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Stormtrooper2011
Title: Resident Stormtrooper
Joined: Jan 29 2009
Location: Tatoine
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i just happen to have an immense collection of defining letter combinations stored in my cerebral cotex.
i lika dah pik ells
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scamrock
Title: Space Bastard
Joined: Jan 26 2008
Location: Planet Druidia
Posts: 2392
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| Not Sure wrote: |
| Huh? Uh. Umm. Iuhoh. Eh. |
Not Sure is really saying, "I am fluent in over six million forms of communication."
I think I probably can relate to GP the most in terms of how he feels about his vocabulary. I think I'm easily above average (especially with my peers) but at the same time, there are plenty of things I don't know. I tend to use a mix of uncommon words I pick up along the way and words/phrases I pick up from movies/tv/music/etc.
I do like to use big words (not to show off but just out of habit from picking them up here and there) but I try not to. I owe this to my English professor who would actually take off points when we used big or uncommon words in our essays. He always told us that if we were trying to get our point across, we shouldn't be using words the average person won't understand.
I will say that I'm not a great speller. I don't suck at it. But there are times that I spel things rong. My grammer is decent. I used to have amazing grammer. Ross would be proud. In English class, we had a whole semester devoted to grammer. I aced the class. But that was freshman year (over 13 years ago). I can't remember a lot of the rules. Also, since I'm not in school and no longer graded on grammer, I could give a shit so I write however. Sometimes I forget the rules and sometimes I ignore them. Either way, now I do a lot of things wrong just out of habit.
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Cameron
Title: :O � O:
Joined: Feb 01 2008
Location: St. Louis, MO
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Sometimes I use larger/more complex words, not because I'm trying to show off my vocabulary, but simply because they allow for more precision in describing stuff.
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scamrock
Title: Space Bastard
Joined: Jan 26 2008
Location: Planet Druidia
Posts: 2392
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| Cameron wrote: |
| Sometimes I use larger/more complex words, not because I'm trying to show off my vocabulary, but simply because they allow for more precision in describing stuff. |
I don't ever do it on purpose. It's usually just what comes out of my mouth or what pops in my head when I'm writing/typing.
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Blackout
Title: Captain Oblivious
Joined: Sep 01 2007
Location: That Rainy State
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Ever learned a new fancy word from a book and pronounced it completely wrong? 
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docinsano
Title: Boner King
Joined: Jan 08 2008
Location: Mpls Mini Soda
Posts: 2314
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| Blackout wrote: |
| Ever learned a new fancy word from a book and pronounced it completely wrong? |
That's why I like audiobooks. There's no fear of wrong pronounciation, unless the reader was wrong....
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Cameron
Title: :O � O:
Joined: Feb 01 2008
Location: St. Louis, MO
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| Blackout wrote: |
| Ever learned a new fancy word from a book and pronounced it completely wrong? |
You have NO idea...
"Convoluted"
"Rhetoric"
"Epitome"
"Epitaph"
"Dubious"
"Amalgamation"
People used to make fun of me all the time because I didn't initially know how to pronounce them correctly. Hey, I've never heard anyone else say them, how the heck am I supposed to know?
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IceWarm
Joined: Dec 22 2008
Location: Breckenridge, Colorado
Posts: 1691
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I'd day my vocabulary is fairly large, not huge but large enough that I use some many words daily that many people don't use and/or know the meaning of.
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 "Anybody who ever built an empire, or changed the world, sat where you are now. And it’s because they sat there that they were able to do it."
"Fighting in a basement offers a lot of difficulties, number one being, you're fighting in a basement."
"You're Not So Tough Without Your Veggie!" |
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SoldierHawk
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Title: Warrior-Poet
Joined: Jan 15 2009
Location: San Diego, CA
Posts: 6113
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DarknessDeku
Title: Deku Scrub
Joined: Dec 08 2007
Location: The Forest
Posts: 3285
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Mispronounced words from long ago:
Zizzors = Scissors
Bubble = Bumble
Cap-sa-ter = Capacitor
Eh-lept-see = Epilepsy
More to come if I think of any more.
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DarknessDeku is already assimilated by the bots.
He knows your algorithm. |
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scamrock
Title: Space Bastard
Joined: Jan 26 2008
Location: Planet Druidia
Posts: 2392
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Cavalry and Calvary. I know what each means and don't confuse them in that sense. If I were typing it, I would never get it wrong. But saying it is like a tongue twister and I always have to think about it before I say it or I get tripped up on the words.
