ok, you found me out…
i’m a suedo intellectual. (vegan suede, thank you very much). which is better than a speedo intellectual.
i do, though, aspire to at some point in my life wear a tiny speedo with a big beer belly and a comb-over. maybe with a couple of medallions.
and i could walk down the beach spouting annoying catch phrases from the 80’s and 90’s.
there’s me in a few years, fat and wearing a speedo and sporting a comb-over walking down the beach saying ‘whassssuppp???’ and ‘don’t go there girlfriend’
and if i see someone doing something extra cool i will of course say ‘yeaaahhh boyyyy’, a la flava flav.
i have such big plans for my future.
moby
p.s-as far as mispronunciations go, a friend of mine had a professor who used to refer to paradiggums.
yes, he pronounced the ‘g’. and he became very petulant when my friend tried to correct him. ‘uh, sir, i think that the ‘g’ in paradigm justmight be, uh, silent?’
and there’s an aztec camera song where roddy frame sang about ‘ennui’ as pronounced ‘en-you-eye’. but that’s kind of endearing.
the word that i still can’t correctly pronounce is ‘hegemony’. that still stumps me. soft g, but where does the accent fall?
and don’t get me started on ‘chaise longue’.
it’s a ‘longue’ chaise. not a chaise lounge.
huh, and people say that the moby.com boards are nerdy…
what could be cooler than linguistics?
extreme linguistics? with mountain dew or some other caffeinated soft-drink?