Assume v. Presume

[Deleted member 473]

I don't think it is too much to drop the use of names coined by our imperialist, colonialist, cloth-eared forebears in favour of the those, still westernised, alternatives preferred by the local inhabitants.

But would you say Paree instead of Paris? You must be consistent if you are going for native pronunciation. Are you going to start pronouncing all US place names with a US accent? Noo Yak? Bastn?

How about Moskva? Antwerpen? Or

北京?​

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Москва?

I do speak like the natives. The natives of the SE UK.

You a cockney, then? Which bit of the SE UK do you speak like?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Final_er_in_Farmer_English_dialects.PNG

Yes. And what's wrong with that if you're a southerner where grass is grarse and glass is glars as opposed to the way northerners pronounce it as grass and glass (as in ass the animal) that we southerners also pronounce as ass.

Don't get me started on aunt and ant...

 

[Trev]

You a cockney, then? Which bit of the SE UK do you speak like?

Gerorft. I speak English like she are spoke in the rite hand bit of the brown bit at the bottom of the map. (Bexhill)

 

[Luke]

Underpants too tight?

 

[RobH1]

And there was I thinking all sports commentators come from north of the Watford Gap!

Don't think that plonker Motty does.

 

[Deleted member 473]

Selfie indeed! What next? Thisalvo? Edit: should be Thisarvo.

 

[Black Hole]

Sounds rude that!

 

[Deleted member 473]

Sounds rude that!

We went to a degree ceremony last week. Robert Winston was awarding the degrees. I couldn't believe the number of graduates who wanted to take a "selfie" with him. The last one to try it got RW doing "bunny ears" behind their head. (Not this one though.)

 

[Black Hole]

What's "thisalvo" anyhow? A Swedish-designed car manufactured in Scotland??

 

[Deleted member 473]

What's "thisalvo" anyhow? A Swedish-designed car manufactured in Scotland??

'Strine for this afternoon. I think.

(Strine as in Let Stork Strine.)

Actually it's This Arvo. Sorry.

 

[Trev]

@MikeOOO1. Is that you with RW. If so WTH does Mike stand for?? (Other than the National Anthem of course)

 

[Deleted member 473]

@MikeOOO1. Is that you with RW. If so WTH does Mike stand for?? (Other than the National Anthem of course)

ROFL No it's a TV presenter called Julia Bradbury, and I don't stand for the (non) national anthem either unless it's Charles Ives's Variations on America. (Same tune but far more amusing.)

 

[Black Hole]

That's JB??? Would have been more obvious in profile. (JB, love child of BS & BM)

 

[Trev]

Just what are you trying to incinerate about the lovely Julia BH?

 

[MartinOnline]

Incinerate? What a flaming cheek!

 

[Black Hole]

Just what are you trying to incinerate about the lovely Julia BH?

Only that you get a few seconds warning of her entering a room

:cyberbully:

 

[Trev]

......unless it's Charles Ives's Variations on America.

I'll have to have a listen to that if I can find it. I like Jimmi Hendrix's Star Spangled Banner.

 

[Deleted member 473]

I'll have to have a listen to that if I can find it. I like Jimmi Hendrix's Star Spangled Banner.

 

[Deleted member 473]

That's JB??? Would have been more obvious in profile. (JB, love child of BS & BM)

Just for you, BH:

 

[Black Hole]

Well whatd'ya know - Concorde has a PhD!

 

[Trev]

You're soooo unkind BH. Saw her on that maps prog tonight and I didn't fancy yours.