that guy [TCTI v 8] Page 685

Started by A Pixy January 21st, 2012 6:31 AM
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Pokestick, good times.

cheeky

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Alt commands? I can make é's using accent keys quite fine.

...Wait, don't tell me American keyboards don't have proper keys for accents.

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Nope. It's a large reason when I say things like touche, I say things like...well, touche. Partially why I call Pokemon "Pokemon", but there's a more linguistic reason for that.

Accents and any other other diacritical has to be done through alt commands. Essentially, if it's used to modify a letter, it's not on our keyboard.

Sopheria

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Normally when it's a word whose proper spelling is with an accent, I use the accent. But I've never understood why the e in Pokemon has an accent, so I never even bother with that lol
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It's a phonetic thing.

The "e" in Japanese is pronounced like a hard A. Well, not exactly, but that's a basic way to describe it. Though Pocket Monsters has a soft "e", Pokemon is technically short not for "Pocket Monsters", but for "Poketto Monsutasu" (possibly both), with diacriticals about, yadda yadda. They're the same thing, but...not. Point is, in "Poketto Monstasu", the "e" uses Japanese phonetics, not English ones, so by adding an accent, we get closer to the Japanese phonetics.

It's not perfect, though. We still say the "e" and the second "o" in a more pronounced manner. Some people pronounce the "e" as "eh", others as "ay", when really it should be in between the two, but it's not really a big deal. Plus, it's pretty nonsensical since the second "o" isn't given a diacritical- so as to sound like "monster", but the whole reason any of this holds water is because the first "o" is pronounced as , well, "O", which doesn't make grammatical sense since the "e" isn't silent and the second "o" is pronounced differently.

tl;dr, it's to make it sound both like the Japanese pronunciation and an English marriage between "Pocket" and "Monster", but the word makes no damn sense.

Pokestick, good times.

cheeky

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I blame English for being confusing and inconsistent with its vowels.

This is just my own bias speaking, though. But I definitely perceive Japanese vowel sounds to be more like the ones we use in Swedish than in English. I've a hard time describing describing Japanese sounds in English without looking up a phonetic alphabet while it goes pretty smoothly in Swedish.

Sopheria

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English is indeed strange in that regard, but I often compare it to Japanese and how its kanji are read/pronounced (curse you 下 with your 7 different readings). I.e, if you've never seen a word, you can make an educated guess on how it's pronounced, but to know for sure how it's pronounced, it's just pure memorization.
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Indeed.

Probably my favorite thing about English is its malleability. Makes it harder to get into, but it's quite the varied language from an objective standpoint. For better or for worse.

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If only the common Portuguese person had the balls to get their votes away from the same two-three old parties, instead of abstaining from voting altogether then complain about everything. Get your ass off your couch then, and go vote even if it's blank instead of drinking beer and watching Benfica games.

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We truly are the definition of "keeping the status quo".

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Have you ever tried to indulge an all-consuming urge to kill when you don't have opposable thumbs? Or hands? Or anything other than a bread slot? You'd have a lot of pent-up anger too!

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If only the common Portuguese person had the balls to get their votes away from the same two-three old parties, instead of abstaining from voting altogether then complain about everything. Get your ass off your couch then, and go vote even if it's blank instead of drinking beer and watching Benfica games.

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We truly are the definition of "keeping the status quo".
Funnily enough, this week there is an article in The Economist describing that almost verbatim.

I don't understand how you, who are doing worse than us in many ways, aren't doing the same political revolts :(

Pokestick, good times.

cheeky

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If only the common Portuguese person had the balls to get their votes away from the same two-three old parties, instead of abstaining from voting altogether then complain about everything. Get your ass off your couch then, and go vote even if it's blank instead of drinking beer and watching Benfica games.

227144

We truly are the definition of "keeping the status quo".
So like 'Merica. And Sweden. Though I guess your situation might be a tad worse.