The very many questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread XXV

[sophie]

Quick little, easily resolvable questions? There's a thread for that.

 

[Mouthwash]

Quick little, easily resolvable questions? There's a thread for that.

Sorry.

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

When the current pope (Francis) was elected, I remember there were some folks claiming that if he was given a specific papal name, he would bring about doomsday. What was that so-called doomsday name? I forgot already.

 

[Antilogic]

Not really, it's pretty daft but I'm insanely bored at the moment.

Serious question:
Has anyone had a security clearance background check? They are standard in my field and I don't know what the process is like and I would like to know what they are like.

Also, I committed a misdemeanor when I was 16 and I was told my rocket would be expunged when I turned 18. How do I check on that and if it wasn't automatically expunged, how do I expunge it? Do those types of things show up on background checks? It was 10 years ago and I was a minor.

Your rocket gets expunged?

When the current pope (Francis) was elected, I remember there were some folks claiming that if he was given a specific papal name, he would bring about doomsday. What was that so-called doomsday name? I forgot already.

Peter II, I think.

 

[Antilogic]

No, you aren't an alcoholic because they go to meetings.

Wait, that wasn't the question?

 

[Camikaze]

Moderator Action: Merged Mouthwash's thread and replies.

 

[Mouthwash]

You should probably delete the posts from Owen onwards... they don't make sense anymore.

 

[Borachio]

There's a word I forgot how to spell that is pronounced sediment. As for the meaning, it's somewhere between "belief" or "argument" (at least in the context I've heard it in). What is it?

Sentiment?

Yes! thxkbai

Quick little, easily resolvable questions? There's a thread for that.

Sorry.

This sequence is all one, I presume pre-arranged, joke, right?

("Sediment", huh!)

But, pray, why?

 

[Mise]

He posted it as a separate thread but it got merged with this one.

 

[Borachio]

That much I understood.

Yet "sentiment" pronounced "sediment"?

I know "water" is pronounced "warder" (vaguely) in General American, so it makes some sense. But "sediment"? Wouldn't it be more likely "sendiment"?

Nonono. If you say it quick enough it does kind of elide into "sediment".

Still, how can you forget a word like "sentiment"?

Which is why I suspect Mouthwash was pulling a merry jape. Though what it was I don't know. I'm resigned to never knowing.

 

[Dachs]

That much I understood.

Yet "sentiment" pronounced "sediment"?

I know "water" is pronounced "warder" (vaguely) in General American, so it makes some sense. But "sediment"? Wouldn't it be more likely "sendiment"?

Nonono. If you say it quick enough it does kind of elide into "sediment".

Still, how can you forget a word like "sentiment"?

Which is why I suspect Mouthwash was pulling a merry jape. Though what it was I don't know. I'm resigned to never knowing.

It's not a General American pronunciation.

 

[Borachio]

Is it not? I stand corrected.

(I've certainly heard it used by General Americans. )

What is it then? Mid-Western? Or something.

 

[Farm Boy]

I dunno Sir B. My water has always had a T in it. Though not a very "snappy" one if you want to be specific about it.

 

[sophie]

That much I understood.

Yet "sentiment" pronounced "sediment"?

I know "water" is pronounced "warder" (vaguely) in General American, so it makes some sense. But "sediment"? Wouldn't it be more likely "sendiment"?

Nonono. If you say it quick enough it does kind of elide into "sediment".

Still, how can you forget a word like "sentiment"?

Which is why I suspect Mouthwash was pulling a merry jape. Though what it was I don't know. I'm resigned to never knowing.

I pronounce them:
wɑ.ɾɹ
sɛ.dɪ.mənt

 

[Borachio]

There you go. Very strange.

'wɔ:tə(r)

'sentɪmənt

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Your rocket gets expunged?

I meant record.

 

[sophie]

There you go. Very strange.

'wɔ:tə(r)

'sentɪmənt

The first "r" is a flap, not a rhotic. I don't pronounce it in the way that you described above.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I don't know of any Americans that pronounce sentiment the same as sediment to be honest yall.

 

[Borachio]

The first "r" is a flap, not a rhotic. I don't pronounce it in the way that you described above.

I didn't say you did. How would I know how you pronounce it?

That's the way I normally pronounce the words when I try to speak clearly. Especially to foreigners.

 

[timtofly]

How many americans even use the word sediment?