Protecting You 2016-11-16
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- jwhouk
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Re: Protecting You 2016-11-16
There's the whole thing with Dr. Leah Brahms and "Booby Trap", of course. The difference is that she was still alive at the time Geordi did that whole holodeck thingy.
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Re: Protecting You 2016-11-16
Mark Twain once said "The common Welsh name, 'Bcxkfffw,' is pronounced 'Jackson'."lake_wrangler wrote:While I was not aware of the Monty Python skit, I did read somewhere (on a trail that started here, no doubt) that there are a few places in England whose pronunciation has nothing to do with the spelling. Either that, or a person's name, or both.Dave wrote:"No no, my name is spelled Luxury Yacht, but it's pronounced Throatwarbler Mangrove."
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Re: Protecting You 2016-11-16
Yeah, but that was then, and this is now.AnotherFairportfan wrote:Mark Twain once said "The common Welsh name, 'Bcxkfffw,' is pronounced 'Jackson'."
One of the lesser-known results of the passage of the Lend-Lease Act of 1941, was that the United States could finally help address the drastic shortage of vowels in wartime Britain. A large portion of the 1941 vowel harvest in Hawaii (they have plenty, grown on fertile soil from all the pahoehoe and aa lava) was airlifted to Britain, and dropped by parachute over vowel-starved areas of Wales.
The citizens of Brstwth were quite grateful, I understand.
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Re: Protecting You 2016-11-16
ROFLMAO
He's mister GlytchMeister, he's mister code
He's mister exploiter, he's mister ones and zeros
They call me GlytchMeister, whatever I touch
Starts to glitch in my clutch!
I'm too much!
He's mister exploiter, he's mister ones and zeros
They call me GlytchMeister, whatever I touch
Starts to glitch in my clutch!
I'm too much!
Re: Protecting You 2016-11-16
Or in RL can any one say 'cholmondeley' properly??AnotherFairportfan wrote:Mark Twain once said "The common Welsh name, 'Bcxkfffw,' is pronounced 'Jackson'."lake_wrangler wrote:While I was not aware of the Monty Python skit, I did read somewhere (on a trail that started here, no doubt) that there are a few places in England whose pronunciation has nothing to do with the spelling. Either that, or a person's name, or both.Dave wrote:"No no, my name is spelled Luxury Yacht, but it's pronounced Throatwarbler Mangrove."
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Re: Protecting You 2016-11-16
As a member of the VFW (Vowels For Wales) I can corroborate the HI vowel harvest story. It was still going on as late as 1965 when I lived there but only on the Big Island.
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Re: Protecting You 2016-11-16
cholmondeley = "Chum Lee" according to one video.
He's mister GlytchMeister, he's mister code
He's mister exploiter, he's mister ones and zeros
They call me GlytchMeister, whatever I touch
Starts to glitch in my clutch!
I'm too much!
He's mister exploiter, he's mister ones and zeros
They call me GlytchMeister, whatever I touch
Starts to glitch in my clutch!
I'm too much!
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Re: Protecting You 2016-11-16
Ja, I wasn't sure. Mainly because of how "coelacanth" is said (see-lah-canth).TazManiac wrote:Leucoisa reads, to me, as 'Loo-Koh-Shia/Sha', or ...'seeaah/saah' on the end there, depending.Gyrrakavian wrote:I wonder if this S.I. could tell us if she's the same siren of that name from Greek mythology? Though she could just be her namesake.
BTW, is her name is said something like "loo-see-sah"?
Maybe - loo-koi-saa...
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Re: Protecting You 2016-11-16
Pronounced Chumley, actually. That's where all of Wales' vowels went, harvested by cruel English landowners to over-glorify their own names.illiad wrote: Or in RL can any one say 'cholmondeley' properly??
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Re: Protecting You 2016-11-16
Similarly, in a cartoon (Either "GI Joe" or "Private Breger" - virtually identical comics, one for Yank and one for Stars & Stripes) Dave Breger, not aware of the highly-classified nature of the program, showed a number of tough-looking women in jump suits and parachutes boarding an aircraft. One GI answers another's puzzled look: "British telephone operators. Dropping them behind the lines to disrupt enemy communications."Dave wrote:Yeah, but that was then, and this is now.AnotherFairportfan wrote:Mark Twain once said "The common Welsh name, 'Bcxkfffw,' is pronounced 'Jackson'."
One of the lesser-known results of the passage of the Lend-Lease Act of 1941, was that the United States could finally help address the drastic shortage of vowels in wartime Britain. A large portion of the 1941 vowel harvest in Hawaii (they have plenty, grown on fertile soil from all the pahoehoe and aa lava) was airlifted to Britain, and dropped by parachute over vowel-starved areas of Wales.
The citizens of Brstwth were quite grateful, I understand.
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Re: Protecting You 2016-11-16
One word:
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Re: Protecting You 2016-11-16
Ah, yes! I think they chose the code name after the American "Rosie the riveter" program, and called it "Ernestine the operator".AnotherFairportfan wrote:One GI answers another's puzzled look: "British telephone operators. Dropping them behind the lines to disrupt enemy communications."
I understand it took those women months to learn to say "One ringy-dingy" and "Is this the party to whom I am speaking?" in the proper Swabian accent.
Reut you are!lake_wrangler wrote:One word:
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Re: Protecting You 2016-11-16
Better not tell Leucoisa to her face (real or simulated) that you're comparing her to a "living fossil" fish. . .Gyrrakavian wrote:Ja, I wasn't sure. Mainly because of how "coelacanth" is said (see-lah-canth).