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[littlehat]

zmix wrote on Fri, 20 March 2009 09:18

I have but one word to contribute to this discussion: "GHOTI".

My favorite post in weeks.

[ssltech]

Let's meeting, to see if the idea of dialoging impacts at all, then brainstorm later.

Text me.

[wwittman]

Strummer wrote on Thu, 19 March 2009 20:06

wwittman wrote on Thu, 19 March 2009 19:32 jetbase wrote on Thu, 19 March 2009 18:05 Fortunately Australians don't have accents. It avoids confusion. I don't know why the rest of the world doesn't follow suit. Streuth I just listened to a voicemail from my boss who has an impenetrable Australian accent. I had to listen to it twice to catch the stacatto bursts of seemingly random words echoing from the back of his throat. I'm still not sure what he wants.

Beer
Sheep
and a fight about it...

[wwittman]

faganking wrote on Thu, 19 March 2009 23:08

I'm with tour as in sewer. How do you pronounce 'orange'?

I say it LEANING toward OH-range.

but I'm a Pom


your kilometers may vary

[wwittman]

this just in:

NO ONE gets his kicks on ROWT 66

router (if referring to choosing the path something takes) rhymes with hooter.

routing (rhymes with out-ing) has to do with scooping out holes in metal or wood.

[PRobb]

How about Chuck Berry-

Cadillac runnin on the open road
Nothin outruns my V8 Ford

Kinda need the accent to make the rhyme work.

[Fig]

wwittman wrote on Fri, 20 March 2009 16:06

faganking wrote on Thu, 19 March 2009 23:08 I'm with tour as in sewer. How do you pronounce 'orange'? I say it LEANING toward OH-range.

Rhymes with "door-hinge"

I say "tour" like "sewer" - but have heard it "ter" on many occassions - including at the beginning of "tournament", but often as "world ter".

I'm curious why the original question was asked, I mean... what's the diff?

[PRobb]

OR-inge. Rhymes with door hinge.

Although I've heard people say Ornge- one syllable.

[PRobb]

How about forest? Is the first syllable like the number four or like far away?

[zmix]

I had a very clever assistant at Clarion Studios in Brighton who pointed out this pronunciation anomaly:

Flood Room Door Book Stool

[Barry Hufker]

It seems he yelled it at you...  I hope you didn't suffer hearing loss.

[Edvaard]

I've always had it as tour, as in du jour, to be the de jure pronunciation of it.



But then this contribution conspired to deja vous my memory about tortured language ...

zmix wrote on Fri, 20 March 2009 09:31

Let's dialog about how using nouns as verbs is impacting our language as messaging transitions language.  We could host the discussion if someone would gift us a server.

I would caveat the readers here to not be in remission in your failure to rememberance the unique linguistically oportunistic  agility embraced by one Mr. Alexander Haig, when in the days he was spotlighted in the domain of publicity.


Some quotes ...


" Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level. "


" The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood. "

" That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. Also, a tactical misrepresentation. "

and one of my personal favorites ...

" I would caveat that statement. "


An excerpt from a parody of the former hard-to-believe-he-was-actually Secretary of State Haig;


"Haig, in congressional hearings before his confirmatory,
paradoxed his auditioners by abnormalling his responds so that verbs
were nouned, nouns verbed and adjectives adverbised. He techniqued a new
way to vocabulary his thoughts so as to informationally uncertain
anybody listening about what he had actually implicationed. At first it
seemed that the general was impenetrabling what at basic was clear.
This, it was suppositioned, was a new linguistic harbingered by NATO
during the time he bellwethered it."



As you can see, Sarah Palin is merely an amateurization of the linguistic debt we owe to Alexander Haig.

[Bryson]

wwittman wrote on Fri, 20 March 2009 14:05

Beer Sheep

I don't know... I'd need a lot of beers.