October 2019 15k SPAM Thread

[JayKay PE]

You sing opera? Waaaat??

And whatever, your accent is awesome!

YESSSSSS.  I was a classically trained coloratura opera singer who was thinking of going professional, but my dad (who is a musician) made me do my first year of engineering classes before I took on another trainer/coach in NYC with my current teachers.  After that first year of classes I was too booked/exhausted to do singing and the commute back and forth into NYC, but I am thinking of maybe taking lessons again now that I have the time in Indy.   I highly doubt I still have the range I did when I was training each day, but I can sing passably well.

MY ACCENT IS A TRAINWRECK BUT I AM OKAY WITH IT.  Just...not professionally. 

 

[Master slacker]

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[LyceeFruit PE]

I think they just made up that list, or based it on popular perceptions of the city. No ethnoliguist would touch that nonsense.

I agree, and I say this with all due disrespect, Boston has no business being in the top 25.

Not sure why Maine is so far up either? It's okay, but not great.

The salient Philly accent shouldn't be in the top 10; non-salient absolutely.

It's hilarious that they have Baltimore at 18 and Philly at 8. They're nearly identical accents! The differences are pretty minor (In Maryland 'bury' is pronounced "barry") and B'more has more mergers and Philly has few, but the rest can only be detected by a trained ear.

Like southern Maine and Boston has similar accents. Our former governor hated So. ME and called us Northern MA. He was a huge ****** so glad he's gone.

Northern ME does have an accent but I def wouldn't call it sexy or anything 

 

[JayKay PE]

Welcome to the zombie apocalypse.

I'm going to say if this is ground zero that it was caused by a horrible strain of virus found in ranch dressing.  Jesus.  Over 15 different types of ranch dressing in the grocery store, but no tahini!  What is this place?

 

[Master slacker]

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[matt267 PE]

how so

maybe they'll offer me a job? 

 

[RBHeadge PE]

wah-deh.  It's like a weird diphthong where only one vowel is spoken and then a hard syllable at the end.  Really hard for me to describe, all I know is that the undergrads made fun of me at grad school since I was researching gravity-fed water treatment systems and my concentration was in waste-water system.   :40oz:

that's a new one.

My pronunciation is heavily context dependent. If "water" is for consumption, I pronounce it 'wooder', otherwise its 'WATTer'. The latter is probably the only common English word I pronounce with a non-American accent.

 

[JayKay PE]

Did your dad play professionally? If so, that's kind of awesome.

My dad also taught me about the dark underbelly of the postal service. Honestly, the vast majority (like 99.9%+) of things get to where they're shipped within 3-4 days of when they actually hit the mail stream. The somewhat dirty secret is that a lot of places do their best to lie to you about when something's actually shipped. When you get that "Your Order Has Been Shipped!!1!" email, that just means that they sent shipping info to USPS, FedEx, etc., and your item is probably still sitting in a bin in a warehouse in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, waiting for someone to actually take it to the shipping facility.

That being said, I did assume that at least most of the NCEES site reps pulled their head out and got the materials shipped out by Saturday afternoon. That's probably too much to ask, if we're being honest.

My dad was a band teacher for 30-years (he's retired now), but he gave/still gives lessons and has played professionally that whole time as well (gigs/concerts/musicals/you name it he's probably done it).  Technically, he specializes in double reed instruments (oboe, bassoon, english horn), and he's one of the few teachers on LI who teaches that and has students go on to professional orchestras and schools and what not, so he's still 'working' even though he's retired.  He does a loooooot of jazz music as well with students, used to play in a big band/swing band, and he's established enough that he's currently booked until sometime next year, except for his yearly month in Hawaii.  He's happy where he is now, professionally, since he doesn't have to go out and search for gigs: they all call him.

As for NCEES having the material shipped out...That was prob done the minute everyone left the testing site.  It's the actual scantron debate that always delays everything.

 

[Master slacker]

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[JayKay PE]

Anything important happen in the last 5 pages of SPAM that I didn't read?

JK's overwhelming NYer rage at Boston and accent talk.  A pretty good spam going.

 

[RBHeadge PE]

Our former governor hated So. ME and called us Northern MA.

Historically speaking, it's kinda accurate.

 

[Master slacker]

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[JayKay PE]

that's a new one.

My pronunciation is heavily context dependent. If "water" is for consumption, I pronounce it 'wooder', otherwise its 'WATTer'. The latter is probably the only common English word I pronounce with a non-American accent.

Because of my accent, general 'fail' at being a normal American, and looking strongly like my father's eastern European roots, I've been asked numerous times how long I've been in this country and that my English is very good.  As in, good for a foreign visitor, not a native.  

 

[txjennah PE]

YESSSSSS.  I was a classically trained coloratura opera singer who was thinking of going professional, but my dad (who is a musician) made me do my first year of engineering classes before I took on another trainer/coach in NYC with my current teachers.  After that first year of classes I was too booked/exhausted to do singing and the commute back and forth into NYC, but I am thinking of maybe taking lessons again now that I have the time in Indy.   I highly doubt I still have the range I did when I was training each day, but I can sing passably well.

MY ACCENT IS A TRAINWRECK BUT I AM OKAY WITH IT.  Just...not professionally. 

Whaaaaat that is so badass! And you totally should take lessons again!

 

[Master slacker]

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[LyceeFruit PE]

Historically speaking, it's kinda accurate.

Well yes but it added the list of why so many people hated him 

 

[squaretaper LIT AF PE]

JK's overwhelming NYer rage at Boston and accent talk.  A pretty good spam going.

LadySquare is from upstate NY but her mom is from LI (Merrick?) so it comes out strong after a few glasses of wine.

 

[RBHeadge PE]

 He was a huge ****** so glad he's gone.

And now you sort-of have ranked choice voting as a result.

 

[LyceeFruit PE]

maybe they'll offer me a job? 

I know that with my company, we'd have to tread very carefully. I was an intern for a client for my current consulting firm. They asked for permission to hire me even though I applied on my own whim, as to not damage relationship with the client. 

 

[LyceeFruit PE]

And now you sort-of have ranked choice voting as a result.

that was a dilemna. And this last go around I don't think it applied to the governor's spot. It was for one of the districts and the incumbent threw a hissy fit