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Oh no I missed N-Day 😩😢

Holly United wrote:

Oh no I missed N-Day 😩😢

Hebrewbible wrote:

One day the divine beings presented themselves before the L-RD, and the Adversary came along with them.

-Job 1:6

Can you not say LORD?

Holly United wrote:

Oh no I missed N-Day 😩😢

That's alright. We got crushed quite early. The whole event was pretty one-sided, throughout the game. Still, another glorious occasion for Bikini Bottom.

Holly United wrote:

Can you not say LORD?

It's a fill-in-the-blank game. I think the answer is LARD.

Noxious Air wrote:

We need to name a specific sound a "schwa?"

You don't need a word for it, as you don't specialize in a field where it is useful. It's like shop talk or jargon. If you focus narrow enough on something, you'll get to need words for things the general public wouldn't normally need.

I think the issue for you lies in the vocabulary database for that particular word game you are playing.

Is Freedom of Religion guaranteed in this game?

Like seriously why is he saying L-ORD has there been a situation in which Hebrewbible has been reported to the moderators?

I already know Freedom of Speech isn’t something protected but that’s a lot to go to not safeguarding freedom of religion. Freedom of speech is already gone in most site including Twitter and Facebook and I would not be surprised that this site is doing the same thing. We are a republic yes, at least here in America but what about the rest of the countries ? Who are actual democracies?

Holly United wrote:

Like seriously why is he saying L-ORD has there been a situation in which Hebrewbible has been reported to the moderators?

HebrewBible is a puppet of Bartoninghamborough, who belongs to a particularly strict form of Judaism which proscribes writing out the full name of god, and which they take so far as to refer even to the word "lord."

He is censoring himself voluntarily, not because of any moderator action or stricture.

Panther wrote:

HebrewBible is a puppet of Bartoninghamborough, who belongs to a particularly strict form of Judaism which proscribes writing out the full name of god, and which they take so far as to refer even to the word "lord."

He is censoring himself voluntarily, not because of any moderator action or stricture.

You have to admire his devotion to God.

Anyways, on a completely unrelated note, I watched a really good documentary about the assassination of JFK.

Panther wrote:

You don't need a word for it, as you don't specialize in a field where it is useful. It's like shop talk or jargon.

That's OK, I'm still in awe that those plastic things at the end of the shoelaces are called aglets.

And I'm filled with wonder that the word "aglet" was underlined as being misspelled, so I quickly looked it up in the dictionary and it is NOT misspelled, so now I'm thinking my computer is mocking me.

Noxious Air wrote:

That's OK, I'm still in awe that those plastic things at the end of the shoelaces are called aglets.

They have a name now?

Holly United wrote:

Like seriously why is he saying L-ORD has there been a situation in which Hebrewbible has been reported to the moderators?

It's pretty common in Judaism. But dw, I got incredibly confused the first time I noticed someone censor it

Republic of Sernia wrote:

You have to admire his devotion to God.

Anyways, on a completely unrelated note, I watched a really good documentary about the assassination of JFK.

I'm glad you enjoyed the documentary. What was it called?

Hi TSP without the T

Noxious Air wrote:

I was playing a video word game (yes, I do that) and my computer opponent came up with the word "schwa." What??

So I looked it up. A "schwa" is the vowel in an unaccented syllable. Like the "a" in "alone."

Will someone tell me, for the love of God, why do we need a name for the vowel in an unaccented syllable?

A schwa is represented by a "ə".

Noxious Air wrote:

That's OK, I'm still in awe that those plastic things at the end of the shoelaces are called aglets.

That is a favorite word of mine when I play Scrabble.

Noxious Air wrote:

And I'm filled with wonder that the word "aglet" was underlined as being misspelled, so I quickly looked it up in the dictionary and it is NOT misspelled, so now I'm thinking my computer is mocking me.

I am constantly surprised by the words which my computer doesn't recognize. They must be pulling from a limited word list or something, but I don't know how or where to locate it. Every time I get a new computer, I feel as though I need to "retrain" it to begin recognizing all of the words that I use. It's a bit funny.

