Roadhouse Episode 6: "Care Bears are not superheroes"
Thanks for being patient while we work on our audio issues. I think I found the magic formula this week to keep your earbones from exploding into jagged shards. Also, we talk about D-Rock's future snake, and answer SK's reader questions!
Hey, you got to my questions! Thanks for that, I was curious from all the comments on writing that you leave on your 50 Shades recaps, I knew it was going to be an interesting reply. I try to ask those questions to authors to see how they approach writing and it's always so interesting to hear the answers.
It was also good to hear that you don't let 50 Shades and the like affect your views on the genre. I honestly wish I had that kind of fortitude when it comes to genres I like and terrible things that become popular in them. :P
D-Rock's T-Rex impression killed me. And the stinger at the end with (Joe?) walking away was pure hilarity.
Word suggestions: Watermelon (some accents pronounce it as "Warmelon" which always makes me laugh). And some I pulled from a "funniest words in English" article: Abibliophobia - The fear of running out of reading material. Absquatulate - To leave or abscond with something. Argle-bargle - A loud row or quarrel. Brouhaha - An uproar. Formication - The sense of ants crawling on your skin. Gastromancy - Telling fortune from the rumblings of the stomach. Quean - A disreputable woman. (How do you pronounce this? Queen? Kweh-ahn? Keean?) Turdiform - Having the form of a lark.
OMG YOU MENTIONED THE 10'TH KINGDOM. I LOVE THE 10'TH KINGDOM. NOT ENOUGH PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT THE 10'TH KINGDOM. How is it that you just keep getting better and better? :)
When Scott Cohen pops up randomly like in Law and Order or wherever I'm always like, "It's Wolf!" The whole full moon/him being on a man period type thing kills me every time. I guess I will forever be addicted to fairy tales and fantasy stories, waiting for new episodes of Once Upon a Time kills me. Anyway I'm going to put my fangirl back in her box now. ;)
Weird word pronunciations... coupon. koo-pon vs. queue-pon. I'm blanking, but that's one that I've seen come up in conversations I've had.
Word fun-times! Wash/warsh/wush. I've heard breakfast as "brep-tuss." Bagel: is is "bay-gull" or "ba-gl?" In wh words, do you pronounce the h? There are so many more, but I can't think of them! Oh! The longest word in English: pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconeosis. It's the black lung, Pop!
"It's not an accent. This is what words sound like when they're pronounced properly." /Jimmy Carr Received Pronunciation joke.
Full disclosure, I am British, occasionally record IVRs as part of my living, and get marked on pronunciation as part of my Quality for those. Also, Jimmy Carr is a screamingly funny acquired taste...unless you come from Norfolk (disambiguation: as in East Anglia).
Just in case the Foreshadowing Anvil failed to tip my hand, Jimmy Carr did a whole riff on differences of pronunciation of a particular word: http://www.myspace.com/video/just-for-laughs/jimmy-carr-patronising/11251102.
Hey, you got to my questions! Thanks for that, I was curious from all the comments on writing that you leave on your 50 Shades recaps, I knew it was going to be an interesting reply. I try to ask those questions to authors to see how they approach writing and it's always so interesting to hear the answers.
ReplyDeleteIt was also good to hear that you don't let 50 Shades and the like affect your views on the genre. I honestly wish I had that kind of fortitude when it comes to genres I like and terrible things that become popular in them. :P
D-Rock's T-Rex impression killed me. And the stinger at the end with (Joe?) walking away was pure hilarity.
Word suggestions:
Watermelon (some accents pronounce it as "Warmelon" which always makes me laugh).
And some I pulled from a "funniest words in English" article:
Abibliophobia - The fear of running out of reading material.
Absquatulate - To leave or abscond with something.
Argle-bargle - A loud row or quarrel.
Brouhaha - An uproar.
Formication - The sense of ants crawling on your skin.
Gastromancy - Telling fortune from the rumblings of the stomach.
Quean - A disreputable woman. (How do you pronounce this? Queen? Kweh-ahn? Keean?)
Turdiform - Having the form of a lark.
Hopefully this will spur some laughs. :D
OMG YOU MENTIONED THE 10'TH KINGDOM. I LOVE THE 10'TH KINGDOM. NOT ENOUGH PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT THE 10'TH KINGDOM. How is it that you just keep getting better and better? :)
ReplyDeleteWhen Scott Cohen pops up randomly like in Law and Order or wherever I'm always like, "It's Wolf!" The whole full moon/him being on a man period type thing kills me every time. I guess I will forever be addicted to fairy tales and fantasy stories, waiting for new episodes of Once Upon a Time kills me. Anyway I'm going to put my fangirl back in her box now. ;)
Weird word pronunciations... coupon. koo-pon vs. queue-pon. I'm blanking, but that's one that I've seen come up in conversations I've had.
Word fun-times!
ReplyDeleteWash/warsh/wush.
I've heard breakfast as "brep-tuss."
Bagel: is is "bay-gull" or "ba-gl?"
In wh words, do you pronounce the h?
There are so many more, but I can't think of them!
Oh! The longest word in English: pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconeosis. It's the black lung, Pop!
Not sure where else to post this link, so I'll try it here
ReplyDeletehttp://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/relationships/fifty-shades-of-grey-sex-games-failure-blamed-for-divorce/story-fnet09p2-1226514705732
50 shades of grey cited as a reason for divorce.
"It's not an accent. This is what words sound like when they're pronounced properly." /Jimmy Carr Received Pronunciation joke.
ReplyDeleteFull disclosure, I am British, occasionally record IVRs as part of my living, and get marked on pronunciation as part of my Quality for those. Also, Jimmy Carr is a screamingly funny acquired taste...unless you come from Norfolk (disambiguation: as in East Anglia).
Just in case the Foreshadowing Anvil failed to tip my hand, Jimmy Carr did a whole riff on differences of pronunciation of a particular word: http://www.myspace.com/video/just-for-laughs/jimmy-carr-patronising/11251102.
I always thought the word "salmon" in other accents was funny. Some people pronounce the "l".
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