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No_TimE 07-27-2004 04:37 AM

my friends' car
 
olympic car:
http://fubingyu.aspfreeserver.com/bora.jpg

my car in the future:
http://fubingyu.aspfreeserver.com/palio.jpg
:D

jaguar 07-27-2004 05:49 AM

European brands the china, yay for globalisation.

No_TimE 07-27-2004 05:58 AM

what's meaning "brands" "yay" "globalisation"?

Undertoad 07-27-2004 08:45 AM

Brand: A name given to any product to sell it. It may be a company name, or it may be a fake name, invented only for the product. It helps people to understand what a product is, who made it and its quality. "VW" is a company, and also a brand.

Yay: an shout of happiness.

Globalisation: US spelling "globalization": Countries selling products halfway around the world, instead of to their own people. This is a "trend" -- a slow change over years.

Clodfobble 07-27-2004 08:47 AM

Yay = a happy shout

brand = the company that makes something; Fiat is a brand of car, for example.

globalization = the idea that the whole world is mixing together into one culture, usually considered a bad thing because Western cultures are having more power than Eastern ones. Jaguar was being sarcastic, he does not actually like globalization (I'm pretty sure.)

Clodfobble 07-27-2004 08:48 AM

Dang, I should type faster. ;)

Undertoad 07-27-2004 08:53 AM

I think it's funny we came up with the same words for "yay".

jaguar 07-27-2004 08:58 AM

Just for the record, those rebellious provinces across the pond have taken to spelling a lot of words with a z, the home counties spell it with an s. You also are trying to take the u out of colour, leave the u alone damn you.

Clodfobble 07-27-2004 09:22 AM

Yoo know, we already took the U owt of favorite--it's only a matter of time before we conqer the letter u entirely! :)

dar512 07-27-2004 09:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jaguar
Just for the record, those rebellious provinces across the pond have taken to spelling a lot of words with a z, the home counties spell it with an s. You also are trying to take the u out of colour, leave the u alone damn you.

I've done my bit to put it back. Sort of.

When I was a sophomore in high school (10th of twelve grades in the US), we got the word 'color' on a spelling test. I thought that was a bit below us, so in a fit of rebellion I used the English spelling. Marked incorrect, of course. When I argued the point with the teacher, she got all stuffy about it. Something about living in the US, not in England.

jaguar 07-27-2004 09:42 AM

I think this is part of the reason Americans hate the French, I mean by comparison French makes English looks phonetic, I mean imagine an americanised French, Bordeaux would become what, Bordo?

Cyber Wolf 07-27-2004 10:18 AM

How about "Bordayucks"?

wolf 07-27-2004 11:10 AM

It would become either Bordoo, or Border, I think.

Why do I think this?

There is a town in, I think Arkansas called "Smackover".

This is not the original name of the town. It was named Chemin Covert by the French who first settled it ...

Oh, and Buffalo, NY? Nothing to do with the large quadrupeds the western expansion caused to be hunted into endangered status ... Beau Fleau (or whatever the damn Frog words are for "pretty rivers".

(This is the kind of thing that Geography Majors look up for fun)

Troubleshooter 07-27-2004 11:20 AM

The Brits aren't any better.

In New England Gloucester and Worcester are pronounced gloster (glossed her) and wooster (like wood stir).

wolf 07-27-2004 11:26 AM

In MA, there's a Worcester that's pronounced Woostah, but here in PA there is one pronounced War-ses-tr.


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