Revenge is best served cold. I read a book on proper scientific English. It had the same refreshing attitude we seem to have about proper English. It is an exercise in being understood correctly (I tried exorcise and was not corrected, but tried a different spelling in case it meant the casting out of evil spirits) not an excuse for pedantic putdowns. It even showed a case where the common usage was shown to be more correct than how pedants tended to do it. Unfortunately, I lack the kind of mind to remember the example though. I had a friend who was an English major write a poem with a syllabic structure much like haiku for a winter solstice ceremony. The person who was to read it rewrote it into proper English, completely disrupting its natural rhythm when it was read out loud. My friend was not impressed.
A refreshing and liberal attitude, yes, because I agree that clear communication is of first importance (except in only a few instances where good spelling really is equally as important; published authorship, for one, and that’s what we have editors for if we need them) but I’d think that scientific English would absolutely require at least some attention to precision. I mean, who knows what flesh-eating blob you might unleash on the world for the difference of a letter?
If all he’s doing to sound Castillian is lisping, how does he really know that he sounds Castillian? Everyone probably just thinks he lisps. My guess about why he doesn’t do a British accent is because he knows no more about British accents than Castillian accents. If a person is going to be snobbish with a British accent, a person had better choose the right one. That takes research and practice with more than just pronounciation. That takes knowledge of word choice and history and all kinds of stuff. I don’t think he’d be able to pull off that without getting busted at least once.
I’ve lived in West Virginia for my whole adult life. Locals still ask me where I’m from.
I think that is covered under being understood. A funny example of purely pragmatic understanding vs proper English was that this word spit between lines between the first and second syllable becomes fig-
urine even though it is supposed to still be read as figurine.
And now I have a new way to pronounce “statuette”. 
I saw an article somewhere the other day about asparagus-urine…maybe I should’a read it 
Just asparagus the details, thank you.
Shouldn’t it have been كيشي or Portuguese which is Q U I C H E? It’s good made with aspergillus too.
Look, I can’t read the first one and I already spelled it out above in French fashion (so I can’t be sure you ever read far enough to notice this, oh, I don’t know, possibly important detail). If I know anything of the little I do of Portuguese pronunciation and if they do in fact spell it the same way as the French (I really can’t be arsed to check. Maybe some other day.), then “keish” would come even less close to that. Anyway. What were you saying, again?
…I seem to recall some of us were mentioning the importance of clear communication (and that would go for a reader being able get one’s jokes, too), not that it apparently matters… 
If the explanation is that you were PUI (Posting Under the Influence), dwest, then be a mensch for our sakes and give that a rest, wouldja?
What is an asparagusurine?
don’t know, didn’t read it
I don’t know. But I’m sure he’s trying to do it right. Just as he tries to speak Scots Gaelic with a highland accent, French with an aristocratic Parisian accent, German like someone west of the ex wall, and Swahili with a…I’m not going to guess. This is someone who brushes up on chemistry by reading a textbook in Spanish, cannot be stumped by any word in the GRE vocab study list, but distractedly lets his baby roll off the changing table. She grew up ok though.
Asparigee-pee. It’s a central-Massachusetts thing. Katharine Hepburn knew, but she’s not here to help out. Just go with it.
Not an “an”, but rather, ask “What is asparagusurine?” First - just to be CLEAR - it’s an adjective. One condition of being asparagusal (also of course an adjective) gives us the noun “asparagusure” (a formation in kind with such nouns as “indenture” and “tenure”, so you can see that this is a nuance that implies a state wherein asparagus-ness has, or in theory could have, a function. IOW, something like a job), so: that which shows the nature of operating in a position of instituted asparagusality - asparagusure for short - is said to be asparagusurine.
A series of subtle distinctions, here, for the aspiring idioglot to ponder.
And I’m guessing this must be an asparacophagus. You know, for the dearly departed, like. It looks possibly French, so maybe they’d give it a nicer French-sounding name like cercueil-asperge. Did you get it on eBay?
It’s an asparagusurine I found using an on line image search. Your pedantic [twitness(?) twittyness(?) twittishness (?)] is showing(or is it twittieness?).
Ah, like “terrine”, then.
The first and third are fine. The second and last are simply a matter of spelling, which I’m hesitant to point out because I know you’re sensitive about that. But forgive me anyhow, think of me as being helpful, and spell it this way: Twittiness.
All things being equal, you got your point accross. And isn’t that what counts? Yes. It is.
BTW, I think a certain notorious social messaging site has its name, Twitter, for better reason than its inventors ever guessed. I might also mention that I’m not on it.
I don’t think that’s the name given to this. The site you got it from is Limoges Boxes, and it’s just listed as a “trinket box”. As far as I can tell, there’s no actual word “asparagusurine”. There is the two-word phrase we know and love, of course.
Well. If ever you wanted a pedant, Rod, here’s your chance to say Hello.
Is it impolite? You’re being a bit reticent, there.