the soul waits
New Yorker
Yeah, imagine all the cat hurr flying around
FizzingWhizzbees said:
No kidding, I just stared at LS for about five minutes thinking "has someone changed the title of the testje thread, I'm sure it was different this morning."
FizzingWhizzbees said:Ok, wait, people have leashes for their cats?
I'm tuning into this thread a bit late, evidently.
the soul waits said:Yeah, imagine all the cat hurr flying around
Lara Mullen said:
You're a mod now?
So much has achanged in my absence.
the soul waits said:
no they don't. Not that I know of anyway
FizzingWhizzbees said:
Oh. I'm kind of sad now. I had this great mental image of people walking the streets with a cat on a leash at their feet. And now it's all gone. Ah well.
Lara Mullen said:
If I didn't know any better I could swear it was you I met. My English was run into the ground and then I couldn't remember how to say grape in French and I was called special.
Apparently I came across as bright though. I don't know how, the same people heard the story about me losing my passport and not realising and thinking I had won a prize for being Easyjet's one millionth customer, or soemthing like that, when I was called to airport information.
I am a prat.
FizzingWhizzbees said:i wish there was a website with audio clips of all known accents available.
maybe i could make one. i'd get to travel the world and ask random people to speak into my tape recorder.
FizzingWhizzbees said:i wish there was a website with audio clips of all known accents available.
maybe i could make one. i'd get to travel the world and ask random people to speak into my tape recorder.
the soul waits said:
Can I hold the tape recorder?
Lara Mullen said:
The BBC are doing / have done a thing about different phrases around the UK. They might even have done accents.
FizzingWhizzbees said:
absolutely. you can even have a grant title, like chief engineer in charge of recording via the medium of tape. Or CEICORVTMOP. That looks like it should mean something in Polish or something.
Lara Mullen said:
I can ask for a Diet Coke, in Dutch, now in The Netherlands, Marty
I can ask for between 1 and 11 Diet cokes infact.
Lara Mullen said:Marty, Marty
I can ask for a certain number (up to 11) of diet cokes. That was the important bit.
Lara Mullen said:Marty, Marty
I can ask for a certain number (up to 11) of diet cokes. That was the important bit.
FizzingWhizzbees said:i could manage up to ten just by using my fingers and thumbs. the eleven might be a bit of a problem though.
there's a really obvious joke here and i can't make it because i'm too embarassed.
FizzingWhizzbees said:i have a foolish question. y'know in the uk if you're careless with your use of the word coke, for instance "i'm dying for some coke right now" instead of "i'm dying for some coca cola right now" your words may be misinterpreted and friends may be lost and reptuations damaged and so on and so forth.
well, do other languages have that problem or is it purely a uk thing?