Transfers, Decals, and pronounciation of Deckals/Deecals

chrism · June 18, 2020, 07:39:21 PM

Quote from: Newportnobby on June 18, 2020, 07:20:11 PM
Quote from: chrism on June 18, 2020, 05:45:22 PM

I hope that Mick did actually mean people who start completely unrelated sentences with it.

For my sins I watch the quiz programme 'Pointless' and the problem is rife on that.
When told "Tell us about yourself" the norm is "So - I'm a such and such executive and live blah blah...."

Well, it does sound better than "um, er, um"

A similar one that get me is the number of non-British Formula 1 drivers who start their reply to almost every question with "For sure, ..." - I can only assume that their English teachers were really American.

dannyboy · June 18, 2020, 08:08:53 PM

Quote from: njee20 on June 18, 2020, 03:45:56 PM

If we're doing Americanisms

So, at one time I was the security supervisor at a company that was based in America and the management were always coming out with 'Americanisms' - my pet hate was "Going forward"! What is wrong with "in future"?

(With apologies to Mick @Newportnobby

).

njee20 · June 18, 2020, 08:11:29 PM

I occasionally find myself saying "going forward" or "I'll reach out to...", i have to admonish myself for such horrendous phrases.

chrism · June 18, 2020, 08:29:48 PM

Quote from: njee20 on June 18, 2020, 08:11:29 PM
I occasionally find myself saying "going forward" or "I'll reach out to...", i have to admonish myself for such horrendous phrases.

Oi, I'm retired. My days of playing Buzzword Bingo are, happily, behind me

Bob G · June 19, 2020, 11:56:12 AM

This is a local forum, for local people. We'll have no disrupters here.

Just had to say it.

I got this email last month, from a firm that puts experts together with people who seek their knowledge (I'm the expert, in this instance, BTW)

Hi Robert,
I hope you are well. I just wanted to touch base to make sure you saw the consulting opportunity that I sent earlier. We are looking to schedule calls in the next few days so we are keen to bring you on board if the opportunity is of interest to you.

I just re-wrote it in English here

Hi Bob.
I hope you are well. I have just sent you a consulting opportunity that we think suits your background. If you are interested, can you call me back?

Hmmmm. I didn't respond.

Bob G · June 19, 2020, 12:06:18 PM

Another thing that gets me is that even the BBC has resorted to using the name "Bob" to represent the village idiot who needs something explaining to him.
The latest one is a graphic on how track and trace works.

"Bob" thinks he has coronavirus. "Bob" is too stupid to self-isolate. That one.

If it wasn't so

important I'd complain about it.

I've suffered enough injustice in my life from being both short and bald (at the same time) without the BBC rubbing it in (sarcastic emoji).

Bob (with a PhD and 1/3000 of a Nobel Peace Prize).

PS Please note this is said with a glint of fun in my eye, or perhaps it is hay fever

martyn · June 19, 2020, 12:15:06 PM

Why have TV chefs in particular changed the pronunciation of 'almond'?

It always has been 'armond' now it's allmond (the 'al-is now rhymed with 'al' in Alan).

And as for the planet Uranus..........

Martyn

joe cassidy · June 19, 2020, 12:43:36 PM

The neologism that gets my goat at the moment is onboarding, meaning recruting, signing up, etc.

njee20 · June 19, 2020, 01:15:10 PM

Quote from: Bob G on June 19, 2020, 11:56:12 AM
Hi Robert,
I hope you are well. I just wanted to touch base to make sure you saw the consulting opportunity that I sent earlier. We are looking to schedule calls in the next few days so we are keen to bring you on board if the opportunity is of interest to you.

I just re-wrote it in English here

Hi Bob.
I hope you are well. I have just sent you a consulting opportunity that we think suits your background. If you are interested, can you call me back?

Hmmmm. I didn't respond.

Joe beat me to it, but he could have made that worse by asking if you wanted to be "onboarded". Shudder.

Bob G · June 19, 2020, 01:45:53 PM

Quote from: njee20 on June 19, 2020, 01:15:10 PM
Quote from: Bob G on June 19, 2020, 11:56:12 AM
Hi Robert,
I hope you are well. I just wanted to touch base to make sure you saw the consulting opportunity that I sent earlier. We are looking to schedule calls in the next few days so we are keen to bring you on board if the opportunity is of interest to you.

I just re-wrote it in English here

Hi Bob.
I hope you are well. I have just sent you a consulting opportunity that we think suits your background. If you are interested, can you call me back?

