Hoi Art

[IdolEyes787]

But I'm scared now, Idol is going to come back with that toilet paper analogy again or something as equally inane, just to show how really important this is.

The prick.

On that, you'll get no arguments.

You anger me.
Lucky for you I've already got those trumped up assault charges hanging over me or I swear to God I'd hunt you down and make a lampshade out of your skin.

[mjmacky]

On that, you'll get no arguments.

You anger me.
Lucky for you I've already got those trumped up assault charges hanging over me or I swear to God I'd hunt you down and make a lampshade out of your skin.

Or is it because you already own a fleshlight?

[IdolEyes787]

I believe it's spelled flashlight.

[Artemis]

By the way, I like the pronunciation of aluminium. But then again, it's always fun to hear s talk.

Actually that was a bit of a tangent really on my part, in reply to mj's tangent, but then it turned into a debate as it does, which is interesting for me, boring as fuck from the sidelines, and we didn't even get to the pronounciations that truly make me cringe (well one is a pronounciation the other is just odd).
The first is vehicle. Now for some strange reason large swathes of southern america are desparately trying to turn this into two words, either that or the silly fuckers can't say more than one syllable without taking a breath because more and more the swamp creatures are pronouncing the word ve hicle.

My second contention is one to do with how everyone these days seems to be enamored by jargon, actually calling everything with more than one wheel and an engine attached a ve hicle is an excellent example of this overexuberance with a term, but that really is only the silver place getter. The gold medallist in this respect from my point of view is the word 'facility'. Now you can call the local county settling pond and the lock up shed behind it a 'facility', if it has a vaguely official purpose, it automatically seems to warrant this catchall name.

Just a couple of small notes from a far, after a steady diet American cable shows that are getting worse and worse, it's like gumby brain surgery.

[chalice]

Personally, I hate people who say 'a far' as opposed to 'afar'. I do it from afar, which is a far better way to do it, innit.

[mjmacky]

I believe it's spelled flashlight.

What you stick your dick into is none of my business; however, you're a lot more into electronics than you've previously revealed.

[mjmacky]

I find it funny when I hear people pronounce garage like carriage.

[megabyteme]

"Expresso" (espresso)
"haf to" (need to do something)
"use to" (past tense of something)

[Artemis]

The aids is progressing well though.....

This feckin virus will not go away, and I can't use any old Scottish remedy involving Whiskey or anything flammable, which leaves me with a lot of gay over the counter pharmacy drugs, that cost the earth and do sod all.

[Squeamous]

And to stamp a conclusion on all of this.

I don't really care about the U.S. and its cultural imperialism, but I like to think that researchers can set their own trends outside of nationality. We are making up terms all the time to label phenomena, factors and materials. Sometimes many synonymous variations coexist, and people tend to stick to favorites for some underlying reason. For instance, I'm trying to get everyone in our group to adhere to the usage of "coinage metals" to categorize the types of metals we implement in Raman signal enhancement. Why? Because it's the most unifying term when we want to list anything beyond Group 11 metals. Some people tend to use "noble metals", which is very misleading. Anyways, I'll cut this anecdote short before Idol finds me.

Also, I came close to calling you Darth Aluminium Dave, but I couldn't figure out a way to do it without sounding incredibly mean-spirited :/

Whether you like it or not, naming rights go to the discoverer, or at the very least people who had something to do with the discovery.

I went through my whole education without ever hearing an academic say 'aluminum' so as far as I'm concerned it's just a quirk and an Americanism. I always thought you guise said it that way because you found it hard to pronounce in your silly accents. Well, I've learned something here today: I overestimated you.

It doesn't really irritate me though, what irritates me is the fact Americans don't seem to be able to pronounce the 'H' in 'herb'. This has grammatical consequences because if I read a book written by an American they will prefix the word as if it begins with a vowel as in 'an herb' instead of 'a herb'. So not only is the word mispronounced, but even when I read it it fucks up the whole flow of the sentence. I think that's a much worse crime.