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Post by Verbivore on Aug 1, 2020 8:41:33 GMT
I hope you've all survived Corona July with bodies and minds intact. The current pandemic seems to be tipping many folk over the edge, especially at closed borders. It reminds me of Lang & Cooper's "We live in a mad world, and to survive in it we need to be mad". For the hell of it, here's a starter. An interesting analysis of Trump's language. (If, like me, you can't stand his whiney prattle early in the piece, never mind: most of the remaining video is textual.)
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Post by Verbivore on Aug 1, 2020 12:19:16 GMT
On another discussion board (not primarily language oriented) a poster griped at the overuse of "I'm going to …".
I've just now responded to that post with the following execrable example, and thought it shareworthy here too.
Referencing X's earlier gripe about overuse of "I'm going to ..."
This sample monologue on tiling from a YouTuber (I'm renovating my kitchen, so seeking tips and updates on technique):
"... and I'm gonna (he spoke American) show you how a wet saw works. We're gonna make a mark dead centre of the tile; we're gonna take it out to the wet saw where we're gonna cut it in half We're gonna bring it back inside and then we're gonna get started. ...
"Next thing we're gonna do now is we're gonna take our adhesive and we're gonna do just just a small area where we're gonna be putting a tile ..."
I kid you not!
At five minutes into the 25-minute video I pulled the plug. It was just too bloody painful. (Fortunately, there's a plethora of DIY tiling tips, tricks, and tutes all over TheTubeThing, and I have done tiling previously.)
Now I'm gunna (Ozlish) go and cut the tiles I'm gunna fit in the corners ...
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Post by Dave Miller on Aug 1, 2020 17:00:32 GMT
I’ve noticed a (connected?) habit in American videos of doubling up the guidance/instruction:
Then what you do is you sand the surface Next, what you want to do is you want to take this bit here ...
Why not “then, sand the surface”, “next, take this bit here ...” and so on?
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Post by Verbivore on Aug 1, 2020 22:27:17 GMT
I’ve noticed a (connected?) habit in American videos of doubling up the guidance/instruction: Then what you do is you sand the surface Next, what you want to do is you want to take this bit here ... Why not “then, sand the surface”, “next, take this bit here ...” and so on? I suppose they need to fill enough time to make YouTube's monetisation work. Some just bang on, and on, and … .
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Post by Verbivore on Aug 2, 2020 6:16:40 GMT
I've known folk called Farthing, Halfpenny, Penny, Schilling, Pound, and Guinea, but I haven't previously encountered a Zehnpfennig (Tenpenny) surname. Of course there are invented ones such as TenCent (some kind of "entertainer", I gather) and Creflow Dollar, the mega-church money-grubbing evangelist ("Oh, Lord, wont you but me a new Lear Jet?"), but do they really count? Does anyone else have a "money" name to add?
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Post by Little Jack Horner on Aug 2, 2020 10:31:28 GMT
The analysis of Donald Trump’s speaking style was fascinating. Four questions occur to me: is the author partisan? is a different analysis possible? is DT’s style deliberate or natural? has the author analysed other speakers’ styles?
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Post by Dave Miller on Aug 2, 2020 22:57:17 GMT
Another unnecessary infill in American instructions: go ahead and
You can then go ahead and remove the filter.
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Post by Little Jack Horner on Aug 3, 2020 20:22:11 GMT
In the UK, a slang/colloquial term for an old six pence piece was a “tanner”, a fairly common surname. Similarly, a one shilling was a bob, short for Robert.
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Post by Verbivore on Aug 3, 2020 21:14:55 GMT
A former colleague of mine was called Tuppence (familiar: Tuppy), two pence.
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Post by Little Jack Horner on Aug 4, 2020 11:09:48 GMT
I don’t off hand know if there was a coin but in mediaeval England there was a “mark”, an amount equal to ⅔ of one pound or 13 shillings and 4 pence. There was, until the euro came along, the German Deutsche mark.
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Post by Dave Miller on Aug 4, 2020 12:46:22 GMT
There’s the Laos Kip (and I think I’ve heard of that as a boy’s name) but, most obviously, there’s the Franc.
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Post by Verbivore on Aug 6, 2020 2:55:16 GMT
Was this an intentional invention or mere accident? complement or accompaniment? Global G-42 Magnetic Knife Rack Large 81cm • A perfect accompliment to your Global Knife.
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Post by Trevor on Aug 7, 2020 19:13:42 GMT
A former colleague of mine was called Tuppence (familiar: Tuppy), two pence. A friend of mine had a cat called Tuppence, so named because when he was a kitten he made two little puddles. Yes, he did two pees. I always felt sure that Tuppence must have done more pees than that, but for some reason those two first pees set the name.
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Post by Verbivore on Aug 7, 2020 22:32:26 GMT
A former colleague of mine was called Tuppence (familiar: Tuppy), two pence. A friend of mine had a cat called Tuppence, so named because when he was a kitten he made two little puddles. Yes, he did two pees. I always felt sure that Tuppence must have done more pees than that, but for some reason those two first pees set the name.
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Post by Little Jack Horner on Aug 8, 2020 12:17:32 GMT
Our family’s first cat was called Rawlinson. He could safely be left shut in the kitchen with easily accessible raw fish but would liberate raw mushrooms. He would certainly not have tolerated a disrespectful name.
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