red750 Posted October 23, 2023 Share Posted October 23, 2023 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomadpete Posted October 23, 2023 Share Posted October 23, 2023 "i" before "e" except after other letters. Sometimes. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Tuncks Posted October 23, 2023 Share Posted October 23, 2023 i thought it was "i before e except after c" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man emu Posted October 24, 2023 Author Share Posted October 24, 2023 i before e, Except after c, Or when sounded as "a", As in neighbour and weigh. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted October 25, 2023 Share Posted October 25, 2023 I before E, except when it's wrong. Nev 2 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red750 Posted October 26, 2023 Share Posted October 26, 2023 Is it any wonder foreigners have so much trouble with English? Look at these words and how they are pronounced. Tomb Comb Bomb. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmccarthy Posted October 26, 2023 Share Posted October 26, 2023 Said with aplomb. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man emu Posted October 27, 2023 Author Share Posted October 27, 2023 I'm annoyed by some abbreviations that are creeping into daily use. What is "merch"? Hang on while I check the "Ts & Cs" that apply. And of course there is that favourite from our leaders that if anything bad could happen their reassurance is "Not on my watch". The only Leader that such a comment could reasonably have been part of his bag os sayings was George Bush Snr, who was a Navy aviator in WWII, but not likely to have "stood watch". Notice how polite I am? I didn't call a person who flew navy aeroplanes a "pilot". 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted October 27, 2023 Share Posted October 27, 2023 Flying onto and off a carrier would need a high degree of PILOT skills. Most early CIVIL pilot uniforms resembled those of the Navy. Nev 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty_d Posted October 27, 2023 Share Posted October 27, 2023 My kids confuse me sometimes. If I'm alone in the lounge room one of them will come out and say "where did everyone despawn to?" 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man emu Posted October 27, 2023 Author Share Posted October 27, 2023 Despawn : In video games relating to an object or an entity in a game world) To be instantaneously destroyed or removed. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted October 27, 2023 Share Posted October 27, 2023 HOW come you KNOW of these things OME? Nev 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man emu Posted October 27, 2023 Author Share Posted October 27, 2023 OME, the Magnificent Mystic. He sees all. He knows f all. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomadpete Posted October 27, 2023 Share Posted October 27, 2023 9 hours ago, old man emu said: OME, the Magnificent Mystic. He sees all. He knows f all. Fake! Fake! I've seen the real Magnificent Mystic. He's got no legs and he lives in a glass box in Luna Park. If you give him a dollar he'll give you an answer on bit of paper. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Tuncks Posted October 27, 2023 Share Posted October 27, 2023 Well at least English has no genders attached.... German, for example, has 3 genders and if you get it wrong, the whole sentence is buggered. Is anybody old enough to remember Esperanto? It was an attempt to make a modern language but not enough people were interested. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Tuncks Posted October 27, 2023 Share Posted October 27, 2023 I just googled esperanto and they are still going. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Tuncks Posted October 27, 2023 Share Posted October 27, 2023 The trouble with real mystics is that they can't forsee the cross-lotto resuls. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomadpete Posted October 27, 2023 Share Posted October 27, 2023 17 minutes ago, Bruce Tuncks said: The trouble with real mystics is that they can't forsee the cross-lotto resuls. They aren't allowed to. Apparently it's against their rules to profit from their prophesy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Tuncks Posted October 27, 2023 Share Posted October 27, 2023 Aha ! Silly me for thinking they were just unable to do so. Now if yours truly could only know, all the regulars to this forum would get rich, well after i did anyway. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Tuncks Posted October 27, 2023 Share Posted October 27, 2023 On a similar note, did you know that genuine black-belt hari krishnas could levitate? Unfortunately, unbelievers give off bad vibes and so they can't show unbelievers. I am in awe of this logic. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man emu Posted October 28, 2023 Author Share Posted October 28, 2023 3 hours ago, Bruce Tuncks said: I just googled esperanto and they are still going. Now you've buggered it! Spacey is a proponent of Esperanto. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted October 28, 2023 Share Posted October 28, 2023 Burokratio is a word for Spaceys favourite hate. in Esperanto which like Esperance alludes to HOPE. Nev 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red750 Posted October 31, 2023 Share Posted October 31, 2023 Here's another example. Hung Sprung Stung Tongue. My own surname is another. Unfortunately there are about four pronunciations. I never get called the (my) correct pronunciation. My surname is Hough. I get called Hoff, Howe, Hugh. I (and my predecessors) pronounce it Huff, rhyming with rough, tough. That's enough. Just don't call me late for dinner. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onetrack Posted November 1, 2023 Share Posted November 1, 2023 Sounds like your ancestors indulged in a lot of Huff and Puff. We call the Hough brand front end loaders, "Hoff" - as did everyone else I know. However, I only recently found out that Frank G. Hough pronounced his name as "Huff". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted November 1, 2023 Share Posted November 1, 2023 It would be a bit rough if you called Gough, Guff. Nev 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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