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crazy canuck

#69375
February 02, 2019, 06:07:30 PM
Quote from: ulmont on February 02, 2019, 05:27:37 PM
Quote from: crazy canuck on February 02, 2019, 01:19:44 PM
I really like Mike Duncan's podcasts but one jarring thing for me is he pronounces clique as "click".  I thought it was just an individual oddity of his speech, but it turns out lots of Americans do as well.

Yeah, that's the common American (and French, apparently) pronunciation.  Do you say "cleek"?

Yes

here is a handy youtube of the English (and Canadian) vs American pronunciation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EE6_RI8GSNc

Oexmelin

#69376
February 02, 2019, 06:30:01 PM
Quote from: Duque de Bragança on February 02, 2019, 02:15:51 PM
Proper French pronunciation.  :frog:

:huh: Where?

English "ick" never sounds like French "ique". 
Que le grand cric me croque !

Zoupa

#69377
February 02, 2019, 11:20:51 PM
Si tu parles vite, le son est presque identique quand meme, non?

PDH

#69378
February 03, 2019, 12:06:03 AM
If you speak fast enough everything sounds the same
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
-Umberto Eco

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Syt

#69379
February 03, 2019, 12:04:53 PM
Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church in Chicago has an EU3 screenshot on their website:

http://stjosephukr.com/resources/issues-of-identity/patriarchate/



What are the chances this comes from Spellus? :P (He was from Chicago, wasn't he?)
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

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Syt

#69380
February 03, 2019, 01:25:11 PM
Meanwhile in Sweden...

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

The Brain

#69381
February 03, 2019, 01:36:23 PM
I no longer eat at Burger King.
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

garbon

#69382
February 03, 2019, 02:45:33 PM
Quote from: Syt on February 03, 2019, 12:04:53 PM
Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church in Chicago has an EU3 screenshot on their website:

http://stjosephukr.com/resources/issues-of-identity/patriarchate/

What are the chances this comes from Spellus? :P (He was from Chicago, wasn't he?)

How...odd.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."

I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

mongers

#69383
February 03, 2019, 03:50:39 PM
Someone sussed out what to do in the cold weather:




Or is it the fat cats living off the backs of the brainwashed 'sheeple' ?  :P
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

Josquius

#69384
February 03, 2019, 04:10:29 PM
Should be in the brexit thread
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Grinning_Colossus

#69385
February 04, 2019, 01:59:02 AM
Quis futuit ipsos fututores?

Admiral Yi

#69386
February 04, 2019, 02:25:34 AM
"Anyone looks like a drug dealer Kim, just start blasting."

Duque de Bragança

#69387
February 04, 2019, 05:57:49 AM Last Edit: February 04, 2019, 07:26:43 AM by Duque de Bragança
Quote from: Oexmelin on February 02, 2019, 06:30:01 PM
Quote from: Duque de Bragança on February 02, 2019, 02:15:51 PM
Proper French pronunciation.  :frog:

:huh: Where?

English "ick" never sounds like French "ique".

No long vowels anymore in French, except for a (patte vs pâte). The latter is disappearing though.
So I meant [kli:k] vs [klik]. The former (cleek) does not exist anymore, if it ever existed, despite French etymological spelling (î) or writen conventions to distinguish passé simple from imparfait du subjonctif (fit vs fît).
As a matter of fact, the 1990 spelling reform removed a lot of those unnecessary ^.

Caliga

#69388
February 04, 2019, 10:16:49 AM
Quote from: Syt on February 03, 2019, 12:04:53 PM
What are the chances this comes from Spellus? :P (He was from Chicago, wasn't he?)
Greater than zero.  Yes.
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crazy canuck

#69389
February 04, 2019, 03:03:39 PM
Quote from: Duque de Bragança on February 04, 2019, 05:57:49 AM
Quote from: Oexmelin on February 02, 2019, 06:30:01 PM
Quote from: Duque de Bragança on February 02, 2019, 02:15:51 PM
Proper French pronunciation.  :frog:

:huh: Where?

English "ick" never sounds like French "ique".

No long vowels anymore in French, except for a (patte vs pâte). The latter is disappearing though.
So I meant [kli:k] vs [klik]. The former (cleek) does not exist anymore, if it ever existed, despite French etymological spelling (î) or writen conventions to distinguish passé simple from imparfait du subjonctif (fit vs fît).
As a matter of fact, the 1990 spelling reform removed a lot of those unnecessary ^.

http://shtooka.net/listen/fra/clique

Sounds like eek rather than ick to me
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