On Sat, 08 Oct 2005 16:50:30 -0500, Bob Bob wrote:

We could no doubt go on forever. I maintain though that it doesn't
matter how bad you spell, use colloquial terms or different languages.
What matters is that we allow for ambiguous meaning and then dialogue to
rectify misunderstanding..

That's what our rulers (President and Prime Minister) count on...
confusion among the people!

On Sun, 09 Oct 2005 02:21:03 GMT, wrote:



Why doesn't getting knocked up in England result in babies?


Wow... that's cutting things close...

I could add the word ass and fanny to the conversation we're having
but I'd better not !

Peter, G3PHO

Peter wrote:
I could add the word ass and fanny to the conversation we're having
but I'd better not !

In England, a friend of mine was introduced thusly:
"Hey Everyone! Here's a friend from America! He's Randy!"
Randy wondered why everyone was laughing.
--
73, Cecil, http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp

Cecil Moore wrote:

Peter wrote:

I could add the word ass and fanny to the conversation we're having
but I'd better not !


In England, a friend of mine was introduced thusly:
"Hey Everyone! Here's a friend from America! He's Randy!"
Randy wondered why everyone was laughing.

I'm ignorant [technical usage] please tell me why!

On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 17:47:59 -0400, Amos Keag wrote:
Cecil Moore wrote:
Peter wrote:

I could add the word ass and fanny to the conversation we're having
but I'd better not !

In England, a friend of mine was introduced thusly:
"Hey Everyone! Here's a friend from America! He's Randy!"
Randy wondered why everyone was laughing.

I'm ignorant [technical usage] please tell me why!

I suppose that includes "web ignorant", too...

http://www.google.com/search?&q=define:Randy

Amos Keag wrote:
Cecil Moore wrote:
In England, a friend of mine was introduced thusly:
"Hey Everyone! Here's a friend from America! He's Randy!"
Randy wondered why everyone was laughing.

I'm ignorant [technical usage] please tell me why!

I think it's because "randy" in England means the same
thing as "horny" in the US.
--
73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp

Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant,
nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins
weren't invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are
candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat. We take English for
granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work
slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor
is it a pig.

And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce
and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural
of booth, beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2
indices? Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend?
If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them,
what do you call it?

If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats
vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? Sometimes I think all the English
speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what
language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and
send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell?

How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a
wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a
language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill
in a form by filling it out and in which, an alarm goes off by going on.

English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the
creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all. That
is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are
out, they are invisible.

PS. - Why doesn't "Buick" rhyme with "quick"



"Peter" wrote in message
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On Sat, 08 Oct 2005 13:33:35 -0400, Amos Keag
wrote:

Because it's ALUMINUM!!!

Tyre is an ancient biblical city. Tire is that round thingee between my
automobile and the road surface.


Tire is what I do very rapidly when listen to a politician spout forth
on the TV ... :-)

OK. So a linear amp would be built with tubes to allow full flow of signal
without restriction, while an audio amp might be built with valves, because
we would want to control (restrict) the audio volume.

This thread seems to have a life of its own. From ally to this!

Amazing!

--
Pete . .
ZS5ACT
http://www.electronic-ideas.com/zs5act/

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"Dave Piggin" wrote in message
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Also, why do we say tube rather than valve?

Because a tube allows a substance through it without restriction, a
valve is a device for controlling such.
Dave

On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 22:40:14 -0400, "Fred W4JLE"
wrote:

English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the
creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all.

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English is long overdue for an overhaul. Countless hours are spent by
schoolchildren learning all the bizarre exceptions to the "rules",
which aren't really rules at all. What a waste of time!

I would like to see a commission established to reform spelling, to
begin with, and if successful, work on grammar.

I love the English language, but the time has come.

73, Bill W6WRT

"Bruce" wrote in message
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wrote in
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On Sat, 08 Oct 2005 14:43:58 -0500, Bob Bob wrote:

And being even further OT

Brings further ambiguity to the term "retired" as well. (Like my 65 yo
father just had a wheel transplant)

Since I live in W5... How does one say/spell Titanium/Titanum?

I look at signs on the side of the road "Hiway" and cant for the life
of me work out what that means...

Peter, its actually said in the US how it looks.

Which is why we pronounce extraordinary with five or six
syllables instead of two.

This gets real
confusing for me! (Along with driving on the WRONG side of the road!
grin)

Cheers Bob W5/VK2YQA East Texas
(past the langauge test - can say "Y'all" easily)

John N9JG wrote:

Why do you guys in the US always omit the "i" in aluminium ?


You mean the second "i"? Probably because we spell it correctly: Aluminum.
;~)

But you do it ONLY to Alumin(i)um. What about Lithium, Barium, Chromium,
Ruthenium, Titanium, Uranium, and so on......?

I suppose we could also ask why you need to pronounce the first "u" hard.

Most South Africans don't.

73
Roger ZR3RC