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Oi, you can do what you want, but I disagree with your change.SS sem0me wrote:there you go
You need to learn IPA, man.Jake Kelton wrote:Oi, you can do what you want, but I disagree with your change.SS sem0me wrote:there you go
n00b n, adj. (n /oo/ b) - Someone who asks stupid questions, is overall insanly irritating, begs for what he wants, and is not a good sport. Does not care that he/she may be a n00b, and often tends to unfairly call others n00bs to make them feel better.
Newbie adj. (n /oo/ b ee) - Someone who is new to something and so can make the mistake of asking silly questions, but is apologetic and tries his/her best to learn how to not be a newbie.
That depends on whether you say "u" as oo or /u/. Personally, I say it mroe of a "uh" than a long /u/.Nous-irons wrote:You need to learn IPA, man.Jake Kelton wrote:Oi, you can do what you want, but I disagree with your change.SS sem0me wrote:there you go
n00b n, adj. (n /oo/ b) - Someone who asks stupid questions, is overall insanly irritating, begs for what he wants, and is not a good sport. Does not care that he/she may be a n00b, and often tends to unfairly call others n00bs to make them feel better.
Newbie adj. (n /oo/ b ee) - Someone who is new to something and so can make the mistake of asking silly questions, but is apologetic and tries his/her best to learn how to not be a newbie.
The first one is pronounced /'nub/, the second one /nub'i/. Note the stress marks.
Not even the bastardised American dictionaries (who use their corrupted long-short diacritic forms) use "oo" to represent the vowel /u/.
Hmmm, English Major?Nous-irons wrote:Yeah, but if you're giving a dicdef you have to use a standardised orthography - one phonetic vowel for each letter. Hence /u/ is always /u/. That's why it's found between slashes.![]()
There are five graphemic vowels in the English alphabet. Humans are capable of producing 28 (English has about 11-14, depending on dialect), not including nasals, which doubles that number. This is a problem, no?
"Uh" is very ambiguous. I think you either mean the schwa /ə/ or the open mid-back unrounded vowel /ʌ/ .
So anyway, this was just a side note.
I think its your multi account.SS sem0me wrote:I think Nathan BJ is off to the best start ever