Text 4160, 76 rader
Skriven 2012-09-20 22:51:54 av Roy Witt (1:387/22)
   Kommentar till text 4124 av Björn Felten (2:203/2)
Ärende: Pvt nodes vs points
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14 Feb 27 15:09, Björn Felten wrote to Roy Witt:


 RW>> Is it? Or does it sound that way because of the New Yorker's eastern
 RW>> accent in speaking that confuses you. That's not a question.

 BF>    How would you know? Unlike me, you've never even set foot in NYC

Dumbass! Haven't you ever heard of radio or television?

 BF> -- that's fairly obvious. Or else you would know that there's
 BF> probably a million different dialects going around there.

I wouldn't call them dialects, I'd call them variations of use by people
without any idea how to use the language other than where they came
from; Jamaican, Puerto Rican, ad nausium.

 RW>> The proper pronounciation of Houston is hyoo sten...

 BF>    As pronounced in what language?

English, of course.

 BF> That's no generally accepted notation.

I'd call that a piss-poor dictionary that you're using.

 BF> BTW, is the spelling of the third word there yet another US
 BF> anomaly. In English it's spelt differently.

Which 3rd word are you talking about? If it isn't spelled (spelt for those
using Old English) I'd blame tht on your version of English; American
English makes an attempt o correct the bad judement of morons who are
using a language that out-lived itself three centuries ago.

 RW>> BTW, Sam Houston would be rolling in his grave if he knew a Svede
 RW>> was telling someone how to pronounce his name.

 BF>    Maybe. He was a southerner -- and a soldier even -- and probably
 BF> suffered from the same pathological hatred for everything European as
 BF> you.

Nahhh, he didn't hate anyone, unless they tried to push themselves on
others. That's why Mexico's General Santa Ana didn't win the war with
Texas. Take a look at the size of Texas today and imagine what it must
have looked like before it was split up into 5 states beforing entering
into the US union. Then consider that a handful of immigrants kicked
several thousand Mexican ass' in an effort to win Texas as a Republic.

BTW, that effort didn't last as long as the Gulf War of 1990.

 BF>    As for *William* Houstoun on the other hand, he was educated in
 BF> London, and even had a British citizenship.

That poor bastard.

 BF> He most likely had better respect for non-US people.

Doubt it. He became a US statesman about the time of the American
Revolutionary war. He may not have hated the Brits, his native comrads
perhaps at one time, but he did engage them because of what they stood for
and the differences in what he stood for.

In that regard, most colonists hated King George's tyrannical rule of the
colonies...those who didn't moved to Canada or back to England...

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