[KittyBeary]

Yep. Nothing more than friendships.

Also today can be over with already I'm done with it

[littl3chocobo]

nope, it's pretty much here forever though it's less prevalent when i minimize stress and sitting x''D

[Coda]

Originally Posted by Kaderin Triste

Well....unless Montana is divided into vastly different linguistic regions, it's not a regional thing. Same as me he was born in MT and has lived here all his life. And does not replace any other long E sounds with long A.
It's literally just windowseal/windowsill.

Update: he has informed me that it's actually a medical thing where his frenulum I think it's called, is farther forward than most people, so it's easier to do vowel sounds where the tongue doesn't have so much vertical movement. Apparently he also says "pellow" instead of "pillow".

That's curious. Maybe this is just a matter of my accent, but the word "sill" (and others, of course) doesn't involve lifting my tongue off the floor of my mouth at all. The vowel shape is all done at the back, so the frenulum doesn't come into it. (Trying it out for a bit, it turns out that the tip of my tongue stays behind my lower teeth for every vowel I can think of. That seems curious; the linguist in me wonders if this is common or if it's part of my particular accent.)

But limiting the range of motion DOES impact the production of the L, which could be relevant here. I can imagine that someone who speaks in an accent that doesn't use a dark L in these words might have a problem shifting articulation between the vowel and the L smoothly, which might change the shape of the vowel in the process.

(To define "dark L": There's a curious consonant made with the tip of the tongue down and the back of the tongue almost as far back in the throat as it can go. It's sometimes described as "make an L the same way you make a W." Polish has an L that's so dark that in modern use it's indistinguishable from an actual W, but in English use the dark L is still recognizable as an L, in the accents that use it. Imagine the stereotypical New Jersey "I'm walkin' here!" The L in "walking" is a dark L. By contrast, the L made with the tip of the tongue against the roof of the mouth is called "light L".)

[Kaderin Triste]

I'm just going off of what he said.

I was just contributing to the "mispronouncing words is annoying" line of conversation not trying to get into some big debate about linguistics.

He doesn't have a distinct accent and pronounces pretty much every word normally so far as I know, excepting the ones I've mentioned.

[Coda]

Heh, sorry, I'm just something of a linguistics geek. I wasn't meaning to debate anything, just musing over variations in how people talk. As I said, the people around here say those words like that normally, so it piqued my "well that's interesting" sense.

[Kaderin Triste]

Haha, it's all good. I'm not super knowledgeable when it comes to....a lot of stuff actually. Linguistics included.

And I'm just really tired and cranky tonight...
XP

[Espy]

Did I miss the linguistics talk?

[KittyBeary]

Well right now things are ok but earlier just stressful x( Mainly thanks to my cat

[Merskelly Metalien]

*chants*
Fi-nals week! >:D Fi-nals week! Fi-nals week!

[MonBon]

Originally Posted by daikokunyo

i can't ever wear pants on my period. skirts are so much more convenient for that time. but only flared ones. dresses are even better, because the only band of a garment to push into my cramping abdomen is the band of my underwear rather than the band of a skirt also.

I get too paranoid about the smell

[Ava]

Originally Posted by littl3chocobo

so i found something out when i was having internal abdominal tearing; maternity jeans fit AND are not too tight when sitting

of course you have to wear a top that covers the band but it's a thought if you are having tenderness and pain but have a use for pants

Oof! I hope you're recovering well. :(

Also, I am loving your ramune bottle. :P

[Ava]

Originally Posted by MonBon

I get too paranoid about the smell

I hear you.
That's why I always wear a menstrual cup when I go out in public, I don't smell when I have my cup in...

At home, I use cloth pads.
But I always kinda smell, if I'm being honest.

[littl3chocobo]

it's cold and REFRESHING, wouldn't you say?

[Anurah Loveheart]

Hello lovelies <3

[Espy]

gods could i possibly do a tris jojo cosplay

hrmmmm

[daikokunyo]

@chocobo what is the bottle item called uwu

@Espy do it do it