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On 13/07/2011 07:54 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
> I was going to say, "Andrew Lloyd Webber" and "epic masterpiece" create a
> fair amount of cognitive dissonance for me - those two things don't
> really belong in the same sentence, IMNSHO.
Yeah, weirdly a couple of people have voiced this incomprehensible
opinion...
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http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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>> There's an urban myth that in Chinese, the pitch of the word dictates
>> which word it is...
>
> The same sound has up to four different tones possible. That doesn't
> make it unambiguous, tho. For each sound+tone, there's still dozens of
> meanings you need to disambiguate, even if it's written.
The writing system has over eight million characters, and it's *still*
ambiguous?
What the hell do Chinese people *say* to each other?! o_O
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On 7/13/2011 13:57, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> The writing system has over eight million characters, and it's *still*
> ambiguous?
It's still ambiguous without the context of a surrounding sentence.
Is "use" a verb or a noun? Is "read" present or past tense? Same thing.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
"Coding without comments is like
driving without turn signals."
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On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 21:56:34 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> On 13/07/2011 07:54 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>
>> I was going to say, "Andrew Lloyd Webber" and "epic masterpiece" create
>> a fair amount of cognitive dissonance for me - those two things don't
>> really belong in the same sentence, IMNSHO.
>
> Yeah, weirdly a couple of people have voiced this incomprehensible
> opinion...
What's so incomprehensible about it? ALW's music has no redeeming
musical qualities that I've ever heard, basically a sort of feel-good-pop-
crap musical style.
Even hearing the name triggers my gag reflex.
Jim
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On 7/13/2011 16:13, Jim Henderson wrote:
> feel-good-pop-crap musical style.
Phantom of the Opera? Feel good pop crap?
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
"Coding without comments is like
driving without turn signals."
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On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 17:57:41 -0700, Darren New wrote:
> On 7/13/2011 16:13, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> feel-good-pop-crap musical style.
>
> Phantom of the Opera? Feel good pop crap?
OK, one possible exception (I don't know that one very well).
Jim
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On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 21:27:42 -0400, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 17:57:41 -0700, Darren New wrote:
>
>> On 7/13/2011 16:13, Jim Henderson wrote:
>>> feel-good-pop-crap musical style.
>>
>> Phantom of the Opera? Feel good pop crap?
>
> OK, one possible exception (I don't know that one very well).
OK, and some of the stuff from Evita.
My perception is a bit colored, though, because I was required to play
"Memory" from _Cats_ in orchestra several years, and the simplified
version grated on me (and made me dislike the song and the composer .
Then to hear bits of things like "Jesus Christ Superstar" and "Joseph and
the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" - *those* definitely are puke-inducing
for me and fit my earlier description.
Jim
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On 13/07/2011 1:22 AM, Darren New wrote:
>> (Britons would have a fun time watching a Finn trying to pronounce
>> "Worcestershire".)
>
> Everyone has fun watching people say that one. ;-)
>
> There's a saying in the USA:
> In Texas, "yep" is three syllables. In Boston, "Worcestershire" is one.
Having been working in NM near the Texas border. I can confirm that
"yep" has three syllables.
How would you pronounce Milngavie, a town in Scotland?
Wikipedia makes a good stab at it.
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Stephen
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On 11/07/2011 3:29 PM, Tom Galvin wrote:
> On 7/8/2011 3:08 AM, Invisible wrote:
>
>>
>> Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I can determine, an "oreo"
>> is an obscure brand of biscuit. So... WTF?
>
> Oreo is also derogatory American slang.
In the UK it is "Bounty Bar"
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Stephen
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On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 08:29:19 -0600, Tom Galvin wrote:
> On 7/8/2011 3:08 AM, Invisible wrote:
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>
>> Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I can determine, an "oreo"
>> is an obscure brand of biscuit. So... WTF?
>
> Oreo is also derogatory American slang.
I hadn't heard that - but I have heard it as a proposed "combined" name
for the cities of Orem and Provo here in Utah. (The two towns are
neighbors and there's no really straightforward demarcation at the
boundary between them, like so many neighboring cities/towns these days).
Jim
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