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Go and get some platinium and if you want to go old fashioned you may like aurium.
I’m gonna take this chance to air my personal grievance with “Iodine”, which is commonly pronounced (in the US at least) “aye-o-dine”, but if we look at all of the other halogen, their “-ine” ending is pronounced “-een”, and therefore iodine should clearly be pronounced “aye-o-deen”.
Iodinium
I’m English and have always pronounced it as aye-o-deen and the use of dine annoys me unreasonably.
Am I the only one who finds differences in american vs british english cool, instead of a reason to be a dick
Let’s table that discussion.
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The meanings of “table” as a verb in US vs UK parliamentary usage are literally opposites. With the US meaning being to stop discussing or put aside for later, while the UK version means to begin discussing.
This actually caused confusion during allied meetings in WWII.
Back on my did there was an element called unununium until some
nuclear scientistsbismuth-munching paper-pushers with nickel allergies decided in 2004 that they liked Röntgen more than Regirock.And before anyone checks, R/S were released in 2002 in Japan and 2003 internationally.
Al is Arabic for “the,” “um” was because the scientist forgot what he wanted to say, “in” means inside, and “um” also means the scientist forgot what to say and likely ran away.
Too many syllables.
a LU min um
a lu MIN yum
or something idk
al loo mee nee uhm
You should just be happy that we aren’t all still calling it “tin.”
I dunno, I still frequently hear the term “tin can” used to refer to aluminum cans.
And “tin foil”
Dubya would start a nukular war over it.
Aluminium is not the -ium of alumin
Aluminium is the genericitation of aluminum.
The actual -ium is of alum. The original name is alumium.
Aluminum is a modification of alumiun, not aluminium
You could be right.
However. It’s the internet and I can’t read
Sorry, I’m siding with my American compatriots on this one. Yours sounds silly.
“Aluminium” sounds like something a fantasy writer would call aluminum in their novel just to make it sound magical.
Uh-loom-in-um slides off the tongue easier than Al-oo-mi-ni-um. It literally has one less syllable.
To Americans, yes, but the Brits pronounce it more like the end of “vacuum” than the end of “condominium”. So for them, same number of syllables.
Big words hard for stoopid murricans? I mean you don’t even have a functioning department of education anymore, it really comes as no surprise.
I won’t hear shit about education from the mealy-mouthed fucks that created Cockney. Piss off to the pub, geezer.
Based kolanaki in the comments
Platinum
Platinium!
Pronounce ‘bottle of water’ right now OP
bo’o ‘o’ wa’a
Get up, come on, get down with the sickness!
I just laughed so hard that I scared the cat. I did not expect that. Fucking hell lmfao
You’re gay and canadian? Notice me, senpai!
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You did drop the t to a glottal stop in your last glass of water, though, just saying! :P
I am indeed gay and I am indeed Canadian. Newfie specifically. I just suppress the fuck out of my accent.
Also it does sound like a glottal stop in the last one but only if the volume is lower. If you increase the volume a bit you’ll hear the T. I had to check for myself to be honest. Was listening to it quietly at the stop and “WAIT WAIT WAIT” before turning the volume up and “Ah okay.”
Damnit! My secret-keeping low volume speakers have foiled me again!
You have my deepest sympathies.
Pastry Pete, is that you?
… Who? Also I just re-recorded it with more to it. Does that make it better or worse lol
Holy shit lmfao
You know, for as much as I post I don’t think people have realized they can just straight up summon me yet to do stupid things.
I am just a goof.
“Hey! Wait a second! You’re that guy who does whatever people ask him to do, right!? …Well then, go find my boyfriend!”
“Hey! People usually ask nicely!”
- Nier (the first one)
Honestly how it feels sometimes lmao if people ask nice then I’ll do a lot of random shit. I like making people happy. If you’re a dick? I grew up an island where the weather itself tries to murder you. Spite is what powers my entire being.
This is a top class response 👏
Don’t worry, I’m done now lol
😂 Absolutely zero rage here. This genuinely brightened my day! You have a fantastic voice!
Hey, one of us has to have a good day, right?
Thanks <3
Your voice and speech cadence are genuinely GOD TIER. I swear to god people would pay money to get narrated by a voice HALF as good as yours! Take pride in that
I swear to god people would pay money to get narrated by a voice HALF as good as yours!
Who’s to say people don’t?
I just wish more people did.
I’m fucking hungry.
But thank you <3
OMFG this is amazing
Now it’s the last one because I really do have to go.
I want this as the voice on my GPS
o… of what?!
Lmao. Well done.
Thank you very much. And to you for managing to score that username. I thought me getting just a first name as my main account was good but damn.
Thanks! I was very early on the Reddit APIpocolypse exodus, haha.
Same lol my main account hits the 2 year mark like 2 weeks after lemmy.world’s two year anniversary
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This is modern art
I don’t even like podcasts, but where do I subscribe to your’s??
I don’t have the patience or a blood sugar for a podcast. Too much effort. And I don’t even know what I’d talk about…
Not listening to countries that say “zed” for the letter z.
Bed, ced, ded, ed, ged, ped, ted, ved? No? Zee.
Would you also like us to say aee, fee, hee, jee, kee, lee, mee, nee, oee, qee, ree, see, uee, wee, xee and yee?
Are those letters that make the same “ee” sound when you pronounce the letter on its own? Like every one that I listed.
I’m suggesting that if you take your logic and apply it to all the letters equally, you’ll end up with the changes I listed. If that seems wrong, then the case for consistency isn’t as strong as you first suggested.
I understood what you were suggesting, it was just weak.
Americans say “zee”, which is comparable to the letters I gave as examples.
between zee and zed, zee makes more sense with it being inline with other letter’s pronunciations. What does zed come from?
Admittedly, I do not know the history of the character’s development.
And they just love to add unnecessary U’s to everything while they sip their tea with their fucking pinkies up.
