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Rod Speed
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rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote
Nothing like as bad as Italian.
Nothing like as bad as Italian.
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Peeler
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On 17 Apr 2023 01:09:40 GMT, lowbrowwoman, the endlessly driveling,
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:
Yeah, as a self-admiring gorgeous all-American superhero like you is
expected to do! LOL
--
More of the pathological senile gossip\'s sick shit squeezed out of his sick
head:
\"Skunk probably tastes like chicken. I\'ve never gotten that comparison,
most famously with Chicken of the Sea. Tuna is a fish and tastes like a
fish. I will admit I\'ve had chicken that tasted like fish. I don\'t think I
want to know what they were feeding it.\"
MID: <k44t5lFl1k3U4@mid.individual.net>
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:
When I was in the Boston area I met quite a few well educated
professionals who thought the world ended at 128.
NYS helped to show people new horizons. Upstate was going downhill so fast
anyone with git up and go got up and went. I left when I was 22 and never
looked back.
Yeah, as a self-admiring gorgeous all-American superhero like you is
expected to do! LOL
--
More of the pathological senile gossip\'s sick shit squeezed out of his sick
head:
\"Skunk probably tastes like chicken. I\'ve never gotten that comparison,
most famously with Chicken of the Sea. Tuna is a fish and tastes like a
fish. I will admit I\'ve had chicken that tasted like fish. I don\'t think I
want to know what they were feeding it.\"
MID: <k44t5lFl1k3U4@mid.individual.net>
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Peeler
Guest
On 17 Apr 2023 00:59:37 GMT, lowbrowwoman, the endlessly driveling,
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:
WTF has your latest sick shit got to do with three newsgroups you keep
crossposting to, you abnormal senile gossip?
--
And yet another idiotic \"cool\" line, this time about the UK, from the
resident bigmouthed all-American superhero:
\"You could dump the entire 93,628 square miles in eastern Montana and only
the prairie dogs would notice.\"
MID: <ka2vrlF6c5uU1@mid.individual.net>
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swabian_German
\"Wir können alles. Außer Hochdeutsch.\"
Baden-Württemberg is a high-tech area and came up with the ad campaign.
\"We can do anything. Except speak standard German\".
WTF has your latest sick shit got to do with three newsgroups you keep
crossposting to, you abnormal senile gossip?
--
And yet another idiotic \"cool\" line, this time about the UK, from the
resident bigmouthed all-American superhero:
\"You could dump the entire 93,628 square miles in eastern Montana and only
the prairie dogs would notice.\"
MID: <ka2vrlF6c5uU1@mid.individual.net>
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Peeler
Guest
On Mon, 17 Apr 2023 11:35:06 +1000, cantankerous trolling geezer Rodent
Speed, the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again:
<FLUSH the abnormal trolling senile cretin\'s latest trollshit unread>
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dennis@home to retarded trolling senile Rodent:
\"sod off rod you don\'t have a clue about anything.\"
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Speed, the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again:
<FLUSH the abnormal trolling senile cretin\'s latest trollshit unread>
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dennis@home to retarded trolling senile Rodent:
\"sod off rod you don\'t have a clue about anything.\"
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SteveW
Guest
On 16/04/2023 19:37, John Larkin wrote:
My sons went to school with a child named Finbar, which wouldn\'t have
been too bad, except that his surname is Furey. Finbar Furey is a very
well known name in Irish music circles.
On 16 Apr 2023 17:42:37 GMT, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
On Sun, 16 Apr 2023 08:51:38 -0700, John Larkin wrote:
I wouldn\'t name any kid Herbert.
How about Hubert, Norbert, Cuthbert, Gilbert, Filbert and so forth. It\'s
odd the only *bert that survived is Robert, to the point of being a
cliche. Albert is a distant second.
Maybe named for a rich grandfather.
Gilbert isn\'t too bad. Nickname Gil.
I did go to high school with a Hubert, who was black.
I can beat that. Lionel Dimel.
