# The pronunciation thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Off-topic\ **Created:** [May 5, 2018, 8:38pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/the-pronunciation-thread/2642 "2018-05-05T20:38:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 14
**Author:** ![tasse-tee](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/tasse-tee/32/4002_2.png) [@tasse-tee](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/tasse-tee)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 3:02pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/the-pronunciation-thread/2642/265 "2018-05-08T15:02:43Z")
> [@Someone](#): > > Why do women wax or tear out their eyebrows? Some like their eyebrows to be in different shapes, according to what’s in fashion. I just get mine waxed occasionally to get rid of the random hairs that aren’t on the main line of my eyebrows. They’re not that noitceable, to be honest, so I don’t get round to having it done very often. Some women even put on products to make their eyebrows different colours. The two ladies at that department store applied products without me asking, so I walked out at the end with very obviously brown eyebrows 😂 > [@Someone](#): > > Well, maybe the screams during the waxing procedure are some sort of pronunciation…? 🤔 Like this: “AAAAAaaaAAaaaaaaAAAAAAaaaaaa” (the “a” as in “cat”, of course) It’s not that painful, anyway 😉 It just stings a bit. ---
**Author:** ![Someone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b77776/32.png) [@Someone](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Someone)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 3:06pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/the-pronunciation-thread/2642/266 "2018-05-08T15:06:53Z")
> [@tasse-tee](#): > > Like this: “AAAAAaaaAAaaaaaaAAAAAAaaaaaa” > (the “a” as in “cat”, of course) Maybe we should create a new thread: “How to scream in different languages”. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![PiecesOfKate](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/piecesofkate/32/93_2.png) [@PiecesOfKate](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/PiecesOfKate)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 3:09pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/the-pronunciation-thread/2642/267 "2018-05-08T15:09:53Z")
> [@Someone](#): > > Why do women wax or **tear out** their eyebrows? 😂 (Sorry, I know that might be a language thing) But to answer your question, I get mine done for the same reason as @tasse-tee. I also quite enjoy the pain 😐 ---
**Author:** ![tasse-tee](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/tasse-tee/32/4002_2.png) [@tasse-tee](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/tasse-tee)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 3:10pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/the-pronunciation-thread/2642/268 "2018-05-08T15:10:42Z")
> [@Someone](#): > > Maybe we should create a new thread: “How to scream in different languages”. 😉 I have the PERFECT video for this! [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/n5F9Y1-RRqk/maxresdefault.jpg "DEUUEAUGH in 27 Languages w/ Subtitles!") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5F9Y1-RRqk) ---
**Author:** ![Frenzie](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/frenzie/32/4416_2.png) [@Frenzie](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Frenzie)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 3:11pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/the-pronunciation-thread/2642/269 "2018-05-08T15:11:04Z")
> [@PiecesOfKate](#): > > (Sorry, I know that might be a language thing) Maybe women tear out their eyebrows in frustration? 👼 ---
**Author:** ![Someone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b77776/32.png) [@Someone](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Someone)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 3:12pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/the-pronunciation-thread/2642/270 "2018-05-08T15:12:32Z")
> [@PiecesOfKate](#): > > 😂 (Sorry, I know that might be a language thing) My dictionary says that this is the correct term for pulling out (human) hairs. 🙂 Synonyms are: duck, shear and eradicate. ---
**Author:** ![Frenzie](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/frenzie/32/4416_2.png) [@Frenzie](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Frenzie)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 3:13pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/the-pronunciation-thread/2642/271 "2018-05-08T15:13:18Z")
> [@Someone](#): > > My dictionary says that this is the correct term for pulling out (human) hairs. 🙂 Synonyms are: duck, shear and eradicate. Can’t tell if serious. 😛 You pluck 'em. ---
