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selenak: (Puppet Angel - Kathyh)
Allow me to indulge my inner cranky old woman for a moment, at the expense of internet linguistics.

1.) I do not have "feels", I have feelings, because I don't regard three additional letters as that much of a burden.

2.) I most definitely do not have "all the feel(ing)s" about any subject, be they a character, actor, vid, writer, book, film, tv show, song, or the cat who is eyeing me right now as if to dispute this claim. Considering the rich human emotional spectrum, this particular hyperbole strikes me as both empty and lazy, vocabulary wise.

3.) The term "moar" for "more" is just as irritating, despite offering the same number of letters as the original word. English isn't my native language, which means I mentally have to translate every word I write and read in it anyway. I refuse to memorize different ways to spell a word in it.

And now excuse me while I indulge a variety of feelings watching various vids from the recent con, in as much as they're available in my country because so far GEMA has struck to prohibit half of those I tried being shown on YouTube.
selenak: (Hank by Stacyx)
I meant to ask this some months back when reviewing the John Adams miniseries but forgot and was recently reminded again.

Back in the 90s, when I first stumbled across the songs for the musical 1776, I noticed that in some of them, the word "independence" is pronounced not the way they teach non-native speakers like yours truly to pronounce it but "independenceeeeeeeee". Now, I had assumed in the musical this was simply so it would scan and rhyme in some of the lyrics (as when Abigail Adams rhymes "declare independenc-eeeee" with "hurry home to me"). But in the John Adams miniseries, sans tunes, they pronounce it this way as well now and then. Not always, but occasionally. So, my question is this: was "independence" pronounced "independenceeeeeeee" by the Founding Fathers, and if so, was this because everyone did in the late 1700s or for some complicated British elocution defying gesture I don't understand?

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