AdamJames
Well-Known Member
I love the way certain Americans pronounce "Diabetes". I'm not too clued up on American regional accents, but I think I'm referring to a 'southern' accent.
I can't find it again, but I was watching a documentary clip on YouTube and a chap there pronounced it "dar-bee-tus", which is my favourite pronunciation.
When trying to find it again, I stumbled on lots of clips of Wilford Brimley pronouncing the word in a similar way, but at least he gets the first bit right ("dia-bee-tus" as opposed to "dar-bee-tus").
I have the sense of humour of a two year old most of the time and really enjoyed watching lots of the Wilf Brimley "dia-beetus" remix videos on Youtube.
I didn't recognise Wilford Brimley but apparently he's been in a few old movies that I've seen - I'll be keeping a look out for him next time I watch them.
I looked him up on Wikipedia and his life seems like a typical story for someone with T2. I expect a lot of us T2s, especially the overweight ones like me, look back wistfully on our youthful years, and remember feeling fit, healthy and active, and are bemused at how we have now become overweight with a metabolic disorder. Where did it all go so wrong?
Poor old Wilf is an exaggerated version of this: A youth apparently full of vigour - he was in the Marines, then worked as a bodyguard, a ranch hand, a wrangler a blacksmith and a stuntman ... and then at some point in life finds that he's become an extremely overweight man with - well, dia-bee-tus.
Some people make fun of him in an unpleasant way, and some people just find his pronunciation of dia-bee-tus funny and make Youtube remixes of it.
I don't know where I'm going with all this, but anyway, over the last few days I realise that I now have an incurable case of "dar-bee-tus". I can't stop saying it out loud just for the fun of it, and I'm worried someone will hear me.
Dar-bee-tus.
Daaaaaaaaaar ... beetus.
I think it's incurable
If I can pull it back from dar-bee-tus to at least dia-bee-tus, does that count as remission?
Also, on a really sad note, I noticed he also made a commercial for Quaker oats, something I guess most T2s these days will have realised is not entirely good for them. Watching these two videos side by side is really sad I thought. It shows how vulnerable we all are to current dietary advice, and how easy it is to go wrong in spite of our best efforts:
PS: if you're wondering what the point of this post is, then that makes two of us
I can't find it again, but I was watching a documentary clip on YouTube and a chap there pronounced it "dar-bee-tus", which is my favourite pronunciation.
When trying to find it again, I stumbled on lots of clips of Wilford Brimley pronouncing the word in a similar way, but at least he gets the first bit right ("dia-bee-tus" as opposed to "dar-bee-tus").
I have the sense of humour of a two year old most of the time and really enjoyed watching lots of the Wilf Brimley "dia-beetus" remix videos on Youtube.
I didn't recognise Wilford Brimley but apparently he's been in a few old movies that I've seen - I'll be keeping a look out for him next time I watch them.
I looked him up on Wikipedia and his life seems like a typical story for someone with T2. I expect a lot of us T2s, especially the overweight ones like me, look back wistfully on our youthful years, and remember feeling fit, healthy and active, and are bemused at how we have now become overweight with a metabolic disorder. Where did it all go so wrong?
Poor old Wilf is an exaggerated version of this: A youth apparently full of vigour - he was in the Marines, then worked as a bodyguard, a ranch hand, a wrangler a blacksmith and a stuntman ... and then at some point in life finds that he's become an extremely overweight man with - well, dia-bee-tus.
Some people make fun of him in an unpleasant way, and some people just find his pronunciation of dia-bee-tus funny and make Youtube remixes of it.
I don't know where I'm going with all this, but anyway, over the last few days I realise that I now have an incurable case of "dar-bee-tus". I can't stop saying it out loud just for the fun of it, and I'm worried someone will hear me.
Dar-bee-tus.
Daaaaaaaaaar ... beetus.
I think it's incurable
If I can pull it back from dar-bee-tus to at least dia-bee-tus, does that count as remission?
Also, on a really sad note, I noticed he also made a commercial for Quaker oats, something I guess most T2s these days will have realised is not entirely good for them. Watching these two videos side by side is really sad I thought. It shows how vulnerable we all are to current dietary advice, and how easy it is to go wrong in spite of our best efforts:
PS: if you're wondering what the point of this post is, then that makes two of us