Kudo to Key

[Skyryder]

I like the way you are handling the Fijian thing. I'm impressed.


Skyryder

[Katman]

Aside from looking slightly shakey during the Bangkok incident (when he'd only been in office a week or so) I've been impressed with the way Key has handled a whole lot of things.

[Hitcher]

The word is kudos, not kudo. Americans and other idiots have derived a singular version from the original Greek and should be hung, drawn and quartered for (more) abuse of language. Look it up in a real English dictionary. Kudo belongs in the same draw as aluminum and gotten.

Gahh! Thud.

[Colapop]

I take it, Sir Hitchalot, that you have no other opinion on the matter other than the misuse of the language used?

[Mully]

Alright, who are you and what have you done to Skyrider?

[MisterD]

I like the way you are handling the Fijian thing. I'm impressed.


What's the latest? Have we finally given away the Clark/Peters finger-wagging in favour of something a bit more pragmatic? I don't see us jumping to impose sanctions following the overthrow of the democratically elected Thai government...

[Swoop]

The word is kudos, not kudo. Americans and other idiots have derived a singular version from the original Greek and should be hung, drawn and quartered for (more) abuse of language. Look it up in a real English dictionary. Kudo belongs in the same draw as aluminum and gotten.

Gahh! Thud.
Are you looking forward to watching "America's Most Smartest Models" on TV?

[Hitcher]

I take it, Sir Hitchalot, that you have no other opinion on the matter other than the misuse of the language used?

Such was the magnitude of the language crime, I was completely blinded by the issue at hand.

My opinion on that? Who cares? Fiji has never been on my list of places to go. If one is ever contemplating a tropical island paradise holiday, one would go to North Queensland. The first world has much to commend it, including great sport on TV and good beer.

[Hitcher]

Are you looking forward to watching "America's Most Smartest Models" on TV?

Like wow. Far out. Awesome. Eeeee!

[MisterD]

Fiji ...good beer.

I have to say even more refreshing than the beer itself, was the fact that Fiji Bitter could still be advertised as "The Sportsman's Beer".

[Skyryder]

The word is kudos, not kudo. Americans and other idiots have derived a singular version from the original Greek and should be hung, drawn and quartered for (more) abuse of language. Look it up in a real English dictionary. Kudo belongs in the same draw as aluminum and gotten.

Gahh! Thud.


I could plead ignorance for this heinous crime, my lack of education of only two years high school where Greek or Latin was not deemed worthy of my intelligence or the truth......... a simple typo………..due typing too fast I missed the S. But with all my faults pansophy is not one of them.



Skyryder

[SPman]

What's the latest? Have we finally given away the Clark/Peters finger-wagging in favour of something a bit more pragmatic? I don't see us jumping to impose sanctions following the overthrow of the democratically elected Thai government...
Have you actually had a good look at what is actually going on in Thailand politics?

[MisterD]

Have you actually had a good look at what is actually going on in Thailand politics?

No, but then it appears to me that nobody in our previous administration had actually had a good look at what was going on in Fijian politics...

[Forest]

The word is kudos, not kudo. Americans and other idiots have derived a singular version from the original Greek and should be hung, drawn and quartered for (more) abuse of language. Look it up in a real English dictionary. Kudo belongs in the same draw as aluminum and gotten.

Gahh! Thud.

If you weren't a self-appointed pedant, I wouldn't pull you up on this.

However Aluminum is actually the historically correct spelling. The spelling was proposed by the British scientist Humprey Davy who discovered it in 1808.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium#Etymology

As the wiki article notes, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry recognises both spellings.

[SARGE]

The word is kudos, not kudo. Americans and other idiots have derived a singular version from the original Greek and should be hung, drawn and quartered for (more) abuse of language. Look it up in a real English dictionary. Kudo belongs in the same draw as aluminum and gotten.

Gahh! Thud.



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aint gotton no ass in awhile Hitcher??





However Aluminum is actually the historically correct spelling. The spelling was proposed by the British scientist Humprey Davy who discovered it in 1808.

As the wiki article notes, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry recognises both of the two spellings.


