Tip on Foliage

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bibbles

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I can't tell you how many grow videos I've seen where someone speaks as though they are an expert, and might in fact be one, yet they cannot pronounce foliage. Look at the word, it's not spelled foilage, and as such, is not pronounced that way. I'm sorry, but this is a pet peeve of mine, how much credit would you give a grower who genuinely though it was pronounced mary-jah-wanna? Or a professor who spelled school as skool?

Does anyone have any idea where this started? I know SeeMoreBudz definitely says it wrong, and I'm pretty sure Jorge Cervantes (not about to check, could be wrong) also mispronounces this word... I know it's petty, but... come on. I could whatever a couple people saying it wrong, but it's so rare to hear it pronounced correctly in the culture, I can remember the two or three times it has been, because they were events.
 
elenor.rigby

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another one is people saying 'expresso' when asking for a coffee.. its espresso for heavens sake.. ahhhhhhhhhh
 
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elenor.rigby said:
my mrs taught me some american the other night, im learning it in readiness for a visit.
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Interestingly enough, the English spoken in Boston is the oldest in the world, and most American English is closer to the past than modern Brit English. Just an interesting bit of trivia, it doesn't really matter which is older, unless someone erroneously uses the term "proper" or "real" English. For example, Black Vernacular is totally correct, it's just a different dialect, and old white people are still a little racist on accident. Hurrrrr.
 
guanoman

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You think you've got it rough. I'm surrounded by Newfoundlander's.
It's that "If I ad a face the likes of yers me son, I'd walk backards" kind of talk.
Another popular one I hear is "Oh ya, I ben over dare fer lunch a couple three times now"
"a couple three times" WTF?
No offense to my Newfoundland neighbors by the way - they are truly a great bunch of folks & I actually love the way they talk.
 
skunkd0c

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bibbles said:
I can't tell you how many grow videos I've seen where someone speaks as though they are an expert, and might in fact be one, yet they cannot pronounce foliage. Look at the word, it's not spelled foilage, and as such, is not pronounced that way. I'm sorry, but this is a pet peeve of mine, how much credit would you give a grower who genuinely though it was pronounced mary-jah-wanna? Or a professor who spelled school as skool?

Does anyone have any idea where this started? I know SeeMoreBudz definitely says it wrong, and I'm pretty sure Jorge Cervantes (not about to check, could be wrong) also mispronounces this word... I know it's petty, but... come on. I could whatever a couple people saying it wrong, but it's so rare to hear it pronounced correctly in the culture, I can remember the two or three times it has been, because they were events.
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wtf are you on about M8
 
electronug

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Wait... how do they pronounce it?

Is it like people who say LIBARY and BREHFIX... it's a subconshus speech impedimant.

Heh.
 
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skunkd0c said:
hmm

[video=youtube;_rw5tw58grc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rw5tw58grc[/video]
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Not comparable, you can choose to pronounce the h or not, it depends on your region. Foliage cannot be pronounced foil-ahge within any form of English, and the same is true of the other examples. ;P

EDIT: Honestly, the most annoying thing to me is that foliage literally means leaves 'n' shit. Those people could easily say leaves, they used that before they used foliage, so why choose to use a smarter sounding word... when you cannot say it. :/

guanoman said:
You think you've got it rough. I'm surrounded by Newfoundlander's.
It's that "If I ad a face the likes of yers me son, I'd walk backards" kind of talk.
Another popular one I hear is "Oh ya, I ben over dare fer lunch a couple three times now"
"a couple three times" WTF?
No offense to my Newfoundland neighbors by the way - they are truly a great bunch of folks & I actually love the way they talk.
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Haha, nice, I really enjoy movies wherein Cockney accents are heavily featured. :3
 
skunkd0c

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bibbles said:
Not comparable, you can choose to pronounce the h or not, it depends on your region. Foliage cannot be pronounced foil-ahge within any form of English, and the same is true of the other examples. ;P

EDIT: Honestly, the most annoying thing to me is that foliage literally means leaves 'n' shit. Those people could easily say leaves, they used that before they used foliage, so why choose to use a smarter sounding word... when you cannot say it. :/


Haha, nice, I really enjoy movies wherein Cockney accents are heavily featured. :3
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i have no idea what you are talking about .. sorry

my video was posted to illustrate how pretentious your post seems
certainly comparable in my view
 
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skunkd0c said:
i have no idea what you are talking about .. sorrymy video was posted to illustrate how pretentious your post seems certainly comparable in my view
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Mispronouncing a word, or pronouncing it in an unfamiliar way is not particularly comparable to people simply inventing their own words. Foh-lee-ahge, not foil-ahge. In the word foliage, you can see that the letter l comes between the o and the i, and as such, it's not foil. Pretentious? No, that would be... jumping on people for no reason, because I think I'm better than them. I'm simply annoyed that the propagation of a nonexistent word through this culture makes everyone look illiterate. Spelling cat as kat in a text isn't going to kill anyone, but kindergarten teachers teaching their students to spell it kat would have huge ramifications. This is the difference.
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Nucular is an ad hoc spelling of a metathetic mispronunciation of the word nuclear, representing the pronunciation /ˈnjuːkjələr/ (Canada) or /ˈnuːkjələr/ (United States) of that word instead of the standard pronunciation, /ˈn(j)uːkliːər/.
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Metathesis (English pronunciation: /məˈtæθəsɪs/; from Greek μετά-θε-σις, from μετα-τί-θη-μι "I put in a different order": Latin trānspositiō) is the re-arranging of sounds or syllables in a word, or of words in a sentence. Most commonly it refers to the switching of two or more contiguous sounds, known as adjacent metathesis[SUP][1][/SUP] or local metathesis:[SUP][2][/SUP]
  • foliage → **foilage
  • cavalry → **calvary
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It's so funny how normal people do this, and then talk shit about dyslexia.
PeyoteReligion said:
Also people that say trichromes, like we are smoking chrome. Only one r in trichomes...
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That one fucked me up for a minute, I already knew foliage, but trichome was a new word. I read it, said it right in my head, people started talking about trichromes and it was like... eehh... I've only been in the culture for so long, I shouldn't correct people... BUT I DON'T SEE AN R IN THIS WORD!!

Hmm... FOILage, triCHROME... there's something going on with decorative swords here...
 
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