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shoiryu July 21 2009, 18:15:33 UTC
I ALWAYS FEEL LIKE SOMEONE IS TRYING TO TRICK ME IN REGARDS TO QUESTIONS LIKE THESE BECAUSE I HAVE A SECRET SOUTHERN AMERICAN ACCENT :(

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wanttobeatree July 21 2009, 18:17:20 UTC
WHY IS IT A SECRET? IT SHOULDN'T BE A SECRET. SOUTHERN AMERICAN ACCENTS ARE DELIGHTFUL.

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shoiryu July 21 2009, 18:28:23 UTC
IN THIS COUNTRY THEY ARE GENERALLY CONSIDERED A SIGN OF LOW INTELLIGENCE :(

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wanttobeatree July 21 2009, 18:30:35 UTC
I KNOOOW :( IT MAKES ME SAD. THEY SOUND SO LOVELY!

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lapifors July 21 2009, 18:20:09 UTC
Your first question is flawed because people will always rhyme "talk" and "walk" etc, but with their own individual accent. We need to use the IPA if we want to be scientific.

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wanttobeatree July 21 2009, 18:25:09 UTC
AHHH BUT I'm not pretending to be scientific today. I'm just casually riling up some international pronunciation conflict!

IN CONCLUSION: fuck it, gif loads too slow.

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out_0f_habit July 21 2009, 19:03:41 UTC
WAIT. In which accent do fork and cork rhyme with talk?

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wanttobeatree July 21 2009, 19:05:42 UTC
NOT MINE!

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theoret July 21 2009, 20:17:30 UTC
Mine!

I now require someone to show me how talk rhymes with rock. Craziness!

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wanttobeatree July 21 2009, 20:19:30 UTC
WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOOOOOUUU

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neon_footprint July 21 2009, 20:23:54 UTC
It always amuses me that talk rhymes with fork. If I had my laptop, I'd record my BBC Radio 4 voice for you all to laugh at.

Also, it depends what the butterfly is for. Morpho Cypris is the most striking, and my favourite, but the blue Speyeria Diana is pretty too, and the Enodia Anthedon is really interesting in an understated sort of way.

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wanttobeatree July 21 2009, 20:35:19 UTC
Psssh you are so very wrong. Talk rhymes with fork in the same way cat rhymes with hedgehog.

It is for MYSTERIOUS PURPOSES. I already decided on Morpho Cypris before making the poll, but then I wanted to see what everyone else said.

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sparklpocalypse July 21 2009, 21:04:53 UTC
I have the worst mish-mashed American accent ever. I grew up in Maine [tried SO HARD not to get the Maine accent but it slips through sometimes]. Went to college in Indiana for a year. Hang out with my sister, who lives in Brooklyn but before that, lived in North Carolina for close to a decade. Attend university in upstate New York with a bunch of Long Islanders. Watch too much TV, most of which features Canadian or Californian actors, or people who fake it really well. And... yeah. My take on the rhyming bit:

http://www.box.net/shared/4f01hq0zty

[Also, the static in the background is actually the filter on my betta's tank.]

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