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Offline JonLeung

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RE:Wii - One Syllable Word
« Reply #25 on: June 23, 2006, 08:35:27 AM »
You'll never see a game system named like one of my favourite words, "floccinaucinihilipilification".

That's...let me see...12 syllables...I think?

Here, I'll use it in a sentence:
"Sony themselves gives me every reason to floccinaucinihilipilificate the PS3."
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« Reply #26 on: June 23, 2006, 08:50:04 AM »
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Brain Age's Syllable Count confuses me with words like "duel" and "smile".  Are those two syllables or one?
Both are one syllabe each.
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« Reply #27 on: June 23, 2006, 08:59:52 AM »
Is there a hard rule about syllables or is it based on accents?  I would pronounce smile as one syllable but would say duel more like "doo-uhl" yet I've heard people from other English speaking countries say something more like "dool".
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« Reply #28 on: June 23, 2006, 09:16:10 AM »
Thats an awesome word but just saying what it means is shorter.

IceCold:  Yep and that was part of the joke.  (It always comes out here in the south whenever we talk about Syllables.)
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« Reply #29 on: June 23, 2006, 02:16:16 PM »
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Brain Age's Syllable Count confuses me with words like "duel" and "smile".  Are those two syllables or one?
Both are one syllabe each.
I always thought duel was two - I'm sure it is..
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RE: Wii - One Syllable Word
« Reply #30 on: June 23, 2006, 02:18:47 PM »
Cruel is one syllable. Like "cool" with an r inserted.

Cruella is three syllables. Darn you Disney!

Is that "Syllabel" thing arising from something to do with "southern belles" or something as delightfully quaint as that?

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« Reply #31 on: June 23, 2006, 08:01:13 PM »
It has to do with a Southern Drawl.

IceCold:  I think your reading it wrong.  It's sil-la-bels.  But hold out the la.
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« Reply #32 on: June 23, 2006, 08:06:45 PM »
Wow...honestly who gives a sh!t?  If this is what we're to hang our hats on, it's a sad day indeed.
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« Reply #33 on: June 23, 2006, 08:09:19 PM »
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Wow...honestly who gives a sh!t?  If this is what we're to hang our hats on, it's a sad day indeed.


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RE: Wii - One Syllable Word
« Reply #34 on: June 23, 2006, 11:12:32 PM »
pee
poo
suck
dumb
quaint
lame
dead
fail


also one-syllable.
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RE: Wii - One Syllable Word
« Reply #35 on: June 24, 2006, 12:00:01 AM »
WTF? Fail one syllable? Fa-il. Two. Smile is one? WHUT? Smi-le. It's TWO GODDAMNIT! Duel... well that's slightly more complex to say than usual one syllable words, but it still sounds like one to me. DUEL. Not Due-elle.
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RE: Wii - One Syllable Word
« Reply #36 on: June 24, 2006, 06:53:59 AM »
Australians talk funny
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« Reply #37 on: June 24, 2006, 08:39:50 PM »
You ever wonder why none of us have actually gone and linked a dictionary?
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RE: Wii - One Syllable Word
« Reply #38 on: June 24, 2006, 10:59:14 PM »
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IceCold: I think your reading it wrong. It's sil-la-bels. But hold out the la.
Eh? Reading what wrong? I got the joke, and that's why I wrote dyaslexia - since dyslexic people often write something other than what is on their mind, and misspell words..
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« Reply #39 on: June 25, 2006, 08:36:15 AM »
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You ever wonder why none of us have actually gone and linked a dictionary?

Well, I linked to "floccinaucinihilipilification" above...
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« Reply #40 on: June 25, 2006, 08:37:44 AM »
Which is an awesome word if I can remember it.  (I hope this isn't a double post.)
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