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bad millimetres. Can confirm that substituting the word 'get' for 'bad' in the above with 2 line breaks, whatever, blows up with an Internal Server Error. Even if "protected" within the code brackets. For one thing, while extra blank lines and spaces are normally stripped by the message s...

Nanohedron wrote: ↑Sun Apr 09, 2023 12:34 pm We will have to wait for Ben to bend his mind to this mystery.

Ben's been thinking about it, and drawing blanks ...

Nanohedron wrote: ↑Mon Mar 27, 2023 11:05 am

Tunborough wrote: ↑Sun Mar 26, 2023 8:12 am

benhall.1 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 26, 2023 1:46 am He pronounces it really clearly, in the way that everybody here in the UK pronounces it: "wor-ter".

Is that rhotic /r/ or non-rhotic?

I would confidently lay odds on non.

Definitely non.

He just could not get anyone over there to understand what he was saying when he said the word 'water'. Apparently, in the end, he had to get his friend, who lives in Texas and with whom he was staying, to 'translate' it for him. Can we hear your colleague’s pronunciation? He pronounces it really c...

A young colleague of mine has just come back to the UK from a 3 week holiday in Texas. He said he was very confused over one thing in particular: in restaurants etc, he frequently wanted just water to drink with his meals. He just could not get anyone over there to understand what he was saying when...

Okay, I just had an exchange with another friend and I asked her if she understood "Beer me." She didn't right away, because she'd never heard it. This was perfect, because it was an opportunity to test my claim that in context, any Yank should get it. Presented with that context, she got...

They go back much further than that. He was born at the beginning of the 1880s, and worked as a youth in a well-to-do hostelry that used decorated tin-glazed pottery beer covers, which doubled as mats. Ah, well now. Yes, those were a different matter. I wasn't talking about them. I was talking abou...

we call them beer doilies I like that name! We call them beer mats, though my granddad told me they originally went on top of the glass rather than under it, to keep out insects and so on. Then they became an advertising device. They've become unusual now, possibly because they're not the most hygi...

The past participle may serve as an introduction. "We stopped for lunch at a pub. When beered and sandwiched we continued on our way." I'm now imagining them leaving covered in comestibles because they sat in one of the locals' seats. :lol: Between Ben and you, I believe I'm detecting a t...

It’s interesting that Wayne shorter could pack any of the largest theaters here in the U.S. but has filled stadiums in Japan. It the among the saddest testaments about the U.S. You've confused me ... Do you mean he couldn't pack a theatre in the US? His theater & club appearances in the U.S. we...

oleorezinator wrote: ↑Fri Mar 03, 2023 7:37 pm It’s interesting that Wayne shorter could pack
any of the largest theaters here in the U.S.
but has filled stadiums in Japan. It the
among the saddest testaments about the U.S.

You've confused me ... Do you mean he couldn't pack a theatre in the US?

Not being all that much of a jazz fan, I don't know of Shorter's work at all. But that was absolutely beautiful. Thank you Mr Rezinator!

In retrospect, "common" wasn't the best choice of words for the US, either; but neither ought anyone in the States be flummoxed by "Beer me," even if it's their first time hearing it. Of course it means "Give me beer," in a friendly way; from my end that's the only tra...

Nanohedron wrote: ↑Mon Feb 27, 2023 5:39 pm I suspected the US shared this with Canada. Normally we don't even think about it; it's just part of how we frame the world.

One more thing, and then I promise I'll stop wittering: 'luck' isn't a verb.

For me there's nothing outrageous about this state of affairs, but you do need familiarity for any of it to make sense, because from your angle, my Right Pond friends, I suspect none of it does! I must admit, even after you and oleorezinator have explained it to me, I'm still always going to strugg...