The Many Types of Vapers [tongue in cheek]

[stols001]

I believe you forgot Off Topic Trinity.

I actually know some stuff about vaping, and occasionally I will tell you outright. However, a lot of the time if you want an answer from me you are going to have to wade through paragraphs of my thoughts about my kid's dog and then whatever free associates in my brain from there.

Anna

 

[stratus.vaping]

I'm a Rambling Syd Rumpo type given the chance, does anyone here remember that character from the 1960s?

 

[Electrodave]

Buncha sissy vapers. Around here you just dripped right onto the third rail in the subway in between trains. Had to be careful to get your lips close enough to catch the max vapor, but not kiss the metal. You only got to make that mistake once. No worries about ever doing that a second time.

Out here in the West, we had already figured out how to use a straw.

 

[Zazie]

You haven't experienced enlightenment until you can pronounce svoemesto in at least three regional Deutsch dialects.

So how do you pronounce SvoëMesto? My inclination is to have the first syllable rhyme with "boy," but I've heard "Svay" and "Svo."

 

[stols001]

When I need to say stuff like that I just like, go find a video of a native speaker saying it.

Unless it's an Alsatian word that dialect is just horrific. I lived in Strasburg for a period of time and that may have been one of the WORST things that came out of the war.

If you don't believe me go listen to some.

Anna

 

[Zazie]

When I need to say stuff like that I just like, go find a video of a native speaker saying it.

So do I, but I haven't found one.

 

[Rossum]

So how do you pronounce SvoëMesto?

That's a dang good question. They're a German company, and the German alphabet has three vowels with umlauts over them that are all rather difficult for English speakers to pronounce correctly: Ä/ä, Ö/ö, and Ü/ü. German is also very phonetic, i.e. there's very strong correspondence between spelling and pronunciation. Zey haf Rulz, ja?

What throws me completely for a loop here is that there is no provision in the German language for an umlaut over the letter 'e'. So I'm not sure what to make of the ë in SvoëMesto. My brain wants to move the umlaut back to the 'o' and just ignore the 'e'. I think that's because 'oe' is a acceptable substitute for an 'o' with an umlaut if one is using a keyboard that doesn't readily support vowels with umlauts.

 

[Fidola13]

That's a dang good question. They're a German company, and the German alphabet has three vowels with umlauts over them that are all rather difficult for English speakers to pronounce correctly: Ä/ä, Ö/ö, and Ü/ü. German is also very phonetic, i.e. there's very strong correspondence between spelling and pronunciation. Zey haf Rulz, ja?

What throws me completely for a loop here is that there is no provision in the German language for an umlaut over the letter 'e'. So I'm not sure what to make of the ë in SvoëMesto. My brain wants to move the umlaut back to the 'o' and just ignore the 'e'. I think that's because 'oe' is a acceptable substitute for an 'o' with an umlaut if one is using a keyboard that doesn't readily support vowels with umlauts.

I took German in college. What a mistake. I learned more gutteral sounds that I never knew existed.

 

[chanelvaps]

I am somewhere in between The Shiny Granny and Apocalypse Alex Only I carry my mods in my designer bags that I am also spending the kids inheritance on.

 

[the wind]

They can pry my e-cig from my cold, dead hands. yup, that sums it up.

 

[440BB]

Perhaps metal umlauts were the inspiration...
Blue Öyster Cult

or...
Mötley Crüe


I'd like to think it was the former myself.

 

[Katdarling]

Somehow, I think you may have neglected the Black Rhinestones, and the Bling Market.

 

[AngeNZ]

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So how do you pronounce SvoëMesto? My inclination is to have the first syllable rhyme with "boy," but I've heard "Svay" and "Svo."

Svoy I think - according to this:

 

[Zazie]

I watched that earlier, and of course, because he pronounces it the way I want to, I hope he's correct.

 

[Skeebo]

I watched that earlier, and of course, because he pronounces it the way I want to, I hope he's correct.

I noticed you missed out on the authentic. Have you tried the Kayfun v4 yet? I don't know if you have one already.

 

[Rossum]

Svoy I think - according to this:

Uhm, that guy is speaking French, not German. Why would the way he pronounces it be in any way authoritative?

 

[Rossum]

I took German in college. What a mistake. I learned more gutteral sounds that I never knew existed.

 

[Zazie]

Uhm, that guy is speaking French, not German. Why would the way he pronounces it be in any way authoritative?

My thoughts exactly. Whom to believe? Sure, he says it as I imagined it should be said (the o has to be pronounced, and I would expect the ë--or indeed any accented vowel--to be pronounced as well, which to me seems to yield "oy"), but that doesn't mean he's right.

I noticed you missed out on the authentic. Have you tried the Kayfun v4 yet? I don't know if you have one already.

I do not. I have the KFL+ v2, which I like a lot, and the Prime, which I haven't even washed yet. Should I try to get my hands on a v4? If so, why?

 

[Zazie]

I took German in college. What a mistake. I learned more gutteral sounds that I never knew existed.

I took it for a single semester. Loved it. Wish I'd kept it up.

 

[stols001]

German sounds like coughing up snot in the back of your throat all the time. It's disgusting. I have German relatives and even speak a smidge but I only like Germans who've been inbred so they at least know what a sense of humor is.

Yes, I said it. I have been to Germany several times. I always had to CHIIIIIILLLL I mean it's not what I'd call an uproarious civilization. It's just not. My older brother was crying in a grocery store one time and this old German biddy got right in his face and screamed "Haltz mal!" Or however you spell that (shut up) he spit at her.

My mom had to leave.

Maybe there has been change but one thing is for SURE I need to get my .... to work. Immediately.

I would go with the French guy based on proximity like isn't France closer to Russia or something.

Later,

Anna