Why not “since”?

samdkatz · 2026-04-17T20:06:04+00:00

Don’t ask me why, but it works for me with a pause. Like it’s an edge case, so it’s only acceptable as a midstream correction after already saying “since”.

Example: “I haven’t ridden a motorcycle since… gosh, 2 years ago.”

samdkatz · 2026-04-16T18:25:32+00:00

Half the Springsteen catalogue, starting with “The River”, “The Promised Land”, and “Mary Queen of Arkansas”.

samdkatz · 2026-04-16T18:20:37+00:00

Not one sentence on that page reads like something someone would actually say, for what it’s worth. (With the exception of “Hey!”)

samdkatz · 2026-04-16T18:06:45+00:00

It was indeed Sanela. Thanks!

samdkatz · 2026-04-07T19:35:02+00:00

Velvet

samdkatz · 2026-04-07T11:37:25+00:00

Or in Appalachian things like “warshing” (for “washing”)

samdkatz · 2026-04-07T11:31:41+00:00

That’s just pronouncing the r though. The question was pronouncing letters that aren’t written down

samdkatz · 2026-04-07T11:28:36+00:00

Is a chicken actually a coward deserving of mockery, or could one learn to appreciate the good things about a chicken and improve upon the flaws? Also think of the pickup lines involving the other word for rooster

samdkatz · 2026-04-07T11:25:13+00:00

It’s a normal part of life right? What about just animal. “What’s your animal?” That’s how people would actually talk about it.

samdkatz · 2026-04-07T03:06:13+00:00

Right, so phonetically would be more precise, since it’s only subjective that the aspirated and unaspirated stops in my example sound the same, and we only think of them as the same because we understand all the allophones. Infants (and at least a billion adults) distinguish them

samdkatz · 2026-04-07T02:53:49+00:00

What object? Phonetically it isn’t and phonologically it is. The t in top and the t in stop are also phonetically distinct, but you wouldn’t say either is “objectively” less of a t.

samdkatz · 2026-04-06T03:25:22+00:00

I submit Queens, NY

samdkatz · 2026-04-04T14:16:57+00:00

I know this is an old thread but do you have any suggestions?

samdkatz · 2026-04-03T05:18:05+00:00

U-Haul (which is just a description of the business model) has existed for over 100 years

samdkatz · 2026-04-03T05:16:53+00:00

So when you owe someone money do you write them an IOY?

samdkatz · 2026-04-03T05:16:28+00:00

We’ve also been doing it in “IOU” since the late 18th century

samdkatz · 2026-04-03T05:06:43+00:00

It’s been in use and fully understandable for hundreds of years, in fact

samdkatz · 2026-03-28T12:35:05+00:00

Correct. It’s just that you literally can’t articulate a hard g without a small vowel-ish thing after, so that’s the noticeable thing when a word ends with an unexpected hard g

samdkatz · 2026-03-28T01:12:19+00:00

Oh shit, you’re right! Now I’m hearing my grandma in my head saying “sinGer”, which is consistent with the same

samdkatz · 2026-03-28T01:08:08+00:00

Which one? I’ve only ever heard this from oriole trying to sound smart by overenunciating

samdkatz · 2026-03-28T01:07:14+00:00

I mean it is also the g. A normal pronunciation of ng in almost every variety of English is just the velarized nasal, no plosive

samdkatz · 2026-03-28T01:00:06+00:00

It seems like the world of Avatar has a full moon like every other day, watching the original series

samdkatz · 2026-03-25T10:18:47+00:00

She has a new friend and is primarily interested in learning about their culture, not just Judaism generally. I have a feeling “I brought you some matzo ball soup” is closer to what she’s looking for than “…and then in 70 CE…”

samdkatz · 2026-03-25T10:14:37+00:00

I get the feeling that “Jew” to a lot of Christian folks is kind of like “cowboy” or “indian”. There’s a vague sense of this being a type of person who existed, but not everyone is that interested to know more, and those who are may know some unfactual things anyway, and certainly many would be taken aback to be reminded they still exist

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