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Sean Mirrsen

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Re: My Little Pony, Friendship Is Magic
« Reply #1365 on: November 11, 2011, 06:42:03 am »

Yeah, English apparently doesn't have relative tenses.
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Re: My Little Pony, Friendship Is Magic
« Reply #1366 on: November 11, 2011, 07:04:33 am »

Found a picture on the subject of English being a nightmare, but I can't remember where it was, so I'll quote it as best I can:

If 'gh' is pronounced like in 'laugh'
and 'o' is pronounced like in 'women'
and 'ti' is pronounced like in 'complication'
then 'ghoti' is pronounced exactly the same as 'fish'.

WELCOME TO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, ASSHOLE.

And with that, I bid you goodnight.
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Re: My Little Pony, Friendship Is Magic
« Reply #1367 on: November 11, 2011, 07:07:33 am »

No. In English, 'gh' is silent.
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Re: My Little Pony, Friendship Is Magic
« Reply #1368 on: November 11, 2011, 07:08:28 am »

Evidence- Haughty, knight, taught. It just makes the following consonant hard.
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Re: My Little Pony, Friendship Is Magic
« Reply #1369 on: November 11, 2011, 07:09:50 am »

So, Ghoti = hish?

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Re: My Little Pony, Friendship Is Magic
« Reply #1370 on: November 11, 2011, 07:09:57 am »

...mate, I'm not sure what country you live in, or what accent/dialect/whatever you have, but where I'm from, the sound at the end of 'laugh' is a 'f'.
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Re: My Little Pony, Friendship Is Magic
« Reply #1371 on: November 11, 2011, 07:11:34 am »

Yes, but that's a cultural corruption. Much like the Greeks didn't like hiatuses, we've changed the sound from the word, not the word to the sound.
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Re: My Little Pony, Friendship Is Magic
« Reply #1372 on: November 11, 2011, 07:12:51 am »

It's the same with the ti. It's just a cultural corruption of the correct pronunciation.
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Re: My Little Pony, Friendship Is Magic
« Reply #1373 on: November 11, 2011, 07:13:38 am »

Er. How exactly do you pronounce 'laugh'?

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If 'gh' is pronounced like in 'laugh'
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then 'ghoti' is pronounced exactly the same as 'fish'

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Re: My Little Pony, Friendship Is Magic
« Reply #1374 on: November 11, 2011, 07:17:41 am »

Anyway, the way we pronounce complication is the correct way. Or, at least, it used to be the correct way. I'd move that we pronounce 'i' in two different ways. Hard I, as in is or in, and soft i, as in complication. But we're so used to using the hard i only, that the soft i shocks us.
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Re: My Little Pony, Friendship Is Magic
« Reply #1375 on: November 11, 2011, 09:42:31 am »

OMG! So much amazing stuff I've missed in this thread! :D

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The genetics of pony type always made most sense to me like this:

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I must repeat my early warning. FOR THE BRONZE PICKLE'S VIEWING ONLY.


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Please tell me this is a result of the most cracky Homestuck/MLP shipfic ever.

something sad, yet heartwarming
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Indeed.

Damn, it'd almost be worth it not to be so mentally distanced if it meant being able to create pieces like these.
Unfortunately, almost. As long as there're stuff like the second part of Friends In Need around, I'll much prefer to keep my barriers up.
Don't use ANY multiplier, not a low one for shielding nor a high one for sensitivity. Square it instead, to get it always positive and with a polynomial scaling factor.

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Edit: I suddenly get the feeling that creating a pony RP entitled "The Creepy Pony RP" would actually be a really good idea. I think that there must be something displacing the oxygen in my house. Or maybe I'm just tired.
If all this other stuff is any indication, I want to join this SO BAD. Please let me.

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I'm still waiting for the ultimate crossover where everything gets crossed over with everything. If it's anything like the shit that goes on in my head, it'll end with everyone from Anakin Skywalker to Zeruel fighting in a battle that makes the Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Desiny look like a quick scuffle between a few bacteria. Still haven't exactly figured out where ponies might fit in, maybe nonlethal combatants and support.
You mean like this: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5389450/1/The_Finale_of_the_Ultimate_Meta_Mega_Crossover

Haven't actually read it myself, because I plan on reading those books and don't want to get them spoiled, but from what I hear it should be perfect.

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This is amazing. This is good and you should feel good. You are a true master of postmodernism. This is the BEST. THING. EVER.

Please tell me there is more...

((Also, the google docs mirror is missing the first part.))
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Re: My Little Pony, Friendship Is Magic
« Reply #1376 on: November 11, 2011, 10:22:44 am »

Because it's in the doc we were supposed to be using to collectively forge the sequel. Which we obviously won't link to, even if the spoilers it contains are limited to the first two-three paragraphs.

As for phase multipliers... well, setting the filter to square and normalize the incoming signal might work, but it'd reduce the fidelity on the output. I think I'll just spend more time on this and get some memetic filtering subroutine set up on the input stream to selectively phase out specific patterns and allow my usual array of surge absorbers to deal with any weird shit that gets through. Hey, I can probably figure out how to fit a fixed-output-strength signal buffer module on the input processor in the hardware-wetware interface, and save on the energy cost to run the barriers, since that would give more time for the memetic filter to do its thing as the signal surges are softened. Yeah, might work.


Also, I officially hate Skyrim. Not because it's a bad game, but because it's a long game. It's already made me spend three or four hours today, hours that could be spent drawing something. The last thing I need right now is a distraction.
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Re: My Little Pony, Friendship Is Magic
« Reply #1377 on: November 11, 2011, 10:35:30 am »

I thought it would be even more mindscrewy if you had no hint that the pregnancy was coming, or how it happened.

Oh dear god, I'm actually writing this. Pen just interviewed Silver Spoon by accident after getting horribly lost, then somewhat less horribly but still pretty badly lost on top of that. And I'm writing in present tense, on TBP's advice. Why I listen to writing advice from him/her/___ after that... that fic, I have no idea, but it is a little easier than past tense.

Make sure to do a lot of your writing in the present tense. "Pen is crossing the bridge." "Pen is baking a cake." "Pen is penetrating the enemy defenses."








Re: The collab: It isn't bad enough to get rejected outright. There haven't been many new stories posted lately; could be that their prereaders are busy/wading through a huge pile of rubbish.
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Re: My Little Pony, Friendship Is Magic
« Reply #1378 on: November 11, 2011, 10:41:45 am »

Dat Fluttershy.

Also, how the freaking hell do people draw hair like that?
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Re: My Little Pony, Friendship Is Magic
« Reply #1379 on: November 11, 2011, 10:43:34 am »

Dat Fluttershy.

Also, how the freaking hell do people draw hair like that?
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