And the semi-famous Amory Lovins. I pal\'d around with him at a
national science fair in Baltimore.
My sons went to school with a child named Finbar, which wouldn\'t have
been too bad, except that his surname is Furey. Finbar Furey is a very
well known name in Irish music circles.
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SteveW
Guest
On 16/04/2023 18:33, rbowman wrote:
Accents are weird.
Until he died a few years ago, my mother\'s uncle by marriage had a VERY
pronounced American drawl (I forget where he was from), but he\'d lived
in the UK (Manchester) since WW2, only going back to the US once for a 2
week visit!
Over 60 years after he came here, he was known to say \"Weeell I gueeess
Iyyy lost ma accsent nowww,\" while having a stronger accent than most
Americans just arriving in the UK.
My cousins\' Manchester accents disappeared totally when living in
Germany, but would return within weeks of coming back to the UK to visit.
A teacher I met had an almost impenetrable Scots accent, but our
neighbours in France told us that he spoke French with no accent at all.
On Sun, 16 Apr 2023 16:18:24 GMT, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
To a certain extent, those regional accents are smoothing out under the
influence of radio and television. Just as in the U.S. Young Texans
are more apt to speak \"General American\".
In theory I should have a Western New England accent that\'s perceived
around here as \'back east someplace\' rather than General American.
Accents are weird.
Until he died a few years ago, my mother\'s uncle by marriage had a VERY
pronounced American drawl (I forget where he was from), but he\'d lived
in the UK (Manchester) since WW2, only going back to the US once for a 2
week visit!
Over 60 years after he came here, he was known to say \"Weeell I gueeess
Iyyy lost ma accsent nowww,\" while having a stronger accent than most
Americans just arriving in the UK.
My cousins\' Manchester accents disappeared totally when living in
Germany, but would return within weeks of coming back to the UK to visit.
A teacher I met had an almost impenetrable Scots accent, but our
neighbours in France told us that he spoke French with no accent at all.
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The Natural Philosopher
Guest
On 16/04/2023 19:31, Ed P wrote:
--
Thereâs a mighty big difference between good, sound reasons and reasons
that sound good.
Burton Hillis (William Vaughn, American columnist)
Amazing how many people in recent years never travelled more than a few
miles from home.
It is the new Green Future.
--
Thereâs a mighty big difference between good, sound reasons and reasons
that sound good.
Burton Hillis (William Vaughn, American columnist)
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Max Demian
Guest
On 17/04/2023 10:41, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Yeah. the \"fifteen minute city\". So everything you need is no more than
a mile from where you live. No chance.
--
Max Demian
On 16/04/2023 19:31, Ed P wrote:
Amazing how many people in recent years never travelled more than a
few miles from home.
It is the new Green Future.
Yeah. the \"fifteen minute city\". So everything you need is no more than
a mile from where you live. No chance.
--
Max Demian
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The Natural Philosopher
Guest
On 17/04/2023 14:19, Max Demian wrote:
never need leave the house
--
Climate Change: Socialism wearing a lab coat.
No. so everything you need is delivered to you in half an hour and youOn 17/04/2023 10:41, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 16/04/2023 19:31, Ed P wrote:
Amazing how many people in recent years never travelled more than a
few miles from home.
It is the new Green Future.
Yeah. the \"fifteen minute city\". So everything you need is no more than
a mile from where you live. No chance.
never need leave the house
--
Climate Change: Socialism wearing a lab coat.
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rbowman
Guest
On Mon, 17 Apr 2023 10:02:35 +0100, SteveW wrote:
A friend was born in Germany but iirc he was 7 or 8 when his family came
to the states. He had a pronounced German accent. His brother, who was a
couple of years old, had no accent at all.
My cousins\' Manchester accents disappeared totally when living in
Germany, but would return within weeks of coming back to the UK to
visit.
A friend was born in Germany but iirc he was 7 or 8 when his family came
to the states. He had a pronounced German accent. His brother, who was a
couple of years old, had no accent at all.
