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Re: Pronunciation
« Reply #30 on: July 17, 2009, 02:08:51 AM »
I...don't...think I...

Wanna know...

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Eep.  Woozle wozzle.
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Re: Pronunciation
« Reply #31 on: July 17, 2009, 11:24:53 AM »
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Re: Pronunciation
« Reply #32 on: July 17, 2009, 01:28:45 PM »
I WAS JUST SAYING

Tobias from Animorphs could use Tobias Funke as his analrapist

a mixture of an analyst and a therapist

like a portmanteau

And if he would have done that, he wouldn't have bothered all of us with his whining. It would have been easy, like taking candy from those guys that give out candy at gay strip clubs.
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Re: Pronunciation
« Reply #33 on: July 17, 2009, 01:46:48 PM »
"analrapist"  A strategically placed space could turn that into something way different...
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Re: Pronunciation
« Reply #34 on: July 17, 2009, 01:48:21 PM »
I think that was the joke

wait seriously how many of you guys are AD fans?

What is the mean age of this forum?

what is it okay for me to say :(
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Re: Pronunciation
« Reply #35 on: July 17, 2009, 01:53:41 PM »
Quote from: anijen21 on July 17, 2009, 01:48:21 PM
I think that was the joke

wait seriously how many of you guys are AD fans?

What is the mean age of this forum?

what is it okay for me to say :(
Probably something that doesn't sound like it'd involve booty penetration of a red-tailed hawk. I haven't been here long, but I think most people here aren't into that kind of thing.
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Re: Pronunciation
« Reply #36 on: July 17, 2009, 02:30:53 PM »
is that really what you got out of that
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Re: Pronunciation
« Reply #37 on: July 17, 2009, 03:10:11 PM »
Quote from: anijen21 on July 17, 2009, 02:30:53 PM
is that really what you got out of that
You know as well as the rest of us that "analrapy" looks like "anal-rapy". A better portmanteau would've been "theralysis" or something. Or, to slightly modify yours, "analyrapy". Then we'd know that the first half wasn't referring to anal penetration.
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Re: Pronunciation
« Reply #38 on: July 17, 2009, 03:32:39 PM »
okay I hate to admit the creative infertility I'm prone to, but I did not make that up. Someone mentioned Arrested Development. I made an Arrested Development reference. I know what it's supposed to look like.

[spoiler]That's the joke.
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Flattering as it may be to attribute the joke to me, maybe it's not such a good idea to be slashing karma if someone tells a joke you don't like.

now I have to go blue myself.
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Re: Pronunciation
« Reply #39 on: July 17, 2009, 03:47:04 PM »
Because we all know of Arrested Development and all the jokes. I didn't see it as a joke. I saw it as defacing the character of a book. Now my mind is plagued by visions of Tobias doing things hawks shouldn't be. I am scarred for life.

Here, next time I make a joke about anal rape, you can smite my karma, too.
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Re: Pronunciation
« Reply #40 on: July 17, 2009, 05:00:26 PM »


let's put a smile on that face
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Re: Pronunciation
« Reply #41 on: July 17, 2009, 05:24:49 PM »
Quote from: anijen21 on July 17, 2009, 05:00:26 PM


let's put a smile on that face

I love that you put that up!
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Re: Pronunciation
« Reply #42 on: July 17, 2009, 05:35:18 PM »
Yeah, seriously, that was funny.  It's an example of a word-root pun.  There are maybe a half-dozen writing systems in the entire world that make them possible.  

Japanese is the king (large number of homophones, extremely-nonphonetic, logographic spelling).  Korean might work out the same way (but only Korean written with hanja), but has less homophones.  Chinese is phonetic, so such puns are mostly limited to phonetic spellings of foreign words.  (Like Coca-Cola = "wax-fattened mare" or something like that.)

English is somewhat logographic, but mostly phonetic, so while mis-read or mis-heard jokes like this are possible, they're rare.

Esperanto has something similar based around how exactly you split-up compound words, but it's not exactly the same.  (Is 'papero' 'paper' or 'Papal mistake'?)

All that said, I think "anarapist," or "analyrapist" would be the better spelling.

http://everything2.com/node/551049 <-- For an example of what I'm talking about, scroll down to "kancho ga kancho ni kancho suru."  Note how "kancho" can be three different words with different kanji, but have the same pronunciation.  This is just a tiny taste of what's possible.
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Re: Pronunciation
« Reply #43 on: July 17, 2009, 06:14:41 PM »
damn son

I love language nerds
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Re: Pronunciation
« Reply #44 on: July 17, 2009, 08:05:17 PM »
I'm Japanese, so I already knew all that. :D

/empty bragging
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