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by Ashton

8/22/20 4:08:23 PM

..and that's a Keeper too; your encyclopædia Rocks

and reminds of my (wayback reported) tale of the guy--in DACHAU /the town,( where I was cashing a Travelers cheque
and about to visit Die Götterdämmerung Kamp) asking moi: Why does everybody hate us Germans?
And yes, I did offer a conciliatory reply; on-Inspection: this was NOT an occasion for blurting out any nasty lIsticles
as only a Murican thuggee wouild do /while salivating.

Travel broadens ..even in despair

My all-time fav Confucius Language quote was torn from a magazine (@prolly ~age 14) and I thought maybe it was a discarded
Readers Disgust issue--but its tattered remains seem a bit too shiny for that odious 'condensed!-books-for non-Readers' paper quality.
Argosy? maybe. (Amazing ..the idiot-details of stuff within that ∞/space of jelloware!)

Let us salute Michelle Obama, perhaps the wisest speaker of them all. Eh? - (Ashton) - (66) - Aug. 17, 2020, 11:12:47 PM EDT

She was great. Really excellent speech. -NT - (Another Scott) - (65) - Aug. 18, 2020, 12:47:57 AM EDT

It was a good speech, but come on. It wasn't "great." Let's not oversell. -NT - (mmoffitt) - (64) - Aug. 18, 2020, 11:43:56 AM EDT

Caviling? ... - (Ashton) - (62) - Aug. 18, 2020, 05:40:03 PM EDT

It wasn't a "We will fight them on the beaches" speech. - (mmoffitt) - (61) - Aug. 19, 2020, 09:08:10 AM EDT

Man, the things you let yourself get hung up on ... -NT - (drook) - Aug. 19, 2020, 09:39:53 AM EDT

She had a dry mouth. - (crazy) - (49) - Aug. 19, 2020, 09:56:47 AM EDT

I said it was a good speech. - (mmoffitt) - (46) - Aug. 19, 2020, 04:14:02 PM EDT

On same-page re the 'grating' but, - (Ashton) - Aug. 19, 2020, 05:07:43 PM EDT

Your're pretty sensitive for a guy who . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (1) - Aug. 19, 2020, 06:44:45 PM EDT

I've spent a little time studying Trotsky's last days. - (mmoffitt) - Aug. 20, 2020, 08:45:20 AM EDT

Reasonable point on recording - (crazy) - (1) - Aug. 20, 2020, 07:25:18 AM EDT

Who TF does that? - (mmoffitt) - Aug. 20, 2020, 08:31:00 AM EDT

It's not lazy and it's only grating to ... - (crazy) - Aug. 20, 2020, 07:46:49 AM EDT

You don't understand accents or dialect - (pwhysall) - (39) - Aug. 20, 2020, 10:41:30 AM EDT

Interesting comparison ie: BBC News reader - (crazy) - (2) - Aug. 20, 2020, 11:49:56 AM EDT

Took a dialect class during my year as a drama major - (drook) - Aug. 20, 2020, 11:52:16 AM EDT

Many years have passed since we spoke... - (pwhysall) - Aug. 20, 2020, 12:01:37 PM EDT

I swear I'd not read this until moments ago. But I've a Pulitzer Prize winner on my side. - (mmoffitt) - (35) - Aug. 20, 2020, 02:13:18 PM EDT

Still missing the main point - (drook) - (20) - Aug. 20, 2020, 02:32:48 PM EDT

He's made it clear - (crazy) - (19) - Aug. 20, 2020, 02:53:46 PM EDT

Would that be... - (malraux) - Aug. 20, 2020, 03:20:37 PM EDT

s/fear/aversion. -NT - (mmoffitt) - (17) - Aug. 20, 2020, 03:27:31 PM EDT

And the reason for the aversion is? - (crazy) - (16) - Aug. 20, 2020, 03:33:57 PM EDT

What Weingarten said. "...no English word should be pronounced with a “shtr” sound." -NT - (mmoffitt) - (15) - Aug. 20, 2020, 03:35:45 PM EDT

Have you heard him speak? - (pwhysall) - (14) - Aug. 20, 2020, 04:21:12 PM EDT

Heh. "Criticizing her." Because I said her speech was good? - (mmoffitt) - (13) - Aug. 20, 2020, 04:55:13 PM EDT

You damned with faint praise and then went on with insults. -NT - (crazy) - Aug. 20, 2020, 04:58:18 PM EDT

That's not all you said - (drook) - (11) - Aug. 20, 2020, 05:00:35 PM EDT

I replied to Box, below re 'Language Itself' This for you: - (Ashton) - Aug. 20, 2020, 07:18:21 PM EDT

IT IS *NOT* A DIALECT ISSUE. DIALECTS ARE TIED TO REGIONS OR GROUPS OF PEOPLE. - (mmoffitt) - (9) - Aug. 21, 2020, 11:20:10 AM EDT

what about frogtalking? woman rasping like a frog on purpose not regional put epidemic -NT - (boxley) - (2) - Aug. 21, 2020, 11:56:37 AM EDT

