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Post subject: Re: SR-72 Posted: 11 Mar 2021, 22:55 |
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Joined: 03/28/17 Posts: 6678 Post Likes: +8018 Location: N. California
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Username Protected wrote: When did we start measuring speed in Mack numbers instead of Mach numbers? When the Brits pronounce "Mach." Maybe the Brits aren't interested in pronouncing Austrian physicists Ernst Mach's name correctly.
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Post subject: Re: SR-72 Posted: 12 Mar 2021, 06:02 |
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Username Protected wrote: When did we start measuring speed in Mack numbers instead of Mach numbers? When the Brits pronounce "Mach." Maybe the Brits aren't interested in pronouncing Austrian physicists Ernst Mach's name correctly. It really is true. And Brits aren't allowed to use French words unless they pronounce them with a completely atrocious accent!
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Post subject: Re: SR-72 Posted: 12 Mar 2021, 09:51 |
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Username Protected wrote: When did we start measuring speed in Mack numbers instead of Mach numbers? When you are talking about militree aircraft not made from aluminyum.
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Post subject: Re: SR-72 Posted: 12 Mar 2021, 10:03 |
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Joined: 01/31/12 Posts: 3094 Post Likes: +5447 Company: French major Location: France
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Username Protected wrote: It really is true. And Brits aren't allowed to use French words unless they pronounce them with a completely atrocious accent! Don't get me started...And Americans aren't really better! Try and say "entrepreneur" without making me cringe...Or my first name! But we get some revenge by refusing to speak English with anything but a French accent. As to alumin ium, why don't we just call it alumium, as initially intended
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Post subject: Re: SR-72 Posted: 12 Mar 2021, 10:11 |
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I think everything should be measured in Mack numbers ... but then I'm biased lol.. My ex-wives certainly did! *laughing*
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Post subject: Re: SR-72 Posted: 12 Mar 2021, 10:19 |
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Username Protected wrote: I don’t get it. The language is named after them, yet the English can’t be bothered to speak it properly! My wife and I binge watched Planet Earth in BBC America a couple months back. Sir David can barely speak the language, it seems.
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Post subject: Re: SR-72 Posted: 12 Mar 2021, 10:25 |
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Username Protected wrote: Don't get me started...And Americans aren't really better! Try and say "entrepreneur" without making me cringe...Or my first name! But we get some revenge by refusing to speak English with anything but a French accent. As to alumin ium, why don't we just call it alumium, as initially intended [youtube]http://youtu.be/vbBzXPQ4CFk[/youtube]
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Post subject: Re: SR-72 Posted: 12 Mar 2021, 11:00 |
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Username Protected wrote: It really is true. And Brits aren't allowed to use French words unless they pronounce them with a completely atrocious accent! Don't get me started...And Americans aren't really better! Try and say "entrepreneur" without making me cringe...Or my first name! Well, that's the trick; you have to know how the "locals" say it, and once you do your ears will hurt every time someone near you says it ever after. Welcome to my life in the land of "ver-sails" Indiana (and Kentucky), and "My-Lan" (Milan) Indiana. I kid you not. They managed to get "Peru" right simply because they couldn't figure out how to pronounce it any other way. It's amusing to me that someone a long time ago thought so highly of these far away places that they named their town after them, but couldn't manage to pronounce it.
What it really comes down to is the fact that each language has its own distinct phonics. Applying US phonics to French and Italian words results in the above, and to be fair, it's not really reasonable to expect nineteenth century farmers to know the French and Italian pronunciation. Which is why we get "Fay-bee-en" instead of "Fah-b'yen", which is hard to write and still muffle the trailing "n", which brings me to the question... why do you do that?
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Post subject: Re: SR-72 Posted: 12 Mar 2021, 11:11 |
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Paris (with an S that you pronounce at the end) is the son of Priam, lover of Helen of Sparta, killer of Achilles. Paris (the city) is pronounced without the S. Thank you, this PSA is now over. edit: why do I do that? Because it's from Latin, and it's the proper pronunciation. If you guys hadn't mixed up Latin, Greek & French with some Old German, you would speak correctly . More seriously that is one of the biggest differences between Latin languages and German/Northern-based languages: in the latter, all letters of a word tend to be pronounced. In Latin, letters are in conjunction to create different syllables whose pronunciation depends on their position in the word.
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