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Things you can't do but would like to.
Topic Started: Jan 3 2012, 09:11 PM (1,508 Views)
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You tricked me into making a fart sound.
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fart sounds are actually the same manner of articulation, just with a different point of articulation (typically linguolabial or bilabial). If you're getting a traditional fart sound, then you're using your lips, which you shouldn't be doing. Also, you may be doing a voiceless trill, which kind of makes it sound like a fart if you're the machine gun fart type. Remember to vibrate your vocal chords while trilling, then that should be it.
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I'M TRYING!

IT MUST INVOLVES VOODOO OF SOME SORT.

EDIT: NEVERMIND. I GOT THE TRILL DOWN. NOW HOW DO I MAKE AN 'R' SOUND?
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... that... is... the <r> sound.

But again, that's the stereotypical scottish <r>. Most actual scots, according to wikipedia, pronounce it like how americans pronounce <t> or <d> intervocalically (between vowels).
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Like Yorick, I would like to be fluent in french; it would help a bit with French class (a royal pain in the ass for me). I would also like to go into outer space and make some sort of contact with an extraterrestrial (wishful thinking, being fluent in french ;) ).
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Bah, you must consider how useful a language is before you learn it, and who you can talk to when you are done. When you've learnt French you can talk to a third of Belgians and Swiss, a few entitled Canadians, and the French. It's also useful in Africa, but really is it worth it? Not even in the nice parts of Africa either.
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Jan 5 2012, 03:14 AM
Bah, you must consider how useful a language is before you learn it, and who you can talk to when you are done. When you've learnt French you can talk to a third of Belgians and Swiss, a few entitled Canadians, and the French. It's also useful in Africa, but really is it worth it? Not even in the nice parts of Africa either.
I've considered how and why it's important, and I came to a conclusion years ago; You need it in a bilingual City and Country. Also, those "few entitled Canadians" make up nearly 25% of the population, and that's just the people in Quebec. Plus, you need at least 1 credit in french to Pass high school in Ontario (look up Ontario's educational system). So it's pretty important, even though it's a pain in the ass.
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Many people from Quebec are perfectly normal. I'm friends with one myself.

And many French Canadians overcome their disadvantage and go on to live rich, full lives.

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Jan 5 2012, 01:22 PM
Many people from Quebec are perfectly normal. I'm friends with one myself.

And many French Canadians overcome their disadvantage and go on to live rich, full lives.

Who usually end up being disected in anatomy classes.

OLO FROGS.
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No Frogs are actual Frenchmen. Canadian French people have been mostly civilized, they have been uppity of late, but they aren't all that bad. They just want two colours to symbolise them on the flag, they are not happy with just the white anymore.

Back on topic, I'd like to learn some swordplay. I like to think I know a little more that the average person, but that's not much of an achievement. And not fencing either, fine as it is, I'd rather train to use real weapons of war.
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No Frogs are actual Frenchmen. Canadian French people have been mostly civilized, they have been uppity of late, but they aren't all that bad. They just want two colours to symbolise them on the flag, they are not happy with just the white anymore.

Back on topic, I'd like to learn some swordplay. I like to think I know a little more that the average person, but that's not much of an achievement. And not fencing either, fine as it is, I'd rather train to use real weapons of war.
There's a lot more to the issue than just the white representing them on the flag; there's a movement in Quebec to kill off English there and for them to become their own country.
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um, no. their scheme is more complicated. what they did was form a federal party, and they hope to get their leader elected as prime minister so that he can "force" Quebec to separate. At least thats what I think they're doing.

By the way, the occupy movement also spread up to here

EDIT: their party (the Bloc-Quebequois) pretty much died in the last federal election in may, so the movements nearly dead
Edited by Dragon, Jan 5 2012, 10:39 PM.
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Jan 5 2012, 03:34 PM
No Frogs are actual Frenchmen. Canadian French people have been mostly civilized, they have been uppity of late, but they aren't all that bad. They just want two colours to symbolise them on the flag, they are not happy with just the white anymore.

Back on topic, I'd like to learn some swordplay. I like to think I know a little more that the average person, but that's not much of an achievement. And not fencing either, fine as it is, I'd rather train to use real weapons of war.
what about stick fighting? you learn the principles of swordplay, but don't suffer any amputations, decapitations or footlong gashes in your body..
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