Russell Barton

[Russell Barton @ruskellbarton]

@Strangeland_Elf I was referring to the older ball sport which is called hockey by the IOC and governed by the International Hockey Federation FIH rather than the sport the IOC calls Ice Hockey governed by the IIHF. That hockey was played in 19C public schools alongside precodified football.

[Russell Barton @ruskellbarton]

@eharrison321 @ItsAndyRyan Seems unlikely to me given that in every early version of football that I know of points only came from connecting a foot with a ball. That includes the version played at Rugby school and the Eton Wall game. In contrast games like Hockey, Hurling etc were never called football.

[Russell Barton @ruskellbarton]

@Dinzerama @mreasycredit @loganalbright73 Yes and yet it’s pronounced as part of the same syllable as “org” from the other word, so pronouncing o and p in the same syllable in biopic would not be that unusual.

[Russell Barton @ruskellbarton]

@mreasycredit @loganalbright73 @Dinzerama And portmanteaus/blend words can have syllables that include letters from different words eg cy-borg (no b in organism).

[Russell Barton @ruskellbarton]

@synthicyde @EmersonwCheese @TheMovieMermaid Topic and tropic.

[Russell Barton @ruskellbarton]

@synthicyde @c0eseph @Animals_1977 @TheMovieMermaid Bionic

[Russell Barton @ruskellbarton]

@zippkode @number_pizza111 By that logic why would the lack of the article not make it sound like you might be talking about multiple people?

[Russell Barton @ruskellbarton]

@abram_facts We do seem to hear the same sound differently but I don’t follow your logic.I could put it the opposite way-the Italian a is more backward than the most common English a so Americans heighten the difference by putting it further back in a way that sounds absurd to the English

[Russell Barton @ruskellbarton]

@dreamyk1985 @LCplLoPro A lot of American accents have the “Mary-marry-merry merger “ where all 3 words use the same vowel. Typically they say all 3 how we would say merry and we don’t say merry-o either.

[Russell Barton @ruskellbarton]

@REPHVIM @neilalexanderw1 Yes the “open o”ɔː/aw (awe, saw etc) becomes a homophone for “or” and is thought of as having an r sound. It’s particularly true for the a of palm (ɑː) as that sound for us is the name of letter R

[Russell Barton @ruskellbarton]

@morallawwithin @TetraspaceWest Some Americans spell out the a of palm/father as “ah”. There is no consonant /h/ as in hat but people use h because some letters like h, w, l sound different depending on whether they follow or are folllowed by a vowel. R is such a letter for non-rhotic speakers.

[Russell Barton @ruskellbarton]

@jbburant @jimbojd4 Yeah that a sound isn’t used in English. Linguists and native Italian and Spanish speakers tend to think of the a in hat and a in father as equally close to it but for some reason different native English speakers often hear it as much closer to either one or the other.

[Russell Barton @ruskellbarton]

@jbburant @jimbojd4 In most accents the a in spa and father is ɑː which is a back vowel and not the central one used by Italians.

[Russell Barton @ruskellbarton]

@Phantom_TheGame @thfcbulldog @Pamela_Vista 50F/10C is cold not comfortable to humans. Health organisations generally consider any household temperature below 61F/16 C (higher for >65s) to be dangerous to health along with any above around 25C/78F. Common choices of thermostat settings do not match with that diagram.

[Russell Barton @ruskellbarton]

@thfcbulldog @Pamela_Vista The threshold for frostbite in a human person is 32% hot.

[Russell Barton @ruskellbarton]

@TrustlessState @ShitpostRock2 Even that concedes a train that is moving prior to the vote rather than a danger that only comes about based the vote. It could be framed - if 50% of people press the Red button and leave the track the the train starts.

[Russell Barton @ruskellbarton]

@Vintage77Ball Twice -also together for Italy vs. FIFA World XI in 1998

[Russell Barton @ruskellbarton]

@Antweegonus The equivalent blender question would be if everyone falls blindfolded through a Y shaped pipe and can either roll into a blender, that is off and can only be turned on by a giant switch, or roll onto the giant switch that will turn the blender on if too many people land on it.

[Russell Barton @ruskellbarton]

@StvnAd @MwepuMagic Sometimes it’s helpful to include the day of the week and sometimes it isn’t. When it is useful can you explain the logic of the: day of the week then month the. date of the month then year ordering?

[Russell Barton @ruskellbarton]

@StvnAd @MwepuMagic When getting ready to leave the house and asking the latest you can leave, you need the minute rather than the hour, to let someone know when you will be back from a conference you just need the date not the month, for the start of the Brisbane Olympics you need the year etc.