Song Fight Live, 2007 - August 16-18 - Atlanta, GA USA

erik · Post by **erik** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 7:35 pm

wooooowoooooo I've been waiting for that picture for like 2 weeks

Jefff · Post by **Jefff** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 11:34 pm

I was about to get my second wind.

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 4:18 am

Wages wrote:
Sheail wrote:At last I'm home! People are driving on the left, they're pronouncing monty python correctly, everything is right with the world again.
As it turned out most of the photos I took were pretty awful but I have posted a few on my Facebook page. Search for Michael Sheail and you'll find it.
There's a different way to pronounce Monty Python!?

Yes - and like with most things - Americans do it wrong. Americans always over emphisise the second syllable of "python" and say "pie-THON", which is of course, completely stupid. Like leaving the 'u' out of 'colour' and invading Iraq.

Repeat after me:
...Siphon the python should rhyme with hyphen.

The last vowel sound in those 3 words should be the little upside-down 'e' from the International Phonetic Alphabet.

...and another thing, "emu" is pronounced ee-myou. Not ee-moo. That really pisses me off.

Paco Del Stinko · Post by **Paco Del Stinko** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 4:50 am

Well, I've never pronounced it pie-THON. But then again, I'm from the part of the country that most people think talks funny. Pahk the cah in Hahvid yahd, and all that.

wages · Post by **wages** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 5:24 am

Caravan Ray wrote:
Wages wrote:
Sheail wrote:At last I'm home! People are driving on the left, they're pronouncing monty python correctly, everything is right with the world again.
As it turned out most of the photos I took were pretty awful but I have posted a few on my Facebook page. Search for Michael Sheail and you'll find it.
There's a different way to pronounce Monty Python!?
Yes - and like with most things - Americans do it wrong. Americans always over emphisise the second syllable of "python" and say "pie-THON", which is of course, completely stupid. Like leaving the 'u' out of 'colour' and invading Iraq.

Repeat after me:
...Siphon the python should rhyme with hyphen.

The last vowel sound in those 3 words should be the little upside-down 'e' from the International Phonetic Alphabet.

...and another thing, "emu" is pronounced ee-myou. Not ee-moo. That really pisses me off.

Hmm...I think I get these right. How's this:
http://www.philwages.com/music/howtopro ... andEmu.mp3

BTW I actually know people that sound like this, though I am (trying to) imitate Billy Bob Thornton from Sling Blade.

I like the "u" in colour, but my spell check underlines it in red, so it must be wrong. Stupid founders of our language, thinking they know everything. You should be ashamed!

People also tell me it is "OK" not "okay", but I like the later and this is the semblance of a free country, so I'll spell it my way until the Fed breaks into my house under the Un-Patriotic Act and tells me otherwise... oh wait, there's a knock at the door... just a sec...

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I wrote a bunch of stuff to go here, but then I decided to move it to the Daily Roll Call as this isn't the appropriate thread.

Post by jb » Thu Aug 30, 2007 6:45 am

Everyone who has pics on Flickr, please join the Song Fight flickr group.

And make me a contact.

JB

Post by **Lunkhead** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 8:52 am

I've never heard anybody call it "pie-THON", but I'm from roughly the same part of the country as Paco, and other than New England I've only lived in the Midwest (Ohio) and California. Maybe it's just people from the South who say it like that?

Post by **Spud** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 9:33 am

I have heard it pronounced two different ways. The most common here is PIE-thon, not pie-THON. The other one is PITH-on. With the emphasis as in HARD-on.

SPUD

jeff robertson · Post by **jeff robertson** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 10:12 am

Spud wrote:The other one is PITH-on.

I'd rather be PITH-off than PITH-on.

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 1:56 pm

Spud wrote:I have heard it pronounced two different ways. The most common here is PIE-thon, not pie-THON. The other one is PITH-on. With the emphasis as in HARD-on.

It's that second syllable I have trouble with. Wrong sound. Too much emphisis. Not 'THON'. More PYTH'n. I used to be licensed by the Qld government to catch them - I think the authority of that permit also gave me the right to be a prononciation Nazi.

frankie big face · Post by **frankie big face** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 2:12 pm

Caravan Ray wrote: The last vowel sound in those 3 words should be the little upside-down 'e' from the International Phonetic Alphabet.

The schwa.

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 3:29 pm

jb wrote: On another note, I've just taken a preliminary listen to the recordings from last night and I have to say they sounds really good. There's some feedback on them though, so I wonder--- does anyone know how to get rid of feedback via some fance mechanism in Cubase?

Hey jb, how goes progress on the recordings? Did you have any success in removing the feedback? Looking forward to hearing more of them...
-bill

Hoblit · Post by **Hoblit** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 8:37 am

and since this got bumped...lemme remind JB that I never did get his addressed PM'd to my inbox. I still got this guitar stand.