That I am one lazy bastard. This epiphany stems from a discussion I've had with some terribly hard working Englishmen/women on how the letter "Z" should be enunciated. I say "Z" as in "Zee" but apparently the people who're more English than me tell me it is "Zed", and that makes me a good for nothing American who can't speak English. When I tried to impress them with my mastery of English in saying that "Zed" has two syllabubs and thus is harder to pronounce than "Zee" which has only one syllabub, I had the two different Z's repeated for me until I accepted that they both had one Syllabub, and that other letters such as "W" also have two syllabubs. Yes I know people who went through primary school call it a syllable.
I lost that debate, but since no one can tell me off in my blog posts I'm going to proudly display my American colours by saying that I will say "Zee" instead of "Zed". Just try saying it for yourself. Even if they're both single syllabubbed "Zee" very obviously uses only a fraction of the effort it takes to say "Zed", which requires you to make the "Zee" sound anyway before making the "ed" sound which requires twice the effort to say than the first part (god bless Americans). Why use more effort when you can use less? Which leads me to conclude that I am still (proudly) a lazy bastard.
I will now justify my position based on research undertaken by Viv:
"...Yes people don't see sheep as the most intelligent animals but sheep are still very good at being sheep!"-Viv
If I can't be more English than the rest of you, I'll be the best lazy bastard there is.
And I should stop procrastinating, even though that won't happen since I'm best at being lazy. My latest procrastination method happens to be internet radio; I have just discovered my music player has built in support for net radio, which happens to be the best thing ever. Maybe now I can finally know the names of songs less than ten years old at parties. Speaking of procrastination, it is too long for such an often used word. We should find a replacement for it. But I digress, speaking of procrastination:
"Haha you sound like me....I remember the good old days when I used to sleep before midnight "-Annie
Those days huh.
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4 comments:
YAYYYYYYYYYYYY I GOT FEATURED
yay for sheep
haha i was going to say 'WOOOT I got mentioned :D' but then i saw viv's comment lol
<3
I say 'zed' even though, yes, i agree it is 2 'syllabubs' COS IT SOUNDS MORE SOPHISTICATED AND ZEE JUST SOUNDS TERRIBLE D;
IMO 'zed' is the lazier option: 'zee' requires you to exhale air for a few more fractions of a second.
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