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On March 11 2015 14:41 eieio wrote:universe playing bat listening to ratatat what a great night also batatat lol
Show nested quote +On March 11 2015 13:28 Nevuk wrote:
why do i know about spasmodic dysphomia? Oh. I think Scott Adams had it
Yes. isn't he actually a huge asshole for some reason am I making that up I mean dilbert is good either way just wondering
No, he's just odd for the most part and presents a more public view of some controversial things than most would. Wouldn't describe him as an asshole, though he can be really provoking/manipulative/greedy and probably wouldn't be called nice by most people... he sort of trolls the internet for fun, I remember in like 2005 he wrote a blog piece arguing that Iran was more democratic than the US. He didn't actually think that, he just wanted to annoy people and didn't clarify his stance until he was paid to write articles for the WSJ years later. He also advocated (as a thought experiment) trying out the method of "only invest in corporations you hate" since they seemed to do wildly successful (I think he used exxon-mobile and I want to say... apple? as his examples).
The thing most likely to have made everyone think he was a huge asshole - He also wrote some blogs that somehow pissed off everyone on every side of the whole men's rights movement stuff, he first wrote a blog backing one side then the next day wrote that he was being sarcastic the entire time in his previous post and called everyone idiots who hadn't been able to grasp that. Then after everyone was super angry he basically said "well, I was being sarcastic about that too." Then it was "oops, streisand effect" and wrote a blog about why he shouldn't write a blog about the topic and won't talk about it anymore. So like if you only know of him for his most infamous moments then he won't come across well, but his blog is generally just kind of amusing.
On the other hand... he believes that teaching methods should only use positive reinforcement and that negative methods are wildly ineffective, that pointing out someone's mistakes will force them to focus on their mistakes rather than on what they actually do well, which is something I ponder when I see people teaching dota or BW.
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So does a blin k force staff riki
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On March 11 2015 17:44 eieio wrote:oh is it v sound not w there internet says so lol
It's pronounced more like "Kah-toh-vi-tzeh" (damn it's hard to write Polish pronounciation like that).
Anyway, you foreigners are lucky the event does not take place in a city like Szczecin, Bydgoszcz or Częstochowa. Or, god forbid, the infamous town of Szczebrzeszyn.
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The fuck.
How do you say that last one?
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Follow me on twitter @harodihg
I'll follow u back tomorrow emu ty
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I think the entire world is glad that nothing ever happens in Connecticut because that is the dumbest way possible to spell how it is pronounced.
If something took place in one of those cities I'm sure we could butcher it into something properly american, the way we did with Versailles
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On March 11 2015 18:30 PoulsenB wrote:Show nested quote +On March 11 2015 17:44 eieio wrote:On March 11 2015 17:42 Unleashing wrote:I pronounce it Kah-to-vit-sa  oh is it v sound not w there internet says so lol It's pronounced more like "Kah-toh-vi-tzeh" (damn it's hard to write Polish pronounciation like that). Anyway, you foreigners are lucky the event does not take place in a city like Szczecin, Bydgoszcz or Częstochowa. Or, god forbid, the infamous town of Szczebrzeszyn.
is it vi like vee
if so I think I say it right now lol
and yeah polish phoneticization in simple english seems impossible lol
oh gOD I didn't even read the second part of your post how the fuck O_O_O_O
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I would just say sazachbryan's zen. Is that how it's pronounced? I'm sure it isn't. I'm sure I could convince a plurality of my neighbors to call it that though.
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it's like somebody smashed his face on a keyboard
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On March 11 2015 18:33 eieio wrote:Show nested quote +On March 11 2015 18:30 PoulsenB wrote:On March 11 2015 17:44 eieio wrote:On March 11 2015 17:42 Unleashing wrote:I pronounce it Kah-to-vit-sa oh is it v sound not w there internet says so lol It's pronounced more like "Kah-toh-vi-tzeh" (damn it's hard to write Polish pronounciation like that). Anyway, you foreigners are lucky the event does not take place in a city like Szczecin, Bydgoszcz or Częstochowa. Or, god forbid, the infamous town of Szczebrzeszyn. is it vi like vee if so I think I say it right now lol and yeah polish phoneticization in simple english seems impossible lol oh gOD I didn't even read the second part of your post how the fuck O_O_O_O
Yes, its mostly like "vee".
As for Szczebrzeszyn, it's pronounced like "Sh-ch-eb-rh-esh-yn", with the "y" a bit like the short English "i". The "rh" is like "sh", only made from "r" instead of "s". The name is a part of the famous Polish tounge-twister: "W Szczebrzeszynie chrząszcz brzmi w trzcinie a Szczebrzeszyn z tego słynie."
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Northern Ireland22213 Posts
i raise you one Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
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On March 11 2015 18:51 ahswtini wrote:
i raise you one Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
I am familiar with this name. Welsh is even more fucked up than Polish when it comes to pronounciation. Still, we have some fun names and surnames, like Szczepan, Błaszczykowski, or Brzęczyszczykiewicz.
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Okay so why are the names so ducked I'm actually really interested
when everything was named was it just standard to name a town really long and arduous to pronounce?
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Northern Ireland22213 Posts
On March 11 2015 18:58 harodihg wrote:
Okay so why are the names so ducked I'm actually really interested
when everything was named was it just standard to name a town really long and arduous to pronounce?
well it apparently means Parish church of St. Mary in Hollow of the White Hazel township near the rapid whirlpool and the parish church of St. Tysilio with a red cave
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On March 11 2015 19:03 ahswtini wrote:Show nested quote +On March 11 2015 18:58 harodihg wrote:
Okay so why are the names so ducked I'm actually really interested
when everything was named was it just standard to name a town really long and arduous to pronounce? well it apparently means Parish church of St. Mary in Hollow of the White Hazel township near the rapid whirlpool and the parish church of St. Tysilio with a red cave
that's awfully.... specific. Sounds more like directions than a name, really.
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On March 11 2015 18:58 harodihg wrote:
Okay so why are the names so ducked I'm actually really interested
when everything was named was it just standard to name a town really long and arduous to pronounce?
It's actually just how Polish language is. We use a lot of sounds like sz, cz, rz, ś, ć, and also ą, ę, ł. We generally have longer words than English - three, four, five syllables in a word are a commonplace. Il give you an example of a sentence "The International is the biggest and most important Dota championship in the event calendar":
"The International to największe i najważniejsze mistrzostwa w Dotę w kalendarzu rozgrywek"
Also we have a whole bunch of inflections for nouns and verbs and other juicy stuff. This Wikipedia page describes it rather well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_language
Some say Polish is the most difficult language to learn in the world, but I personally think such a statement is a bit exaggerated.
EDIT: oh, i thought you were asking me xD still you get a nice post about our fucked up language xD
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chechen's pretty hard i think
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I was asking whoever would answer - thanks for the great reply that's really interesting
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