You can't. That is the way I say it to confuse and alienate people. YOU ARE STEALING MY THUNDER!Edminster wrote:That's why I prefer to pronounce it 'Skiffy'.Rainbow wrote:Sci-Fi as a phrase annoys me. It really ought to be said as 'sigh-fih', not the rhyming way. Even crazier, we could just say 'science fiction'! I'm sorry, that's just crazy.
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Syfy? Really?
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Why? What about pi? Should that be pronounced pih?Rainbow wrote:Sci-Fi as a phrase annoys me. It really ought to be said as 'sigh-fih', not the rhyming way.
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I think she's going by 'The segments ought to be pronounced as the portion of the word they represent'.
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Well, that's silly. Rhyming them sounds so much better.
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In before poet/know it and rhyme/every time.
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Fix'd.mountainmage wrote:in b4 poet/know it and rhyme/every time.
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I know how to say it, I just chose not to.
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Oooooooooh don't get your knickers in a twist.
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True story, I once said that to a friend, and his mom thought I said n-words in a twist. She told me "We don't use that language around here!" I, being the smart ass I was, asked if twist was the word that offended her.
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The twist is an example of the depravity these youngsters get up to.
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LANGUAGE IS AS LANGUAGE IS USED YOU PEOPLE ARE SO JUDGEMENTALRainbow wrote:Sci-Fi as a phrase annoys me. It really ought to be said as 'sigh-fih', not the rhyming way. Even crazier, we could just say 'science fiction'! I'm sorry, that's just crazy.
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What do we write then?
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