**Author:** ![tasse-tee](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/tasse-tee/32/4002_2.png) [@tasse-tee](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/tasse-tee)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 3:16pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/the-pronunciation-thread/2642/272 "2018-05-08T15:16:19Z")
> [@Someone](#): > > Synonyms are: duck, shear and eradicate. Duck - ? Shear - sheep Eradicate - humanity 🤖 ---
**Author:** ![Someone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b77776/32.png) [@Someone](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Someone)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 3:19pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/the-pronunciation-thread/2642/273 "2018-05-08T15:19:32Z")
> [@tasse-tee](#): > > Eradicate - humanity 🤖 Ha! I knew it! Dicobot made my dictionary! ---
**Author:** ![Frenzie](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/frenzie/32/4416_2.png) [@Frenzie](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Frenzie)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 3:31pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/the-pronunciation-thread/2642/274 "2018-05-08T15:31:55Z")
Btw @Someone what’s German for plucking/tweezing/epilating eyebrows? ---
**Author:** ![PiecesOfKate](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/piecesofkate/32/93_2.png) [@PiecesOfKate](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/PiecesOfKate)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 3:32pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/the-pronunciation-thread/2642/275 "2018-05-08T15:32:19Z")
What dictionary are you using, out of interest? ---
**Author:** ![Frenzie](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/frenzie/32/4416_2.png) [@Frenzie](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Frenzie)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 3:35pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/the-pronunciation-thread/2642/276 "2018-05-08T15:35:32Z")
> [@tasse-tee](#): > > Shear - sheep Btw, etymologically speaking I just “sheared” myself. In Dutch _to shave_ = _scheren_ (“to shear”). Dutch _schaven_ is something you only do to wood. > [@PiecesOfKate](#): > > What dictionary are you using, out of interest? My guess: the _German-English Sadomasochistic Torture Dictionary™_ © 1825. ---
**Author:** ![Someone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b77776/32.png) [@Someone](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Someone)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 3:40pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/the-pronunciation-thread/2642/277 "2018-05-08T15:40:17Z")
> [@PiecesOfKate](#): > > What dictionary are you using, out of interest? For a quick search dict.cc: > **[ausreißen | Übersetzung Englisch-Deutsch](https://www.dict.cc/?s=ausrei%C3%9Fen)** > > dict.cc | Übersetzungen für 'ausreißen' im Englisch-Deutsch-Wörterbuch, mit echten Sprachaufnahmen, Illustrationen, Beugungsformen, ... If I have more time I use a big Langenscheidt (yes, the “real” book 🙂 ) that says the same in this case (=“tear out”), btw: > **[ausreißen - Englisch-Übersetzung - Langenscheidt Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch](https://de.langenscheidt.com/deutsch-englisch/ausreissen)** > > Übersetzung für 'ausreißen' im kostenlosen Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch von LANGENSCHEIDT – mit Beispielen, Synonymen und Aussprache. The funny thing is: If I search the word “tear” (English → German) I get only the tear (the drop) as a result. ---
**Author:** ![Someone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b77776/32.png) [@Someone](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Someone)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 3:42pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/the-pronunciation-thread/2642/278 "2018-05-08T15:42:57Z")
> [@Frenzie](#): > > Btw [@Someone](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/someone) what’s German for plucking/tweezing/epilating eyebrows? “Ausreißen” or “epilieren”. If you use a tweezer then you can say “(aus-)zupfen”. > [@Frenzie](#): > > My guess: the _German-English Sadomasochistic Torture Dictionary™_ © 1825. I should write that. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Ema](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/ema/32/14101_2.png) [@Ema](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Ema)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 3:51pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/the-pronunciation-thread/2642/279 "2018-05-08T15:51:23Z")
> [@ZakPhoenixMcKracken](#): > > Meeting with Ron Gilbert in person, flesh-and-blood. > > He stares in front of me, I was blocked (and excited), in my mind there were so many sentences That reminds me when I met him in Berlin. I’ve talked in public in english many times, but that time I was strangely ~~freezed~~ frozen. In my former job I had to deal quite often with famous people, and it never tingled my emotions… But that time I was excited. Fun, like being child again. He staring at me, me babbling nonsense. And probably the fact of being dressed as a rasta hot hair balloon\* didn’t help. \*might not have happened ---
