Morgan is Going on a Trip

[Bob The Magic Camel]

There is no existing accent that excises complete syllables from words and phrases.

May I refer you to Yorkshire?

[Nevrmore]

Your crazy moon accents don't count.

[tamaness]

In a similar vein, only transmogrified to my home state of Louisiana, I hate people who think that the colloquial pronunciation of New Orleans is "N'awlins." Not even the most cajun of cajuns pronounces it "N'awlins." There is no existing accent that excises complete syllables from words and phrases.

My 6th grade teacher was from New Orleans. She pronounced it "N'Orleans," dropping the end of "new," and merging it with "Orleans." She also pronounced "Louisiana" as "Leesiana," dropping excatly one syllable.

[Nevrmore]

My 6th grade teacher was from New Orleans. She pronounced it "N'Orleans," dropping the end of "new," and merging it with "Orleans." She also pronounced "Louisiana" as "Leesiana," dropping excatly one syllable.

Your teacher is perpetuating a retarded stereotype. The correct way to pronounce New Orleans is "New Awlins." You say the two words in a quicker cadence than normal, so it almost sounds like one word, but it is most certainly not Nawlins. It may sound like a quibble but this is an important distinction.

Also, people who pronounce it "New Orleens" are just sad.

[Gobukiller]

No, the correct way to pronounce New Orleans is "Nu-voh Or-lee-own" :p

[Cade Antilles]

In the Pacific-United States Accent (as I think its called, my friends with linguistics degrees might throw books at me, though) we call New Orleans "New-Or-LEENS" or "New-Or-luns". Some say "New-Or-lee-ans", but those are fewer and far between.

When I visited New Orleans, the locals instructed me on pronouncing it "N'Orlins", which is how I pronounce it.

Although, I'm afraid that people that require it important on how to pronounce this town's name are sad.

[Jillers]

No, the correct way to pronounce New Orleans is "Nu-voh Or-lee-own" :p

I believe that is "La New-velle Or-lay-own"

[Gobukiller]

My French teacher disagrees... But it's been a while, I could be wrong...

[Bob The Magic Camel]

Look, as we all know only Englishmen know how to pronounce things correctly (and by Englishmen I mean southerners, preferably from Surrey), after all if you knew you'd do it correctly too. As such, I shall offer my services and solve this dispute for you.

It is, in fact pronounced [ˈnjuː] [ˈɔː(ɹ).ˌliː.æns] Now don't let me catch you making this mistake again.

[Gobukiller]

My brain hurts

[Jillers]

My French teacher disagrees... But it's been a while, I could be wrong...

My French teachers would disagree with yours... granted, I haven't taken French in over 5 years, but I recall it being Nouvelle if not because "Orleans" is female, then because the ending "Eau", in nouveau, sound combined with the "Au" sound in "Orleans" doesn't sound too nice on the ear, and "if it isn't pretty, it's not French", according to my first French teahcer.. hence why, even when talking about a female friend, you'd say "mon amie" instead of "ma amie"... or avoid the whole situation by talking about many friends (mes amies).

..also, wikipedia corroborates my story... so, wikiality and all...

[Matt]

Nu Or-Lee-Ans

-m

[Gobukiller]

Fuck it, I'll just pronounce it "Nogabannabooboton"

[Jillers]

Fuck it, I'll just pronounce it "Nogabannabooboton"

Sounds like a plan =)

[Cade Antilles]

Back on topic, Morgan is supposed to be at my place right now, as far as I know. But, he's not responding to Facebook messages and neither my text or phone messages are getting to him, as far as I can tell. So, I don't know where he is.

Does anyone know where he is or an alternate way of contacting him? I doubt a PM here will be any different than Facebook. Maybe the last people to see him know where he went? Or maybe someone intercepted him?

EDIT: So, his phone died. Now, I'm waiting to hear from him today, to see what's up.

[MasterKuno]

As far as I know, for the last 3 days he has been here in San Jose, CA. He was staying with a friend of mine. I had a chance to hang out and he said he was caught up in San Fransisco for like 3 weeks doing lotsa stuff. They went to see Transformers 2 last night and that is the last I heard from him.

[Lyinginbedmon]

If he's dead it'll make my most recent AskLRR question about him a bit morbid...

[Cade Antilles]

So, quick update, he did end up coming over yesterday. After I picked him up from MasterKuno's friend, evidently. Fun has been had and there'll be a little bit more fun today before he's off to LA.

[Tim]

Tell him to quit lollygagging.

And then question his perverse definition of "lollygagging", and shake your head disappointedly.

[Cade Antilles]

And he's off! It was very cool.

[tamaness]

where is he off to now?

[elitewalmartsecurity]

Yeah, I'm back in the country so I'll put him up if he's heading back to AZ... or if he's still here.

[Morgan]

i found my journal, went to sonoma, san jose, and am now in LA. yes, that part of LA. updates to come shortly(or longly) i made a funny.

[Cade Antilles]

I realized that when I said LA, that could be mistranslated as Louisiana. I meant Los Angeles.

[rig]

I has a Morgan. I lost a Morgan...does anyone live on the West Side of Los Angeles?