divagreen

that was pretty bad

This thread reminds me of the word "foliage".

When I was in the fourth grade, in Florida, we read the book, "Where The Red Fern Grows". That was my first encounter of the word. To my young fourth grade mind it read, "fol-EYE-ij". I was corrected in class, because I was reading out loud and the correct pronunciation was "FOIL-ij".

To this day I still pronounce it "FOIL-ij" instead of "fol-EE-ij".

I speculate that whoever taught my teacher had dyslexia. This person had such authority that everyone around me pronounced it the same way until I moved to NC and met one of my best friends, who had a Master's in English Lit and at the age of 29, told me otherwise. I will pronounce it correctly around people that I am trying to impress, but around the house I still say "FOIL-ij" which greatly grates on my Canadian husband's nerves.

This little anecdote reminds me of the "Lisp King Ferdinand" and how the Castilian dialect was formed. Only different.

I don't want to offend people...but I found this very, very funny.

CHICAGO (AP) - "An Illinois gubernatorial candidate's name was mistakenly listed as 'Rich Whitey' instead of Rich Whitney on thousands of Chicago electronic-voting machines and will be corrected, elections officials said Thursday."

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And he is not even Republican...

If you're really bored, a fun game to play is Six Degrees of Godwin.

Take a topic - any topic - and see how quickly you can relate it to Nazis

using legitimate topic drift methods. For example: a discussion about

computers will eventually lead to discussions of keyboards and which are

best, followed by a lot of complaining about the Windows key on 104-key

keyboards, leading to complaints about Microsoft, forcing the standard

MS-vs-government flamewar that I'm sure you're all aware of, leading to

attacks on Microsoft's "fascist" tactics by one side or another, which

will force the other side to start talking about the differences between

fascism, capitalism, and, of course, Nazism! The fun never stops!

:lol:

Godwin's Law FAQ

I see it...thank you!

Can we have a "jump to: /insert forum here" somewhere on the page? I see a thread search but not a "jump to" section that would enable the user to navigate the forums without having to jump to the main forum page...it would be a time saver.

I found this and loved it. Look at the dates:

Hi, eye am gnu hear.

Just kidding.

Divagreen, here. I like to study science and philosophy when I don't want to have to think too much.

Cheers.