Thread Killer Champions: Franzbear & Moonbear

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The discussion revolves around the humorous concept of "thread killers" on a forum, where participants analyze who tends to end conversations with their posts. The top offenders identified include franznietzsche, Moonbear, and tribdog, with a playful tone suggesting a competition for the title of "thread killer." Participants debate the validity of counting last posts as a measure of thread-killing ability, arguing that it should be adjusted based on the total number of posts each user has made. The conversation shifts into a light-hearted narrative, likening thread-killing to a horror movie scenario, with participants playfully accusing each other of sabotaging discussions and attempting to "steal" the thread. The banter includes references to fictional scenarios involving dramatic rescues and humorous characterizations, maintaining a light and comedic atmosphere throughout.
  • #5,001
icvotria said:
[ :rolleyes: shakes in her boots... :rolleyes: ]
I was in Saigon last year wandering around the back streets totally lost and saw this war vet in full uniform and he said that to me, it made me laugh for ages. I'd been trying so hard not to constantly pretend I was in a naam war movie and then a soldier says 'fresh meat' to me in a mid-american drawl. :-p
Welcome to the Thread Killer Champions thread. :smile:


Now, if you could just slip on this sheep suit...

:rolleyes: No, it's okay, everyone wears them here. :rolleyes:


:biggrin:
 
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  • #5,002
Artman said:
Welcome to the Thread Killer Champions thread. :smile:


Now, if you could just slip on this sheep suit...

:rolleyes: No, it's okay, everyone wears them here. :rolleyes:


:biggrin:

I suppose it's time to warn her about Danger's velcro gloves then?
 
  • #5,003
If you ask real nice he might let you borrow them.
 
  • #5,004
Aww, I wanted to wear my cowgirl outfit. Wool makes me itchy, do you have any savlon?
 
  • #5,005
BicycleTree said:
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=aunt

"ahnt."

That says it either rhymes with the a in "father" or in "pat." Notice there were two acceptable pronunciations there. To me, "father" rhymes with "bother," so I'm not sure how you differentiate the sound of "ahnt" and "ont." I think it's just two different ways of trying to spell the same sound. I can't type diacritical marks here, so have to resort to the best I can in explaining pronunciation without them.
 
  • #5,006
icvotria said:
Aww, I wanted to wear my cowgirl outfit. Wool makes me itchy, do you have any savlon?
YeeeHaaa! Hey, this could lead to a Nerd/Cowboy spinoff thread (no offense icvotria, we had a Nerd/Pirate thread that was a lot of fun) :biggrin:
 
  • #5,007
Moonbear said:
That says it either rhymes with the a in "father" or in "pat." Notice there were two acceptable pronunciations there. To me, "father" rhymes with "bother," so I'm not sure how you differentiate the sound of "ahnt" and "ont." I think it's just two different ways of trying to spell the same sound. I can't type diacritical marks here, so have to resort to the best I can in explaining pronunciation without them.
"Father" doesn't rhyme with anything.

Fah - thur. Baw - thur. There's clearly a difference.
 
  • #5,008
BicycleTree said:
"Father" doesn't rhyme with anything.

Fah - thur. Baw - thur. There's clearly a difference.
father rhymes with Father(notice the caps)
 
  • #5,009
BicycleTree said:
"Father" doesn't rhyme with anything.

Fah - thur. Baw - thur. There's clearly a difference.

Yep, we definitely have different accents. Bother isn't baw-thur to me. It rhymes with father. If you checked the pronunciation guide at dictionary.com, you'd see they used the a in father as the example of the correct pronunciation of the au in aunt.
 
  • #5,010
Do you think I would have posted the link to dictionary.com if I hadn't read the pronunciation guide?
 
  • #5,011
I think we have the same accents, Moonbear. I pronounce hamster as hampster and aunt as ont and both father and bother with an ah sound.

When I was young I spent a year in Pennsylvania and the english teacher gave me a C because she said I couldn't talk right. In Mass we have no r's after most vowels. It's just the way people speak, and if someone doesn't speak the way everyone else speaks in the area that they are in, then they are perceived as speaking incorrectly. As long as it is coherent then it doesn't really matter.

The internet makes regional speech differences disappear. Big deal. It's all text here. Isn't it all just semantics anyway?
 
  • #5,013
Huckleberry said:
I think we have the same accents, Moonbear. I pronounce hamster as hampster and aunt as ont and both father and bother with an ah sound.

