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May 05, 2010 -- 10:42 PM
posted by alison
hee hee ... "Unintentionally suggestive grocery store purchases"
from: Things that can make you feel like an idiot almost instantly.
As for how to pronounce "Hummer" in Italian without being familiar with the connotation of the word... I'm guessing that they would drop the H, the U would be semisimilar to words like "umano" which is "human" and the er would be more like an "air" sound. ... leading to "oomair" for hummer. But that's just a guess. ... it's also what Google Translate pronounces it as in Italian.
May 05, 2010 -- 8:20 PM
posted by Al
So for all you Italian speakers out there, how would a native Italian pronounce the following word?:
Hummer
That is if they saw it for the first time and pronounced it without any previous experience in english. I got a bet riding on this.
May 05, 2010 -- 8:18 PM
posted by Al
Well like Go Nagai said you can't decide what you'll be remembered for so here is my contribution to the lingo lexicon:
One App Wonder
Basically a person who has designed an app for the iPhone, Facebbok, or a flash game, made enough actual money off their app to decide to quit their day job, and haven't been able to reproduce the same level of success with all their other subsequent apps.
May 02, 2010 -- 12:37 PM
posted by Al
So I saw this XKCD and all I could think about was that my mom would probally write a horror movie just like this:
