“Stop following me! We’re not related!”

[PsychoSarah]

If by delegates you mean Noah Webster in the early 1800:s, then that is mostly correct. He did at least in part select variant spellings for patriotic reasons. No one has consciously made an american dialect though. Instead, spoken american is more like British english was in the 1700:s and has remained more or less constant, whereas the spoken language in Britain has evolved quite a bit.

Considering that it has been over 4 years since I read up on the matter, I am shocked I managed to retain as much as I did.

 

[AV1611VET]

Who is right you or them ...

I am.

... and why?

For one, its AD 2016.

 

[Jay Follett]

The point was for you to try, not cop out XD

I'm sorry I didn't realise, OK I'll try.
VanBuren = Vanbeuuren Allegan = No idea Auglaize = Aowlayzay Ashtabula = Ashtaboolay De Kalb = Dee kolb
Tippecanoe = Tippykanooay
How did I do?

 

[The Cadet]

For one, its AD 2016.

A naming convention invented by Christians is not evidence of Christianity's legitimacy.

 

[Cearbhall]

IS YOUR GRANDMOTHER A FISH? – DR. GEORGIA PURDOM
(Please read this, it's an article)

All my grandmothers is human.

I would hope so.

 

[Jay Follett]

error

 

[PsychoSarah]

Heh, you have it posted as if I said those.

VanBuren = Van-beur-ren, so aside from seeming to elongate the u, you got it very close. Beur sounds like saying the word "be" and yer/yur together as one syllable, like if the second e in beer was changed to a u.

Allegan = Al-leg-an, with Al like the name. I am shocked you didn't try that one and yet you tried Auglaize. The only other way I could imagine a person thinking it was pronounced is All-egg-an, which with some U.S. accents, they might. I give the pronunciations as they are most commonly given by people that live in those areas. I don't base it off of mine, because I've lived in multiple places both in and out of the U.S., which has derailed my accent a tad, and I pick them up so easily that my speech has been affected by talking to friends from various places. A professional might be able to tell where I spent most of my time, but they would probably erroneously think I have lived in places that I haven't, such as California.

Auglaize = Awe-glaze, awe like shock, glaze like ceramics. You were way off on that one. In the U.S., if the name of a place has origins in French, half the time it ends up becoming botched and pronounced like it is spelled.

Ashtabula = Ash-tuh-Beau-la, with Beau emphasized hard and pronounced like the start of beautiful, and tuh being like tug if the g was replaced with an h, or a t was put at the start of "uh". Besides replacing the beau with a boo, you got it right.

De Kalb = Dee cab, the l is silent. However, there is a lot of debate on this one, and some people do treat the l as having a participating sound and all it Dee cal-b, with cal like calorie and putting a hard b sound at the end of it. With certain accents, the Dee part is said so fast you'd have trouble hearing it at all.

Tippecanoe = Tippy-canoe, it lierally sounds like those words said, and it seems like you were a little off on that one.

For the sake of fairness, though, here is how I say these names, as recorded. (my recording equipment is not very good, so my voice sounds a bit higher in the recording than it actually does in person.

 

[AV1611VET]

A naming convention invented by Christians is not evidence of Christianity's legitimacy.

I would say it points the meter more toward there being a God than not though.

Which is the point of the answer.

 

[The Cadet]

I would say it points the meter more toward there being a God than not though.

No, it doesn't, any more than Ramadan being a national holiday in Saudi Arabia points the meter more toward Allah existing than not.

 

[Jay Follett]

Heh, you have it posted as if I said those.

VanBuren = Van-beur-ren, so aside from seeming to elongate the u, you got it very close. Beur sounds like saying the word "be" and yer/yur together as one syllable, like if the second e in beer was changed to a u.

Allegan = Al-leg-an, with Al like the name. I am shocked you didn't try that one and yet you tried Auglaize. The only other way I could imagine a person thinking it was pronounced is All-egg-an, which with some U.S. accents, they might. I give the pronunciations as they are most commonly given by people that live in those areas. I don't base it off of mine, because I've lived in multiple places both in and out of the U.S., which has derailed my accent a tad, and I pick them up so easily that my speech has been affected by talking to friends from various places. A professional might be able to tell where I spent most of my time, but they would probably erroneously think I have lived in places that I haven't, such as California.

Auglaize = Awe-glaze, awe like shock, glaze like ceramics. You were way off on that one. In the U.S., if the name of a place has origins in French, half the time it ends up becoming botched and pronounced like it is spelled.

Ashtabula = Ash-tuh-Beau-la, with Beau emphasized hard and pronounced like the start of beautiful, and tuh being like tug if the g was replaced with an h, or a t was put at the start of "uh". Besides replacing the beau with a boo, you got it right.

De Kalb = Dee cab, the l is silent. However, there is a lot of debate on this one, and some people do treat the l as having a participating sound and all it Dee cal-b, with cal like calorie and putting a hard b sound at the end of it. With certain accents, the Dee part is said so fast you'd have trouble hearing it at all.

Tippecanoe = Tippy-canoe, it lierally sounds like those words said, and it seems like you were a little off on that one.

For the sake of fairness, though, here is how I say these names, as recorded. (my recording equipment is not very good, so my voice sounds a bit higher in the recording than it actually does in person.

Thank you Sarah for taking the trouble to do that, I have never seen that Vocaroo before, it was strange (even though I knew you had one) to hear your American accent, the technology is incredible today, my son and his family live in Cyprus and I speak to him on the phone as if he's standing next to me, in the summer we have a beer together using the iPads,
it's common place for you perhaps but mind blowing for me.

 

[florida2]

I would say it points the meter more toward there being a God than not though.

Which is the point of the answer.

Do the days of the week point towards the Norse gods being real?

 

[Jay Follett]

Do the days of the week point towards the Norse gods being real?

Yes they do, all Gods are real for the people who believe in them.

 

[AV1611VET]

No, it doesn't, any more than Ramadan being a national holiday in Saudi Arabia points the meter more toward Allah existing than not.

How about first things first then?

Does God exist, or doesn't He?

Billions of Jews, Christians, and Muslims say YES, and have evidence.

Settling which one is right is not a matter for atheists.

Atheists need to realize God exists first.

If someone told me not to go into a forest because there was a dragon in there; and someone else said it wasn't a dragon, but a Sasquatch, I'm not going to play the atheist card and assume there is nothing in there to be afraid of.

For all practical purposes, it could be a tiger; but I'd be a ... well ... fool to assume nothing was there.

Millions of Jews + millions of Christians + millions of Muslims ≠ zero.

 

[AV1611VET]

Do the days of the week point towards the Norse gods being real?

I would say YES, since I believe the Norse gods were real in the first place.

QV Genesis 6

 

[AV1611VET]

Yes they do, all Gods are real for the people who believe in them.

But which comes first: God or the people?

There's the difference between a theist and an atheist.

 

[Subduction Zone]

But which comes first: God or the people?

There's the difference between a theist and an atheist.

Since people clearly invented gods I would say that people came first.

 

[AV1611VET]

Since people clearly invented gods I would say that people came first.

Thanks for the QED.

 

[Subduction Zone]

Thanks for the QED.

My question is why do you even bother to post here since you are wrong in almost every single post of yours and you can't ever seem to learn? It appears that you are a bit of a [bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse].

 

[Jay Follett]

But which comes first: God or the people?

Are you trying to tell us that you don't know the answer to that question?
People = Fear of death = Gods, if people had no fear of death why would they need Gods?

 

[Jay Follett]

It appears that you are a bit of a [bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse].

That could well be something all creationists suffer from, masochism, why else would they love to be knocked back all the time.