Re: Further off Topic! NGDF Bad Guys!!
| March 31, 2017 10:55PM |
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dougvv Wrote:
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> Of course if the bear runs a steam loco,
> he might be smokey bear. If a spark gets
> in his fur is he a bare bear?
Not necessarily, Doug -
He might just bearly get singed — which should be spelled 'sinjed', IMHO.*
- Willie
* 'Singed' pronounced with a hard 'g', as in "singed at", would imply the torture of being sung to by yourself and/or Roosso.)
I truly feel sorry for anyone trying to learn English as a second language; especially someone from say, Germany, where the rules are fairly simple and quite consistent. Please explain to me, for example, why 'through' is pronounced like 'threw', 'trough' like 'sloth', 'rough' like 'ruff' and 'dough' like 'doe'. And don't let me get started on 'there', 'their' and 'they're' or 'yore', 'your' and 'you're'.
No wonder my Uncle Claude was driven to drink at an early age!
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/31/2017 11:00PM by Johnson Barr.
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> Of course if the bear runs a steam loco,
> he might be smokey bear. If a spark gets
> in his fur is he a bare bear?
Not necessarily, Doug -
He might just bearly get singed — which should be spelled 'sinjed', IMHO.*
- Willie
* 'Singed' pronounced with a hard 'g', as in "singed at", would imply the torture of being sung to by yourself and/or Roosso.)
I truly feel sorry for anyone trying to learn English as a second language; especially someone from say, Germany, where the rules are fairly simple and quite consistent. Please explain to me, for example, why 'through' is pronounced like 'threw', 'trough' like 'sloth', 'rough' like 'ruff' and 'dough' like 'doe'. And don't let me get started on 'there', 'their' and 'they're' or 'yore', 'your' and 'you're'.
No wonder my Uncle Claude was driven to drink at an early age!
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/31/2017 11:00PM by Johnson Barr.
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