Poo Kett

Sucking his keyboard for inspiration, wessie typed:

Peut-etre you're right. 'Twasn't a rant, just an observation

 

No argument from me.

I can't remember the last time I read anything with words like that in
it. Why on earth would you want to? Apart from it being one of your
less threatening affections that is.

 

Fall over.
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

Teach a man to fish and he and his pikey mates will have the
river cleaned out in a day.

 

He probably reads the Daily Dilbert...

 

Of course. I keep forgetting that you have to be near to that sort of
thing for a living. I feel your pain.

 

I no longer do. Hooray for..... desensitization.

 

In Thai you pronounce all the letters, so the proper way to pronounce
Phuket is with an audible aspiration between the P and the u, at least
according to my sources.

Neither did I.

 

And have you considered that the transliteration might in this case
have been done by the Thais themselves, and also that no unified system
of transliteration exists, but is up to the author/sign painter and
his/her understanding of the sounds represented by the latin alphabet?

 

We had a lads holiday in Turkey a few years ago and booked to stay at
a residence called Farti [1] Apartments. The girl in the travel agent
went through verbal contortions trying not to pronouce it as Farty but
when we got there that was just how it was pronouced. The owners had
a restuarant next door as well, inevitably the Farti Eater.

 

Ah - that makes sense. P(h)oo-ket it is.

Shame really - I liked a world that had a main holiday destination
called Fuckit.

 

A significant subset are. Or so I'm told.

 

I hope you made a full and thorough photographic record.

 

not an aspirated 'p' - that's just the way english people pronounce 'p'
normally.

you're (both) talking about a bilabial fricative, which is not the same thing.

in modern greek, phi is a dental fricative (like 'f' in english) and it may
have been so in various ancient greek dialects as well, there's no real way
to know.

ha. there are many wtf-moments in english pronunciation: a classic example
is where you have a 'gn' combination (signal, magnum, etc) which was
introduced from the french (i.e. a 'ny' sound), but the english insisted on
pronouncing it how it was then spelled in english. in the few words which
were imported where they didn't know how to spell it in french (onion,
bunion) it gets pronounced more or less correctly.

 

How would you pronounce mhath?

Phil.

 

That depends on which language it is. If you are from Shrewsbury it
must be Martian, and then I am at a loss.

 

Aha; I'm immediately reminded of 'Cro-Magnon' which has retained its
pronunciation.
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

Teach a man to fish and he and his pikey mates will have the
river cleaned out in a day.

 

"You will be staying at the Ferty Apartments."

"Thirty?"

"No, Ferty, spelled FARTI."

"Ah, you mean Farty. Is it quite windy there?"
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

Teach a man to fish and he and his pikey mates will have the
river cleaned out in a day.

 

Gaelic. Scots Gaelic to be precise..

It's another perfect example of how letter combinations sound utterly
different to how we expect them - despite the fact that it's written in
our script.

FYI - it's pronounced "va".

As in "gle mhath" - "gley-va" (very good) becoming Anglisised as Glayva
(the liqueur).

Phil.

 

Because it wasn't to 'just show I knew the answer'.. It was to make the
point that other languages use our script in utterly different ways.

As to the other bit - blame my currently humour-impaired state on the
migraine medication..

Phil.

 

Well - yes I could. But then I've never taken the easy option and I'll
fight to the death for my right to be difficult! Or something.

And I was a Sunday School teacher for a while - does that count? I was
teaching teenagers though. - I think they realised I couldn't stand
kiddies..

I'm going to see the quack on Friday because the stuff thats supposed
to stop them isn't working and I'm using up a months supply of
sumatriptan in about 2 weeks. It's more usual for me *not* to have a
bad headache or migraine than to have one.

It's not much fun. My usual SOH is distinctly absent.

Phil