THANK you VERY MUCH.. i have been trying to teach these heathens for years .. they keep on insisting on driving on the wrong side, talking and spelling funny and watching some snore-fest called "Test Cricket" where they apparently have to wear funny clothes, white lipstick and run like chicks..


i feel like Dian Fossey

[Slyer]

Do you pronounce kudos as koo-dohz or koo-dohs?

[Forest]

The word is kudos, not kudo. Americans and other idiots have derived a singular version from the original Greek and should be hung, drawn and quartered for (more) abuse of language. Look it up in a real English dictionary. Kudo belongs in the same draw as aluminum and gotten.

Gahh! Thud.

I forget to add that I'm surprised to see that you don't consider "gotten" to be a proper english verb.

It has been a part of the english language for almost one thousand years. It comes from the middle-english verb "geten", which in turn came from the old-english verb "gietan".

[SARGE]

It has been a part of the english language for almost one thousand years.

Hitcher is afraid of these newfangled ideas..



"Back When I was a kid, we still said UGH!"

[riffer]

I forget to add that I'm surprised to see that you don't consider "gotten" to be a proper english verb.

It has been a part of the english language for almost one thousand years. It comes from the middle-english verb "geten", which in turn came from the old-english verb "gietan".

Really? I was under the impression that "gotten" was actually a bastardised past participle of "got", being a derivative of a non-finite verb. It doesn't appear in any dictionary I own.

[Slyer]

It's not as bad as "gots".

[KiwiKat]

The word is kudos, not kudo. Americans and other idiots have derived a singular version from the original Greek and should be hung, drawn and quartered for (more) abuse of language. Look it up in a real English dictionary. Kudo belongs in the same draw as aluminum and gotten.

Gahh! Thud.

Should be abuses not abuse as not a singular version in context.

[Slyer]

It can still be singular as it's referring to general abuse and not anything specific.

[Forest]

Really? I was under the impression that "gotten" was actually a bastardised past participle of "got", being a derivative of a non-finite verb. It doesn't appear in any dictionary I own.

You need a better dictionary. :Pokey:

Gotten is simply the past participle of get. It hasn't been bastardised. I'm sure your dictionary includes the following compound words: forgotten, begotten, ill-gotten etc

I can't link directly to the OED online (it is a subscription service) but here is a quick alternate link:


Origin:
1150–1200; (v.) ME geten < ON geta to obtain, beget; c. OE -gietan (> ME yeten), G -gessen, in vergessen to forget; (n.) ME: something gotten, offspring, deriv. of the v.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/gotten

[Dave Lobster]

Like wow. Far out. Awesome. Eeeee!

Oh my guard...:2guns:

[Hitcher]

However Aluminum is actually the historically correct spelling.

Buy a Periodic Table of the Elements. See what it says for Al, atomic number 13.

[Skyryder]

Buy a Periodic Table of the Elements. See what it says for Al, atomic number 13.

a·lu·mi·num (-lm-nm)
n. Symbol Al
A silvery-white, ductile metallic element, the most abundant in the earth's crust but found only in combination, chiefly in bauxite. Having good conductive and thermal properties, it is used to form many hard, light, corrosion-resistant alloys. Atomic number 13; atomic weight 26.98; melting point 660.2°C; boiling point 2,467°C; specific gravity 2.69; valence 3. See Table at element.

[Skyryder]

Do you pronounce kudos as koo-dohz or koo-dohs?

I think it's ku-doe's

[MisterD]

I think it's ku-doe's

Well I'm Northern, so it's kudos to rhyme with the operating system.

[Pixie]

The word is kudos, not kudo. Americans and other idiots have derived a singular version from the original Greek and should be hung, drawn and quartered for (more) abuse of language. Look it up in a real English dictionary. Kudo belongs in the same draw as aluminum and gotten.

Gahh! Thud.

Alumium is the original form of the word given to the metal by Humphry Davy.he then changed it to Aluminum.
Aluminium is a Johnny come lately

PS it's Drawer

[Colapop]

Tomatoes anyone? How does John Key say it?

[firefighter]

English dictionary. Kudo belongs in the same draw as aluminum and gotten.

Gahh! Thud.

Actually the discoverer of aluminium actually named it aluminum, therefore believe it or not the yanks actually say/spell it properly.

"Humphry Davy, the element's discoverer, first proposed the name alumium, and then later aluminum."

