EADD: New (and less new) RCs - steric hindrance and vestigial rituals

[Shambles]

Fen-ill-al-kee-la-meens?

 

[knock]

fennel I'll kill a means
roughly!


oooh shambles you went all ay-meens!

 

[Shambles]

Who the fuck is Emma and when did she get to be in charge of my mouth?

Americans pronounce plenty chemical names rather differently to those of us wot speak proper. No idea if 'amine' is amongst 'em but given I opted blindly for the 'ay-meen' route I've decided it must be :D

 

[knock]

dunno but she's very keen to get people pronouncing stuff.

 

[mydrugbuddy]

lol, cheers for helping guys, definately cannot trust them yanks for pronunciations though, they dont talk propa like wot i duz, You say Tomato, I say Tomatoe.

 

[Shambles]

Does anybody say "po-tar-toe"? Until I find somebody who does that song is dead to me

 

[mydrugbuddy]

it was a rather lame ending to my post, i just wanted some example of american prononunciation differences, and just went with the first thing that came to mind.

 

[babylonboy]

What is the R? Why is it R?

Fucknose. Possibly from something German, as a lot of chemical jargon is, but the truth is I don't know, and with these kind of things, not only do most people not know, but when you look into it it seems that no-one actually knows for sure.

I'd go with Shambles, "ay-meen", and "Fen-I'll-alk-I'll-lay-mean".

MDB, I've gor a GSCE in "Double Award Science" (you get two GCSEs for the three sciences) and I did about a year of uni's worth of Open University courses (I don't know whether or not one would consider OU study "self-teaching", though I did, and I like the related word "autodidactic").

 

[knock]

I've always been bothered by the 'ay' pronunciation of the letter 'a'. English is unique in using this letter for an 'ay' sound. The closest I know outside English is the german ä but I'm sure they have good reasons for what they do, whereas I'm sure we British do not.

 

[Shambles]

"autodidactic"

Hehe. Always liked that word. Taught it myself, dontcha know

(not just saying that cos you agree with my (clearly correct) pronunciation either - honest)

Another word I'm rather fond of is 'autocannibalism" which comes from a Stephen King short story. Suppose it's not so much the word as the concept really. You'd probably need to read the story to get the context.

 

[Transform]

Americans pronounce plenty chemical names rather differently to those of us wot speak proper. No idea if 'amine' is amongst 'em but given I opted blindly for the 'ay-meen' route I've decided it must be :D

Ay-meen is indeed the pronunciation for those on the good side of the Atlantic

R is an abbreviation from the German "radical" IIRC. It's misleading though because it radical in English means something else.

In this, R is used to denoted any non-hydrogen substiutuent - typically an organic moiety.

 

[Shambles]

Ay-meen is indeed the pronunciation for those on the good side of the Atlantic

 

[knock]

Away to fuck.

What does R mean? You can't just say R is used to denote blah blah blah, why fucking R?

Why fucking ay?

edit: oh wait if only I had read transform's post

Why fucking ay?

 

[Shambles]

Why fucking ay?

Cos Brits can speak English and Sep's can't.

 

[knock]

hmmm not convinced

 

[Shambles]

I blame the drugs

 

[knock]

I drug the blames

 

[Shambles]

I blag the drains

 

[knock]

I drag the blaines!

 

[Shambles]

I dig the brains