Hmmmm. I didn't respond.

Joe beat me to it, but he could have made that worse by asking if you wanted to be "onboarded". Shudder.

I was onboarded into a large Canadian firm in 2014.
I know what it was like.
Lots of compliant young North Americans with broad smiles and titanium white teeth, and two grumpy jaded Brits who had seen it all before

PGN · June 19, 2020, 01:53:58 PM

Well, while we're on Americanisms (haven't you got anything better to do, guys, like a bit of modelling??) ... I think we've probably lost the battle to retain the English pronounciation of "schedule".

(It's shed-yule, not sked-yule ... )

*bangs head in frustration*

Newportnobby · June 19, 2020, 01:54:39 PM

Quote from: Bob G on June 19, 2020, 11:56:12 AM
This is a local forum, for local people. We'll have no disrupters here.

Just had to say it.

I got this email last month, from a firm that puts experts together with people who seek their knowledge (I'm the expert, in this instance, BTW)

Hi Robert,
I hope you are well. I just wanted to touch base to make sure you saw the consulting opportunity that I sent earlier. We are looking to schedule calls in the next few days so we are keen to bring you on board if the opportunity is of interest to you.

I just re-wrote it in English here

Hi Bob.
I hope you are well. I have just sent you a consulting opportunity that we think suits your background. If you are interested, can you call me back?

Hmmmm. I didn't respond.

Don't touch the things!!

I'm shocked those idiots didn't manage to squeeze 'we'll run it up the flagpole' in there somewhere

chrism · June 19, 2020, 02:04:33 PM

Quote from: Newportnobby on June 19, 2020, 01:54:39 PM
Quote from: Bob G on June 19, 2020, 11:56:12 AM
This is a local forum, for local people. We'll have no disrupters here.

Just had to say it.

I got this email last month, from a firm that puts experts together with people who seek their knowledge (I'm the expert, in this instance, BTW)

Hi Robert,
I hope you are well. I just wanted to touch base to make sure you saw the consulting opportunity that I sent earlier. We are looking to schedule calls in the next few days so we are keen to bring you on board if the opportunity is of interest to you.

I just re-wrote it in English here

Hi Bob.
I hope you are well. I have just sent you a consulting opportunity that we think suits your background. If you are interested, can you call me back?

Hmmmm. I didn't respond.

Don't touch the things!!

I'm shocked those idiots didn't manage to squeeze 'we'll run it up the flagpole' in there somewhere

or "clear blue water"

PGN · June 19, 2020, 02:05:17 PM

And while we're on the subject of funny words ... the first case I took to the High Court after joining the Inland Revenue Solicitor's Office in 1992 was Gray (HMIT) -v- Seymour's Garden Centre (Horticulture) ... if you're sad enough to want to look it up, I think it's in 1994 STC, and about volume 56 or 57 of the Tax Cases.

Anyway, this all concerned a "planteria" - essentially, a glorified glasshouse - and whether it was "plant and machinery" (in which case it qualified for capital allowances) or premises (in which case it didn't). The High Court and Court of Appeal both held that it was premises.

Anyway ... the real problem with such neologisms as "planteria" is that nobody ever seems to agree on the correct plural form. My boss at the time used a convoluted back-projection to Latin declensions to conclude that it should be "planterias".

Me? I believe that English has enough irregularities as it is, and nobody has any business introducing new ones. If you invent a new noun, or import one from a foreign language, then you're making it into an English word so you give it a regular English plural by adding an s. So we reached the same conclusion, albeit by highly different routes.

(I have no time for nonsense like "premia" and "stadia" in English ... once you make "premium" and "stadium" into English words, then they attract the regular English plural form: Premiums and stadiums. And as for pulling in the Latin feminine forms, and feminine plurals ... no no no no NO! If a man makes a will and appoints his wife and sister to execute its terms, they are his executors. They are most emphatically NOT his executrices, notwithstanding that the Latin feminine form of "executor" is "executrix", and its plural "executrices" ... )

Newportnobby · June 19, 2020, 02:20:17 PM

Going back to my schooldays and learning Latin, I would have thought the singular of 'Planteria' would have been 'Planterium' as in 'bellum/bella' and 'forum/fora' but, hey, I only scraped an '0' level in it.
(I agree about it/them being premises, that's for sure)

Found in my Latin text book........
Latin is a language
As dead as dead can be
It killed off all the Romans
And now it's killing me

(Hardly Virgil but he was busy flying one of the Thunderbirds at the time)