said 'singer' closer to her way, I also said finger that way sometimes. I think on the whole I pronounce the g in both.

Re: How's Life?

[(Anonymous)]

That's right for my pretty standard American accent. Pronouncing singer to rhyme with finger would sound prissy and pronouncing finger to rhyme with singer would sound sloppy.

Re: How's Life?

[(Anonymous)]

Yep! I think 'youse' is mostly a Philadelphia thing. On the other side of Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh folks refer to the plural you as the even more incomprehensible 'yinz.'