How would you pronounce "forte" if used in "Math is my forte."?
Now, as a reward for enduring my question....
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Now, as a reward for enduring my question....
Exactly. I didn't even realize I pronounced it differently than others until a few years ago when my girlfriends at the time started laughing at me.
Check my edit to that post.
I made it more annoying.
In answer to your question, I would pronounce forte as if it was spelled fortay.
Oh, dear.
I'll leave it to you to research your error.
Because of widespread error about pronouncing "forte",
I don't use the word to describe having facility with something.
Even when written & unspoken, it's pronounced incorrectly.
Edit:
I didn't allow for the possibility that you might be one of those
early adopters of language evolution, which turns errors into
the new standard.
From Marriam-Webster:
How do you pronounce forte?
In forte we have a word derived from French that in its "strong point" sense has no entirely satisfactory pronunciation. Usage writers have denigrated \ˈfȯr-ˌtā\ and \ˈfȯr-tē\ because they reflect the influence of the Italian-derived 2forte. Their recommended pronunciation \ˈfȯrt\, however, does not exactly reflect French either: the French would write the word le fort and would pronounce it more similar to English for. So you can take your choice, knowing that someone somewhere will dislike whichever variant you choose. All are standard, however. In British English \ˈfȯ-ˌtā\ and \ˈfȯt\ predominate; \ˈfȯr-ˌtā\ and \fȯr-ˈtā\ are probably the most frequent pronunciations in American English.
You get a frubal because you found support for my avoiding the word entirely.
It feels like winning!
Language is flexible. It evolves over time and standards change. The word "ain't" is a wonderful example.
Aye, "ain't" is now a perfectly cromulent word.
But I still refuse to accept "pasghetti".
ExVasterist
Ex-Member of RF (I'm a Ghost)
Hmmmm.... Lemme think....
1. Played a game called "The Dragon Knight Saga" for xbox 360, from the moment I started played to the moment I 100% completed the game, I didn't sleep at all. 96 hours playing a game from start to finish. Then a few months later, played it again, and I did it again, stayed up 96 hours playing a game I had already beaten. Scary bit is, I miss playing that game (its been years since I owned it) and want to do it all again.
2. My dreams are highly detailed, not in the sense that I see something or do something, I mean they feel real, so much so that my body reacts to what I'm experiencing in the dream. One dream involved me storming a military base, shooting everyone I came across. At the end of the dream I ended up on the roof of a 3 story building, couple guys riddled me with bullets and I fell from the roof landing on my back, somehow I survived, then a Colonel walks up to me and says "I'm so disappointed in you son" then aims a gun at my head, fires, then I wake up. I woke up feeling burns all over my chest, my back felt like someone bashed it with a sledgehammer, and I felt agonizing pain the spot on my head where I was shot in the dream. Even dreamed I had horns and they were broken off, woke up feeling pain in my head on both sides where my horns would've been. Another where I was impaled by a sword, woke up feeling the pain where I was impaled in the dream.
3. I believe in Ghosts but I have trouble believing in God.
4. Its much easier for me to talk to people online than it is to talk to people in person, no idea why.
5. I haven't had a single nightmare since I was 17. Most dreams now are just plain bizarre or absolutely exciting. My last nightmare I had was ended by a symbol I had never seen before then & no one knows what it means.
6. Watching TV is pointless to me, most of what I can watch is on the internet anyways. No idea why my wife got a TV since both of us hardly use it.
7. Dating my own generation never worked out, they are were too "me me me", don't understand how relationships work, will look for dumb excuses as to why I'm dating them (example: "Best I could get" and regardless of what I say, its horrible), they say one thing while meaning the complete opposite, and I always felt I was dating children.
8. Along with my realistic dreams comes my Sleep Apnea - I'll dream I'm swallowing something that I know I'll choke on, and just as I begin to choke, I wake up feeling like I'm choking on that object, I can feel it there - it takes me several minutes to convince myself "Its all in your head". Even better is that if I have trouble sleeping thanks to choke dreams, later it'll get worse to where I'll be close to passing out and then I feel like I'mm sinking into a bottomless pit, like I'm passing out in Quick Sand, then I'll have the uncontrollable urge to reach out and grab something to pull myself out.
9. I'm overly analytical about almost everything, so with that in mind I don't understand phrases or jokes, I'll even be overly analytical when grocery shopping - comparing prices & the weight of the items I'm considering to buy.
