Who the Hell Made Rebecca Black’s ‘Friday’ Video?

[Koul]

it's so freaking terrible that's it's addicting. I don't think it's something that can be explained. Or I just suck ass and trying to explain it :S

[Chun Liroy]

Idk the gist of it.

[Demosthenes11]

ITT: people that don't know linguistics lecturing about linguistics.

[Chun Liroy]

Like the G in guy or gun or game.

Then what the fuck is gist.
And then what is Gila?

[Aksannyi]

It's a soft g. Am I being trolled?

[Chun Liroy]

THEN WHAT THE FUCK IS GIST. What I meant was, if Gist is a hard g, then "gun" is a soft G, in which case, what the fuck is Gila. If Gila is a soft G and Gun is a hard G, then what the fuck is Gist.

[Aksannyi]

It's pronounced jist which is why so many people misspell it. As for Gila, I'm not familiar with that word (must be a name or a place?) but if it's Guh-ila (best way I can explain how that's pronounced through text) then it's an exception, which I've already admitted exist. English isn't an easy language to learn for this very reason.

[Morn]

THEN WHAT THE FUCK IS GIST. What I meant was, if Gist is a hard g, then "gun" is a soft G, in which case, what the fuck is Gila. If Gila is a soft G and Gun is a hard G, then what the fuck is Gist.

J in disguise?

[Chun Liroy]

It's pronounced jist which is why so many people misspell it. As for Gila, I'm not familiar with that word (must be a name or a place?) but if it's Guh-ila (best way I can explain how that's pronounced through text) then it's an exception, which I've already admitted exist. English isn't an easy language to learn for this very reason.

Gila as in Gila Monster as in "hee-la." And I know how it's pronounced, but what do you call it, a hardER G or what? If Call=hard c and Cee-Lo=soft C... etc.

[Plow]

there's more than 2 g sounds

guh
j
gee

girl
gist
gila

[Aksannyi]

Gist would be a soft G. And Gila, with the h sound would probably just be considered foreign. Then again, I don't know everything, so I'm not sure. But English words not directly stolen from another language don't generally use G in that way. Just because I say jalapeños in my daily speech and the J sounds like an H doesn't mean it's originally an English word. It's just one we appropriated from Spanish. And yes, I know, J isn't G, but it's the same general idea.

Dude I need to get a damn teaching degree. Lulz.

[Chun Liroy]

Gist is a soft G? Goddammit my world is flipped upside down.

[Dylon]

i notice it all the time because my parents first language was Arabic so they always ask me how to pronounce a word with multiple sounds and i never realized how hard it is for someone that never learned those kind of things to figure out the right pronunciation. English really is a difficult language but it has a way to describe anything, where Arabic doesn't and has to sub some words for English

[Aksannyi]

Yeah really. I'm learning Spanish (I consider myself to be passable at this point, I speak conversational Spanish pretty well but I speak only in the present tense, like, "Yesterday I go to the store." and "When I am 16 years old I sing in a show." Protip: I'm 30, lol) and it's so much easier to pick up on the grammatical conventions. The hardest part is learning whether your nouns are el or la which is something we just don't have in English.

[Skidz]

i notice it all the time because my parents first language was Arabic so they always ask me how to pronounce a word with multiple sounds and i never realized how hard it is for someone that never learned those kind of things to figure out the right pronunciation. English really is a difficult language but it has a way to describe anything, where Arabic doesn't and has to sub some words for English

I've always thought the opposite. English seems easy as hell to me, but learning arabic is a pain in the ass, even though it shares its alphabet with my native language. And I'm not so sure arabic has to borrow that many words from english. I once read that arabic is a poet's dream-language; hundreds of synonyms for every word.

[Tellahh]

She also went on to make a on-camera request for her idol Justin Bieber to perform a duet with her.[32]

Oh... My.... God...
Please PLEASE yes hahahahahahah

P.S. are we seriously having a linguistics debate in an internet meme thread? lol

[Yugl]

I've always thought the opposite. English seems easy as hell to me, but learning arabic is a pain in the ass, even though it shares its alphabet with my native language. And I'm not so sure arabic has to borrow that many words from english. I once read that arabic is a poet's dream-language; hundreds of synonyms for every word.

If English is your first language, it will feel that way.

[The Blackrose]

And so it begins...

[Yugl]

I like the name of it.

[dudeguy]

I fully support Anon taking down Ark music but there isn't any good that would come from doing something with the dox on Black. Might as well kill the source of the shit and not one product of it.