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Re: Syfy? Really?

Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 7:47 pm
by Khazd
Edminster wrote:
Rainbow wrote:Sci-Fi as a phrase annoys me. It really ought to be said as 'sigh-fih', not the rhyming way. Even crazier, we could just say 'science fiction'! I'm sorry, that's just crazy.
/abbreviation snobbishness
That's why I prefer to pronounce it 'Skiffy'.
You can't. That is the way I say it to confuse and alienate people. YOU ARE STEALING MY THUNDER!

Re: Syfy? Really?

Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 7:54 pm
by mountainmage
Rainbow wrote:Sci-Fi as a phrase annoys me. It really ought to be said as 'sigh-fih', not the rhyming way.
Why? What about pi? Should that be pronounced pih?

Re: Syfy? Really?

Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 8:13 pm
by Edminster
I think she's going by 'The segments ought to be pronounced as the portion of the word they represent'.

Re: Syfy? Really?

Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 8:17 pm
by mountainmage
Well, that's silly. Rhyming them sounds so much better.

Re: Syfy? Really?

Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 8:20 pm
by Cirtur
I like rhyming.

Re: Syfy? Really?

Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 8:22 pm
by mountainmage
In before poet/know it and rhyme/every time.

Re: Syfy? Really?

Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 8:24 pm
by Cirtur
mountainmage wrote:in b4 poet/know it and rhyme/every time.
Fix'd.

Re: Syfy? Really?

Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 8:25 pm
by mountainmage
I know how to say it, I just chose not to.

Re: Syfy? Really?

Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 8:30 pm
by Cirtur
Oooooooooh don't get your knickers in a twist.

Re: Syfy? Really?

Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 8:32 pm
by mountainmage
True story, I once said that to a friend, and his mom thought I said n-words in a twist. She told me "We don't use that language around here!" I, being the smart ass I was, asked if twist was the word that offended her.

Re: Syfy? Really?

Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 8:34 pm
by Cirtur
The twist is an example of the depravity these youngsters get up to.



It's practically sex in a dance.

Re: Syfy? Really?

Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 11:19 pm
by LordRetard
Rainbow wrote:Sci-Fi as a phrase annoys me. It really ought to be said as 'sigh-fih', not the rhyming way. Even crazier, we could just say 'science fiction'! I'm sorry, that's just crazy.
/abbreviation snobbishness
LANGUAGE IS AS LANGUAGE IS USED YOU PEOPLE ARE SO JUDGEMENTAL
/linguistic rhetoric

Re: Syfy? Really?

Posted: Fri May 29, 2009 12:27 am
by AHMETxRock
sgouewy
ohfdfipuddiifrhgsaruoiuerbhkhhgfthhgggfed
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Language is spoken.

Re: Syfy? Really?

Posted: Fri May 29, 2009 1:27 am
by mountainmage
What do we write then?

Re: Syfy? Really?

Posted: Fri May 29, 2009 1:33 am
by Rainbow
Words, characters, or otherwise unclassified drawings.