Unless you're Julian Smith, I thought there wasn't any other way to pronounce "Milk." I mean seriously, thats like pronouncing "walk" or "tall" differently. I mean...is there really any other way? There's only four letters!Yankeedoodles said:...in England (and the Commonwealth apparently)Matt_LRR said:
Edit: Oddly enough I didn't even notice James say "zed". I guess I've gotten to the point where in my mind where zed = z[ee]. Which is kind of interesting. When I started watching Stargate Atlantis that Canadian scientist would talk about needing a Z.E.D.P.M. to get them back to Earth. At the same time all the Americans were talking about how they needed a Z.P.M. to get back. Embarrassingly I think it took me 2 seasons to realize that they were talking about the same thing.
But I'm sure that isn't the case with a lot of Americans. As I mentioned in some other thread, the thing about Canadian English is that it sounds EXACTLY like the American General dialect except for about a dozen or so common words. And because they're so similar, those dozen or so words stick out like sore thumbs to a lot of us. More so than they would if those pronunciations were part of a more foreign sounding English dialect like Cockney, Aussie, Scots, New Yorker, Newfie or any of the various Southern dialects. Those pronunciations certainly aren't wrong any more than the General American pronunciation is wrong (indeed spelling usually indicates that the Canadian pronunciation is probably closer to the original pronunciation) but they sound wrong to us. It'd probably be like hearing a fellow Canadian say, "I would like tomAHtos on my potAHtoes and a tall glass of mEHlk please," (assuming Canadians pronounce those words: tomAYto, potAYto and mILk of course).I'm sure American viewers will get used to it given enough time.
Anyway, great video!
I wouldn't have thought so either. Someone said it on the Sarah Silverman Show (whom she promptly made fun of) and the person I was watching it with said he hated when people pronounce milk that way. So I guess it must be a real thing.Vohn_exel said:Unless you're Julian Smith, I thought there wasn't any other way to pronounce "Milk." I mean seriously, thats like pronouncing "walk" or "tall" differently. I mean...is there really any other way? There's only four letters!
I don't know if this has been answered yet, and it if has I apologize. However, if you watch the credits you will learn that the music was made for this video by the very talented Bradley Raynes. Or Rains. I'm not sure how to spell it, and the video doesn't seem to want to load for me.AquaAscension said:haha... I laughed a few times, but I was thrown off slightly by the blatant Matrix parodying. For a bit, I thought the sketch would go in a completely different direction. Just seemed like it was missing something but was able to keep me laughing despite that. On a final side note/thought: the music playing at the end was very good. Can anyone tell me who that was by?
I think people invent ways to say things up just so they canYankeedoodles said:I wouldn't have thought so either. Someone said it on the Sarah Silverman Show (whom she promptly made fun of) and the person I was watching it with said he hated when people pronounce milk that way. So I guess it must be a real thing.Vohn_exel said:Unless you're Julian Smith, I thought there wasn't any other way to pronounce "Milk." I mean seriously, thats like pronouncing "walk" or "tall" differently. I mean...is there really any other way? There's only four letters!
Just stay away from QWERTY ST for a while. I hear there's a big crackdown coming.TheEnglishman said:Damn, I've probably enraged a lot of inteligence agencies over the years.
Amusing episode.