Vocal fry - (drook) - (1) - Aug. 21, 2020, 12:08:52 PM EDT

Thank you /thank you: a Keeper. [Ed}. - (Ashton) - Aug. 21, 2020, 04:32:40 PM EDT

Lighten up, Francis - (drook) - (5) - Aug. 21, 2020, 12:07:07 PM EDT

Because he needs to find fault to feel superior - (crazy) - (2) - Aug. 21, 2020, 12:48:25 PM EDT

Yeah. Right. I *feel* proper pronunciation is important. - (mmoffitt) - Aug. 21, 2020, 01:59:53 PM EDT

C'mon crazy: 'Projection' is reserved /expected from the forces of The Menace, not the sentient. -NT - (Ashton) - Aug. 21, 2020, 04:59:12 PM EDT

Ha. - (mmoffitt) - (1) - Aug. 21, 2020, 02:02:13 PM EDT

Because the 4th is *also true* -NT - (drook) - Aug. 21, 2020, 05:41:10 PM EDT

Re: I swear I'd not read this until moments ago. But I've a Pulitzer Prize winner on my side. - (boxley) - (5) - Aug. 20, 2020, 04:07:33 PM EDT

(I use 'thee and thou'; I don't confusicate Stuff with Schtuff and I still think doing-so: Sch-ucks - (Ashton) - (4) - Aug. 20, 2020, 06:32:31 PM EDT

Speaking of which... - (Another Scott) - (3) - Aug. 20, 2020, 06:50:39 PM EDT

Heh! never þought I Be prescient.. but feels nice ever to be a þorn ..in any Repoþ's jelloware :-) - (Ashton) - (2) - Aug. 22, 2020, 12:41:47 AM EDT

I don't watch much TV of any sort these days. - (Another Scott) - (1) - Aug. 20, 2020, 11:27:50 PM EDT

Just informing is all: no need to proselytize re authentic virtuosi, I wot.:-) -NT - (Ashton) - Aug. 21, 2020, 05:03:57 PM EDT

Well, are you sure this isn't actually restoration . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (7) - Aug. 20, 2020, 06:23:32 PM EDT

English is more like Scandinavian than German - (malraux) - (6) - Aug. 20, 2020, 07:18:05 PM EDT

English is a thieving language. - (static) - (2) - Aug. 20, 2020, 10:04:30 PM EDT

That has always been the way English works. - (Andrew Grygus) - (1) - Aug. 20, 2020, 11:00:40 PM EDT

..and that's a Keeper too; your encyclopædia Rocks - (Ashton) - Aug. 22, 2020, 04:08:23 PM EDT

I wrote "Germanic", not German. - (Andrew Grygus) - Aug. 20, 2020, 10:39:43 PM EDT

Going the other way - (scoenye) - (1) - Aug. 21, 2020, 09:28:58 PM EDT

I recall reading that the King's / Queen's English . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - Aug. 21, 2020, 10:31:13 PM EDT

Nice.. I'd missed your subtle, obvious point. - (Ashton) - (1) - Aug. 19, 2020, 04:34:35 PM EDT

Rosalynn Carter is class through and through. -NT - (mmoffitt) - Aug. 19, 2020, 04:52:09 PM EDT

wat - (pwhysall) - (9) - Aug. 19, 2020, 10:07:26 AM EDT

We stopped taking lessons from you lot over two centuries ago. - (mmoffitt) - (1) - Aug. 19, 2020, 04:16:27 PM EDT

Y'all can believe that if you like - (pwhysall) - Aug. 20, 2020, 03:15:35 AM EDT

Also. - (mmoffitt) - (6) - Aug. 20, 2020, 10:12:18 AM EDT

pronounce it like its spelled, lout -NT - (boxley) - (5) - Aug. 20, 2020, 12:25:16 PM EDT

I was being a smartass. You know the Brits have a different word for it, right? -NT - (mmoffitt) - (4) - Aug. 20, 2020, 01:55:37 PM EDT

no, you spelled it wrong as well -NT - (boxley) - (3) - Aug. 20, 2020, 04:40:38 PM EDT

Not here or in Canada. -NT - (mmoffitt) - (2) - Aug. 20, 2020, 04:43:33 PM EDT

so proper speech depends on locale? good to know -NT - (boxley) - (1) - Aug. 20, 2020, 05:26:32 PM EDT

Oui. Da. ¡Si! Sehrgut, as in ... Duh: Matey, Señor .. ... -NT - (Ashton) - Aug. 20, 2020, 06:41:21 PM EDT

Yeah, and tRump said it was not live but pre-recorded. - (a6l6e6x) - Aug. 20, 2020, 06:09:20 PM EDT

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