Topic: PET PEEVES FUCK (Read 182033 times)

Royal☭ · « **Reply #2200 on:** November 12, 2012, 09:09:58 AM »

Peasants should be grateful for the divine gift of their job! Their gratitude is expressed in a yearly tithe to your poor, over-worked lords.

Classic · « **Reply #2201 on:** November 12, 2012, 09:57:12 AM »

I didn't know that this was really a thing people did.

Büge · « **Reply #2202 on:** November 12, 2012, 01:29:44 PM »

Neither did I.

Mongrel · « **Reply #2203 on:** November 17, 2012, 03:00:55 PM »

I don't really know if this is a genuine pet peeve or not but I am simultaneously amused and annoyed that "Tryhard" has become an actual insult.

TA · « **Reply #2204 on:** November 23, 2012, 10:05:49 PM »

When people try to insert themselves into cultures of which they are not a part, for direct exploitation. Like, for instance, someone who does not play video games making a bunch of game-related products, with jokes they don't get and memes they don't understand, of games they've never played and will never play, to sell in the merch room at a gaming convention.

Büge · « **Reply #2205 on:** November 24, 2012, 09:04:15 AM »

I get the feeling that you've got a particular individual or group in mind, TA.

Beat Bandit · « **Reply #2206 on:** November 24, 2012, 09:14:44 AM »

It's those fucking brontos always posting about video games and comics like they know what's up. Assholes.

R^2 · « **Reply #2207 on:** November 24, 2012, 09:40:14 AM »

Quote from: TA on November 23, 2012, 10:05:49 PM

When people try to insert themselves into cultures of which they are not a part, for direct exploitation. Like, for instance, someone who does not play video games making a bunch of game-related products, with jokes they don't get and memes they don't understand, of games they've never played and will never play

Dude, chill, they laid me off and went out of business four years ago.

Frocto · « **Reply #2208 on:** November 24, 2012, 09:48:33 AM »

I assumed he was talking about Tropes vs. Women in Video Games.

TA · « **Reply #2209 on:** November 24, 2012, 10:00:46 AM »

Quote from: Frocto on November 24, 2012, 09:48:33 AM

I assumed he was talking about Tropes vs. Women in Video Games.

I'm not, no.

François · « **Reply #2210 on:** November 30, 2012, 09:50:11 PM »

Damn your "th" sound. Who the hell thought that one was a good idea?

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Disposable Ninja · « **Reply #2211 on:** November 30, 2012, 10:24:38 PM »

... what?

Thad · « **Reply #2212 on:** November 30, 2012, 10:51:47 PM »

Try reading it in an OUTRAGEOUS FRENCH ACCENT.

Like, "Who zee hell sot ZAT one was a good idea?"

...actually, now I think about it it IS kind of an interesting question; I don't remember ever covering the origins of the English "th" sound in linguistics class. English is a Germanic language but I sure don't associate the "th" sound with Ze Germans.

...probably predates the Anglo-Saxons and goes back to the Celts. I know Welsh "dd" resembles the voiced "th". ("Brythonic" has a "th" right in it, but given that "Brython" became "Britain", I'm guessing it was pronounced closer to a regular "t" sound.)

(Also: while fucking around on Wikipedia looking for information on this, I learned that "Prydain" is also an ancient form of "Britain". Well-played, Lloyd Alexander.)

Mongrel · « **Reply #2213 on:** November 30, 2012, 11:41:11 PM »

Well, English may have a Germanic origin, but it's pretty thoroughly mongrelized (

) and has been for at least a millennium, if not longer. I would say its probably got at as much Latin-derived material in it as it does German now.

As for the origins, it's pretty funny. The th-sound was in fact of early Germanic origin. Only German-speaking peoples dropped it over time where the English kept it. Ha!

[Let's pretend I added the well-worn quote that equates the English language with a mugger here.]

Beat Bandit · « **Reply #2214 on:** December 01, 2012, 03:50:09 AM »

If you lay down with English like this, you will surely catch "th's", no?

François · « **Reply #2215 on:** December 01, 2012, 07:11:12 AM »

It's really the last English sound that still gives me problems. Your "r" is kind of a douche too (AMEDICA!) but I basically got it by now. I can pronounce a "th" if I focus on a single word, but the moment I try to place it in a sentence, all bets are off. Sometimes it even migrates to a nearby t. I don't know what's going on there. I mean, that one's basically my own brain problem, but still. It always ends up sounding like I have a pronunciation defect.

...which I suppose is another way to mean "accent." Oh well!

R^2 · « **Reply #2216 on:** December 01, 2012, 08:13:54 AM »

If it's any consolation, your English is a lot better than my French.

Thad · « **Reply #2217 on:** December 01, 2012, 09:37:23 AM »

Quote from: Mongrel on November 30, 2012, 11:41:11 PM

Well, English may have a Germanic origin, but it's pretty thoroughly mongrelized () and has been for at least a millennium, if not longer. I would say its probably got at as much Latin-derived material in it as it does German now.

Well sure, but I don't associate the "th" sound with Latinate languages either.

Quote from: Mongrel on November 30, 2012, 11:41:11 PM

As for the origins, it's pretty funny. The th-sound was in fact of early Germanic origin. Only German-speaking peoples dropped it over time where the English kept it. Ha!

Makes sense. Seemed like I remembered a lot of th's in Chaucer.

Disposable Ninja · « **Reply #2218 on:** December 01, 2012, 09:55:26 AM »

Oh, english is your second language. Man, don't give no shit about that, foreign accents are sexy as fuck!

François · « **Reply #2219 on:** December 01, 2012, 12:36:27 PM »

Yeah, I know by now it's not so bad to other people, but internally it's like I'm not measuring up to my own standards.

Which I suppose is why I have recently resorted to being annoyed with English instead of with myself.

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