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ShenLong
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29 Jun 2011, 9:48 pm

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My name is pronounced whirl

I pronounce it [uɾɬ], as if it were Welsh. :lol:

OneStepBeyond, are you dyslexic?

You guys make no sense with your illogical English approximation pronunciation. IPA is where it's at. :wink:


I'm sure I'm one of the few people on here that can pronounce this variation of l. You hold your tongue up to the hard palate and blow through the sides before bringing it back down. Inuktitut has it. It's a really fun sound to produce.

And Dunny, I know quite a few of the IPA letters from the obsession with linguistics I held back in the 10th and early 11th grade. But I'm too lazy to pull up wikipedia and copy-paste.

Possibly, since according to most people it's difficult. But I can pronounce just about every sound found in IPA. :P

Very good. IPA is very useful, and infinitely better than approximation. I have an IPA keyboard layout, so I can type in IPA pretty easily. :wink:


Of course, I seem to be obsessed with too many things to learn and commit to memory such things as the entire IPA. The more I learn in one area, the more I eventually forget in another. But I'm very good at mimicing and eventually adopting proper pronunciation in other languages. My fellow classmates in Chinese class used to snicker when they had us up to do dialogue with someone else, because I never butchered pronunciation like most everyone else. I sounded out ofplace among them. I did have a problem with tones for some time, and I still can't speak fast with tones, but I can pick them up when people speak it. I also picked up the Cyrillic alphabet from when I tried to learn Russian, and I still know it. I can write English in it.



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30 Jun 2011, 4:10 pm

I'm finally alone in the house. I'm recording this on an iPod nano and the video is insanely darker than it originally was on the nano. My Windows Media Player has never worked properly. Enjoy my dull, monotone voice, if you can even hear it :)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZVrcL1CZoI[/youtube]
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30 Jun 2011, 6:04 pm

Simonono wrote:
I'm finally alone in the house. I'm recording this on an iPod nano and the video is insanely darker than it originally was on the nano. My Windows Media Player has never worked properly. Enjoy my dull, monotone voice, if you can even hear it :)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZVrcL1CZoI[/youtube]
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sim-no-no whats my name

you have great teef



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30 Jun 2011, 6:12 pm

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sim-no-no whats my name

you have great teef


Thankyyou :D I need a webcam and a mic or a phone



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01 Jul 2011, 7:37 am

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The Liverpoolian(Scouse) accent derives a lot from Norwegian, because Liverpool was a well known port city back in the 19th and 20th century.


What? You are getting confused with the dish Scouse or lobscouse - which almost certainly had its origins in Norway (lapskaus). Liverpudlians are called scousers after the the local dish - which is fantastic, if it's made properly. But the Liverpool accent owes nothing at all to Norway. It's unique in England. If anything, it's most influenced by Irish. Huge waves of immigrants came over after the potato famine. Many sailed from Liverpool to the Americas. Many got to Liverpool and went no further.


If your refering to the area around Southport, Formby and Crosby. Then yes they have a history of Scandinavian communities that have influenced that area. Scottie Road was a community for Lancastarian, Irish, Welsh, Scottish and Italian immigrants.
Both Dingle and Toxteth have a history of Irish and Welsh immigrants. Have you every hear of the Holy Land and the Welsh streets in thoses areas? Plus add the African, Caribbean and Indian immigrants in those two areas.

Woollybacks (non Scousers) assume that we Scousers have one dialect thats a misconception as there are small regional variations of the Scouse dialect and language in and close to Mersyside. Also you might be aware that the term Liverpudian also refairs to a supported of Liverpool football club (BTW I am LFC supporter)

Edit: Some time next week I'll get around to recoding my Scouse assent at the mo am in the middle of fixing my computer network to get back up and running again.



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01 Jul 2011, 7:55 am

Simonono wrote:
I'm finally alone in the house. I'm recording this on an iPod nano and the video is insanely darker than it originally was on the nano. My Windows Media Player has never worked properly. Enjoy my dull, monotone voice, if you can even hear it :)


I don't think you have a dull, monotone voice at all.

What makes you say that? :P



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01 Jul 2011, 7:55 am

Come on people it's spelled lee-shure or lee-sure. I will have to make one soon to help people. :wink: I just wonder if the name really is Bob. But I have been saying your name wrong simonono. I keep saying it like simoneo.


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01 Jul 2011, 8:03 am

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Come on people it's spelled lee-shure or lee-sure.


No, actually, it's spelled "leisure." The issue of how to prononuce it seems to be what's bothering you.

I have always pronounced it the same way. I didn't know until now that there was any other way of pronouncing it.

I also suspect Simonono's name is not really Bob. I noticed the way he paused and grinned before announcing it. :lol:



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01 Jul 2011, 9:12 am

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But I have been saying your name wrong simonono. I keep saying it like simoneo.


omg me too



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01 Jul 2011, 9:17 am

all_white wrote:
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I'm finally alone in the house. I'm recording this on an iPod nano and the video is insanely darker than it originally was on the nano. My Windows Media Player has never worked properly. Enjoy my dull, monotone voice, if you can even hear it :)


I don't think you have a dull, monotone voice at all.

What makes you say that? :P


Thanks :)

Dunno, it appears to myself that I do.

And yeah my name is Simon :wink:

Also I have always said "Leh-shure". Everyone has their pronunciations of words that shock the rest of the World :wink:

Also I don't think anyone has said my username right :)



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01 Jul 2011, 9:22 am

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Also I don't think anyone has said my username right :)


The way I was saying it in my head prior to watching your video, it was rhyming with Geronimo. Having watched your video, I gather it's actually pronounced "Simon. Oh, no!"

:lol:



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01 Jul 2011, 9:26 am

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Also I don't think anyone has said my username right :)


The way I was saying it in my head prior to watching your video, it was rhyming with Geronimo. Having watched your video, I gather it's actually pronounced "Simon. Oh, no!"

:lol:


I normally say it, in my head, Simon ono ono ono.

And all_white, in my head you are the R Whites lemonade man. :wink:



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01 Jul 2011, 3:07 pm

I hope today to post the funniest one yet. It may be really long though.


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02 Jul 2011, 1:11 pm

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After watching some of these videos......I've come to realize that "door knob" is the funniest word EVER.


when it is written as "doorknob" it could be misconstrued as "dork knob" i realized, but i abrogated it from my reply before i said it on the recording.



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04 Jul 2011, 5:01 pm

Re-did it; sound quality in other one sucked and I was tired.

http://soundcloud.com/jmnixon95/wp-regi ... ect-meme-1



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04 Jul 2011, 5:03 pm

aww, i cannae listen to stuff on soundcloud :/