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Re: Wings [was: Re: Building big]
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Date: 
Wed, 27 Jun 2001 00:03:25 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
<snip>
> > > Lindsay wrote:
> > >   It's more the sedilla than the letter, methinks. ;)  We-all's
> > >   don't go for that thar Frenchie stuff down he-ah.  Y'all a
> > >   communist or sumthin'?  (Don't ask how they react to umlauts.)
> > 
> > Selçuk wrote:
> > Yeah, go on... talk like that... just make fun of this poor English retarded
> > Turk by making him staring at your sentences without getting anything
> > and laugh hard to his face...
> 
>   No, no, no.  Just add a STRONG backwoods accent, and it makes
>   *perfect* sense, a-yawp.

LOL! You may not find it hard to believe that I speak much worse English
after two years in the good ol' US of A.

As for that sentence, I just pretended Chris was saying it. ;-) Here's a
translation!

"I think it's more the cedilla [the mark below ç - Lindsay misspelled its
name!] than the letter. We don't like French over here. Are you and your
friends communist or something?"

<grin>

> > (1) http://www.lugnet.com/faq/~88/
> 
>   *BWAAAAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA*  When the hades heck did THAT
>   show up there?  Shiri, when I see you at Brickfest, you're in SOOO
>   much trouble!(1)  ;)

The night of the 24th-25th. I was suffering from horrible insomnia and
decided it would be a good occupation.

I'm thinkin of adding many more "name pronounciation" keys. I'd like to know
how to say Larry's last name, for example, and there are many more I have no
clue how to say. (Chris teases me for how I say Dave Low and Dave Schuler's
last names, especially. I'm sure it's obvious to everyone except me...)

>   (1) Assuming, of course, I can get my now over-inflated head
>       through the door...and no, I'm not yet a PhD.

Sorry, my mistake. I was inferring that you were on your post-doc all this
year, but I guess it was a pre-doc? ;-) Good luck with all that!

-Shiri



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  Re: Wings [was: Re: Building big]
 
(...) 8?) Even in my short trip (~5 weeks) I found myself pronouncing things with an accent, just to get the Murkans to understand!! (...) Didn't actually ask the Pieniazeks how they pronounce it, but I say it like Peen-yart-sik, accent on the 2nd (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)

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  Re: Wings [was: Re: Building big]
 
Hey Selçuk (...) Well, you're not an American, so it's entirely possible. :) (...) Okay. The "the" was missing, which is what screwed me up. Three little letters, a world of comprehension. I got all the words, but couldn't separate the sentence out (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)

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