God of Run wrote:
They're two different things, you noobs. A strider involves building up speed and extending into excessively long, loping bounds for roughly 30 meters. A stride is roughly the same thing, minus the bounding. The God of Run has SPOKEN! Let it be so.
Sorry, you're wrong and the OP is 100% accurate.
"Striders" is not a word and is hereby banned.
"Strides" refers to any effort of 90% of less and less than 100m.
for real wrote:
It's strides, not striders!!!!!!!!!!!
It is irritating. It sounds so pompous.
takk for the moose wrote:
Lazlo Simmons wrote:How do you know they are saying 'air' instead of the correct 'err' when you are just hearing them say it?
To air is human.
To forgive is the vine.
More precisely, wrote:
Actually, the correct name for them is "aragorns."
11/10 comment. This is what I wake up for
Agreed. Actually laughed out loud at this one. LotR references will never not be funny
Lazlo Simmons wrote:
afluenza wrote:I feel the same way when I hear people say, "Reflect back." or "Air on the side of caution."
How do you know they are saying 'air' instead of the correct 'err' when you are just hearing them say it?
Because those words sound nothing like each other and are easily distinguishable to a native speaker. Just like to, two and too.
Maybe they think, "To air is human." refers to a bout of flatulence or airing ones grievances.
afluenza wrote:
Lazlo Simmons wrote:How do you know they are saying 'air' instead of the correct 'err' when you are just hearing them say it?
Because those words sound nothing like each other and are easily distinguishable to a native speaker. Just like to, two and too.
Maybe they think, "To air is human." refers to a bout of flatulence or airing ones grievances.
A review of the dictionary will demonstrate that the primary pronunciations of the words are the same. I guess the aforementioned airors have not been on the part of the speakers, but the hearer.
err
er,ər
air
er/
to
toÍžo,tÉ™/
two
toÍžo/
too
toÍžo/
There was an L.A. based club in the 50s and 60s known as the Southern California Striders. They were a national power.
Aside from that, neither "strides" nor "striders" were part of the Igloi lexicon, and consequently, unknown to me.
+1
I respect the man, but it really bothers me when Tinman says 'striders'. Devalues a lot of the good concepts he relies on.
God of Run wrote:
They're two different things, you noobs. A strider involves building up speed and extending into excessively long, loping bounds for roughly 30 meters. A stride is roughly the same thing, minus the bounding. The God of Run has SPOKEN! Let it be so.
no
Native Hearer wrote:
afluenza wrote:Because those words sound nothing like each other and are easily distinguishable to a native speaker. Just like to, two and too.
Maybe they think, "To air is human." refers to a bout of flatulence or airing ones grievances.
A review of the dictionary will demonstrate that the primary pronunciations of the words are the same. I guess the aforementioned airors have not been on the part of the speakers, but the hearer.
err
er,ər
air
er/
to
toÍžo,tÉ™/
two
toÍžo/
too
toÍžo/
I guess you are not a native speaker if you need a dictionary to tell you what you are hearing. "Air" and "err" are quite different. Are you able to hear the differences between beer, bear and bare?
The word "Tempo" makes me want to punch a child
Get a life, mate
for real wrote:
It's strides, not striders!!!!!!!!!!!
For me it is when someone refers to the state championship as "states." There is not more than one state competing. Only one. It is called "state."
phonetic wrote:
Native Hearer wrote:A review of the dictionary will demonstrate that the primary pronunciations of the words are the same. I guess the aforementioned airors have not been on the part of the speakers, but the hearer.
err
er,ər
air
er/
to
toÍžo,tÉ™/
two
toÍžo/
too
toÍžo/
I guess you are not a native speaker if you need a dictionary to tell you what you are hearing. "Air" and "err" are quite different. Are you able to hear the differences between beer, bear and bare?
Bear and bare are homophones, as are air and err (I don't know why you have beer in there). I will admit that some people may try to pronounce them differently, but many do not. So the point is for the person who gets annoyed when he or she "hears" "to air is human" and thinks the speaker is a moron, chances are quite high that the speaker is simply not adhering to the expected pronunciation of the listener. I would bet that geography also plays a large part in that perception differential. In the same way that someone from Boston pronounces the word "car" differently than someone from Alabama, people have different approaches to how they pronounce "air" v "err", and it has more to do with pronunciation norms than vocabulary intelligence.
I'm glad this is on the boards, I hate it with a burning passion as well