It’s not as bad as his habitually saying “short-” or “long-lived” with a short “i.” I HATE, HATE, HATE this, no matter who says it! :mad:
Classroom lasers blow up if you spill Snapple on them.
As long as the laser is on “stun”.
You pronounce it with a long “i”? I don’t think I’ve ever heard that (Midwestern boy). And Merriam-Webster prefers the short “i”, but does give the long “i” an “also”:
I should let this go - but their “for kids” student definition has the long “i” first, and the for “for learners” has only the short “i”
You can’t blow up the moon by pointing a laser at it.
And there’s no such thing as half a sandwich.
I’m actually stunned to hear that people pronounce it with a “long i” /aɪ/. I have never heard it, and I thought I’ve commiserated with a wide range of people and dialect groups. Do these people also pronounce “to live” and the “lived” in “he lived a long time” with a “long i”?
W.S. Gilbert, in The Pirates of Penzance, rhymes “long-lived” with “contrived.” If it’s good enough for Gilbert and Sullivan, it’s good enough for me!
Seriously, pronouncing it with a long i is the only pronunciation that has ever made sense to me. You have a long life (with a long i). Therefore you are long-lived (with a long i).
In answer to the OP, Big Bang Theory is where I learned how quickly ComicCon tickets sell out. The episode where the guys couldn’t get in because the tickets sold out within a matter of minutes seems to be quite true to life. None of the cons I’ve gone to seem to have that problem, so it was a surprise how fast ComicCon badges can go.
Do you HATE, HATE, HATE people who speak different languages, as well as people who speak a slightly different dialect of your own language?
(Re: laser reflectors on the Moon.)
Human beings aren’t needed to place objects on the Moon. An unmanned lander suffices. One good enough to strew all the equipment around the landing sites and leave tire tracks for the ones with rovers, etc., so that the later hi-res orbiter pics show the right “set” corresponding to the sound stages.
On Texas: You can apparently fry any meat that isn’t chicken as if it were chicken.
Of course not. “To live” is a regular verb that only adds the ending -ed in the simple past. The internal vowel does not change. I speak as a professional linguist and a certified teacher of English as a foreign language.
This is what Wiktionary has to say about “long-lived”:
Etymology
From Middle English long-lifed, equivalent to long + *life *+ -ed.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈlɒŋˈlaɪvd/
IPA(key): /ˈlɒŋˈlɪvd/
The pronunciation /laɪvd/ (rhyming with hived) is more consistent with the etymology (since the term comes from the noun *life *rather than the verb live), and was formerly more common; however, the pronunciation /lɪvd/ (the second syllable pronounced as the verb lived) is more common today.
Yiddish is not spoken in East Texas. Or not for long.
I remember the characters on King of the Hill talking about “chicken-fried steak.” It sounds like steak that was fried by a chicken. What is it anyway? deep-fried steak?
Breaded and deep-fried, like schnitzel. Served smothered in gravy.
Cream gravy. With lots of black pepper. No, more than that.
If you wanted to be consistent with the etymology, you’d pronounce it more like “long-leaved”
That prime time sitcoms suck worse than ever.
That intellect is held in contempt by the American public and has only comic value. The same way Blacks were regarded, when they were only cast as railway porters saying “Yassa”. BBT is the Amos n’ Andy of Mensans.
I don’t watch BBT either and I totally agree about the majority of Americans’ contempt for smart people. However, I’m fairly bright (I think*) and I think a most Mensans are pretty insufferable.
It may be a sampling bias. I could well know a lot of Mensans without them bringing it up. Those who do, though . . .
I’m wondering if Jim Parsons might have dug himself into a typecast pit. I saw Hidden Figures where he plays an asshat NASA engineer whotwice refuses to let a black woman mathematician get credit for a report where she not only did the calculations but also determined what kind of math to apply (Euler’s method in one case).I haven’t seen enough of his oeuvre to know.
*At least people keep telling me that. It may be my omnivorous curiosity has led me to know a little bit on an awful lot of subjects.
If Sheldon were the only character on the show, you may have a point. But he’s not.
I learned what I would be if I were attached to another object by an inclined plane, wrapped helically around an axis.
I also learned I’m polymerized tree sap and you’re an inorganic adhesive, so whatever verbal projectile you launch in my direction is reflected off of me, returns to its original trajectory and adheres to you.
In 1917, when Albert Einstein established the theoretic foundations for the laser in his Paper “(unpronounceable German technobabble)”, his fondest hope was that the resultant device…
be bitchin’.