Hey.
General Onderzeeboot, how are you doing?
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Onderzeeboot
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Hey! Thanks for asking! I'm doing pretty fine. Time spent on Magic is a bit low atm, I'm choosing to spend more time on my family, D&D, and gaming lately, but I've got a cube draft coming up later this month. My first one in over half a year! Pretty stoked, though I suffered a bit form analysis paralysis when I was pondering potential changes to the cube last week. I haven't updated it since NEO, and WotC printed quite a bit of relevant (for my cube) stuff since then, like new ninja's in NEO and multicolor stuff in SNC. It's a tough but exciting nut to crack. Hopefully I'll get around to that before the draft! Secretly I've been contemplating changing the color wheel again, since there have been some additions to old color combinations that peaked piqued my interest for revisiting old themes, but there's no way I'm going to manage an entire redesign before the end of June! So, how are you? 
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You make English mistakes so infrequently that I think you would appreciate a correction. This is an incorrect homonym. The correct phrase is 'piqued my interest', but it's such a common mistake, even for native speakers.
There's also the 'sneak peak' mistake that is so common that it has its own twitter bot for corrections: https://twitter.com/stealthmount2
I'm sorry, this is outside the scope of this thread.So, how are you?
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In Germany we call this "Sommerloch" I'd say...
My interest has been piqued peaked.
Onderzeeboot
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In the Netherlands we call this “komkommertijd” (“cucumber time”)
That could be arranged...
Onderzeeboot
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Ooooh, good choice!
I like the original version as well, but come on, this is a legendary remix! Don't stop listening before you hit 1:20!
Don't stop listening before you hit 1:20!Guess I have to hit a Lana del Rey listening spree now :shrug:
landofMordor
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I like this (and agree that Onderzeeboot's English is better than many native speakers).
My other favorite Cube-specific homonym mistake is when people (many of them native speakers) say "shoe-in", as in "Oko is a shoe-in to the banlist." The correct phrase is "shoo-in", because its etymology is like an elder shooing the kids into the house for supper. Or, like, shooing a fly away from a pie (hence, the Pennsylvania Dutch dessert "shoofly pie", which is better than it sounds but still inferior to pecan and pumpkin).
So the correct spelling is "shoo Oko into the banlist, because he's a shoo-in for the banlist."
And while I'm at it, because I've made the mistake of reading Obi-Wan Kenobi reddit threads recently (don't spoil Episode 4 for me, as I've not gotten to see it yet!), it's "caNon" not "caNNon". Not a gunpowder projectile weapon, a word derived from the Greek "kanon=rule" which then came to describe the church-endorsed biblical texts at the time the Roman Catholic bible was codified, and whose meaning has since expanded to also mean the officially endorsed subset of fictional corpora. (Which is kinda ironic, because many people do indeed persecute Star Wars heretics with a mania which can only be described as religious.)
Onderzeeboot
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Which English is very good at, I might add. English is also very good at the reverse, by the way; making two words that look alike sound completely different. I like to reread The Chaos every once in a while.
To be fair, many of those issues are due to the melding of other languages that used similar roots and took them in different directions, as English is an IMO loaner-heavy language (and relatively huge in base vocabulary).
From the poem Example:
Corpse -> Middle English via Latin
Corps -> French (via Latin again)
Looking hard at French for a lot of these issues....
From the poem Example:
Corpse -> Middle English via Latin
Corps -> French (via Latin again)
Looking hard at French for a lot of these issues....
Onderzeeboot
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Hahahaha, fair
William the Bastard has a lot to answer for.
I mean, that's just one of the many, many causes of the shitshow that is English orthography.
To quote the mighty Wikipedia:
What that quote doesn't include is the fact that English phonology has 20-ish different vowel sounds (the exact number varies by dialect and how exactly you go about counting them). This is an unusually large collection of vowel sounds (it's a Germanic language thing), and it's one of the big reasons that non-fluent speakers sound weird.
We use five symbols to represent all of those sounds. And there's no guarantee for any given word that the sound that that symbol is supposed to represent is even the sound your dialect would use in that word.
English might not be the worst language, orthography-wise... but it's certainly up there.
To quote the mighty Wikipedia:
What that quote doesn't include is the fact that English phonology has 20-ish different vowel sounds (the exact number varies by dialect and how exactly you go about counting them). This is an unusually large collection of vowel sounds (it's a Germanic language thing), and it's one of the big reasons that non-fluent speakers sound weird.
We use five symbols to represent all of those sounds. And there's no guarantee for any given word that the sound that that symbol is supposed to represent is even the sound your dialect would use in that word.
English might not be the worst language, orthography-wise... but it's certainly up there.
That first sentence of the second paragraph was basically my point, so yeah, my point stands.
This is partly due to the large number of words that have been borrowed from a large number of other languages throughout the history of English, without successful attempts at complete spelling reforms
This is partly due to the large number of words that have been borrowed from a large number of other languages throughout the history of English, without successful attempts at complete spelling reforms
Chris Taylor
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Okay now I'm curious