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Tænte Shvæster
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<--- Does this make me seem more erudite?
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Farmgirl
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There's that word again!
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Ack! *runs from thread, screaming, gouging eyes out*
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Eduardo St. Elmo
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It'll definitely confuse people as to how they're supposed to pronounce your name. That's something...
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Well, it makes me feel like I really do need a new prescription for my glasses. (Nothing, however, will ever make me want to gouge my own eyes out! Or anyone else's, for that matter.)
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I think it's using words like that that'll get you that.
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quidscribis
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My cataracts are definitely getting worse, and this is the proof!
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Katarain
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We're studying Old English in my History of English class. It's fun. We just talked about that letter. It's pronounced aaaaaaaaa as in baaaaaaat. and fad and rad and sad and mad and chad and lad and rack.

If you're like most Americans, anyway. In Britain, they say aah instead and then they go have tea. [Smile]

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What I find scary is that you already have 9 posts with the new user name!

-Bok

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My eyes...
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Nighthawk
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Ah, yes, it's always useful to have a screen name that you can't spell.
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Megan
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If you change your screen name to that, I reserve the right to call you "Bob."
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Tænte Shvæster
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Pshæw! I don't even know how to type that character. I borrowed it from someone else at Hatræck by copying and pæsting.

I was just thinking that it would make me seem, you know, clever.

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Whætævær...
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TheGrimace
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but to really top it off you'd need to replace all your "u"s with "v"s and all your "j"s with "i"s... then you would be pretty ervdite
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Jon Boy
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I think you really need a couple of circumflexes thrown in for good measure, like this:

Tæntê Shvæstêr

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Samarkand
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Aber Tante, es gibt kein um laut im "tante". Es macht kein sinn. Do solltest das nicht.
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A name, unlike a diaper, does not need to be changed very often.

But, um, [whisper]psst. Some of your letters are a bit squished together. They seem to be getting a little too close, if you know what I mean. Its just, well, indecent. You may want to talk to them about lining up correctly. [/whisper]

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Tænte Shvæster
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quote:
Originally posted by Jon Boy:
I think you really need a couple of circumflexes thrown in for good measure, like this:

Tæntê Shvæstêr

I just love it when you circumflex for me, Jon Boy.
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*scandalized*
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Oh dear.
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Ron Lambert
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Katarain, have you ever noticed that British pronunciation is more musically esthetic? My choir directors always made us pronounce "A" sounds with an open, British "Ah" sound. "Ahh-men," not "A-men."
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Tænte Shvæster
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quote:
Originally posted by Ron Lambert:
British pronunciation is more musically æsthetic?

There! I fixed it for you.
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Pælægius will be proud of you.
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[Smile]
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I rather like it. I love the nuzzly As and Es and use them at work when I can because they are cute and spoony.
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This is what happens when I go away for a week???

[No No]

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