CentOS - Apr 2015 - Plurals in English (was Re: ClamAV reports a trojan)

On Fri, April 17, 2015 9:51 am, Always Learning wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2015-04-17 at 08:00 -0500, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
>
>> It is amazing how much one can cripple what another person said by
>> scissoring his phrases ;-)
>
> English people (excludes USA people)
The first thing I learned what US people (before became one myself) take
English pronunciation for was... Well, I asked US person at the
conference: does he know this person (and gave the name of English
person). The answer was:

"that guy with accent"

Isn't it funny to call correct English pronunciation an accent? ;-) 
(adding "lough track" so who don't feel it's funny still can
lough here
taking it as a joke ;-)

Valeri
> should always try to speak simple,
> jargon-free, easily understandable and logically expressed English
> especially when conversing with non-English people.
>
> I greatly admire the linguistic abilities of non-English people but
> deplore the dumbed-down abuses of my native language from the US of A.
>
> A military plan has become a "road map" even when aircraft are
involved
> provoking the inevitable question of "Do aircraft stop at traffic
> lights" !
>
> "Back-up" has become either reverse, a saved copy,
re-enforcements etc.
> Precision in language expression is essential for good understanding.
>
> Comments off-list please.
>
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Paul.
> England, EU.      Je suis Charlie.
>
>
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Valeri Galtsev
Sr System Administrator
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
University of Chicago
Phone: 773-702-4247
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On 17/04/15 16:04, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
> 
> On Fri, April 17, 2015 9:51 am, Always Learning wrote:
>> 
>> On Fri, 2015-04-17 at 08:00 -0500, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
>> 
>>> It is amazing how much one can cripple what another person said
>>> by scissoring his phrases ;-)
>> 
>> English people (excludes USA people)
> 
> The first thing I learned what US people (before became one myself)
> take English pronunciation for was... Well, I asked US person at
> the conference: does he know this person (and gave the name of
> English person). The answer was:
> 
> "that guy with accent"
> 
> Isn't it funny to call correct English pronunciation an accent? ;-)
>  (adding "lough track" so who don't feel it's funny still
can lough
> here taking it as a joke ;-)
> 
> Valeri
<snip>

Speaking as a Yorkshireman who has also lived on Tyneside: what is
"correct English pronunciation"?  There is probably a greater
variation of accent within England than between "standard" English and
"standard" American.

Martin
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On 2015-04-17, J Martin Rushton
<martinrushton56 at btinternet.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 17/04/15 16:04, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
>> 
>> On Fri, April 17, 2015 9:51 am, Always Learning wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Fri, 2015-04-17 at 08:00 -0500, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
>>> 
>>>> It is amazing how much one can cripple what another person said
by
>>>> scissoring his phrases ;-)
>>> 
>>> English people (excludes USA people)
>> 
>> The first thing I learned what US people (before became one myself)
>> take English pronunciation for was... Well, I asked US person at the
>> conference: does he know this person (and gave the name of English
>> person). The answer was:
>> 
>> "that guy with accent"
>> 
>> Isn't it funny to call correct English pronunciation an accent? ;-)
>> (adding "lough track" so who don't feel it's funny
still can lough
>> here taking it as a joke ;-)
>> 
>> Valeri
><snip>
>
> Speaking as a Yorkshireman who has also lived on Tyneside: what is
> "correct English pronunciation"?  There is probably a greater
> variation of accent within England than between "standard"
English and
> "standard" American.
>
> Martin
Sorry, what was that? ;-)

-- 

Liam