ahh thanx for that.. I now realise I rate a fairly high average in both posting and rep.. strange is dat..Originally Posted by Waylander
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ahh thanx for that.. I now realise I rate a fairly high average in both posting and rep.. strange is dat..
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I have neither the time nor reason to post that much.
Congratulations to you anyway sir.
Deus ex ukulele
Not as much as I'm glad I can't hear them (mis)pronounce kilometre.
Don't get me started on "newsreaders" abuse of English. It's not fear and enough to make one tear one's hear out. Yet they obsess about the pronunciation of Taupo and Kaikoura.
(Dismounts hobby horse)
"Standing on your mother's corpse you told me that you'd wait forever." [Bryan Adams: Summer of 69]
parting of the sensory
Dang.
Can't you go and fire it up again?
I'd like to know whether newsreaders should or shouldn't (may or mayn't) put "an" before "horrific". It drives me nuts them saying "an horrific accident" and I don't know whether it's right for me to have made myself prematurely bald and droolly over such a trifling thing....
... and that's what I think.
Or summat.
Or maybe not...
Dunno really....
Still Ridin'
And, in the case of one worthy presenter, still manage to mispronounce "Taupo".
Must correct you, old bean: "It's not fear and enough to make one tare one's hear out. "
Motorbike Camping for the win!
Still Ridin'
So far as I know, "horrific" and "historic" use "an" - I could be wrong but they both seem to be traditionally rendered that way. I know some who do not pronounce the "H" accordingly - "an 'orrific" and "an 'istoric".
Motorbike Camping for the win!
Hardcore Biker
I think that it IS correct, but the pronunciation sounds (a)mis(s) because they pause after the word 'an' to make the 'horrific' more sensational.
Quite prepared to be wrong though...
It is easier to accept the message of the stars than the message of the salt desert. The stars speak of man's insignificance in the long eternity of time; the desert speaks of his insignificance right now. - Edwin Way Teale 1956
eschew obsification...
right, as far as i'm concerned, 'an' where the 'h' is aspirate [passed grammar, failed spelling]
...
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Grass wedges its way between the closest blocks of marble and it brings them down. This power of feeble life which can creep in anywhere is greater than that of the mighty behind their cannons....... - Honore de Balzac
parting of the sensory
That would be fine if it was silent like the 'h' in 'hour' or 'honest', but the newsreaders always say "an Horrific", and "an Horrendous", which sounds pretentious and wanky (or wanky and pretentious). If it's correct, that would be fine, if they were at least consistently pronouncing everything correctly.
And they all seem to be infected with Noddy Disease. A little bit of animation is one thing, but I can't stand watching Judy Bailey, even if she isn't too ugly, as I'm worried one day the spring in her neck will break and her head will thud onto the newsdesk.
... and that's what I think.
Or summat.
Or maybe not...
Dunno really....
Radical
closely related to ernie'ism
I only posted this because of the global economic crisis
Still Ridin'
Only difference between her and the chic described in Don Henley's song Dirty Laundry is that she doesn't bleach her hair...
Motorbike Camping for the win!
Beware the psychosis llama...
To the best of my polydeist knowledge, fark is the god that keeps that devil 'Mail Marshall' and his cohorts in check to allow such religious practices such as misappropriating the firm's IT resources.
Not that I would ever advocate such a thing of course...
I like bikes
Well done Mr Hitcher. Long may the reign of the Great New Zealand Arse continue !
"Not one day that we are here on this earth has been promised to us, so make the most of every day as if it was your last, and every breath ,as if it were the same"
Deus ex ukulele
On a similar but related topic to "an horrific", of which I am a fan because it sounds nice; is the egregious practice of a flat "e" on "the" when used before a word starting with a vowel, rather than a bright "e" that flows into the second word, rather like a dipthong.
For example:
Bad = Thuh elephant. Thuh apple. Thuh apostrophe. Thuh arse.
Good = Thee elephant. Thee apple. Thee apostrophe. Thee arse.
Properly spoken English is an attractive and elegant language. It is being reduced to a series of mumbled staccato grunts.
When it comes to clear diction, we have much to learn from our South African brothers and sisters...
"Standing on your mother's corpse you told me that you'd wait forever." [Bryan Adams: Summer of 69]
Waa?
5000? Don’t you sleep?
I wont comment on English spelling or grammar as I’m A: Dyslexic and B: Indifferent As long as the point is made, why care how it is delivered? This will be why I have spell check running in the background tho, if I didn’t, you wouldn’t have a clue what I was on about! Maybe the case anyway...
We all have our little obsessions...
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