Comments | tebing: oh, the irony

tebing

oh, the irony

Mar 16, 2005 19:26

Librarian: Hi, how can I help you?
Me: I'm looking for a particular volume of a journal, but I can't seem to find it in the stacks.
Librarian: What's the journal title?
Me: [fə̥'nɛɾɪkə].
Librarian: Uhhh...could you spell that?
Me: P-H-O...
Librarian: Ok...
Me: N-E-T...
Librarian: Yep...
Me: I-C-A.
Librarian: Ok...[fo.'nɛ.tʰɪ.kə]. Oh! "Phonetica ( Read more... )

ithaca-weirdos, linguistics

Comments 6

sacundim March 17 2005, 03:28:24 UTC

[tʰ]? That's wrong.

tebing March 17 2005, 03:48:27 UTC

I think he did that because he was reading it slowly. He flapped it the second time he said it.

wabi March 17 2005, 06:05:17 UTC

Ha.

How do you do the IPA font?

tebing March 18 2005, 00:42:36 UTC

It's Unicode...I used IPA-SIL to type it in.

Not entirely related... patrickwonders March 17 2005, 18:45:17 UTC

The Campus Republicans here at RIT had a poster up for one of their meetings. The entire text of the message (beyond the time and location of the meeting) was this:

Don't you find it ironic that we have freedom of speech?

Don't you find it ironic that we are not oppressed?

WE Do Not!!!

Why?

Because it is IRONIC that life was lost and sacrifices made to preserve our freedom.

Ummm... Isn't it ironic that one would so misuse the word "ironic"?

Re: Not entirely related... tebing March 18 2005, 00:40:43 UTC

Maybe they're Alanis Morissette fans.