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If so, what? I have a couple
Up until sometime when I was a teenager I thought the phrase "Up and at 'em" was "up and Adam" because I had only ever heard it and never seen it in print.
I forget when I figured this out but I thought the word "awry" was pronounced "aw-ree" or "au-ree". The dumb part? I had heard it said aloud many times but I never realized it was the same word.
Until a few months ago I didn't realize the Volkswaken symbol was a V and W. I thought it was just a really stylized W, which doesn't even make sense.
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Well, for a significant period of time (hopefully not reflected in my posting history...) I thought class skill bonuses applied every level.
So, I thought you basically quadruple your ranks before adding the other bonuses.
Then I realized how fishy that was when I started testing DCs and thought they looked a bit easy...
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For the longest time the wife and I thought <3 was a symbol for dick and balls.
Completely changed the tone of our texts when we found out differently, especially since I'd put a :-O after it.
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Now I'll never see that symbol the same again. Thanks for that.
Man, all the time. And we'd be here all day.
But here's one: the proper way to say, "drow."
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Agh! Now I'm scared I'm saying it wrong.
Does it rhymes with OW (I hit my foot) or does it rhymes with TOE?
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According to Skip Williams, who wrote the "Sage Advice" column in the golden days of Dragon Magazine, it rhymes with "cow". I've always deferred to his wisdom.
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For the longest time the wife and I thought <3 was a symbol for dick and balls.
That's crazy that the two of you were using it correctly right from the start and everyone else is using it wrong.
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I mean, from what I hear about the origin of the heart symbol you're not far off.
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Agh! Now I'm scared I'm saying it wrong.
Does it rhymes with OW (I hit my foot) or does it rhymes with TOE?
It rhymes with "bow."
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That's evil.
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Absolutely cannot claim credit for that one, no matter how much I desperately want to.
But, anyway, I'm just messing around.
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As a kid, I remember failing to connect the written word "naked" (which I thought was pronounced "naikt") with the spoken word that sounded like "nekkid".
... I don't... do people actually pronounce it "nekkid" or... wow.
I think I've only ever heard it pronounced "nay-kid" (at least sound-wise; flow-wise, it matches the pronunciation for "nekkid" or "nakkid" but the first vowel sound is a long-A, rather than a short-E sound)?
Well, I mean, I've seen "nekkid" written... I just presupposed it was internet slang... huh.
I also think it looks like a pair of cherries.For the longest time the wife and I thought <3 was a symbol for dick and balls.That's crazy that the two of you were using it correctly right from the start and everyone else is using it wrong.
Man, when I first saw it, it took me forever to figure out it was supposed to be a heart. I had no idea why people kept making "less than three" at other people.
Of course, I also had no idea why people were curving their fingers and steepling their thumbs upside-down at other people - when I found it was supposed to be a heart, in all my young cynicism, I was all, "Wait, why don't they just... say they love someone? Like with words? Out loud?"
Now, of course, I'm less-than-three'ing people and gesturing with weirdly-shaped fingers, myself, but I was such a punk. At the... um... really young... childish... age... of... mid... twenties. >.> Huh, that was really more than a decade ago.
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I grew up in rural Arkansas in the 70s. People pronounced it "nekkid".
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WEIRD uh, I mean, "COOL!" Yeah! My cultural biases in no way select my words, as I have none! Nyahahah! Take that, my cultural biases!
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I grew up in rural Arkansas in the 70s. People pronounced it "nekkid".
North Carolina in my case. I think it's a Southern thing.
I also remember noticing how many of my relatives pronounced "pin" and "pen" identically. I am not sure where I learned to pronounce them differently.
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I grew up in Houston. My mother was also hung up on how I pronounced "pool" and "pull" the same. Of course, she grew up in central Texas, so I'm not sure if that's a regional thing.
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I don't have much of an "Arkansas" accent anymore. I began to train myself in a neutral accent when I was in high school because I worked at our high school radio station. Later I worked in radio professionally and just kept working at it. I lived in St. Louis for a year and no one believed me when I said I wasn't from there.
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I grew up in rural Arkansas in the 70s. People pronounced it "nekkid".North Carolina in my case. I think it's a Southern thing.
I also remember noticing how many of my relatives pronounced "pin" and "pen" identically. I am not sure where I learned to pronounce them differently.
I have lived in North Carolina and every eastern seaboard state below it.
(This is not doubting you, just relating my experience.)
Weird! Neat!
I will say that a heavy dose of Lithuania and Florida have carefully ground out most any trace of accent I've ever had.
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I probably have more Georgia left in my accent than midwest, but I still have a few words from Ohio. No idea what Arizona is doing to it now.
Arizona taught me to say soda instead of Coke, which is very much a Georgia thing.