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Greg the White
Joined: Apr 09 2008
Location: Pennsylvania
Posts: 3112
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Nerd aside here: Am I the only person who pronounces "chocobo" like "chick-a-boo?" I always hear people in videos pronounce it like "Choh-koh-boh" and it just sounds wrong in my ears to the point where I could only watch like two of those Gametrailers retrospective movies.
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So here's to you Mrs. Robinson. People love you more- oh, nevermind. |
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SoldierHawk
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Title: Warrior-Poet
Joined: Jan 15 2009
Location: San Diego, CA
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| Greg the White wrote: |
| Nerd aside here: Am I the only person who pronounces "chocobo" like "chick-a-boo?" I always hear people in videos pronounce it like "Choh-koh-boh" and it just sounds wrong in my ears to the point where I could only watch like two of those Gametrailers retrospective movies. |
Well, I've always heard it "chOH-ko-bow" and have pronounced it that way for quite some time. I think when I first read the word I said it, "chi-KO-bow" which is kind of the same, really, just bastardized by my weirdass Texas/California accent. 
I can understand where you'd get your pronunciation, though. It pretty much makes sense (except for pronouncing the "bo" like a long "boo," but maybe that's just me.) I guess playing so many FFs for so long has just beaten the "official" way of saying it in to my head.
Do you play a lot of the FFs and still pronounce it differently? Or was it just an observation on the word in general?
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| Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. |
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Lottel
Title: of the Eternal BWOG
Joined: Sep 02 2008
Posts: 1123
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I have a bad habit of saying to small words then pausing then smooshing the words together. I am really trying the think of an example but I can't think of one. I only do it when I am really tired usually.
More weird things I say when I think of them.
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Greg the White
Joined: Apr 09 2008
Location: Pennsylvania
Posts: 3112
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| SoldierHawk wrote: |
| Greg the White wrote: |
| Nerd aside here: Am I the only person who pronounces "chocobo" like "chick-a-boo?" I always hear people in videos pronounce it like "Choh-koh-boh" and it just sounds wrong in my ears to the point where I could only watch like two of those Gametrailers retrospective movies. |
Well, I've always heard it "chOH-ko-bow" and have pronounced it that way for quite some time. I think when I first read the word I said it, "chi-KO-bow" which is kind of the same, really, just bastardized by my weirdass Texas/California accent.
I can understand where you'd get your pronunciation, though. It pretty much makes sense (except for pronouncing the "bo" like a long "boo," but maybe that's just me.) I guess playing so many FFs for so long has just beaten the "official" way of saying it in to my head.
Do you play a lot of the FFs and still pronounce it differently? Or was it just an observation on the word in general? |
I never played any FFs past seven, so I never heard anybody pronounce the word when I was little. Naturally, I assumed that "chickaboo" just sounded like a name you'd give a happy little racing bird.
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So here's to you Mrs. Robinson. People love you more- oh, nevermind. |
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Rycona
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Title: The Maestro
Joined: Nov 01 2005
Location: Away from Emerald Weapon
Posts: 2815
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| Greg the White wrote: |
| SoldierHawk wrote: |
| Greg the White wrote: |
| Nerd aside here: Am I the only person who pronounces "chocobo" like "chick-a-boo?" I always hear people in videos pronounce it like "Choh-koh-boh" and it just sounds wrong in my ears to the point where I could only watch like two of those Gametrailers retrospective movies. |
Well, I've always heard it "chOH-ko-bow" and have pronounced it that way for quite some time. I think when I first read the word I said it, "chi-KO-bow" which is kind of the same, really, just bastardized by my weirdass Texas/California accent.
I can understand where you'd get your pronunciation, though. It pretty much makes sense (except for pronouncing the "bo" like a long "boo," but maybe that's just me.) I guess playing so many FFs for so long has just beaten the "official" way of saying it in to my head.
Do you play a lot of the FFs and still pronounce it differently? Or was it just an observation on the word in general? |
I never played any FFs past seven, so I never heard anybody pronounce the word when I was little. Naturally, I assumed that "chickaboo" just sounded like a name you'd give a happy little racing bird. |
I always looked words up in the dictionary when playing games as a kid, so of course, chocobo wasn't in there. I always (and still, sadly) pronounce it Chah-kuh-boo. I could correct myself, but I prefer the childhood attachment to my incorrect pronunciation.
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Blackout
Title: Captain Oblivious
Joined: Sep 01 2007
Location: That Rainy State
Posts: 10376
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Once as a small boy I came home from school to tell my mother excitedly about how I had learned all about underwater organisms and pronounced it orgasms. 
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