What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?

[Paraselene]

Blackberries are NOT an acceptable substitute for blueberries.

Boru

A Google search could have told you that.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Blackberries are NOT an acceptable substitute for blueberries.

Boru

A Google search could have told you that.

But then I wouldn’t know it, I would have simply been told.

Boru

[Ivan Denisovich]

1) There are apparently two different sizes of microSD card. Regular and M2. dad discovered this through a GoPro ripoff that turned out to be more usable than he thought.

2) In the name “Andrzej”, the R is apparently silent. So, it looks like, I’ll be watching a film by OND-zeysh Zhu-WAF-ski for Halloween.

It's not silent as such but rather read differently. When in conjunction with "z" "r" is read just like "ż". Except for Tarzan that is - it is one case when both "r" and "z" are read as "r" and "z" not "ż".

ETA: I don't know however how much of a practical difference it makes to one speaking English.

[Rev. Rye]

1) There are apparently two different sizes of microSD card. Regular and M2. dad discovered this through a GoPro ripoff that turned out to be more usable than he thought.

2) In the name “Andrzej”, the R is apparently silent. So, it looks like, I’ll be watching a film by OND-zeysh Zhu-WAF-ski for Halloween.

It's not silent as such but rather read differently. When in conjunction with "z" "r" is read just like "ż". Except for Tarzan that is - it is one case when both "r" and "z" are read as "r" and "z" not "ż".

ETA: I don't know however how much of a practical difference it makes to one speaking English.

I got this info from the International Phonetic Alphabet, and they spelled/pronounced it ˈandʐɛj. Maybe to someone speaking Polish, there’s some material difference between “Rz is read like z” and “the R is silent”, but when you’re an Anglophone trying to explain Possession to your Dad, it doesn’t seem to matter. Then again, with a film like Possession, trying to grasp the less intuitive nuances of Polish pronunciation is probably the least of your worries.

[Ivan Denisovich]

It's not silent as such but rather read differently. When in conjunction with "z" "r" is read just like "ż". Except for Tarzan that is - it is one case when both "r" and "z" are read as "r" and "z" not "ż".

ETA: I don't know however how much of a practical difference it makes to one speaking English.

I got this info from the International Phonetic Alphabet, and they spelled/pronounced it ˈandʐɛj. Maybe to someone speaking Polish, there’s some material difference between “Rz is read like z” and “the R is silent”, but when you’re an Anglophone trying to explain Possession to your Dad, it doesn’t seem to matter. Then again, with a film like Possession, trying to grasp the less intuitive nuances of Polish pronunciation is probably the least of your worries.

I don't know about IPA but for all that it's worth there isn't an "r" there for all practical purposes. It's not silent but joined with another letter making "rz"; you don't omit it while speaking the name but treat it as different letter altogether. In fact there aren’t any silent letters in Polish.

It's only a quibble though, nothing with practical relevance. I would say that no Andrzej would care but who knows, there might be one in this big, big world who would.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I got this info from the International Phonetic Alphabet, and they spelled/pronounced it ˈandʐɛj. Maybe to someone speaking Polish, there’s some material difference between “Rz is read like z” and “the R is silent”, but when you’re an Anglophone trying to explain Possession to your Dad, it doesn’t seem to matter. Then again, with a film like Possession, trying to grasp the less intuitive nuances of Polish pronunciation is probably the least of your worries.

I don't know about IPA but for all that it's worth there isn't an "r" there for all practical purposes. It's not silent but joined with another letter making "rz"; you don't omit it while speaking the name but treat it as different letter altogether. In fact there aren’t any silent letters in Polish.

It's only a quibble though, nothing with practical relevance. I would say that no Andrzej would care but who knows, there might be one in this big, big world who would.

In Irish, there are both broad and slender vowels and broad and slender consonants. Whether any of these are broad or slender depends on which vowels/vowel combinations are paired with broad or slender consonant/consonant combinations and vice versa.

And people wonder why Irish is a dying language.

Boru

[Ivan Denisovich]

I don't know about IPA but for all that it's worth there isn't an "r" there for all practical purposes. It's not silent but joined with another letter making "rz"; you don't omit it while speaking the name but treat it as different letter altogether. In fact there aren’t any silent letters in Polish.

It's only a quibble though, nothing with practical relevance. I would say that no Andrzej would care but who knows, there might be one in this big, big world who would.

In Irish, there are both broad and slender vowels and broad and slender consonants. Whether any of these are broad or slender depends on which vowels/vowel combinations are paired with broad or slender consonant/consonant combinations and vice versa.

And people wonder why Irish is a dying language.

Boru

I quite often see opinions about Polish being hard language to learn but it is at least in one aspect far easier than English. You write "Andrzej upiekł ciasto" and you read it as "Andrzej upiekł ciasto". In English however "Andrew baked the cake" morphs into "Endrju bejk'd de kejk". Clearly Polish would be better lingua franca.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

In Irish, there are both broad and slender vowels and broad and slender consonants. Whether any of these are broad or slender depends on which vowels/vowel combinations are paired with broad or slender consonant/consonant combinations and vice versa.

And people wonder why Irish is a dying language.

Boru

I quite often see opinions about Polish being hard language to learn but it is at least in one aspect far easier than English. You write "Andrzej upiekł ciasto" and you read it as "Andrzej upiekł ciasto". In English however "Andrew baked the cake" morphs into "Endrju bejk'd de kejk". Clearly Polish would be better lingua franca.

One thing that stumbles people trying to learn Irish is those letter combinations I mentioned. By way of example, ‘s’ followed by a vowel has the sound of English ‘sh’ (as in ‘shower’), but ‘s’ followed by ‘h’ has the sound of English ‘s’ (as in ‘see’).

If we ever tried to adopt Irish as a lingua franca, civilization would crumble in a fortnight.

Boru

[Rev. Rye]

The infamous photo at the end of The Shining wasn't made for the film. Naturally, since Kubrick was based out of England for the last quarter century of His life and the Internet wasn't really a thing, pictures of Fourth of July balls weren't very readily available. But He did pick this picture of a Valentine's Day ball in the Royal Palace Hotel in Kensington. Notably, it was even in 1921. They just superimposed Jack Nicholson's head over some guy named John Golman.

(Click on the image to see it in absurdly high resolution)

[Paraselene]

A coffee martini is a thing.