When I was young I spent a year in Pennsylvania and the english teacher gave me a C because she said I couldn't talk right. In Mass we have no r's after most vowels. It's just the way people speak, and if someone doesn't speak the way everyone else speaks in the area that they are in, then they are perceived as speaking incorrectly. As long as it is coherent then it doesn't really matter.

The internet makes regional speech differences disappear. Big deal. It's all text here. Isn't it all just semantics anyway?
ont...

I live in Massachusetts. Nobody says ont.
 
  • #5,014
Aunt does not rhyme with taunt.
 
  • #5,015
It does when I say it.
 
  • #5,016
I don't think aunt rhymes with anything, actually.
 
  • #5,017
I'm thinking, thinking... all I can come up with is the middle sound in "Brabantio." brab - aunt - io.
 
  • #5,018
How about daunt, flaunt, gaunt, haunt, jaunt, savant, taunt, want, vaunt, just off the top of my head.
 
  • #5,019
want. :biggrin:
 
  • #5,020
Those all rhyme with "ont," not "aunt."
 
  • #5,021
Oh, except for savant! There we go. Aunt rhymes with savant.
 
  • #5,022
ant, pant, shan't, can't, need more?
 
  • #5,023
Aha, and on dictionary.com the pronunciation of the second a in savant is the same as the pronunciation of the vowel in aunt.

So it looks like according to dictionary.com it's either "ant" or "aunt" to rhyme with "savant," not "ont."
 
  • #5,024
Yomamma, none of those rhyme.
 
  • #5,025
OMG... :rolleyes:
 
  • #5,026
Huckleberry said:
I think we have the same accents, Moonbear. I pronounce hamster as hampster and aunt as ont and both father and bother with an ah sound.
Well, I don't think we have quite the same accent. I only have some of the Mass. accent from my mom and grandparents, my dad was raised in NJ and my grandmother on that side was from NYC, but didn't have a real NY accent (I'm not sure what her accent was, actually), and my grandfather was from Maine, so really pronounced words in a way that was nearly incomprehensible to most. Now that I've also lived in MI and OH, I've picked up odd bits of the accents here too.

BT, what on Earth is a standard and non-standard accent? No, aunt and taunt are not pronounced the same for me either. Taunt is more like tawnt, just like the pronunciation guide says, the au sounds like "paw". The pronunciation guide says the "o" in bother is pronounced like the "o" in pot, which I pronounce exactly the same as the a in father. If there's a difference, it's subtle. There's no "w" sound in bother.
 
  • #5,027
I am talking about rhymes for the word "aunt" as I pronounce it, which is the second pronunciation on dictionary.com, namely a-umlaut, n, t.
 
  • #5,028
yomamma said:
want. :biggrin:

Want rhymes with aunt for me. Those others, like flaunt, gaunt, haunt don't. I don't say awnt, I say ont (or probably ahnt is the better spelling...when I write ont, I mean like the word "on" with a "t" at the end, not own-t). :smile: I can't believe we're trying to explain accents and pronunciation in writing. If we all pronounce the vowels differently, what use is it? :smile:
 
  • #5,029
yomamma said:
ant, pant, shan't, can't, need more?
BicycleTree said:
Yomamma, none of those rhyme.
Do you even live on the same planet with us? Of course they all rhyme.
 
  • #5,030
BicycleTree said:
Aha, and on dictionary.com the pronunciation of the second a in savant is the same as the pronunciation of the vowel in aunt.

So it looks like according to dictionary.com it's either "ant" or "aunt" to rhyme with "savant," not "ont."

Right, the way I'm saying ont rhymes with savant. :biggrin: Maybe the problem is we pronounce "ont" differently. :smile:
 
  • #5,031
Moonbear said:
BT, what on Earth is a standard and non-standard accent? No, aunt and taunt are not pronounced the same for me either. Taunt is more like tawnt, just like the pronunciation guide says, the au sounds like "paw". The pronunciation guide says the "o" in bother is pronounced like the "o" in pot, which I pronounce exactly the same as the a in father. If there's a difference, it's subtle. There's no "w" sound in bother.
I know, aunt does not rhyme with taunt. Taunt, however, rhymes with ont.

The au definitely does not sound like "aw," however. If it did, it would rhyme with taunt.

The "o" in "pot" has a w sound in it. Pawt.

I believe dictionary.com agrees with me on all counts.
 
  • #5,032
"Want" does _not_ rhyme with "Savant." Look them both up on dictionary.com; the vowel sounds are not the same.
 
