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Re: Do your day to day ties not have enough jingle jangle?
Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 5:03 am
by ricardo_vicente
kiramdear wrote:That's what we get for using a language with no set rules and five ways to pronounce any given vowel
Kira, thanks for that. I was going to embark on a long post about English pronounciation, German pronounciation, regional accents etc. but you saved me doing it.
Re: Do your day to day ties not have enough jingle jangle?
Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 6:01 am
by wayang
I s'pose I can think of at least one reason why a guy named 'Adolph' might want to Americanize the sound of his name...
Yeah, good ol' Eng-lish...I'm fine with it I guess, even though none of my ancestors back two generations or more spoke it. (Well, except for the Irish...I guess they were 'encouraged' to learn it some time ago.) It's got it's strong points, but rules of spelling and pronunciation are not among them. It does feature lots of colorful and rhythmic rhyming possibilities, which makes it good for writing pop lyrics, or screaming cadences at young military recruits in which the faithfulness of their wives or girfriends is called into question.
It is a bit ironic that, more than two hundred years after giving the British King the boot, we Yanks are still using his foot to measure everything and speaking his language....but we do butcher and contort the latter on such a regular basis that that alone continues to qualify us as 'rebels'...
Re: Do your day to day ties not have enough jingle jangle?
Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 2:22 pm
by jingle_jangle
Adolph made a point about the "back" pronunciation; motives unknown.
Anytime you call RIC, a genie's voice answers and says, "Thank you for calling RickenBACKer". If it's good enough for the genie, it should be good enough for us.
Re: Do your day to day ties not have enough jingle jangle?
Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 2:43 pm
by jps
jingle_jangle wrote:Anytime you call RIC, a genie's voice answers and says, "Thank you for calling RickenBACKer". If it's good enough for the genie, it should be good enough for us.
Is that what they call him now?
Re: Do your day to day ties not have enough jingle jangle?
Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2009 11:14 pm
by cassius987
kiramdear wrote:That's what we get for using a language with no set rules and five ways to pronounce any given vowel
We should all be required to read Iain Banks books as children and start spelling in pure phonetics.
Re: Do your day to day ties not have enough jingle jangle?
Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2009 11:28 pm
by kiramdear
Even my kindergarden level understanding of Greek and Latin has improved my grasp of English by a factor of ten. The new methods sound interesting but I'm afraid it's too late to teach this old dog any new tricks