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S Viemeister
Guest
On 17/04/2023 16:09, rbowman wrote:
phone with family in Scotland, by the way my accent shifted.
My US-born daughter claims she could always tell when I\'d been on theOn Mon, 17 Apr 2023 10:02:35 +0100, SteveW wrote:
My cousins\' Manchester accents disappeared totally when living in
Germany, but would return within weeks of coming back to the UK to
visit.
A friend was born in Germany but iirc he was 7 or 8 when his family came
to the states. He had a pronounced German accent. His brother, who was a
couple of years old, had no accent at all.
phone with family in Scotland, by the way my accent shifted.
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Peeler
Guest
On 17 Apr 2023 15:09:54 GMT, lowbrowwoman, the endlessly driveling,
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:
I suppose they, too, tried everything to get away from you as quickly as
possible to escape your really pathological endless gossiping, blathering
and bragging.
--
And yet another idiotic \"cool\" line, this time about the UK, from the
resident bigmouthed all-American superhero:
\"You could dump the entire 93,628 square miles in eastern Montana and only
the prairie dogs would notice.\"
MID: <ka2vrlF6c5uU1@mid.individual.net>
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:
A friend was born in Germany but iirc he was 7 or 8 when his family came
to the states. He had a pronounced German accent. His brother, who was a
couple of years old, had no accent at all.
I suppose they, too, tried everything to get away from you as quickly as
possible to escape your really pathological endless gossiping, blathering
and bragging.
--
And yet another idiotic \"cool\" line, this time about the UK, from the
resident bigmouthed all-American superhero:
\"You could dump the entire 93,628 square miles in eastern Montana and only
the prairie dogs would notice.\"
MID: <ka2vrlF6c5uU1@mid.individual.net>
J
John Larkin
Guest
On Mon, 17 Apr 2023 05:23:33 +1000, \"Rod Speed\"
<rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote:
When humans got intelligent and invented weapons, we became the top
preditor. So we developed tribes so we could fight other tribes for
territory to hunt in. Language and accents define tribes.
<rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, 17 Apr 2023 01:53:16 +1000, John Larkin
jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> wrote:
On Thu, 30 Mar 2023 11:12:49 +0100, \"Commander Kinsey\"
CK1@nospam.com> wrote:
On Mon, 20 Mar 2023 02:53:59 -0000, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
On Sun, 19 Mar 2023 20:34:04 -0000, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Wed, 08 Mar 2023 10:19:48 -0000, Cindy Hamilton
hamilton@invalid.com> wrote:
On 2023-03-08, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
On Tue, 7 Mar 2023 11:23:13 +0000, NY wrote:
OK, so some British-English spellings have mutated over the years:
few people uses \"gaol\" instead of \"jail\", and \"disk\" is becoming
common as an alternative to \"disc\" - and not just in computing. Of
course CD is \"compact disc\" with a C, so British spelling rules
there
;-)
Gaol always threw me as in \'The Ballad of Reading Gaol\'. I suppose
it\'s in line with Gerald and so forth. I\'m never sure about disk and
tend to alternate. \'Ax\' is another one. This newsreader flags \'axe\'
but I tend to favor that spelling.
The one difference that works the opposite way round is the
pronunciation of \"herb\". British pronounces the H whereas American
often omits the H sound \"erb\" as if it were French.
I\'ll go with herb. \'Erb\' sounds affected to me.
Herb sounds affected to me.
Not sure what you mean. Is that like \"affection\"?
Putting on airs, like some Liverpool yob trying to use RP.
I can\'t stand the Liverpooooooooool accent. Where the ooooo is 4
octaves higher than any man should be able to achieve.
Strange that a tiny place like England should have so many distinct
accents.
Much worse in Italy, it isnt just accents there, its entire dialects
which are completely unintelligible to other Italians.
When humans got intelligent and invented weapons, we became the top
preditor. So we developed tribes so we could fight other tribes for
territory to hunt in. Language and accents define tribes.
