Antarctica's "Lost World"!

I've read about this the other day, it's amazing what they found there. I love nature!

Aw, I thought it was new. My bad.

It is. By 'the other day' I actually mean 'yesterday'. Or it may have been this morning before I went to bed again, I don't really remember.

It's interesting to hear how he pronounces anemone. "Ani-moan" I've always heard it pronounced "Ah-nem-oh-nee"

I've never heard it pronounced, but I always figured it'd be ani-moan.

I don't think I've ever heard it as ah-nem-oh-nee! Odd.

this is great. this reinforces the probability that there is life outside our planet where we think the conditions are too inhospitable.

hell, i felt the same way when i realized people lived in south central los angeles.

I think it's the American pronunciation. It's sort of a joke over here, how people sometimes have difficulty saying it. Like the word synonym. Generally among children.

Wait a minute, how can you say 'synonym' otherwise than 'sin-uh-nim'? 'Sahyn-uh-nahym'?

Ah, not pronunciation in that case. Just that the sounds might get tricky when you're first learning it. Synonym might come out of your mouth as cinnamon. I don't remember the name for it, but there's a linguistic term for when you switch sounds like that.

homophones?

Do you mean paronyms? It's not the name of the process, I don't remember it (if I ever knew it), but it's the name of similar-sounding or -looking words. Like affect/effect, principal/principle.

No, homophones are just two words that sound the same. It's not paronyms either, but it's not a big deal. I've hijacked Imke's thread enough.

OCTOPUS!

I, for one, am glad not to be one of those crabs. It seems to be pretty crowded down there. And wicked hot.

I say an-em-oh-ne. I've never heard ani-moan.

this used to happen when I'd try to say it.

AWWWW!

That's what I was talking about! Trust Cammie to save the day! Weeeeee!

That's how we kiwis say it too!

I meant we say it "Uh-nem-oh-nee" (notice the kiwi twang?)

I'm allergic to kiwifruit. We don't call them just kiwi, we say kiwifruit. But we have a lot of American children at my work who look at me blankly when I say kiwifruit, so I always have to say "Do you want some kiwi...kiwifruit?" and they all say "More kiwi, more kiwi!" But yesterday a little girl from West Virginia said in the clearest NZ accent "More Kiwifruit, please." I was well impressed.
Do you guys get the Zespri golden kiwifruit? It's much nicer then the fuzzy green and brown stuff.

kiwifruit is a favorite of mine. i've been staying away from them before because i didn't know how to eat them.

i usually get them as a topping on yogurt.

i didn't even know they had a non-green innard version. it looks delicious. we only get the hairy ball type.

I've heard both kiwifruit & kiwi, but I've always personally said kiwi. I haven't had kiwi in a while, honestly, it's a bit saddening. I don't think I've ever had the Zespri golden kiwifruits, but I will definitely look for it the next time I can get fruit. I've only had the fuzzy green and brown stuff, that I can recall.

YOu eat them whole, skin and all, The entire thing.

This makes my tongue and throat itch just thinking about it!
You CAN eat them whole, but usually people cut them in half and scoop out the insides and eat them like that.

P.S. There is nothing worse than cleaning a kiwifruit poo nappy. Those damn seeds.

Enjoy your kiwifruit everyone!

I was unaware of any other pronunciations of anemone buuuut now I know! Makes sense, it actually looks like it should sound a lot more like "ani-moan" than "uh-nem-oh-nee." Good ol' America. I still don't understand where the European pronunciation of aluminum went so wrong, but I love it. A good friend of mine from England stayed with me for a week last summer and I think I had her say "al-oo-min-ee-um" to me at least 5x daily. An aluminum salat.

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Look!

Let's cuttle

Ok, I'm off

Come back!

You called?

Just wanted to tell you that...

I thought that said "Less cute" at first and I almost came in all "Uhhhh I beg to differ...."

I see

Awww, he dresses like your mom.

Uncalled for

I meant adorably.

In before the Mi-go.

Seriously, you guise. You're all this like this is good news....

What is that horrid photoshopped creature?

That is a mi-go.

They're roughly main-sized.

You do not want.

I'm not sure a creature could get much worse. That is horrible.

So not cool.

I'm not the only one...

Lovecraft was right!!! giant mountains under Antarctic ice

Dude, that creature is awesome. Then again, I love all that old sci-fi, creature from outer space look.

Lovecraft.

Learn it. Live it. Fear the Old Ones.

Best thread!

I was watching a documentary on how studies are being conducted, in Antartica, on global warming. They used an oil drill and drilled through the ice mile and miles down, in order to study what was trapped in the ice and what atmospheric ?pathogens? were present. At one point, the scientists pulled up a "pole" of ice and pointed to a section of it and said, "This ice is as old as Jesus.". I had a nerdgasm on the spot.

Sometimes I think it would be nice if we just left things alone and undiscovered so it can carry on as it was, rather than being probed and tested and photographed by us.

Hey, it's what we do. It's kind of our thing.

Interestingly enough, it's not a pronunciation difference. It's spelling. See, we spell it "ALUMINIUM". You guys, for whatever reason, drop the "I". Personally, I like the way we say and spell it. I think it's a much nicer word that way. Aluminum sounds kinda gross and ugly.