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I think one of Nicki’s biggest issues is that her fans enable her to a point of psychosis. In my opinion she has one of the most toxic fandoms out of all the fandoms and that’s saying something considering the beehive is still putting bee emojis in kid rock’s comment section because he made a snide comment about her years ago. I think she believed most would still stick beside her and maybe a lot of them still will but being perpetually online has probably not been good for her mental health which could be one of the reasons she’s deteriorating.
If the “l” in chalk/talk/walk is not silent, then neither is the “g” in lasagna. The “g” modifies the “n” to make the “nya” sound. If it was silent, we would be pronouncing it “luh-sah-nuh” instead of “luh-sahn-yuh”.
Sorry, Weezy.
Brotha, Brotha, Brotha. You’re wrong.
There is a silent L in walk. According to the Merriam-Webster and Oxford English dictionaries, walk is prononuced “wok” or “wawk”. Check out the links below. The pronunciation is the same for chalk, stalk, and talk.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/walk
https://www.oed.com/dictionary/walk_v?tab=factsheet#15249946
The English language has inconsistencies and irregularities dealing with pronunications, spelling, and grammar.
Happy New Year to you both and all of the TBGWT family.
Yes, and no.
walk & wok (even for those who do not pronounce the /l/) are different for a large group of Americans who differentiate between the /a/ (ah) & /ɔ/ (aw) sound. This lack of differentiation can be frustrating to those who can tell the difference between Dawn & Don.
Walk is more complicated in that there are several pronunciations /wɔk/ /wɔ:k/ /wak/ /wa:k/ /wɔlk/ /walk/… and because there are many people around the world who actually pronounce the /l/ the inclusion in Connections is blasphemous and an insult to the English speaking world.
Also, because dictionaries, even online ones, have limited space they tend to simplify words into two “standard” pronunciations. Those pronunciations often omit more common pronunciations – especially the lack of Indian pronunciations (half a billion of whom speak English as a native language – numbers are often misrepresented because even though they speak it as a native language they do not list it as a first language).
Sorry, here ends the rant of the linguist who happens to be cunning…
In Japan we send out nengajo (new years cards), and they use special post cards that each have a code. On New Years day you get a bundle of cards and check them against the numbers in the newspaper to see if you won a prize.
Also, I have actually been on TV singing Last Christmas multiple times in the early aughts, before the first time (when I was actually also singing it in front of a crowd of about 200 before it went on TV) I went to the Karaoke booth and practiced singing it for two hours… so it is pretty easy for that song to get stuck in my head, but hard to believe people were shocked about George Michael being outed as gay after he released a song with “A face of a lover with a fire in his heart, a man undercover but you tore me apart” in the lyrics…
Of course, people don’t actually pay attention to lyrics, considering how many churches did the Macarena which is a song about a woman cheating on her boyfriend with two of his friends, “He was out of town and his two friends were so fine”
I say “chalk” like “chock” and “walk” like “wok” but I would never think those are silent Ls, since I know so many people who pronounce the L.
About the white friends of Rod,
I also wondered how this level headed Rod could refuse to be in pictures with white people and me still loving the show. This was obviously the some mental dissonance I performed here. Like, yes, but he can’t mean me, right?
Yes Katie Couric isn’t really aggressive in the adds but she is aggressively persuading me. They must have gotten some meta info about me and think now, playing the add EVERY TIME for as long as it’s the latest and afterwards the newer episode comes EVERY TIME.
They really want to take me away here, but no chance. Obviously I even come here if I think that Rod doesn’t talk to white people in real life. So I’m hooked.
I think Rod is right about Sydney Sweeney.
I think she comes from a conservative family. The art she does is rather progressive, and at least not conservative. ( movie about lesbian boxer isn’t really reading conservative) but who would watch her stuff? The left leaning people don’t want to support her and the art is too progressive for the conservatives. So, who is it for?