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Anonymous Wed Jun 15 14:59:43 2011 No.3231932 [Reply] [Original]

>mfw britfags pronounce "methane" as "mee-thane"
wtf is wrong with you retards?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 15 15:01:43 2011 No.3231940 >>3231932 Getting hung up on pronunciation variance I srsly hope etc etc

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 15 15:01:43 2011 No.3231938 better than aluminum

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 15 15:03:43 2011 No.3231947 >>3231932 >OP must pronounce "Me" as "Meh", as in, "tell meh about it". OR OP pronounces it wrong. -.-

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 15 15:05:43 2011 No.3231954 File: 9 KB, 271x288, 1290019919972.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >VIT- a - mens

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 15 15:06:43 2011 No.3231963 >mfw Americans prounounce it Meh-thane Do you also say >Can you go grab meh one too?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 15 15:07:43 2011 No.3231967 Yeah, I pronounce it with /iː/, is that not the norm in America?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 15 15:08:43 2011 No.3231970 >>3231967 American here, what's a "/iː/?"

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 15 15:11:43 2011 No.3231976 >>3231970 It's just the IPA symbol for the "ee" sound; I used it instead of comparing with another word because our pronunciations of it could differ too! Here's the table of sounds: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPA_for_English

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 15 15:12:43 2011 No.3231980 How do people here pronounce 'niche'?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 15 15:13:43 2011 No.3231983 >>3231980 /niːʃ/ neesh

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 15 15:14:43 2011 No.3231984 >>3231980 Nitch. You say it 'neesh' I presume?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 15 15:14:43 2011 No.3231985 >>3231976 American here. Not trying to troll, but I really can't understand a single one of those, even with the table trying to explain them. TOO MANY SUBTLE SYMBOLS, I can barely tell some of them apart from each other.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 15 15:14:43 2011 No.3231987 >>3231980 I pronounce it like "neesh."

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 15 15:15:43 2011 No.3231989 >>3231983 Same, thought the American pronunciation was 'nitch'. >>3231984 Yes.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 15 15:15:43 2011 No.3231992 >>3231980 "Nitchy" like "itchy."

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 15 15:16:43 2011 No.3231994 >>3231985 Yeah, I'm nothing like good at using it myself, I just find it comes in handy for threads like these.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 15 15:17:43 2011 No.3231997 Do they also say mee-thamphetamines?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 15 15:17:43 2011 No.3231999 >>3231997 No, oddly enough.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 15 15:18:43 2011 No.3232000 >Aluminum

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 15 15:18:43 2011 No.3232001 File: 44 KB, 446x400, 1299798581767.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3231970 americans can't phonetics

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 15 15:18:43 2011 No.3232002 >>3231997 God no, that's just tongue rape.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 15 15:19:43 2011 No.3232006 http://www.thefreedictionary.com/methane It seems apparent that there are two distinctly different versions in existence, neither of which are 'wrong'.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 15 15:20:43 2011 No.3232007 >>3232006 Yes there are, it's the non-American one that's wrong you fucking idiot. GET OUT!!!

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 15 15:20:43 2011 No.3232008 >>3232006 Imagine if one became wrong and loads of people were dead sad.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 15 15:21:43 2011 No.3232013 >>3232006 Just like Aluminum/Aluminium. It really is spelled differently over in 'Murrika, not just pronounced differently.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 15 15:22:43 2011 No.3232017 >>3232008 Epic reply.