The General Chit Chat Thread 2

[HeartVivian]

That's a lot for one event.

It's also the first event you go to. Sunk cost for dress and all.

Wait, that's surely not the first event you have to go to where you're expected to dress formally? I remember having formal attire since I could basically formulate a sentence.

Prom, Homecoming, and Winter Formal are formal, all the other dances are semi-formal. I actually avoided all high school dances so I did go to prom, it would have been the first dance I would have gone too.

Lol prom. Mine was last Thursday but I'm anti social so I didn't go and worked from 5-9 instead.

You have no regard for others' feelings? Antisocial means "... a pervasive pattern of disregard for, and violation of, the rights of others that begins in childhood or early adolescence and continues into adulthood."

I think you're referring to having a social phobia.

[shabutie]

Eh, my name is okay. Shame nobody seems capable of spelling or pronouncing it. Damn Irish surname

Ok, my first guess is like "learn" is pronounced.
...and as it's probably wrong, my second guess is how "bear" is pronounced.

...ok, as they're both probably wrong, how do you say it?

First is right. People instead tend to pronounce it care ns. They also spell it Kerns, Kearnes, Curns, Kurns, Kyurns. People are retarded

I'll agree with this

People have trouble with my last name.  Usually, I just spell it out asap and if someone tries reading it, I go all auto-correct mode.
(The name in question is Koenig.  Pronounced "Kay - nig".  Not "Ko - ning")

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And I always found High School dances to be boring.  So usually those nights were spent with friends at a local diner or having our makeshift lan parties and whatnot.

[kurandoinu]

I'd have pronounced your name wrong. Lol

Ordered 2 dresses online and one has come with a stuck zipper. Someone else has clearly tried it, got the zipper stuck and sent it back. What an arse.

Luckily it doesn't look nice enough on anyway

[metro.]

Lol prom. Mine was last Thursday but I'm anti social so I didn't go and worked from 5-9 instead.

You have no regard for others' feelings? Antisocial means "... a pervasive pattern of disregard for, and violation of, the rights of others that begins in childhood or early adolescence and continues into adulthood."

I think you're referring to having a social phobia.

Nitpicker...

[buchno]

(The name in question is Koenig.  Pronounced "Kay - nig".  Not "Ko - ning")

Where does your name originate from? I can't think of any language where "oe" is pronounced "ay".
...and I've never understood the point of placing punctuation marks within the quotation marks, but I should probably conform...

[QuickSilvyr]

König, Koenig

I'd say german. Means king.

[gits]

in china, i feel the freedom

[buchno]

König, Koenig
I'd say german. Means king.

But ö is pronounced øː, not eɪ.
If koenig is a respelling of a German word which is pronounced like you say, it's no wonder people pronounce shabutie's surname wrong.

[Ixarku]

None of you people are true nerds if you don't recognize the name "Koenig" from "Walter Koenig" of Star Trek fame.  And as a true nerd, I also already knew how to pronounce it correctly.

[metro.]

I assumed it was the same pronunciation as Koenigsegg, which are from Sweden.

[ConsiderPhlebas]

(The name in question is Koenig.  Pronounced "Kay - nig".  Not "Ko - ning")

Where does your name originate from? I can't think of any language where "oe" is pronounced "ay".
...and I've never understood the point of placing punctuation marks within the quotation marks, but I should probably conform...

Indeed. Koenig can't be pronounced Kaynig Regardless if you're German, Swedish, or whatever...

As for the punctuation, American typesetters put . and , inside the " due to the physical size of the printing things; it was more practical as they were so narrow. That's all... English people are more sensible and place the punctuation where it belongs.

[Bob2004]

(The name in question is Koenig.  Pronounced "Kay - nig".  Not "Ko - ning")

Where does your name originate from? I can't think of any language where "oe" is pronounced "ay".
...and I've never understood the point of placing punctuation marks within the quotation marks, but I should probably conform...

Indeed. Koenig can't be pronounced Kaynig Regardless if you're German, Swedish, or whatever...

As for the punctuation, American typesetters put . and , inside the " due to the physical size of the printing things; it was more practical as they were so narrow. That's all... English people are more sensible and place the punctuation where it belongs.

Whether or not punctuation should go inside or outside the quotation marks depends on whether it belongs in the sentence within the quotes, or the sentence outside the quotes. In other words, if the sentence within the quotes ends in a full stop or whatever, it goes within the quotes, and you put nothing after it. If the phrase in the quotes does not end in a punctuation mark, then you can put punctuation at the end of the outside sentence. For example:

The man cried out, "Help me!"

This has punctuation inside the quotes, as opposed to this sentence:

The man said he came from some place he called "BakaBT". I wasn't sure I believed him.

This one has punctuation outside the quotes, because what is in the quotes does not end in a full stop, exclamation mark, or whatever. Contrast with this:

The man said "I come from a place called BakaBT." I wasn't sure I believed him.

This has punctuation at the end of the quoted phrase, so you can't put any following the quotes.

Yay for grammar. It's such fun.

[megido-rev.M]

Ugh, my metabolism is bad today due to waking early.
The exam today was one of the shittiest I've taken: questions were basically everything that was obscure or hardly covered in class.

More importantly, it was weird when I woke up to see the time and its hands were spinning all over =^ =.

[HeartVivian]

Lol prom. Mine was last Thursday but I'm anti social so I didn't go and worked from 5-9 instead.

You have no regard for others' feelings? Antisocial means "... a pervasive pattern of disregard for, and violation of, the rights of others that begins in childhood or early adolescence and continues into adulthood."

I think you're referring to having a social phobia.

Nitpicker...

Sorry. My sister has a weird tendency to correct me since she is majoring in psychology and I think it rubbed off.

[megido-rev.M]

Huh, so antisocial means a disregard of some rights.

[shabutie]

(The name in question is Koenig.  Pronounced "Kay - nig".  Not "Ko - ning")

Where does your name originate from? I can't think of any language where "oe" is pronounced "ay".
...and I've never understood the point of placing punctuation marks within the quotation marks, but I should probably conform...

It originates from Germany, I do believe.

None of you people are true nerds if you don't recognize the name "Koenig" from "Walter Koenig" of Star Trek fame.  And as a true nerd, I also already knew how to pronounce it correctly.

XD

[megido-rev.M]

So tired.
Can barely focus enough to study -.-

[MikaMik]

I think tomorrow I'm going to sign up for Driver's Ed online so I'll have my learner's permit this summer. 

[HeartVivian]

I think tomorrow I'm going to sign up for Driver's Ed online so I'll have my learner's permit this summer. 

I remember the permit test. How old are you Mika, if you don't mind me asking?

[metro.]

I think tomorrow I'm going to sign up for Driver's Ed online so I'll have my learner's permit this summer. 

You guys can drive younger then us

Then again your roads are flat and boring. Interstates are hard, right?


I need to get around to getting my full class 5. I haven't driven in 8 months though, so that's awkward....