R
Rod Speed
Guest
On Mon, 17 Apr 2023 19:02:35 +1000, SteveW <steve@walker-family.me.uk>
wrote:
And you get a weird effect with immigrant kids which depends on
the age at which they migrate as teenagers. Kissinger still has a
very noticeable accent but his younger brother has no accent.
wrote:
On 16/04/2023 18:33, rbowman wrote:
On Sun, 16 Apr 2023 16:18:24 GMT, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
To a certain extent, those regional accents are smoothing out under the
influence of radio and television. Just as in the U.S. Young Texans
are more apt to speak \"General American\".
In theory I should have a Western New England accent that\'s perceived
around here as \'back east someplace\' rather than General American.
Accents are weird.
Until he died a few years ago, my mother\'s uncle by marriage had a VERY
pronounced American drawl (I forget where he was from), but he\'d lived
in the UK (Manchester) since WW2, only going back to the US once for a 2
week visit!
Over 60 years after he came here, he was known to say \"Weeell I gueeess
Iyyy lost ma accsent nowww,\" while having a stronger accent than most
Americans just arriving in the UK.
My cousins\' Manchester accents disappeared totally when living in
Germany, but would return within weeks of coming back to the UK to visit.
A teacher I met had an almost impenetrable Scots accent, but our
neighbours in France told us that he spoke French with no accent at all.
And you get a weird effect with immigrant kids which depends on
the age at which they migrate as teenagers. Kissinger still has a
very noticeable accent but his younger brother has no accent.
P
Peeler
Guest
On Tue, 18 Apr 2023 03:06:25 +1000, cantankerous trolling geezer Rodent
Speed, the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again:
<FLUSH the abnormal trolling senile cretin\'s latest trollshit unread>
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Richard addressing senile Rodent Speed:
\"Shit you\'re thick/pathetic excuse for a troll.\"
MID: <ogoa38$pul$1@news.mixmin.net>
Speed, the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again:
<FLUSH the abnormal trolling senile cretin\'s latest trollshit unread>
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Richard addressing senile Rodent Speed:
\"Shit you\'re thick/pathetic excuse for a troll.\"
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rbowman
Guest
On Mon, 17 Apr 2023 15:32:19 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
I think my ex is on that plan. Between limited mobility, covid, and crime
in NYC she doesn\'t get out much.
On 17/04/2023 14:19, Max Demian wrote:
On 17/04/2023 10:41, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 16/04/2023 19:31, Ed P wrote:
Amazing how many people in recent years never travelled more than a
few miles from home.
It is the new Green Future.
Yeah. the \"fifteen minute city\". So everything you need is no more than
a mile from where you live. No chance.
No. so everything you need is delivered to you in half an hour and you
never need leave the house
I think my ex is on that plan. Between limited mobility, covid, and crime
in NYC she doesn\'t get out much.
P
Peeler
Guest
On 17 Apr 2023 21:12:36 GMT, lowbrowwoman, the endlessly driveling,
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:
Let me guess, she dumped you because of your big mouth!!!!
--
More of the pathological senile gossip\'s sick shit squeezed out of his sick
head:
\"Skunk probably tastes like chicken. I\'ve never gotten that comparison,
most famously with Chicken of the Sea. Tuna is a fish and tastes like a
fish. I will admit I\'ve had chicken that tasted like fish. I don\'t think I
want to know what they were feeding it.\"
MID: <k44t5lFl1k3U4@mid.individual.net>
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:
I think my ex is on that plan. Between limited mobility, covid, and crime
in NYC she doesn\'t get out much.
Let me guess, she dumped you because of your big mouth!!!!
--
More of the pathological senile gossip\'s sick shit squeezed out of his sick
head:
\"Skunk probably tastes like chicken. I\'ve never gotten that comparison,
most famously with Chicken of the Sea. Tuna is a fish and tastes like a
fish. I will admit I\'ve had chicken that tasted like fish. I don\'t think I
want to know what they were feeding it.\"
MID: <k44t5lFl1k3U4@mid.individual.net>
R
Rod Speed
Guest
On Tue, 18 Apr 2023 01:09:54 +1000, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
Kissinger got the same result, tho he was older than that when they
migrated.