10. I can't eat any sweats of any kind without feeling heavily nauseated (like I'm gonna puke). That means, no candy, no doughnuts, no cupcakes, no gum, and no cake ever.
11. I hate my real name, I want to change it to the names I came up with.
12. I never make plans cause I can't predict the future.
13. I haven't gotten the stomach flu since I was 17, I'm 33 now.
14. I'm the only one in my entire family that wants to GAIN weight and have unbelievable trouble doing it. Most of my life, my weight has been 140 lbs and I'm 6'2" which means I very badly underweight for my height, I'm suppose to weigh 190 to 210 for my height. Once I had four pan plates worth of Lasagna, I ate them all in 2 days, pretty much a bowl of Lasagna every 3 hours (no idea where the craving came from), but then all the 3rd day I went straight back down to 140 from 150.
Only recently has my weight gotten better, but its not getting any higher than 170. Damn my ridiculously fast metabolism.
And yes, I've heard it many times, you wish you could have my metabolism, Honestly you don't. I'm mostly skin & bones and because of the lack of meat on my bones I get cold even during Summer.
15. I recognize my flaws far better than I recognize my pros. If I were to try to explain myself in a positive light, I'll feel like I'm being egotistical or that I'm over-exaggerating.
16. Oh yeah, I remember my dreams far better than I remember my own real life past. I remember a dream I had when I was 16, but while I was 16, most of it is a blur.
17. Lastly. I can't cry when people I love die. Close friend died of cocaine overdose, didn't shed a tear. Grandfather died in 2014/15 and he was more of a father to me than my biological father could ever hope to be, again didn't shed one tear, didn't even feel a little sad about his passing. Yet I cried when all my dogs died, the last one I dearly loved and rescued when I was 4 died on my 16th birthday, possibly the most traumatic part in my entire life and it changed me forever.
That about sums up the unusual things about me.
1. Played a game called "The Dragon Knight Saga" for xbox 360, from the moment I started played to the moment I 100% completed the game, I didn't sleep at all. 96 hours playing a game from start to finish. Then a few months later, played it again, and I did it again, stayed up 96 hours playing a game I had already beaten. Scary bit is, I miss playing that game (its been years since I owned it) and want to do it all again.
2. My dreams are highly detailed, not in the sense that I see something or do something, I mean they feel real, so much so that my body reacts to what I'm experiencing in the dream. One dream involved me storming a military base, shooting everyone I came across. At the end of the dream I ended up on the roof of a 3 story building, couple guys riddled me with bullets and I fell from the roof landing on my back, somehow I survived, then a Colonel walks up to me and says "I'm so disappointed in you son" then aims a gun at my head, fires, then I wake up. I woke up feeling burns all over my chest, my back felt like someone bashed it with a sledgehammer, and I felt agonizing pain the spot on my head where I was shot in the dream. Even dreamed I had horns and they were broken off, woke up feeling pain in my head on both sides where my horns would've been. Another where I was impaled by a sword, woke up feeling the pain where I was impaled in the dream.
3. I believe in Ghosts but I have trouble believing in God.
4. Its much easier for me to talk to people online than it is to talk to people in person, no idea why.
5. I haven't had a single nightmare since I was 17. Most dreams now are just plain bizarre or absolutely exciting. My last nightmare I had was ended by a symbol I had never seen before then & no one knows what it means.
6. Watching TV is pointless to me, most of what I can watch is on the internet anyways. No idea why my wife got a TV since both of us hardly use it.
7. Dating my own generation never worked out, they are were too "me me me", don't understand how relationships work, will look for dumb excuses as to why I'm dating them (example: "Best I could get" and regardless of what I say, its horrible), they say one thing while meaning the complete opposite, and I always felt I was dating children.
8. Along with my realistic dreams comes my Sleep Apnea - I'll dream I'm swallowing something that I know I'll choke on, and just as I begin to choke, I wake up feeling like I'm choking on that object, I can feel it there - it takes me several minutes to convince myself "Its all in your head". Even better is that if I have trouble sleeping thanks to choke dreams, later it'll get worse to where I'll be close to passing out and then I feel like I'mm sinking into a bottomless pit, like I'm passing out in Quick Sand, then I'll have the uncontrollable urge to reach out and grab something to pull myself out.
9. I'm overly analytical about almost everything, so with that in mind I don't understand phrases or jokes, I'll even be overly analytical when grocery shopping - comparing prices & the weight of the items I'm considering to buy.
10. I can't eat any sweats of any kind without feeling heavily nauseated (like I'm gonna puke). That means, no candy, no doughnuts, no cupcakes, no gum, and no cake ever.
