I hate it when people do "up talking", or when every other word in their speech is the word "like", for instance in "up talking" every other word sounds like it ends with a question mark.
Also so many people mispronounce Moscow. It's not Mos-COW, like the animal cow. It's pronounced Mos-COO!
Just thought I'd mention it.
God bless you.
sharewhat about when everything is literally. everything is literally something. hahahhahaha reminds me of when i was a teenager. "that like literally sucks"
shareI've always pronounced it like Mosc-oh. I've never heard "Mos-coo" before, it sounds dumb.
shareDo you mean mos-co or mos-coo? Because i've never heard 'moscoo'.
Uptalking is what I'm used to as it's how most Australians speak. But I do notice that when Americans do it, they sometimes over do the inflection at the end. It used to be called 'valley girl' talk in America.
Rewatched part of this today https://moviechat.org/tt1604070/Caught-Inside. I don't know if the dialogue was Australian "uptalking" but it was difficult to follow without closed captioning.
shareLike, What are you talking about?
And Moscow sounds totally made up, is that really a place??
UGH...NOT THE "LIKE" THING...🤮
shareI don't know, in German and Dutch it's also pronounced as Mos-COW, so I'm not sure if it's not supposed to be pronounced like that in English as well. COW does sound a bit more like Russisan KVA than CO or COO, to be honest.
shareYou actually make a halfway decent point here. I hadn't thought of it like that before. I speak English because... well... I'm American. My mother has an actual college degree in Russian Studies from the University of Missouri, so this is why I sometimes lord my minimal amount of Russian knowledge over other Americans who know nothing, but I am by no means an expert. It's not my degree. But I can somewhat kind of sort of slowly read Cyrillic.
share"You actually make a halfway decent point here."
Lol, you sound surprised???
Forgive my American ignorance. I was just marveling at the Germanic language stuff. Movie time!!! De zaak Alzheimer (2003) I've seen it!!! HOO HAH!
shareOh, a Belgian movie. I know nothing about Belgian movies.🤷♀️
shareYou're Flemish like a big bunny. Anyways, it has a brief appearance by Gene Bervoets aka Rex Hofman in the coffin.
shareWow, buddy, are you looking for a fight??? I'm not Flemish in any shape or form! And I'm a Rabbit, not a bunny:
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/b4/e0/29/b4e0291ae60c26b6809f91269b82c5ba.jpg
I know it features Jan Decleir who is immensely popular in the Low Countries for some reason.
Yeah, he was looking for a fight, or fights to be more accurate.
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