Green! No! Blue!!
Green! No! Blue!!
Yeehaw! Y'all 'mericans do sure be right - y'all surely does hayev a mighty fine handle on the goldurned, cotton-picking, confounded English regz n specs.
Ah do reckun.
Hello, lieutenant(pronounced "lufftenant"). Could you please cash my cheque?
no need to resort to stereotype
I'm just posting so that eestlinc can respond with another witty comment/pop culture reference.
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When I grow up, I want to go toBovineTrump University! - Ralph Wiggum
"Nothing" in 1944 AD
"can stand against the argument of mil
itary necessity" (generalissimo e)
and echo answers "there is no appeal
from reason" (freud) -- you pays your money and
you doesn't take your choice. Ain't freedom grand
e e cummings again?
The f-sound in 'Lieutenant' is no worse than the w-sound in 'one'. Besides, the American pronunciation (lah-tinnint) is arguably no closer to how the French roots of that word are pronounced.
the American pronunciation is lou-ten-unt without any reall accent on any syllable.
luftwaffles
Not according to them gravel-voiced sergeants in military movies:Originally Posted by eestlinc
"Ya hEEERR ME lahTINNNNT? Ah SED GIT DAT LEAD OUTTA YO ASS N GIT YERSELF OVAH HEEEEAAAaah" and so forth.
yea, that's stupid ass John Wayne talk. Sad as it is to say, Forrest Gump has a more accurant pronunciation.
C'mon, D. I don't assume how you pronounce words based on what comes out of Eliza Doolittle's mouth.
D is a regular, "ah mare eh can, joe!"
I submit and will not spam a second time.
The title of this thread is a sentence fragment.
The accent is on the second syllable, if I'm not mistaken.
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