On Fri, 06 Mar 2015 08:31:40 +0000, Mark Lawrence wrote: > On 06/03/2015 08:00, Rustom Mody wrote: >> On Thursday, March 5, 2015 at 10:49:54 AM UTC+5:30, Marko Rauhamaa >> wrote: >>> Rustom Mody: >>> >>>> You keep talking of accent. >>>> At first I thought you were using the word figuratively or else >>>> joking. >>>> Im now beginning to wonder if you mean it literally. >>>> If so have you patented a new AOIP protocol? >>>> If not do you give tuitions¹ in ESP/telepathy/Voodoo? I'll be happy >>>> to pay<wink> >>> >>> Where I work, people do use voice still occasionally to communicate. >> >> I really dont understand what we are communicating (or not) about... >> >> Can you hear my accent? I certainly cant hear yours If you are talking >> of accent (aural/physical just to be clear) of your co-workers how is >> that more on-topic or relevant to this list than the weather in >> Finland. >> [Yeah its been freakish weather out here for the last 10 days -- global >> warming? >> And is global warming on topic for this list?] >> Just to be clear -- I am going to be one of the tail-enders complaining >> about on/off-topicness. But someone or other will complain I guess. >> >> If on the other hand you are being slightly metaphorical and using >> 'accent' >> to talk of (say) Mark's britishisms¹ then please disambiguate for >> better communication. >> >> But more to the point its still not clear (to me) whether you are >> objecting to - to Mark - to British accent > > British accent, Christmas is early this year so ho, ho, ho. Nobody in > this country ever guesses where I was born and bred, they all think I'm > from the South West or the West Country. Irish, Scottish, Welsh, > English alone are different. Most foreigners wouldn't have a dog's > chance in hell of understanding a Geordie or a Glaswegian. Move 50 > miles and you can hear a completely different accent. British accent > indeed. > Foreigner? I can barely understand a Geordie accent & I am English. whilst I agree to a point with Marco that when talking to a forigner you should take care to speak clearly for them the suggestion that American pronunciation is what I find unacceptable.
even though I can (and do) watch American TV shows reasonably easily some of their pronunciations seriously grate on my nerves :- Bouy - it is pounced Boy not bo-ey! chasis - it has a soft Ch not a hard Ch, Aluminium, Heck they don't even sell it correctly ;-) >> - to British spellings in software - to anyone/anywhere international, >> using non-international format >> >> >> ¹Personally I find Mark's britishisms sometimes funny eg I found this >> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.lang.python/EfloMHB3DjQ/ ZdY3Vn_6rpsJ >> hilarious even though I could not decipher more than 70% of the >> british accent. >> Sometimes though I find it irrelevant/unnecessary/undecipherable. >> >> Personally I am not going to object to him nor am I going to object to >> anyone objecting to him. >> >> > Anybody objecting about me will be accused by me of discrimination > against autistic people. Now there is a not very subtle hint that might > penetrate one or two of the thicker skins on the thicker heads that > participate here. Thankfully the numbers of such people are extremely > small or we could have had WWIII. Which could have happened when Global > Crossing bought Racal Telecommunications and tried to stop us Brits > using our kettles to make our cuppas. Now that is seriously brain dead. > And they turned out to be a bit naughty with the books :( -- "All my life I wanted to be someone; I guess I should have been more specific." -- Jane Wagner -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list