Questions Only

Have you ever heard me sing shudder?

Who yelled “shudder up!”?

Why pud de shudders up if id’s nod raining?

To keep out de code?

Are you speaking in a simple head code?

Should one apply it directly to the head?

Are you talking about the head you think with, or the head he thinks with?

Was that meant to be a direct attack, or just a glans-ing blow?

Why is the overture to Chaikovskiy’s “The Nutcracker” running through my head?

Would it be too ballsy of me to say that you left out a “T” in that post?

Wow, Chaikovskiy was a tot when he wrote that?

Is Beethoven a de-composer now?

Warning! Pedantic OT digression. :wink:

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Would it be too ballsy of me to say that you left out a “T” in that post?
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Depends on which transliteration system ones uses. The initial “T” comes from the German transliteration (which is “Tschaikowsky”). Omit the “T” and a German would pronounce the initial “Ch” (ч) with that glottal/aspirated “H” that sounds like one is clearing one’s throat. Adding the T (actually, “Ts”) makes it clear that the initial consonantal group should be pronounced “ch” as in chew.

Since English doesn’t contain that glottal/aspirated H and does contain “CH as in chew”, I prefer to transliterate чайковноский without the German-derived initial T, and use “y” for short i (й).

Class dismissed! :smiley:

So then, it’s the 1812 Overchure?

Did you know that Mozart couldn’t find his music teacher because he was Haydn?

Who let Toucanna in, and why is she not asking questions?

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Who let Toucanna in, and why is she not asking questions?
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Did you not get that I was questioning using the German convention of an initial “Ts” when transliterating чайковноский’s name? :stuck_out_tongue:

Who sprach first, and why was it so important that Zarathustra had to also sprach it?

Thusly, are these questions getting deep?

Does the intrinsically epistemological nature of the innate thread coherent in the pedantic persiflage we banter about necessitate an ontological desire for metaphilosophical extrospection?