my friends' car

07-27-2004, 04:37 AM

olympic car:

my car in the future:

jaguar · 07-27-2004, 05:49 AM

European brands the china, yay for globalisation.

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.

07-27-2004, 04:37 AM	#1
No_TimE Guest Posts: n/a	my friends' car olympic car: my car in the future:

07-27-2004, 05:49 AM	#2
jaguar whig Join Date: Apr 2001 Posts: 5,075	European brands the china, yay for globalisation. __________________ Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. - Twain

07-27-2004, 08:58 AM	#8
jaguar whig Join Date: Apr 2001 Posts: 5,075	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. __________________ Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. - Twain

07-27-2004, 09:42 AM	#11
jaguar whig Join Date: Apr 2001 Posts: 5,075	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? __________________ Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. - Twain

07-27-2004, 10:18 AM	#12
Cyber Wolf As stable as a ring of PU-239 Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: On a huge rock covered in water, highly advanced moss and 7 billion parasites Posts: 1,264	How about "Bordayucks"? __________________ "I don't see what's so triffic about creating people as people and then getting' upset 'cos they act like people." ~Adam Young, Good Omens "I don't see why it matters what is written. Not when it's about people. It can always be crossed out." ~Adam Young, Good Omens

07-27-2004, 05:58 AM	#3
No_TimE Guest Posts: n/a	what's meaning "brands" "yay" "globalisation"?

07-27-2004, 08:45 AM	#4
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	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.

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Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	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.)

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Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	Dang, I should type faster.

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Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	I think it's funny we came up with the same words for "yay".

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Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	Yoo know, we already took the U owt of favorite--it's only a matter of time before we conqer the letter u entirely!

07-27-2004, 11:10 AM	#13
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	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) __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

07-27-2004, 11:20 AM	#14
Troubleshooter The urban Jane Goodall Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Florida Posts: 3,012	The Brits aren't any better. In New England Gloucester and Worcester are pronounced gloster (glossed her) and wooster (like wood stir). __________________ I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. - Aristotle

07-27-2004, 11:26 AM	#15
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	In MA, there's a Worcester that's pronounced Woostah, but here in PA there is one pronounced War-ses-tr. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

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