11. I hate my real name, I want to change it to the names I came up with.
12. I never make plans cause I can't predict the future.
13. I haven't gotten the stomach flu since I was 17, I'm 33 now.
14. I'm the only one in my entire family that wants to GAIN weight and have unbelievable trouble doing it. Most of my life, my weight has been 140 lbs and I'm 6'2" which means I very badly underweight for my height, I'm suppose to weigh 190 to 210 for my height. Once I had four pan plates worth of Lasagna, I ate them all in 2 days, pretty much a bowl of Lasagna every 3 hours (no idea where the craving came from), but then all the 3rd day I went straight back down to 140 from 150.
Only recently has my weight gotten better, but its not getting any higher than 170. Damn my ridiculously fast metabolism.
And yes, I've heard it many times, you wish you could have my metabolism, Honestly you don't. I'm mostly skin & bones and because of the lack of meat on my bones I get cold even during Summer.
15. I recognize my flaws far better than I recognize my pros. If I were to try to explain myself in a positive light, I'll feel like I'm being egotistical or that I'm over-exaggerating.
16. Oh yeah, I remember my dreams far better than I remember my own real life past. I remember a dream I had when I was 16, but while I was 16, most of it is a blur.
17. Lastly. I can't cry when people I love die. Close friend died of cocaine overdose, didn't shed a tear. Grandfather died in 2014/15 and he was more of a father to me than my biological father could ever hope to be, again didn't shed one tear, didn't even feel a little sad about his passing. Yet I cried when all my dogs died, the last one I dearly loved and rescued when I was 4 died on my 16th birthday, possibly the most traumatic part in my entire life and it changed me forever.
That about sums up the unusual things about me.
Buddha Dharma
Dharma Practitioner
I also have no TV, and I like philosophy. It seems many people lack in that particular. Philosophy is 'boring' people tell me.
ExVasterist
Ex-Member of RF (I'm a Ghost)
LOL then counter them with "Then that means you find self-discovery, learning, different viewpoints, achieving your goals, realizing your dreams, gaining new insight of your surroundings every single day, knowledge, wisdom, and examples to go by & be inspired to follow as also boring."
Philosophy applies to absolutely everything, those "people" must live extraordinarily boring lives if they truly believe that.
sandy whitelinger
Veteran Member
I'm warlock.What are some fairly unusual things about you, at least compared to those in your social circle?
Off the top of my head, these are mine (without anything connected to religion or politics):
• Since August 2011, I've only watched four movies, each only once. I haven't watched any TV shows in that period. Both are purely due to lack of interest.
• I (intentionally) don't have a TV, and I dislike satellite TV.
• For some reason I don't gain or lose weight regardless of my diet, activity or lack thereof, or anything else. Since 2012, I've only gained one kilogram (or about 2.2 pounds). This includes times when I mostly lived on fast food for at least two months and others when my appetite was barely existent.
• I'm purposely fairly distant from most people around me except for only a few—not on bad terms with anyone, but also only close to few.
Your turn!
ExVasterist
Ex-Member of RF (I'm a Ghost)
Which kind?
sandy whitelinger
Veteran Member
There's kinds?
Oooh, Brussels sprouts -- with Italian chestnuts!I have a double crown. (I know, how fitting, eh?)
The largest solar flare recorded (to that date) was on the day of my birth, Feb. 23, 1956.
I love Brussels sprouts.
I can recite about 8,000 lines (not words) from many of Shakespeare's plays, sonnets and poems, along with many thousands of lines from other plays, operas, musicals and poems (in several languages). I love that kind of language (and can't create a bit of myself, interestingly).
My life partner insists I don't recite to him!
My life partner insists I don't recite to him!
Following on the Shakespeare thing, and your "Double Crown," as a male with pretty severe male pattern baldness, I have more of a Hollow Crown. (Richard II by Shakespeare: "for within the hollow crown that rounds the mortal temples of a king keeps Death his court -- and there the antic sits, mocking his state and grinning at his pomp, allowing him a breath, a little scene to monarchize, be feared and kill with looks...")I have a double crown. (I know, how fitting, eh?)
The largest solar flare recorded (to that date) was on the day of my birth, Feb. 23, 1956.
I love Brussels sprouts.
YmirGF
Bodhisattva in Recovery
With anything.
I love them in stirr fry.
Just please, leave them some tooth! Unlike how they used to be prepared when I was young (well, that's pre-history now, I suppose).With anything.