  • #5,033
I'm starting to think BT grew up in Bawston (that's Boston to the rest of us). It's a somewhat distinct accent from other parts of Mass, which would be why Huck's and my Mass. accent doesn't quite jive with BT's.
 
  • #5,034
dictionary.reference[/color].com
 
  • #5,035
"Aunt" can be pronounced "ant," but only if you're a weirdo, or it can be pronounced to rhyme with "savant." "Savant" does not rhyme with want, or taunt, or any of those, and it does not rhyme with "ont." "Father" is not pronounced "fawther" unless maybe you're British (and I'm not sure I'd believe it even then). The "o" in "pot" is an "aw" sound. pawt. And "bother" does not rhyme with "father" (as in dictionary.com).
 
  • #5,036
Look... dictionary.com agrees with me on every point... if my accent is unique to my region, it would not have made it into dictionary.com. Face it--I have the universal accent, and you're all provincials.
 
  • #5,037
BicycleTree said:
"Want" does _not_ rhyme with "Savant." Look them both up on dictionary.com; the vowel sounds are not the same.
Hmm...it's subtle, but they are pronounced differently. I never noticed that before. Dammit, now I don't know how I pronounce any of these words I've said them so many times to myself here! :-p I say aunt more like savant than want, which according to dictionary.com is pronounced the same as wont...how do we know that's not just the accent of the person writing the dictionary anyway? :bugeye:
 
  • #5,038
how do you pronounce "father"? because I'm not brittish and "father" does sound like "bother"
 
  • #5,039
BicycleTree said:
Look... dictionary.com agrees with me on every point... if my accent is unique to my region, it would not have made it into dictionary.com. Face it--I have the universal accent, and you're all provincials.
Don't get out much, do you? I'm going to have to bet that someone over in Britain gets to lay claim to the proper pronunciation of the English language over any of us yanks.
 
  • #5,040
You know, this is kind of weird, because all of these sounds are differentiated very plainly to me. None of them seem subtle--yet I still have trouble picking out the words from songs.
 
  • #5,041
sa-'vänt, wänt, vänt, tänt, dänt, flänt, gänt, hänt, jänt,

Merriam-Webster says they rhyme. Oh no! Society will collapse! We won't be able to communicate with each other. Babelbabelbabel
 
  • #5,042
Well, it seems my big old honking Websters that I just had to drag out says want rhymes with savant rhymes with father. They're all designated as a with an umlaut.
 
  • #5,043
Probably Webster's dictionary uses as general pronunciation as possible, to encompass regional variation. So their a-umlaut covers a whole range of vowel sounds. It doesn't actually mean they rhyme; it just means some freaks somewhere think they rhyme.
 
  • #5,044
Huckleberry said:
sa-'vänt, wänt, vänt, tänt, dänt, flänt, gänt, hänt, jänt,

Merriam-Webster says they rhyme. Oh no! Society will collapse! We won't be able to communicate with each other. Babelbabelbabel

Darn, you beat me to it! Both father and want are used as examples of the correct pronunciation of the "a" with umlaut in the pronunciation key of my dictionary. Websters doesn't mention the variant of aunt we're discussing of "a with umlaut", only the a that rhymes with fast, but also lists that as distinct from ant, which is the a in at. :bugeye: No wonder I can't understand anybody around here, even the dictionaries can't agree on accents! :smile:
 
  • #5,045
BicycleTree said:
Probably Webster's dictionary uses as general pronunciation as possible, to encompass regional variation. So their a-umlaut covers a whole range of vowel sounds. It doesn't actually mean they rhyme; it just means some freaks somewhere think they rhyme.
You're going to trust dictionary.com over Merriam-Webster? No, their a with an umlaut is very specific and they have the full range of symbols dictionary.com has.

Edit: Okay, time to seek the true authority. Who has the OED around?
 
  • #5,046
I looked in my Webster's, and it lists more than one way to pronounce the two. It's just trying to have the most general use possible.

The a-umlaut, in webster's, is the same as the a in father or car. I don't think there's any dispute over how to pronounce "car" (no I don't mean "cah").
 
  • #5,047
Dictionary.com's pronunciations are from the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. That's at least as authoritative as Webster's.
 
  • #5,048
The OED would probably list British pronunciation, which is generally incorrect.
 
  • #5,049
car sounds like cawr!
 
  • #5,050
yomamma said:
car sounds like cawr!
No it doesn't.
 

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