On Mon, 17 Apr 2023 10:02:35 +0100, SteveW wrote:
My cousins\' Manchester accents disappeared totally when living in
Germany, but would return within weeks of coming back to the UK to
visit.
A friend was born in Germany but iirc he was 7 or 8 when his family came
to the states. He had a pronounced German accent. His brother, who was a
couple of years old, had no accent at all.
Kissinger got the same result, tho he was older than that when they
migrated.
R
Rod Speed
Guest
On Tue, 18 Apr 2023 02:29:22 +1000, John Larkin
<jlarkin@highlandsnipmetechnology.com> wrote:
Yes.
Nope, there were always tribes, even with the higher
apes and monkey and almost all other animal species.
> Language and accents define tribes.
That utterly mangles the real story.
<jlarkin@highlandsnipmetechnology.com> wrote:
On Mon, 17 Apr 2023 05:23:33 +1000, \"Rod Speed\"
rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, 17 Apr 2023 01:53:16 +1000, John Larkin
jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> wrote:
On Thu, 30 Mar 2023 11:12:49 +0100, \"Commander Kinsey\"
CK1@nospam.com> wrote:
On Mon, 20 Mar 2023 02:53:59 -0000, rbowman <bowman@montana.com
wrote:
On Sun, 19 Mar 2023 20:34:04 -0000, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Wed, 08 Mar 2023 10:19:48 -0000, Cindy Hamilton
hamilton@invalid.com> wrote:
On 2023-03-08, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
On Tue, 7 Mar 2023 11:23:13 +0000, NY wrote:
OK, so some British-English spellings have mutated over the
years:
few people uses \"gaol\" instead of \"jail\", and \"disk\" is becoming
common as an alternative to \"disc\" - and not just in computing.
Of
course CD is \"compact disc\" with a C, so British spelling rules
there
;-)
Gaol always threw me as in \'The Ballad of Reading Gaol\'. I suppose
it\'s in line with Gerald and so forth. I\'m never sure about disk
and
tend to alternate. \'Ax\' is another one. This newsreader flags
\'axe\'
but I tend to favor that spelling.
The one difference that works the opposite way round is the
pronunciation of \"herb\". British pronounces the H whereas
American
often omits the H sound \"erb\" as if it were French.
I\'ll go with herb. \'Erb\' sounds affected to me.
Herb sounds affected to me.
Not sure what you mean. Is that like \"affection\"?
Putting on airs, like some Liverpool yob trying to use RP.
I can\'t stand the Liverpooooooooool accent. Where the ooooo is 4
octaves higher than any man should be able to achieve.
Strange that a tiny place like England should have so many distinct
accents.
Much worse in Italy, it isnt just accents there, its entire dialects
which are completely unintelligible to other Italians.
When humans got intelligent and invented weapons, we became the top
preditor.
Yes.
So we developed tribes so we could fight other tribes for
territory to hunt in.
Nope, there were always tribes, even with the higher
apes and monkey and almost all other animal species.
> Language and accents define tribes.
That utterly mangles the real story.
P
Peeler
Guest
On Tue, 18 Apr 2023 11:36:44 +1000, cantankerous trolling geezer Rodent
Speed, the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again:
<FLUSH the abnormal trolling senile cretin\'s latest trollshit unread>
--
Kerr-Mudd,John addressing the auto-contradicting senile cretin:
\"Auto-contradictor Rod is back! (in the KF)\"
MID: <XnsA97071CF43E3Fadmin127001@85.214.115.223>
Speed, the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again:
<FLUSH the abnormal trolling senile cretin\'s latest trollshit unread>
--
Kerr-Mudd,John addressing the auto-contradicting senile cretin:
\"Auto-contradictor Rod is back! (in the KF)\"
MID: <XnsA97071CF43E3Fadmin127001@85.214.115.223>