Republic of Sernia wrote:

I watched a really good documentary about the assassination of JFK.

I echo Barton's wish to hear more :)

Noxious Air wrote:

We need to name a specific sound a "schwa?" Is there a name for the sound of the "a" in able? Is it a "long a?" Is it a schwo? Or perhaps a schwee? Will these names help a non-English speaking person learn English if it is named? I'm English speaking, and I seem to be able to speak without ever knowing what a "schwa" is. Just came natural.

Language acquisition, including the sounds of language, comes easily to young children. But most people lose the knack as they grow up. As a child you easily picked up how to say the schwa, and how to tell it from sounds that were similar. Most people, by the time they are over, I don't know, six or seven, find this more difficult.

I can give a personal example of the issue. Many Indian (the Asian kind) languages have what are called "retroflex consonants", which are consonants produced with the tongue in a slightly different position than we are used to. There is a retroflex t, retroflex n, a retroflex r, and more. The people who grew up speaking those languages have no difficulty telling a retroflex t from a regular t. Me? I can't tell the difference between them to save my life. Some forms of Chinese have three different sounds that Westerners hear as "ch". And then there's the story (which I think might be true) of a distinguished German teacher of languages, who assured his students that there was no such sound as the English "th". It was a mass delusion of English-speaking people that "th" was pronounced differently from "t" or "d" (depending on whether it was voiced or voiceless). And no amount of hearing English speakers talk would dissuade him from this.

tl;dr - Learning to tell these diverse sounds apart comes natural to toddlers. The vast majority of non-toddlers have difficulties with it.

Noxious Air wrote:

We need to name a specific sound a "schwa?" Is there a name for the sound of the "a" in able? Is it a "long a?" Is it a schwo? Or perhaps a schwee? Will these names help a non-English speaking person learn English if it is named? I'm English speaking, and I seem to be able to speak without ever knowing what a "schwa" is. Just came natural.

The "long a" is a combination of two sounds, a diphthong. (There's a word your computer should know!) Linguists call the first (represented in IPA by "e") as a "close mid-front unrounded vowel". Linguists disagree on exactly what the second sound is, but most say it is a "near-close near-front unrounded vowel" (IPA "ɪ"). And when they want to be really precise about the schwa, they call it a "mid central unrounded vowel".

Panther wrote:

I am constantly surprised by the words which my computer doesn't recognize. They must be pulling from a limited word list or something, but I don't know how or where to locate it. Every time I get a new computer, I feel as though I need to "retrain" it to begin recognizing all of the words that I use. It's a bit funny.

Remember, he who lives by spell checkery, dies by spell checkery.

Cereskia 2 wrote:

Hi TSP without the T

Hi

Bartoninghamborough wrote:

I'm glad you enjoyed the documentary. What was it called?

The smoking gun.

Answer me this: Did you people look up in wiki about the linguistic stuff you wrote? Please tell me you don't have this stuff stored in your brains; otherwise I need to rethink if I ever had an above average IQ or I'm really just a retard.

Oop, I mean, mentally challenged.

“Be on guard. Stand firm in the faith. Be courageous. Be strong. And do everything with love.”
‭‭1 Corinthians‬ ‭16:13-14‬ ‭NLT‬‬

Noxious Air wrote:

Did you people look up in wiki about the linguistic stuff you wrote?

I didn't write anything about that, but I'll just say that I neither knew what a "schwa" was, nor most of everything that ARB brought up. Though I do tend to remember what a "diphthong" is, probably because it is a funny word.

If a man is guilty of a capital offense and is put to death, and you impale him on a stake, you must not let his corpse remain on the stake overnight, but must bury him the same day. For an impaled body is an affront to G-d: you shall not defile the land that the L-RD your G-d is giving you to possess.

-Deuteronomy 21:22-23

Noxious Air wrote:

Answer me this: Did you people look up in wiki about the linguistic stuff you wrote?

Though not in the forefront of my conscious memory, many times a mention, here on the RMB, will bring those memories of past encounters with the topic in my subconscious back as it did with the schwa