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If you want an idea of a Wisconsin accent just watch Fargo and imagine everyone soaked in beer and reeking of cheese and viola, there you go, yah!
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Speaking of creature names, how do you pronounce taniniver? I think it's "TAN/in/EYE/ver"?
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I also just realized something that both makes me go duh and seems odd. You know how people in movies always say "check please" at the end of a meal? Well personally I have NEVER heard someone say that in real life unless they were being facetious, they usually say something like "may we have the bill please". Now I have never been outside the US so maybe they do say it elsewhere but I've never heard it here, and am wondering how it became such a cliche if no one actually says it.
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I don't really go out to eat much, but they generally bring our bill before I can ask for it.
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Usually, I ask for the check when the waiter comes around to ask if I want anything else.
The only time I ever said "Check please!" was when I was eating at a restaurant and got a call that a relative was in the hospital. Even then, I don't think I used those exact words.
But it is fairly common in much of the US to refer to the bill as the check.
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That the Bifauxnen trope on TVTropes is a play on Faux Bishonen. Egregiously obvious, but I spent months wondering why it was called that before I figured it out.
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I don't get it. But I'm old.
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A Bishonen is a male character that could best be described as a prettyboy, usually in the context of an anime. Usually young, slender, and handsome to the point of being seen (to Westerners at least) as somewhat feminine-looking. So, basically every male anime protagonist ever. Sephiroth from Final Fantasy is probably the ultimate example. Most male elves probably count. A "Bifauxnen" is a female character who presents herself in a stereotypically masculine-enough way (masculine clothes, short hair, etc.) that she could, at first glance, be mistaken for a Bishonen. To put it in western terms, a very pretty butch girl. This is also primarily an anime trope. It seems as though not everyone on here spends as much time aimlessly browsing TVTropes as I do.
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Ah, thanks. I know very little about anime. I guess I'm not in the demographic for it or something. I'll be 55 tomorrow. Soon I'll be shouting "Get off my lawn!"
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Usually, I ask for the check when the waiter comes around to ask if I want anything else.
The only time I ever said "Check please!" was when I was eating at a restaurant and got a call that a relative was in the hospital. Even then, I don't think I used those exact words.
But it is fairly common in much of the US to refer to the bill as the check.
It's not calling the bill the check which seems weird. It's just that the phrase "check please", which is supposed to be some HUGE cliche, is hardly ever uttered in real life.
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My wife has been reading and talking about Saga for about the last year. I just realized that the two central races are angels and demons.
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The Paizo logo is the Greek letter pi.
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Dinosaur nuggets work on a whole new level when you make the connection that chickens are descended from dinosaurs
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What's a dinosaur nugget? Is that one of those chicken nuggets in the (very approximate) shape of a dinosaur?
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Ah, thanks. I know very little about anime. I guess I'm not in the demographic for it or something. I'll be 55 tomorrow. Soon I'll be shouting "Get off my lawn!"
There is no other point to having a lawn than being able to yell at people to get off it. None.
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Ah, thanks. I know very little about anime. I guess I'm not in the demographic for it or something. I'll be 55 tomorrow. Soon I'll be shouting "Get off my lawn!"There is no other point to having a lawn than being able to yell at people to get off it. None.
Sometimes I like to stand in front of it with my hands on hips and nod in satisfaction after I've mowed it.
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Sometimes I like to stand in front of it with my hands on hips and nod in satisfaction after I've mowed it.Ah, thanks. I know very little about anime. I guess I'm not in the demographic for it or something. I'll be 55 tomorrow. Soon I'll be shouting "Get off my lawn!"There is no other point to having a lawn than being able to yell at people to get off it. None.
I've discovered that if I stand with my hands on my hips and nod in satisfaction, it doesn't matter what I've done, I feel good about it. Like my primitive brain is all like "Oh, we're standing with our hands on our hips and nodding? We must have done good. Have some endorphins."
This has really changed everything...
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Suddenly I see a television commercial with thousands of people lined up from coast to coast nodding, hands on hips, with smug, self-congratulatory smiles on their faces.
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Suddenly I see a television commercial with thousands of people lined up from coast to coast nodding, hands on hips, with smug, self-congratulatory smiles on their faces.
Sing along if you know the tune:
♫I’d like to teach the world to stand
smug with their hand on hips,
looking like they’d done a lot
when really they’d done s%!*...
It’s the Real Thing♫
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I was trying really hard to come up with something for that old tune but my parody song writing-fu is pretty lacking.
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I spent an entire montage honing my parody songwriting skills.
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I've always defaulted to that pose when someone takes my picture.
It turns out my daughter does too.
Needless to say, our family photos are quite heroic.
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Why'd you write it to the tune of the Pokémon theme?
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Why'd you write it to the tune of the Pokémon theme?
I thought it was Amazing Grace...