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Rob is multiculturally punny.

 

I think I am too white to be exotic.

 

Actually it wasn't meant to be a pun. That would be "Sheik", which would mean she was a man. And she probably isn't.

Shiek isn't even a real word, yet fashion designers use it all the time. It felt appropriate and it was meant as a compliment.

 

*looks panicked at Robsies*

Sheik....it looks that bad>??? ...I'm get my hair shorned real short tommorrow then!

*offers Carmina her complexion*


I'd kill to look like you...*sigh*


Ok, how many times have I said that?


Edit-Read it, read it...Shiek...right...thanks

 

That's "chic". Fashion term is "chic"

 

Learn something new every day.

 

Yes, learn something from Carmina....Chic....how did you mistake something as clearly pronounced as "chic" for 'shiek'?

 

Because it's pronounced the same.

 

Yeah? No? Chic is chick as in the girl chick, the chicken chick...and shiek is shallow shiek!

 

I suppose it's kind of like chartreuse. The ch gets a sh sound.

So chic is pronounced like sheek.

I just want everyone to know that my improper spelling stemmed from ignorance rather than trying to make an ethnic pun.

 

Chic isn't pronounced the same way as 'Chick', because the 'K' changes the way in which you pronounce the 'i'.

It goes from 'i' to an 'ee' sound.

However, the 'Ch' in this case changes from a 'Ch' sound to a 'Sh' sound.

...does that make sense?

Wow I suck at explaining...

 

Nah, I get what you mean, I was just explaining the ch/sh part. ch of chic is like च in Hindi, where as sh of shiek is like श of hindi. Both are distinctive sounds. Or maybe the accent factor plays in..*shrug*

 

In other news....

Spoiler

Me and one of my besties. Aren't we cute?

 

You just gotta live in a country where white girls are exotic (pretty much anywhere in Asia will get you exotic status)

 

I don't care much for ethnic puns. But I believe sheik is properly pronounced like shake anyway.

 

Does it depend on whether the i or the e is first? Because Princess Zelda's alter-ego Shiek was always pronounced "Sheek" by everyone I knew.

 

Confirmed. I've met two three Gulf Sheiks here...and well, that's how they pronounced it too..

 

I love how this is the picture thread yet we are debating spelling and pronunciation...such writers

 

I used the i before the e. Sadly, Zelda is where my ignorance of the proper spelling stemmed from.

Boy, am I embarassed now. :redface:

Me either. Which is why I never intended for there to be one.

 

Mal...well it should...at least Arabic does make that differentiation, same for Urdu and Hindi...but not knowing who Princess Zelda is....lol

Carm....agreed.

Okay, someone post pictures please...*looks appealingly*

 

Your wish, my command. I dont know if you guys have seen this one before or not, but if you have, it doesnt hurt to see it again.

My Baby.

Okay, now everybody go "Awwwwww."

Her name is Sugar Raye, because she is a boxer... and there indeed a professional human boxer named Sugar Raye.
If you'd like to meet her, she's sleeping at my feet currently.

 

I posted a buttload of pictures in a new thread asking for help narrowing down my selection of pics to enter into a contest.
https://www.writingforums.org/showthread.php?t=22844

 

From Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time!!

Though, apparently his/her name is spelled Sheik. So...everyone I know is wrong!

 

awwwwwwwwwwwwwww.....*waves to Sugar Ray*

oops, she's sleeping you say? Then she can't see my wave.

*speaks*

Hey Sugar Raye!

goes to check 'em out

bonny lass

 

I figured it was time to unleash my (not really new) hair on all of you.

I modified the background. I would do more, but that sort of hair is difficult to manipulate.