ROFL "Bulm of the Hatch" sounds vaguely like some sort of British name for something.russiandoll wrote:The online text of my current William Cobbett solo is dogged with printing errors (not OCR scannos, but good old-fashioned compositor-put-the-wrong-letter-in-the-frame botches). But one or two have turned out to be not errors but archaic words I didn't know, so I record with both the online Oxford English Dictionary, and my modern-printing facsimile-edition of a very slightly different version of the text to hand. Hopefully that explains the mumbling in the middle of this encounter...
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Sometimes I will read something wrong, stop, and then read it exactly the same way I just read it! I won't catch it until editing. Does anyone else do this? It must be an I-can-do-no-wrong complex. I'm driving myself nutser than I am already.
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Was that Hebrew?
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"While he wrote, talked, ate, walked, and sat in cars" ... that's what I'm trying to say, anyway.
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Here's where I ran into some German - I am not sure if the German is even REAL German, LOL! But I'm very sure I butchered it properly.
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I breezed right through "brachiocephalic" but couldn't spit out "dolichocephalic" - it's the simple words that get ya!
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I got a little bit tangled up in my vowel sounds, so here you get three accents in twenty seconds.
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I clearly don't have the gift of foresight (or prophecy one might call it - if one could pronounce it)!
I clearly don't have the gift of foresight (or prophecy one might call it - if one could pronounce it)!
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Sometimes you need to get the sense of a sentence by giving it a quick read over first - I did that - then go the sense of the sentence - then realised how naughtily it could be interpreted!
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My latest encounter with punctuation. The commas were in the wrong place in the text. I noticed it after the first read. Tried a second way, then finally the third, correct way.
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Oh Tricia, that's not fair, you can't do that...
WHAT QUESTION???
(My guess: Something like in Korea: "Have you eaten?" Not to really ask whether the other one is hungry, but as a question about general wellbeing.)
WHAT QUESTION???
(My guess: Something like in Korea: "Have you eaten?" Not to really ask whether the other one is hungry, but as a question about general wellbeing.)
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LOL! According to the humourist I was reading, the question is:
"How old are you?"
Edit to add: I have no idea if it's true. This isn't a sociologist I was reading from.
"How old are you?"
Edit to add: I have no idea if it's true. This isn't a sociologist I was reading from.
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Oh, right - first meeting! The 'have you eaten' is among friends/people you see regularly.
In that case, 'how old are you' is indeed the first question coming up. It's there to establish hierarchy, if you are below (younger) the other person or above (older) in the ranking. This is very important if language shows that type of hierarchy too (like in Korean - different ways of addressing people older/younger than yourself).
Of course, if you answer '30something' to the age question, it's immediately followed up by 'are you married?' That's the point where I start looking for weapons...
In that case, 'how old are you' is indeed the first question coming up. It's there to establish hierarchy, if you are below (younger) the other person or above (older) in the ranking. This is very important if language shows that type of hierarchy too (like in Korean - different ways of addressing people older/younger than yourself).
Of course, if you answer '30something' to the age question, it's immediately followed up by 'are you married?' That's the point where I start looking for weapons...
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OK, that's not Leacock's reasoning. LOL! He says:
(And this also shows the misplaced commas as read in my recording.)In China conversation, between strangers after introduction, is always opened by the question, “And how old are YOU?" This strikes me as singularly apt and sensible. Here is the one thing that is common ground between any two people, high or low, rich or poor–how far are you on your pilgrimage in life?
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Serial novel: The Wandering Jew
Medieval England meets Civil War Americans: Centuries Apart