I want to say, "Your political opinions max out at 100% horse shit. Fixing them takes arguing down all of American media and all of your political party; an Herculean task of clearing out the Augean stables, and it's my birthday, f-wad, I'm not up to the task."
But I don't know how to pronounce "Augean."
So I cannot say that without sounding foolish.
What a bummer!
So I ask the internet. And I am answered. With fifteen different pronunciations.
And I'm back to square 1.
Look, hear, what I found. [pronounce augean stables].
How to pronounce gives three to rate. They all sound wrong. The winner puts the accent on the "gee"
A YouTube video says it 10 times like "O-jean"
Pronouincekiwi give the pronunciation in 50 languages and none of them sound good.
Oxfordlearnerscictionary gives both "O-gee-an" and "Aw-gee-an"
Conclusion: Nobody knows how to say this word. Everybody is guessing.
8 comments:
Phonetically, I think Oxford is correct.
If it's your birthday, Chip, may it be a good one and followed by many more.
Are you suggesting that there is a torrent, a veritable river of ways to pronounce it? I just watched the Brit show on the Greek gods and due to their mispronunciation of every other word they spoke I didn't pay attention to how they pronounced Augean. Did you know that Heracles was the son of Hera? The things one learns...
Thanks, Dad.
My birthday is mid summer. And all my birthday parties reliably devolve to Democrat caucuses. Democrat members reviewing their shared received wisdom. And that made me realize that everybody I know to a person, when it comes to anything political, is dumb as a sack of dicks.
My parties, even the ones that I host, become one of those southwestern community projects of slapping fresh adobe mud onto our community church to repair the damage done to it by weather and to keep it constantly new. And when that doesn't happen the church washes away to mud crumbles to dust as all the Egyptian structures did that weren't made of stone.
The last one I asked them mid-scree, "Where in the world are you getting your information?" And they told me, "The news."
I rolled my eyes dramatically and comically as possible, put on a facial expression of total disgust, and said, "There's your mistake." And left it at that because we're having a party and they were being nice to me. They came together and put effort into being nice so I cannot just piss on that.re
I'm looking for ways of telling them they' re packed full of shit without hurting feelings and ruining a good time. Like they ruin my good time.
It's very odd. Because of the news. Without any exception every person I know is successful in their way. Everyone nice, well-traveled, experienced, conservative in everything, in speech, dress, home purchases, automobile choices, education, diet, relationships, personal grooming, driving, sports, manners, child rearing, alcohol consumption, and especially in finances, but when it comes to politics, because of the news, each one is bat-shit insane, non compos mantis and that includes lawyers, doctors, successful salesmen, business owners, pilots, architects, multi-linguists, teachers, insurance actuaries, real estate agents, successful farmers, land owners, hair dressing business owners, state government, travel agents, property managers, the lot.
You have my sympathy with the liberals/Democrats. I wouldn't begrudge them watching TV news except they can be like fish biting and being reeled in on fake worms. A smart fish -if there is such a thing - would sniff that bait critically before nibbling on it. With the lib friends it's more like if it looks like a worm and wiggles like a worm then it's a worm and they never see the hook. The best I can do is try not to be fooled into swallowing the next rubber worm that's dangled in front of me.
I have the same issue out here in the SF Bay Area but I have noticed less enthusiasm lately coming from the lefties, even before the Jussie thing fell apart on them (OH NO THERE WASN'T A DOUBLE HATE CRIME SO SAD). I just keep advising friends to read outside their comfort zone.
Oh, you mean watch FOX news?
No, and I don't watch FOX News. Try reading Instapundit or Ace of Spades once in a while. There's a whole world of really smart people who have a different view about the scope and role of government. Try it! It's fun. You don't have to agree. Just acquaint yourself with different opinions, please, you sad blinkered tool. I like you and I beg you to stop being led about.
Gene Autry never cleaned out anyone's stables. He dressed like a cowboy but he wasn't a cowboy. I must've been about nine years old when I heard someone say disparagingly, "Gene Autry's nothing but a drugstore cowboy." What a shock that was to me. Till then I thought that people were what they represented themselves as being. Oh well, live and loin.
Then he doesn't have to clean out the Autrean Stables because he's a drugstore cowboy.
I always assumed it was pronounced with a hard "g." Aw - gee as in geek - an.
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