COOL, YO! THANKS! YOU TOTALLY SAY 'SHTRAW' FOR 'STRAW', YO -LIKE WITH A 'SH'. I DO THAT SOMETIMES TOO. AND YOU TOTALLY SAY 'STORE' WITH A DIPHTHONG - SHTO-WUH. IN ENGLAND WE SAY IT WITH THE SAME VOWEL THAT THOSE NAUGHTY SOUTHERN AMERICANS USE IN 'OIL' - WE'D WRITE THAT PRONUNCIATION AS 'AWL', BUT YOU GUYS HAVE THAT SOUND AS AN 'O' AND WRITE THAT PRONUNCATION AS 'OL'.
AND WE SAY 'PUH-JAMAS', PRETTY SIMILAR TO HOW YOU GUYS SAY IT, BUT YOU SAY PUH-JAMMAZ AND WE SAY PUH-JAH-MUHZ.***CLICK MY EGGZ && BABY DRAGONZ, YO!
I SAY 'ARE' AND 'OUR' LIKE YOU DO, BUT WITHOUT THE 'R'.
OH - I MEAN YOU DO, NOT YOU SHOULD. IF I MEANT SHOULD, I WOULD SAY SO, BECAUSE I AM VERY UNAMBIGUOUS LIKE THAT! BUT I DO NOT TELL PEOPLE HOW THEY SHOULD PRONOUNCE THINGS, BECAUSE EVERYONE PRONOUNCES DIFFERENTLY. I JUST OBSERVE.
AND NO, YO, I DO NOT SAY 'AWL'. I SAY 'OIL'. I WAS SAYING (A BIT AMBIGUOUSLY, I REALISE!) THAT THE SOUND WE USE IN THE WORD 'STORE' IS THE SAME SOUND AS SOUTHERN AMERICANS USE IN 'OIL'. HENCE, FOR US IT IS NOT A DIPHTHONG.
SOME BRITS DO SAY 'AWL' THOUGH, ACTUALLY. IT IS A REGIONAL PRONUNCIATION FOR SOME. NOT STANDARD THOUGH. SOME EVEN OMIT THE 'L' AT THE END, AND SAY 'AW'.***CLICK MY EGGZ && BABY DRAGONZ, YO!
NAH, I DIDN'T LEARN ABOUT THEM IN SCHOOL - AT LEAST NOT HIGH SCHOOL. I FIRST LEARNT ABOUT THEM IN UNIVERSITY, STUDYING ENGLISH. THEN I LEARNT ABOUT THEM WHEN I DID THE TESOL CERTIFICATE, YO - I LEARNT THE IPA THEN. AND NOW I STUDY THIS STUFF MORE IN DEPTH - AND TEACH MYSELF A BIT, BECAUSE IT TOTALLY FASCINATES ME. BUT MOST PEOPLE DO NOT KNOW WHAT A DIPHTHONG IS - IN THE UK, THAT IS. THE FRENCH SEEM TO KNOW. AND PROBABLY OTHER EUROPEAN COUNTRIES.***CLICK MY EGGZ && BABY DRAGONZ, YO!
OUT OF CURIOSITY, DO YOU THINK GAY GUYS TEND TO LIKE THE SAME GUYS THAT STRAIGHT WOMEN LIKE, OR IS THERE A BIT OF A DIFFERENCE IN WHOM YOU FIND HOTTIES? LIKE, DO YOU THINK HOUSE MIGHT BE POPULAR IN THE GAY COMMUNITY AS A SEX SYMBOL, OR JUST AMONG THE LADIES?***CLICK MY EGGZ && BABY DRAGONZ, YO!
WELL, TELL ME ALL ABOUT MR IMAGINARY, YO! I WANT TO KNOW! DID YOU LEARN ABOUT HIM IN HIGH SCHOOL? SINCE ALL MY OTHER COMMENTERS SEEM TO BE MATHS HATERZ, YOU ARE THE ONE WHO MUST INFORM ME! ***CLICK MY EGGZ && BABY DRAGONZ, YO!
ALSO - HOW OLD IS MIDDLE SCHOOL AND WHAT DO YOU LEARN IN ALGEBRA I, YO? LIKE FACTORISING AND EXPANDING BRACKETS AND STUFF? DO SIMULTANEOUS EQUATIONS AND QUADRATIC EQUATIONS COUNT AS ALGEBRA 1 OR ALGEBRA 2? IS THERE AN ALGEBRA 3 AT ANY POINT?***CLICK MY EGGZ && BABY DRAGONZ, YO!
AHA - YOU ARE TOTALLY 15, YO. SO YOU ARE STILL IN HIGH SCHOOL. SO YOU ARE THE AGE THAT BRITISH CHILDREN ARE DOING THEIR GCSE'S. SO - TO COMPARE - WHAT HAVE YOU DONE? HAVE YOU DONE CALCULUS ALREADY? HERE, KIDS DON'T DO THAT UNTIL 16, AND IT'S ONLY IF THEY CHOOSE TO DO 'A' LEVEL MATHS. HAVE YOU DONE TRIG? TRIG IS DONE AT YOUR AGE, YO. LIKE AT AGE 14, KIDS LEARN THE 'SOHCAHTOA' THING, AND USE IT TO SOLVE ANGLES AND SIDES OF RIGHT ANGLED TRIANGLES. BASIC TRIG, YO. AS FOR STATISTICS - ONLY BASIC STUFF IS DONE AT YOUR AGE, YO. HAVE YOU DONE SIMULTANEOUS AND QUADRATIC EQUATIONS?***CLICK MY EGGZ && BABY DRAGONZ, YO!
WAIT - YOU'VE DONE IMAGINARY NUMBERS AND NOT TRIG, YO? GOSH, YOUR SCHOOL HAS A FUNNY ORDER OF TEACHING.
BUT, LIKE, I STILL DON'T GET THE POINT OF IMAGINARY NUMBERS, YO. LIKE, x^2 + 1 = 0 CAN'T HAPPEN. YOU MIGHT AS WELL SAY 5 = 3 AND MAKE THAT AN IMAGINARY NUMBER. LIKE, WHAT IS THE POINT OF IT, YO? WHAT DOES IT DO? HOW CAN YOU USE IT?***CLICK MY EGGZ && BABY DRAGONZ, YO!
BUT THEN, BY THAT LOGIC, IF 5 + X = 12, THEN X=22 IS IMAGINARY, AS INDEED IS ANY VALUE OF X OTHER THAN 7. BUT THOSE DON'T COUNT AS IMAGINARY NUMBERS, DO THEY?***CLICK MY EGGZ && BABY DRAGONZ, YO!
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BUT I DO NOT TELL PEOPLE HOW THEY SHOULD PRONOUNCE THINGS, BECAUSE EVERYONE PRONOUNCES DIFFERENTLY. I JUST OBSERVE.