Squirrel

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  1. harryhoot1

    harryhoot1 Member

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  2. A-z-K

    A-z-K Member

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    Clarkson is a genius. Everything he says is true.
    Do not question the Clarkson.
     
  3. f1r3w4rr10r

    f1r3w4rr10r Modeler

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    look at the first two top voted comments

    try it
     
  4. Trickster

    Trickster Retired Developer

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    This.

    Also, I've had so many joyous times in Teamspeak trying to get Kane to say squirrel. It is quite literally the funniest shit you have ever heard, I feel so sorry for him.
     
  5. Fooshi

    Fooshi For fuck's sake Fooshi

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    Doppelkupplungsgetriebe shouldn't be too hard once you get the hang of it.
     
  6. Grantrithor

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    Doppelkupplungsgetriebe took me a whole minute to get through the fourth syllable, but Eichhörnchen is just impossible right at the start.
     
  7. flasche

    flasche Member Staff Member Moderator

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  8. Fooshi

    Fooshi For fuck's sake Fooshi

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    Minoritetsladningsbærerdiffusjonskoeffisientmålingsapparatur.

    I... what. :eek:

    Apparently, it's a device used to measure the distance between the particles in crystal.
     
  9. w00kie

    w00kie Mustachioed Mexican

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    He's right even when he isn't. <- PERIOD!

    As eth0 would say: "Squirrel my ass."
     
  10. f1r3w4rr10r

    f1r3w4rr10r Modeler

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    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...ngsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz.oggnow just loop that and add some beat and you got yourself some industrial music.

    I would like to hear someone from germany who doesn't speak superperfect english try and say squirrel. On another note English is retarded language. You have letters on your words that you don't pronounce. Now let me tell you a secret THEY ARE NOT NEEDED.

    who has the hardest name on empires to pronounce.
     
  12. flasche

    flasche Member Staff Member Moderator

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    hahahahaha

    aaaaaa50 would be among my favorites ...
     
  13. Grantrithor

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    I heard Grantrithor is pretty hard to pronounce, most people just say Grant. Omen kicked me from viper once cause he couldn't pronounce my name and he was drunk.
     
  14. Candles

    Candles CAPTAIN CANDLES, DUN DUN DUN, DUN DUN DUN DUN.

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    I would pronounce it Gran-Tri-Thor. Gran like "grand" without the "d". Tri like "Trinitiy". Thor like the Norse God. Simple.

    Also, a lot of languages have letters that you don't pronounce. For some reason though, when I take a silent letter out of an English word, I pronounce it differently.
     
  15. flasche

    flasche Member Staff Member Moderator

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    yes as you still form it with your mouth, so the ending of the previous letter sounds a tad different.
     
  16. ImSpartacus

    ImSpartacus nerf spec plz

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    Lol, the crazy Germans need enormous words to mess up English speakers, but we only need 'squirrel.'

    And now the result of WWII doesn't surprise me so much...

    You have no idea how often I get "imSpartacus" (as in "him Spartacus, without the 'h' sound) instead of "I'm Spartacus." or just "Spartacus." I know it's written that way, but I thought the capitalization and the phrase itself would enough for most people to get it right.
     
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  17. flasche

    flasche Member Staff Member Moderator

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    no it actually only needs my nick ... and it actually beats squirrel by one :D

    ... or any word with ä, ö, ü ;)
     
  18. ImSpartacus

    ImSpartacus nerf spec plz

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    Mentally, I was just thinking 'flash', but Google tells me it's from flask (or vice versa) and it's pronounced a bit differently.

    I admit that I wouldn't've gotten it right, but I'm not physically unable to pronounce the word.

    It's different when you can have someone telling you how to pronounce the word and your mouth simply cannot create the proper sounds without more practice.

    Before I took a few years of Spanish, I couldn't roll my 'rr's to save my life. Now I'm no pro, but it's passable.

    Probably right...
     
  19. flasche

    flasche Member Staff Member Moderator

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    i wonder if one actually would be physically unable to form certain phones dependent of origin. quite interesting idea you gave me there - must research now ...

    ... or actually i just wait for my gf, she studied literature, so she probably knows ^^
     
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  20. ImSpartacus

    ImSpartacus nerf spec plz

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    Nah, there's no physical limitation. It's just that certain languages (and dialects) provide physical practice with different sounds.

    With enough practice, any human can speak any language properly (including german people and squirrel...). It's just that during the practice, it can be quite comical.

    "Ok, flasche, it's like 'squirm', but you hold the 'r' and draw it back into a nice 'ell' sound. One more time, with gusto."
     

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