On 1/26/2016 7:13 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Jan 2016 17:51:55 +0000, Stephen wrote:
>
>
>> About 20 years ago I was on a rig where the OIM had been to the funeral
>> of the last Doric, of a certain type, speaker.
>
> I need to find out from Alistair what it is that he speaks.  He said
> there's one other person in the town he lives in who speaks it.
> Fortunately, they get along. :)
>

Fit like, ma loon?
:)

>>> Welsh actually is one of those languages, as is Irish.  Breton, Scotish
>>> Gaelic, Cornish, and Manx are the other living languages.
>>>
>>>
>> Irish, are you talking about Irish Gaelic?
>
> Yes, sorry, I should have been clear on that.
>

Yeah, it took me a while to understand what you meant.
But coming from somewhere that speaks Lowland Scotts/ Ulster Scots. I am 
easily confused. :)

>>> I can't tell you how many people mispronounce my cats' names - which
>>> are Manx Gaelic (and actually, relatively simple names to pronounce).
>>>
>>>
>> That supriseses me. :-P
>
> Which part of it?
>

The part where you missed out what your cat is called. :P

> That they're simple names to pronounce?
>

Simple if you know how, I would imagine.
It is like the "ch" sound in loch, I can't understand how some people 
cannot ronounce it. Badness I assume. ;)



>
>>> For example, the made-up word 'ghoti' is often used to describe the
>>> idiosyncrasies of English pronunciation.  (The actual pronunciation of
>>> that made-up word is "fish" - gh from 'tough', o from 'women', ti from
>>> 'nation').
>>>
>>>
>> A case of the parts adding to more than the sun of the whoke. :)
>

Bloody Adia!
See what happens when your spellchecker does not work. :(


>>>
>> Watch it ot ETA will come to get you. :P
>
> LOL, ain't that the truth.  It didn't occur to me that I was speaking
> Spanish (poorly) when I was in Barcelona, and I thought my Spanish
> pronunciation was just a little rusty when a shopkeeper couldn't
> understand me.  So I tried more slowly, and she "understood", and replied
> full speed to my inquiry, even after it was apparent that I wasn't
> speaking the same language she was.
>
> ¿Tiene libros de fotografías?
>
> and
>
> Té llibres de fotografies?
>
> Are not that far off from each other, but far enough, I think, to inform
> the native-speaker that responding at native speed wouldn't be helpful -
> and an answer that involves complex directions to a store elsewhere in
> the shops probably wasn't going to be understood.
>

LOL but the Spanish are a good natured people and are very happy that 
others try to speak Spanish.

> I found what I was looking for, eventually, anyways, so no harm done.
>

Depend what sort of picture book you were looking for. ^-^


-- 

Regards
     Stephen

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