OT: If Ukraine and Russia make peace, who keeps the Russian occupied land?...

[Anthony William Sloman]

On Tuesday, September 19, 2023 at 2:28:53 AM UTC+10, rbowman wrote:

On Mon, 18 Sep 2023 01:45:00 -0700, T wrote:

On 9/14/23 05:32, soup wrote:

I think he was more alluding to the fact that you misspell Britain as Briton

I always goof those two up.

:-(

The Britons moved to France when the Anglo-Saxons showed up

I think you are confusing Celts and ancient Britons. The people who live in Brittany still speak Breton

> And Wales, of course. If you see an unpronounceable word with too many consonants you\'re dealing with a Briton.

You probably mean one of the Celtic languages - Breton, Cornish, Manx, Welsh and Scots and Irish Gaelic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_languages

This isn\'t impressive. You get some brownie points for having some kind of vague idea of what was going on more than a thousand years ago, but not all that many.

--
Bill Sloman, Sydnhey

 

[Custos Custodum]

On Mon, 18 Sep 2023 07:41:20 -0000 (UTC), Jasen Betts
<usenet@revmaps.no-ip.org> wrote:

On 2023-09-11, Custos Custodum <me@privacy.net> wrote:
On Mon, 11 Sep 2023 14:16:40 +0100, The Natural Philosopher
tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

On 11/09/2023 14:11, Custos Custodum wrote:
\"Zelenskyy\" isn\'t technically correct but there isn\'t really
any other way to show it. I\'m not sure that German has managed any
better.

Zelenskyi?

It\'s a possibility. However, in RP English the letter \"i\" is rarely if
ever pronounced as \"ee\". (Bracing myself for a flood of
counterexamples.)

\"ski\"

Yes. And \"bidet\". Both are imports, however.

English doen\'t have pronunciation rules, none that can be relkiea upon
anyway.

It\'s the spelling that is the problem, not the pronunciation.

 

[Scott Lurndal]

Custos Custodum <me@privacy.net> writes:

On Mon, 18 Sep 2023 07:41:20 -0000 (UTC), Jasen Betts
usenet@revmaps.no-ip.org> wrote:

English doen\'t have pronunciation rules, none that can be relkiea upon
anyway.

It\'s the spelling that is the problem, not the pronunciation.

I say tomato, you say tomato.