**Author:** ![Frenzie](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/frenzie/32/4416_2.png) [@Frenzie](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Frenzie)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 3:54pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/the-pronunciation-thread/2642/280 "2018-05-08T15:54:18Z")
> [@Someone](#): > > “Ausreißen” or “epilieren”. If you use a tweezer then you can say “(aus-)zupfen”. I think that in Dutch, like in English, haar uittrekken/tearing out hair (ausreißen) refers only to hair on your head, in a presumably unhealthy way. > [@Someone](#): > > I should write that. 😉 Maybe Heinrich Heine already did. This topic reminded me of it: > **[Heinrich Heine: Vorrede zur Vorrede zu Französische Zustände](http://www.heinrich-heine-denkmal.de/heine-texte/vorvorrede.shtml)** > > Heinrich Heine: Vorrede zur Vorrede zu Französische Zustände > [@](#): > > Jene aber haben ihre Sache sehr schlecht gemacht, und statt die persönlichen Bedrängnisse, die ihnen daraus entstanden, nur ihrer eigenen Ungeschicklichkeit bei, zumessen, fiel ihr Unmut auf den Schreiber dieser Blätter, den sie unbeschädigt sahen. Es ging ihnen wie dem Affen, der zugesehen hatte, wie sich ein Mensch rasierte. Als dieser nun das Zimmer verließ, kam der Affe und nahm das Barbierzeug wieder aus der Schublade hervor und seifte sich ein und schnitt sich dann die Kehle ab. Ich weiß nicht, inwieweit jene deutschen Jakobiner sich die Kehle abgeschnitten; aber ich sehe, daß sie stark bluten. Auf mich schelten sie jetzt. »Seht«, rufen sie, »wir haben uns ehrlich eingeseift und bluten für die gute Sache, der Heine meint es aber nicht ehrlich mit dem Barbieren, ihm fehlt der wahre Ernst beim Gebrauche des Messers, er schneidet sich nie, er wischt sich ruhig die Seife ab und pfeift sorglos dabei und lacht über die blutigen Wunden der Kehlabschneider, die es ehrlich meinen.« tl;dr for English speakers: there’s a metaphor about an ape who sees a man shaving. He properly soaps his face and takes out the blade but accidentally cuts his own throat. In this metaphor Heine’s word is like the razor. > [@Ema](#): > > freezed Frozen. 😛 The time I met Wil Wheaton the only thing I could think to say was something stupid like “when will you do another Radio Free Burrito?” ---
**Author:** ![ZakPhoenixMcKracken](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/zakphoenixmckracken/32/41_2.png) [@ZakPhoenixMcKracken](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/ZakPhoenixMcKracken)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 3:57pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/the-pronunciation-thread/2642/281 "2018-05-08T15:57:09Z")
we have a motto: “Donna baffuta, sempre piaciuta!” _(moustached woman, always liked!)_ So… it’s up to you! 😏 ---
**Author:** ![Someone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b77776/32.png) [@Someone](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Someone)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 4:01pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/the-pronunciation-thread/2642/282 "2018-05-08T16:01:01Z")
> [@Frenzie](#): > > I think that in Dutch, like in English, haar uittrekken/tearing out hair (ausreißen) refers only to hair on your head, in a presumably unhealthy way. Well, can you pull out (a) hair without being “unhealty”? 🙂 “Außreißen” in German implies that it hurts. I can’t think of a German word that describes pulling out a hair without hurting the person. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![milanfahrnholz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@milanfahrnholz](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/milanfahrnholz)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 4:23pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/the-pronunciation-thread/2642/283 "2018-05-08T16:23:31Z")
You _tear out_ pages from a book. You _pull out_ hair from your body. ---
**Author:** ![Frenzie](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/frenzie/32/4416_2.png) [@Frenzie](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Frenzie)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 4:26pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/the-pronunciation-thread/2642/284 "2018-05-08T16:26:40Z")
> [@Someone](#): > > “Außreißen” in German implies that it hurts. I’m pretty sure I could pull out most if not all of my eyebrow hairs without it hurting. It’s basically the same as those couple of weird, annoying, itchy ear hairs you might tweeze, not like head or beard hair. Epileren/epilieren does sound rather… cold and creepy. Luckily natural is in vogue. 😉 [Previous page](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/the-pronunciation-thread/2642.md?page=13) [Next page](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/the-pronunciation-thread/2642.md?page=15)