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Are they full of seamen?

jonesthecurl wrote:Are they full of seamen?

Is there a usergroup for people who can make a pun of anything? You should join it or start it.

MeDeFe wrote:

jonesthecurl wrote:Are they full of seamen?

Is there a usergroup for people who can make a pun of anything? You should join it or start it.

That one took me some time.

jonesthecurl wrote:Are they full of seamen?

Do they meet a sticky end?

thats nothing, i saw a stick of rock that actually was meant to be a d*ck. and it was coloured right and everything

heavycola wrote:

jonesthecurl wrote:Are they full of seamen?

Do they meet a sticky end?

They were saved by the bell.

I'm sorry, but who eats this stuff?

mandyb wrote:I'm sorry, but who eats this stuff?

Old wrecks...

jonesthecurl wrote:

heavycola wrote:

jonesthecurl wrote:Are they full of seamen?

Do they meet a sticky end?

They were saved by the bell.

You haven't lived until you have tried....






The ultimate in sour candy!

The picture's not there!

But anyways, I've come down to really only liking a few candies. One of my favorite though is,

http://www.sogoodblog.com/wp-content/up ... eanuts.jpg

muy_thaiguy wrote:The picture's not there!

But anyways, I've come down to really only liking a few candies. One of my favorite though is,
[img]
http://www.sogoodblog.com/wp-content/up ... eanuts.jpg[/img]

My image is showing up on my computer.


And I can't stand circus peanuts.

What's a Zungan super sour?

Juan_Bottom wrote:What's a Zungan super sour?

German sour candy. Gummi. (pronounced "goo me") Yeah, I know Americans commonly pronounce it "gummy" but that's incorrect.

jay_a2j wrote:

Juan_Bottom wrote:What's a Zungan super sour?

German sour candy. Gummi. (pronounced "goo me") Yeah, I know Americans commonly pronounce it "gummy" but that's incorrect.

No you're incorrect!

Anyways, over the years, I have grown an immunity of sorts to sour foods (lemons and limes, hard to say, but I have with crabapples).

muy_thaiguy wrote:

jay_a2j wrote:

Juan_Bottom wrote:What's a Zungan super sour?

German sour candy. Gummi. (pronounced "goo me") Yeah, I know Americans commonly pronounce it "gummy" but that's incorrect.

No you're incorrect!

Anyways, over the years, I have grown an immunity of sorts to sour foods (lemons and limes, hard to say, but I have with crabapples).

I spent much of my childhood in Germany (where Gummi Bears were invented) and everyone pronounced it "gummi" (goo-me) not "gummy". I never heard them called gummy bears until I came back to the states. In Germany there is what's called an umlout (sp?) above the "u" (2 dots) making it a "ooooh" sound instead of an "uuuuh" sound.

jay_a2j wrote:

muy_thaiguy wrote:

jay_a2j wrote:

Juan_Bottom wrote:What's a Zungan super sour?

German sour candy. Gummi. (pronounced "goo me") Yeah, I know Americans commonly pronounce it "gummy" but that's incorrect.

No you're incorrect!

Anyways, over the years, I have grown an immunity of sorts to sour foods (lemons and limes, hard to say, but I have with crabapples).

I spent much of my childhood in Germany (where Gummi Bears were invented) and everyone pronounced it "gummi" (goo-me) not "gummy". I never heard them called gummy bears until I came back to the states. In Germany there is what's called an umlout (sp?) above the "u" (2 dots) making it a "ooooh" sound instead of an "uuuuh" sound.

Well I'm not German now am I?

jay_a2j wrote:

muy_thaiguy wrote:

jay_a2j wrote:

Juan_Bottom wrote:What's a Zungan super sour?

German sour candy. Gummi. (pronounced "goo me") Yeah, I know Americans commonly pronounce it "gummy" but that's incorrect.

No you're incorrect!

Anyways, over the years, I have grown an immunity of sorts to sour foods (lemons and limes, hard to say, but I have with crabapples).

I spent much of my childhood in Germany (where Gummi Bears were invented) and everyone pronounced it "gummi" (goo-me) not "gummy". I never heard them called gummy bears until I came back to the states. In Germany there is what's called an umlout (sp?) above the "u" (2 dots) making it a "ooooh" sound instead of an "uuuuh" sound.

Sorry jay, but there's no Umlaut in "gummi".

