For strong womyn everywhere: "Internet Plus Equality"

[Foxi4]

"Claiming an historic win" - oh dear, it's been 5 seconds and it's already dreadful. How about... "Claiming a historic victory"? Or am I expecting too much from television?

*Continues watching*

I see that it's still okay to use the n-word in an academic setting as long as you're black. It's also acceptable to hyperventilate like a busy idiot.

*Finished watching*

Verbal diarrhea versus reggae rap festival. Okay, so where's the debate?

 

[Veho]

It's also acceptable to hyperventilate like a busy idiot.
[...]
Verbal diarrhea

They have a time limit on those debates (otherwise one party could just filibuster into oblivion), so when you have X minutes to present an argument, you can either be concise, or be fast.


And now...

 

[Gahars]

*snip*

That poor myrkat, brainwashed by the patriarchy!

EDIT:

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

My privilege

 

[Gahars]

Spoiler: In which social justice wallowers keep dreaming

You sure showed... him? Yourself? Something?

 

[Veho]

No fair, my dreams are never satisfactory vindication fantasies

 

[pokefloote]

And yet they are always saying "ew this fucking breeder sat next to me on the bus and tried to talk to me, disgusting."
Assumptions? How do you know he's a breeder?

 

[chavosaur]

http://aoboobseragaki.tumblr.com/post/85149161943/rebornica-so-my-friend-i-wont-tell-xyr-name

I question why I stay on Tumblr sometimes.

 

[Foxi4]

http://aoboobseragaki.tumblr.com/post/85149161943/rebornica-so-my-friend-i-wont-tell-xyr-name

I question why I stay on Tumblr sometimes.

And zero fu*ks were given that day because big-boobed ladies in sexy clothing are... well... sexy?

 

[Gahars]

I question why I stay on Tumblr sometimes.

As do I.

:^)

Seriously, though, bit of a tangent, but I don't really understand Tumblr's appeal. It's just so awfully formatted, any post with more than a couple replies becomes an unreadable spaghetti string of letters. Plus, there's the horror of autoplay, which is... why? Have we learned nothing from MySpace?

Sure, there's the porn, but this is the internet. It's not exactly like there's a shortage of it.

I appreciate that it can be a great place for artists to get fans and spread their work around, but I think a website should aim higher than just being bloggier Deviantart.

 

[ProtoKun7]

"Claiming an historic win" - oh dear, it's been 5 seconds and it's already dreadful. How about... "Claiming a historic victory"? Or am I expecting too much from television?

Nah, "an historic" is fine.

 

[Foxi4]

Nah, "an historic" is fine.

Only because of convention (very unprofessional convention, by the way). Consonants should be preceeded by "a", not "an". There are some people who say "an historic", there are also some people who say "an hero", they live under the same rock. ;O;

 

[ProtoKun7]

Only because of convention (very unprofessional convention, by the way). Consonants should be preceeded by "a", not "an". There are some people who say "an historic", there are also some people who say "an hero", they live under the same rock. ;O;

The difference tends to come in with letters that are pronounced with the opposite type of sound; H being pronounced as a vowel sound, and the U in "uniform" beginning with a consonant sound, for instance.

 

[Foxi4]

The difference tends to come in with letters that are pronounced with the opposite type of sound; H being pronounced as a vowel sound, and the U in "uniform" beginning with a consonant sound, for instance.

The /h/ is not silent, it's within the phonetic transcript of the word, therefore it is treated like any other consonant - it's /hɪˈstɒrɪkəl/ and that's life. You are right in saying that these matters are governed by phonetics and not spelling, but in this case, phonetics are actually on the side of "a".

More on the whole "an" debate on oxforddictionaries.com, the whole thing springs from not pronouncing the /h/ sound in the 18th/19th century, possibly under French influence. In Modern English the /h/ sound is pronounced and as such, "an" is, in my humble opinion, incorrect.

EDIT: Of course if you have a very thick accent and do not pronounce the /h/ sound at all as a result, you sort of have to use "an" in order to compensate - /ən ɪˈstɒrɪkəl/. It's a lot like a herb vs an herb, depending on whether or not the /h/ is actually pronounced. The speaker in the video did pronounce the /h/, so it wasn't regional pronounciation, it was an error (unless I remember it incorrectly, I can't double-check it because the video has now been blocked in my country for reasons unknown). /ən hɪˈstɒrɪkəl/ just doesn't roll off the tongue properly.

 

[ProtoKun7]

It's a regional thing, certainly. Some H words I'll pronounce differently to others, which will govern which form of the indefinite article I'll precede the word with.

One good example is "an hour and a half."

*checks thread*

Which is how long women take to get ready for anything. ;O;

 

[Foxi4]

It's a regional thing, certainly. Some H words I'll pronounce differently to others, which will govern which form of the indefinite article I'll precede the word with.

One good example is "an hour and a half."

*checks thread*

Which is how long women take to get ready for anything. ;O;

To be fair, the /h/ in hour /'aʊə/ isn't pronounced wheras not pronouncing it in half /hɑːf/ would make you sound like you're trying to communicate with an extraterrestrial from the mid-80's...

...which ties in well with your average tumblerian's reasoning - reasoning that is alien to us, mere mortals. ;O;

 

[ProtoKun7]

To be fair, the /h/ in hour /'aʊə/ isn't pronounced wheras not pronouncing it in half /hɑːf/ would make you sound like you're trying to communicate with an extraterrestrial from the mid-80's...

...which ties in well with your average tumblerian's reasoning - reasoning that is alien to us, mere mortals. ;O;

That was my point; two H words which have different pronunciation rules and so affect the article.

 

[Foxi4]

That was my point; two H words which have different pronunciation rules and so affect the article.

Well d'uh - consonant and vowel are terms referring to sounds, not letters, hence me putting phonetic transcript into the mix.

 

[Veho]

One good example is "an hour and a half."

An hour and a 'arf?

 

[Veho]

And now for something completely different: