Apollo XIII-inconsistences

[Glom]

Mongolian next. That'll look interesting.

[gillianren]

Tarkus , tá tú ag dul chun leanúint ar aghaidh chun spout bruscar gan bhunús nó go bhfuil tú ag dul chun retract duit argóintí .

ETA: And if you think I am fluent in Gaelic, you are mistaken. Google translator has its uses for those that are mono-lingual. I just thought Gaelic would be an interesting slant.

I'm not fluent, but I knew the first two words!

[AtomicDog]

wa' laH ngu' 'ar nuvpu' jIyay'.

Ah, but have you read Hamlet in the Original Klingon?

And the operas are great too.

MELOOOTA!

[DD Brock]

wa' laH ngu' 'ar nuvpu' jIyay'.

Ah, but have you read Hamlet in the Original Klingon?

And the operas are great too.

MELOOOTA!

That's gonna irritate the fat Ferengi...

[nomuse]

It ain't over 'till The Nagus sings...

[Bryanpoprobson]

Shakespeare is expensive in Klingon.. 

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hamlet-Prince-Denmark-Restored-Klingon/dp/0964434512

Must be something to do with P&P from Kronos.

[twik]

Tarkus , tá tú ag dul chun leanúint ar aghaidh chun spout bruscar gan bhunús nó go bhfuil tú ag dul chun retract duit argóintí .

ETA: And if you think I am fluent in Gaelic, you are mistaken. Google translator has its uses for those that are mono-lingual. I just thought Gaelic would be an interesting slant.

Technically, since you are addressing Tarkus by name, you need to add a vocative particle, making it "A Tarkus" (similar to English "O Tarkus"). If Tarkus were a Gaelic name, you'd also have to lenit the first letter of the name, and "slenderize" the end, turning it into "A Tharkuis!" and throwing the pronunciation completely out of the ring. However, this is generally not done if the name isn't Gaelic to begin with. This is probably because non-Gaelic people would never answer when called by a Gaelic speaker. "Who is this Vary person you're calling for? My name's Mary!"

This is about all I can remember from my two years of Gaelic night classes.

[Echnaton]

Tarkus , tá tú ag dul chun leanúint ar aghaidh chun spout bruscar gan bhunús nó go bhfuil tú ag dul chun retract duit argóintí .

ETA: And if you think I am fluent in Gaelic, you are mistaken. Google translator has its uses for those that are mono-lingual. I just thought Gaelic would be an interesting slant.

Technically, since you are addressing Tarkus by name, you need to add a vocative particle, making it "A Tarkus" (similar to English "O Tarkus"). If Tarkus were a Gaelic name, you'd also have to lenit the first letter of the name, and "slenderize" the end, turning it into "A Tharkuis!" and throwing the pronunciation completely out of the ring. However, this is generally not done if the name isn't Gaelic to begin with. This is probably because non-Gaelic people would never answer when called by a Gaelic speaker. "Who is this Vary person you're calling for? My name's Mary!"

This is about all I can remember from my two years of Gaelic night classes.

There are times like this that make me happy to be an English speaker.

[JayUtah]

There are times like this that make me happy to be an English speaker.

Try explaining to a new English speaker why the following words are all pronounced differently:

rough
bough
through
trough
dough

[bknight]

There are times like this that make me happy to be an English speaker.

Try explaining to a new English speaker why the following words are all pronounced differently:

rough
bough
through
trough
dough

Many "rules" that other languages may/may not have.  And then you add in regional slang even confuses the issue more.

[Bryanpoprobson]

Try explaining to a new English speaker why the following words are all pronounced differently:

rough
bough
through
trough
dough

Americans get a lot of their English pronunciations wrong, being in telecommunications the one that really winds me up is router. It is the word route with an r (root-er) at the end, the way Americans say it, (row-ter) it's an instrument for channelling grooves in wood.

[BazBear]

Try explaining to a new English speaker why the following words are all pronounced differently:

rough
bough
through
trough
dough

Americans get a lot of their English pronunciations wrong, being in telecommunications the one that really winds me up is router. It is the word route with an r (root-er) at the end, the way Americans say it, (row-ter) it's an instrument for channelling grooves in wood.

That's 'cuz we speak 'Mericun, not English!

[onebigmonkey]

Americans get a lot of their English pronunciations wrong, being in telecommunications the one that really winds me up is router. It is the word route with an r (root-er) at the end, the way Americans say it, (row-ter) it's an instrument for channelling grooves in wood.

I saw a very interesting programme by pretentious knob erudite thinker Melvyn Bragg on the English language.

He suggested (not sure if it was his idea or other scholars) that actually American English is closer to the original British English as brought over by the Pilgrim Fathers with their spelling of such words as 'color',' labor' and 'center',  the use of 'z' instead of 's', 'Fall' instead of Autumn and so on. During and after the French revolution, high society on London became infatuated with their new found French aristocrat asylum seekers and adopted more French ways of spelling.

[bknight]

Americans get a lot of their English pronunciations wrong, being in telecommunications the one that really winds me up is router. It is the word route with an r (root-er) at the end, the way Americans say it, (row-ter) it's an instrument for channelling grooves in wood.

I saw a very interesting programme by pretentious knob erudite thinker Melvyn Bragg on the English language.

He suggested (not sure if it was his idea or other scholars) that actually American English is closer to the original British English as brought over by the Pilgrim Fathers with their spelling of such words as 'color',' labor' and 'center',  the use of 'z' instead of 's', 'Fall' instead of Autumn and so on. During and after the French revolution, high society on London became infatuated with their new found French aristocrat asylum seekers and adopted more French ways of spelling.

Do older books and manuscripts of the same era(1600-1700) indicate this or is it a pipe dream?

[Bryanpoprobson]

I saw a very interesting programme by pretentious knob erudite thinker Melvyn Bragg on the English language.

He suggested (not sure if it was his idea or other scholars) that actually American English is closer to the original British English as brought over by the Pilgrim Fathers with their spelling of such words as 'color',' labor' and 'center',  the use of 'z' instead of 's', 'Fall' instead of Autumn and so on. During and after the French revolution, high society on London became infatuated with their new found French aristocrat asylum seekers and adopted more French ways of spelling.

Melvyn Bragg and the other one Alan Wicker, what Sundays used to be all about in the UK..