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Important Development :How TO write Sarcastically.
- Thread starter fretless19
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just about everything I post is sarcastic these days-
I will inform you when I post a serious response
yep-there's a thread for everything.
that sound you just heard was a gig passing you by because while you were posting on here, you weren't practising.
back to your regular programming.
I will inform you when I post a serious response
yep-there's a thread for everything.
that sound you just heard was a gig passing you by because while you were posting on here, you weren't practising.
back to your regular programming.
"... the impetuous and unstable practical joker Radnichny has pulled the ə Committee, ə being a schwa or neutral uh, where he has set out on a megalomaniac project to replace every spoken vowel in Central Asia - and why stop there, why not even a consonant or two? with these schwas here . . . not unusual considering his record of impersonations and dummy resolutions, and a brilliant but doomed conspiracy to hit Stalin in the face with a grape chiffon pie..."
Anyone want to take a guess on the source, without benefit of Google?
I have often wondered if we could do the same in English, and why we would want to.
Try sometime to replace every vowel in spoken English with a schwa, and you will find that: a) It makes you sound like Bruce Springsteen just awoken from a deep drunken slumber; and b) the meaning of what you say is still almost completely intelligible. Demonstrates that English is primarily dependent on the consonants. Are there languages that are dependent on vowels but not really on consonants? Maybe Hawaiian? I'm not sure where tonal languages like Chinese would fit in this scheme.
Anyone want to take a guess on the source, without benefit of Google?
I have often wondered if we could do the same in English, and why we would want to.
Try sometime to replace every vowel in spoken English with a schwa, and you will find that: a) It makes you sound like Bruce Springsteen just awoken from a deep drunken slumber; and b) the meaning of what you say is still almost completely intelligible. Demonstrates that English is primarily dependent on the consonants. Are there languages that are dependent on vowels but not really on consonants? Maybe Hawaiian? I'm not sure where tonal languages like Chinese would fit in this scheme.
I guess you shouldn't ask "What's the best sea bass for metal?" on that forum.
