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« Reply #450 on: 08:40:38, 07-01-2008 » |
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Why do northern Americans persist in mispronouncing the word "wrath"? We heard it again only yesterday. There can be no excuse: it must be simple ignorance must it not.
I am mystified and intrigued! I am evidently mistaken (and must listen more critically), but I had thought that the one notable linguistic contribution N. Americans had made to "English" was to mispronounce everything! I had always assumed that this had been the result of talking while chewing gum (but evidently not). Baz P.S. I once tried talking whilst chewing gum, and thought that it produced quite a credible N. American accent. |
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« Reply #451 on: 03:25:50, 08-01-2008 » |
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I am mystified and intrigued! I am evidently mistaken (and must listen more critically), but I had thought that the one notable linguistic contribution N. Americans had made to "English" was to mispronounce everything! I had always assumed that this had been the result of talking while chewing gum (but evidently not).
Baz
Not that the American residents among us are offended by your prejudices, but perhaps you simply forget that we are here reading this nonsense? |
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« Reply #452 on: 06:04:40, 08-01-2008 » |
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Then again, that could be the intention!
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« Reply #453 on: 12:54:45, 08-01-2008 » |
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capital initials (but no italics) for the Liszt, and, as you say, normal script for a non-specific reference to a piano sonata or sonatas.
Strictly speaking (or muddying the waters still further) a typographer would specify "normal type" or more casually "normal face" assuming that normal has already been defined. |
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Click me -> About meor me -> my handmade storeNo, I'm not a complete idiot. I'm only a halfwit. In fact I'm actually a catfish. |
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« Reply #454 on: 17:35:15, 09-01-2008 » |
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trj, you`re right. I will not be having Windows as my default media player. Enough trouble with their wretched programmes as it is!
You mean "Windows' " I take it? Slap on the wrist mort! |
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« Reply #455 on: 17:44:14, 09-01-2008 » |
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trj, you`re right. I will not be having Windows as my default media player. Enough trouble with their wretched programmes as it is!
You mean "Windows' " I take it? Slap on the wrist mort! Arghhh! Gee, yam ashamed, incs  Trudges off in a resigned manner to find the hair shirt and cilice. |
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« Reply #456 on: 21:04:30, 09-01-2008 » |
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I don't know if American racial politics and race history are of interest to anyone here, but the disinterested can just pass over this link like an oil slick swims on the San Francisco Bay. And as for the uninterested? |
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #457 on: 21:07:19, 09-01-2008 » |
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.... whether there has yet been a homosexualistic president. And if not why not? Britain took that giant step long ago in the Prime Ministerial arena.
William Pitt? Ted Heath? If Syd's definition means they indulged in acts of intimacy with other men, then we don't know. If it means (which I take it to mean) they fancied other men in the way most men fancy women, then only they can say if they did Strictly speaking the last statement is not true. We can't know whether they fancy other men the way most men fancy women, but by the same token neither can they, since just as we have no access to their feelings about other men they have no access to other men's feelings about women. |
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #458 on: 21:35:27, 09-01-2008 » |
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« Reply #459 on: 21:36:42, 09-01-2008 » |
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Strictly speaking that's not correct either, Chafers, but I can't tell you why.
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« Reply #461 on: 21:48:07, 09-01-2008 » |
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.... whether there has yet been a homosexualistic president. And if not why not? Britain took that giant step long ago in the Prime Ministerial arena.
William Pitt? Ted Heath? If Syd's definition means they indulged in acts of intimacy with other men, then we don't know. If it means (which I take it to mean) they fancied other men in the way most men fancy women, then only they can say if they did Strictly speaking the last statement is not true. We can't know whether they fancy other men the way most men fancy women, but by the same token neither can they, since just as we have no access to their feelings about other men they have no access to other men's feelings about women. Well you're correct (IMO) tinners but isn't that a bit solipsistic? We surely have to make some assumptions about other people's (unknown) perceptions of the world, otherwise isn't it going to be impossible to communicate with them? |
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« Reply #463 on: 22:08:31, 09-01-2008 » |
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Well you're correct (IMO) tinners but isn't that a bit solipsistic? We surely have to make some assumptions about other people's (unknown) perceptions of the world, otherwise isn't it going to be impossible to communicate with them?
Yes, of course Andy! I was just saying that we don't know ... Of course we make (more or less informed guesses). But so do we make guesses/assumptions about prime ministers' feelings for other men. I should probably have put a "  " at the end of my post too, so DonB knows I was only having fun, but I always feel I'm overusing smileys.  |
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« Reply #464 on: 13:07:40, 13-01-2008 » |
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I only use jars of paste for Thai food, never for Indian. That is a good example of the "misplaced only" is not it? One must be on one's guard against ambiguity ceaselessly! But the lady Member may console herself with the thought that she is as Eric Partridge points out in the company of Shakespeare, Coleridge, Chesterton, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. . . . |
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