Technically an Umlaut is what you get if the pronounciation of the root morpheme changes when it is inflected. For example in the diminutive form of "Frau", which is "Fräulein". The äu-combination is promounced as /oi/, even though the original morpheme is pronounced as it's written, with /au/. Also in the plural of "Haus", "Häuser", same phenomenon, or "Buch", plural: "Bücher", to give you a new vowel. It doesn't only happen in German, many, if not most languages exhibit this phenomenon.

Also, the pronounciation of "ü" is nowhere near "ooooh".

To give you an idea of how ü is pronounced, take the "oo" from "book", that's how your lips should be, rounded and pretty far forward. The position of your tongue should be as if you were pronouncing the "e" in "bed", try to lengthen the "e" a few times to get a feeling for it, I don't know if you have long /e/ sounds in english, I can't think of any examples.


With international greetings from the Spelling & Grammar nazis.

MeDeFe wrote:

jay_a2j wrote:

muy_thaiguy wrote:

jay_a2j wrote:

Juan_Bottom wrote:What's a Zungan super sour?

German sour candy. Gummi. (pronounced "goo me") Yeah, I know Americans commonly pronounce it "gummy" but that's incorrect.

No you're incorrect!

Anyways, over the years, I have grown an immunity of sorts to sour foods (lemons and limes, hard to say, but I have with crabapples).

I spent much of my childhood in Germany (where Gummi Bears were invented) and everyone pronounced it "gummi" (goo-me) not "gummy". I never heard them called gummy bears until I came back to the states. In Germany there is what's called an umlout (sp?) above the "u" (2 dots) making it a "ooooh" sound instead of an "uuuuh" sound.

Sorry jay, but there's no Umlaut in "gummi".

Technically an Umlaut is what you get if the pronounciation of the root morpheme changes when it is inflected. For example in the diminutive form of "Frau", which is "Fräulein". The äu-combination is promounced as /oi/, even though the original morpheme is pronounced as it's written, with /au/. Also in the plural of "Haus", "Häuser", same phenomenon, or "Buch", plural: "Bücher", to give you a new vowel. It doesn't only happen in German, many, if not most languages exhibit this phenomenon.

Also, the pronounciation of "ü" is nowhere near "ooooh".

To give you an idea of how ü is pronounced, take the "oo" from "book", that's how your lips should be, rounded and pretty far forward. The position of your tongue should be as if you were pronouncing the "e" in "bed", try to lengthen the "e" a few times to get a feeling for it, I don't know if you have long /e/ sounds in english, I can't think of any examples.


With international greetings from the Spelling & Grammar nazis.

Isn't that sound identical to the "u" in French?

Great post, by the way. I get the shivers when someone says "morpheme."

MeDeFe wrote:

jay_a2j wrote:

muy_thaiguy wrote:

jay_a2j wrote:

Juan_Bottom wrote:What's a Zungan super sour?

German sour candy. Gummi. (pronounced "goo me") Yeah, I know Americans commonly pronounce it "gummy" but that's incorrect.

No you're incorrect!

Anyways, over the years, I have grown an immunity of sorts to sour foods (lemons and limes, hard to say, but I have with crabapples).

I spent much of my childhood in Germany (where Gummi Bears were invented) and everyone pronounced it "gummi" (goo-me) not "gummy". I never heard them called gummy bears until I came back to the states. In Germany there is what's called an umlout (sp?) above the "u" (2 dots) making it a "ooooh" sound instead of an "uuuuh" sound.

Sorry jay, but there's no Umlaut in "gummi".

Technically an Umlaut is what you get if the pronounciation of the root morpheme changes when it is inflected. For example in the diminutive form of "Frau", which is "Fräulein". The äu-combination is promounced as /oi/, even though the original morpheme is pronounced as it's written, with /au/. Also in the plural of "Haus", "Häuser", same phenomenon, or "Buch", plural: "Bücher", to give you a new vowel. It doesn't only happen in German, many, if not most languages exhibit this phenomenon.

Also, the pronounciation of "ü" is nowhere near "ooooh".

To give you an idea of how ü is pronounced, take the "oo" from "book", that's how your lips should be, rounded and pretty far forward. The position of your tongue should be as if you were pronouncing the "e" in "bed", try to lengthen the "e" a few times to get a feeling for it, I don't know if you have long /e/ sounds in english, I can't think of any examples.


With international greetings from the Spelling & Grammar nazis.

This is why I dropped German in high school!


So, how do you pronounce "gummi"?