Edit, never mind I see this has been in debate already, lol

[Hitcher]

Actually the discoverer of aluminium actually named it aluminum, therefore believe it or not the yanks actually say/spell it properly.

The Americans pronounce it that way because they just like being out of step with the rest of the world. The same reason they eschew the metric system and have their own gallon and octane rating, have no unit of weight bigger than a pound, have upsidedown light switches and powerpoints, use 110V 50Hz electricity, have NTSC televisions, drive on the right, send the moon and the sun around the sky the wrong way, believe that they live in a democracy... The list is endless.

[firefighter]

send the moon and the sun around the sky the wrong way

hahahahahaha, yes I hate the way they do a lot of things too, but in saying that the poms still use pounds, ounces and miles also. Something that I find particularly unnessessary is how the US gallon is different to a UK gallon...and they way they change the spelling of words like tyre to tire, as if the word tire does'nt already mean something.

[Hitcher]

I neglected to mention dairy-free whipped cream. And that stuff they think is coffee.

[MisterD]

but in saying that the poms still use pounds, ounces and miles also.

We've got an excuse though - the French invented metres!

[Skyryder]

What's the latest? Have we finally given away the Clark/Peters finger-wagging in favour of something a bit more pragmatic? I don't see us jumping to impose sanctions following the overthrow of the democratically elected Thai government...

I'm doing my best to encourage it. I said "Johnno ol son" it's first name basis at the mo, "whatch got do is give some aid the the
Thais' then you jump up onto the moral high ground as you have done old Bane."

"Fuck of Sky,' says Johnno, "I touched him up for a loan to pay for the ACC losses



Skyryder

[Hoon]

I like the way you are handling the Fijian thing. I'm impressed.



Looks like he had help.




McCully consulting Clark on Fiji
Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Update: 3:24PM New Zealands foreign minister Murray McCully has been receiving advice from former Prime Minister Helen Clark how to handle the standoff with Fiji.

Newstalk ZB website reports Mr McCully is waiting for official word on reports that the acting High Commissioner to Fiji, Caroline McDonald faces expulsion.

Labour leader Phil Goff confirmed Mr McCully has been speaking with the Labour Party member in recent days.

Mr Goff said there was some degree of inexperience, adding it was only fair Mr McCully is taking advice from Ms Clark.

He made the comments based on the experience of the former prime minister of NZ; to be able to assist the new National Government is a good sign of cooperation.

[Skyryder]

Looks like he had help.

Well its not McCully. That dumb prick wouldn't know the difference between a cocktail onion and swizel stick.


Skyryder

[Pixie]

hahahahahaha, yes I hate the way they do a lot of things too, but in saying that the poms still use pounds, ounces and miles also.

...and firkins and hogsheads and quimwoggles etc.

You will find the american versions of words etc are generally the older versions of english terms.
There are islands off the east coast of the US that speak a dialect of english that is little changed from that which Shakespear spoke.

The question to ask is why we follow every change the fuggin' poms make,like little lap dogs.

[Okey Dokey]

Another reason for strange (to us) American spellings is one Mr Webster. He compiled the first dictionary of American English and he was a confirmed believer in simplified spelling. He decided to take the u out of words like neighbour, change the y in tyre to an i, and other common "Americanisms" Published his book and his views triumphed.

When you consider the hodge podge of nationalities in America in the 1800s I guess he struck the right time to advance his views. Germans, Swedes, whatever, they would rely on what the dictionary said was correct, I guess.

And the rest is history...

It was marketers who inflicted words like "nite" on the general public. Even Americans still spell it as "night"

[Hitcher]

The question to ask is why we follow every change the fuggin' poms make,like little lap dogs.

Because language is import. We (English users) spell words sometimes in a "funny" manner because we respect their origins and history. Of course English could be phoneticised, or a whole bunch of rules applied to simplify and standardise it. But then it wouldn't be English any more.

All other languages face exactly the same issue in terms of maintaining standards. Spain and France even have official language academies, largely to stop their tongues being permeated by what they deem to be offensive Anglicisation. I don't blame them.

Even if English was standardised and simplified, there would still be dickheads who currently rail against English language conventions who would still cock things up, either because they're too lazy or because they think that their way is right.