You ever notice?

[logophile]

Ever notice how if you say the same word over and over again, it begins to get funny in your head, and then eventually it makes no sense at all?

Try it for a minute...

Door
Door
Door
Door
Door
Door
Door
Door

See? Sounds like gibberish, doesn't it?

Now try it with this phrase:
Stay the course
Stay the course
Stay the course

Right. I'm sure he didn't really say it over and over again - it just sounds like gibberish. Let's give the guy the benefit of the doubt.

 

[Tegan_Rourke]

I constantly do that with people's names...and then tell them they sound like diseases.

 

[Trinique_Fire]

try it with the word orange.

and your box is full logo

 

[Tegan_Rourke]

try it with the word orange.

and your box is full logo

Bah, I can't say your name repeatedly without my speech fucking up.

 

[Trinique_Fire]

Bah, I can't say your name repeatedly without my speech fucking up.

my real name or my lit name?

 

[Tegan_Rourke]

my real name or my lit name?

Well, I was trying the real one. Trinique isn't bad, but Trinique Fire is hard as hell.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

Bah, I can't say your name repeatedly without my speech fucking up.

There are quite a few Lit names that I can't pronounce at all. Wait, I should expand that to "internet names". At least my name is three normal words (ok, thee isn't so normal, but it's more normal than a lot of you people use )

 

[Tuomas]

There are quite a few Lit names that I can't pronounce at all. Wait, I should expand that to "internet names". At least my name is three normal words (ok, thee isn't so normal, but it's more normal than a lot of you people use )

You pokin' fun at my name, boy?

 

[TheeGoatPig]

You pokin' fun at my name, boy?

No. Not at the time that I wrote that. I've only noticed a handful of your posts, and never looked at your name. But now that I have, yes, it was aimed at you as well

 

[Tuomas]

No. Not at the time that I wrote that. I've only noticed a handful of your posts, and never looked at your name. But now that I have, yes, it was aimed at you as well

*points finger at you accusingly*
Girly man!

 

[Alessia Brio]

Good to see you here, logo.

 

[sophia jane]

Good to see you here, logo.

Was an even better view for me, since she was sitting at my desk when she posted.


To the thread topic- what I find interesting is how we hear words or phrases so often that they cease to have much meaning and/or are taken for granted. "I love you" for instance can get that way in a relationship. Or, as in your example, "stay the course" is heard so many times that the ridiculousness of the phrase (and its meaning) isn't nearly as striking as it ought to be.

 

[Munachi]

the problem is that english is a weird language. all its words have weird sound and no meaning. you should all learn german.

 

[rgraham666]

the problem is that english is a weird language. all its words have weird sound and no meaning. you should all learn german.

Yeah. Like Fliegerabwherkanone (I know there's umlauts in there somewhere) is easier to say than Triple A.

And Panzerkampfwagen is a better sounding word than tank.



Sorry. Military history buff here, so all my German has to do with things that blow other things up.

 

[Tuomas]

I've been meaning to learn German for a long time.

Hallo, meine Name ist Carlo. Ich bin von Hamburg. Wie heiBe du .... quack.

And Panzerkampfwagen is a better sounding word than tank.

That's just because the Germans didn't disguise their tanks as water tanks like the Brits did. Sneaky ol' Brits, I say

 

[Munachi]

Yeah. Like Fliegerabwherkanone (I know there's umlauts in there somewhere) is easier to say than Triple A.

And Panzerkampfwagen is a better sounding word than tank.



Sorry. Military history buff here, so all my German has to do with things that blow other things up.

actually it's Fliegerabwehrkanone... and no Umlaut needed there... and instead of Panzerkampfwagen we'd usually just say Panzer... but anyway - at least these words are easy to pronounce and make sense... like "Fliegerabwehrkanonenputzmittelhersteller" or "Panzerkampfwagenfahrergewerkschaftsversammlungsraumtürgriff"

 

[matriarch]

Ever notice how if you say the same word over and over again, it begins to get funny in your head, and then eventually it makes no sense at all?

Try it for a minute...

Door
Door
Door
Door
Door
Door
Door
Door

See? Sounds like gibberish, doesn't it?

Now try it with this phrase:
Stay the course
Stay the course
Stay the course

Right. I'm sure he didn't really say it over and over again - it just sounds like gibberish. Let's give the guy the benefit of the doubt.

I agree, I've thought this for ages.

My favourite is.

glass
glass
glass
glass
.
.
.
.
.

 

[Munachi]

I've been meaning to learn German for a long time.

Hallo, meine Name ist Carlo. Ich bin von Hamburg. Wie heiBe du .... quack.


That's just because the Germans didn't disguise their tanks as water tanks like the Brits did. Sneaky ol' Brits, I say

Ah cool, finally someone learning a real language, hehehe...

 

[TheeGoatPig]

I agree, I've thought this for ages.

My favourite is.

glass
glass
glass
glass
.
.
.
.
.

Have got me when I was writing something for school fifteen years ago. It just didn't look right.

Have
Have
Have
Have
Have
Hav
Hav
Hav... (why didn't the E look right?)

 

[Tuomas]

Ah cool, finally someone learning a real language, hehehe...

Aye!

*sings*
Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit
für das deutsche Vaterland!
Danach lasst uns alle streben
brüderlich mit Herz und Hand...

 

[neonlyte]

Yeah. Like Fliegerabwherkanone (I know there's umlauts in there somewhere) is easier to say than Triple A.

And Panzerkampfwagen is a better sounding word than tank.



Sorry. Military history buff here, so all my German has to do with things that blow other things up.

Yeh... but by the time you tell them to reposition their Panzerkampfwagen's, the other buggers have run over them with tanks.