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Post by ForumUser2 on Nov 12, 2021 16:08:00 GMT 1
For the first time I've opened the forum on my Chromebook. Now, I normally just use my android phone for everything but needed to do a bit of online banking which I could only do on a proper computer. Well I must say that the site looks very different from the mobile version. I can use italics, underline stuff, strike through, even use colours!
Shame not to use all this stuff on the phone but a 6 inch screen when changed to PC view is barely readable.
Anyway, carry on everyone. Just thought I'd share. Yes, I know; I've even bored myself a little bit.
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Aardvark
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Post by Aardvark on Nov 12, 2021 16:33:27 GMT 1
It's a whole different world out there when you pocket your phone and use a proper screen, etc.
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Post by ForumUser2 on Nov 12, 2021 17:42:17 GMT 1
It's a whole more connected world if you leave your PC off and use your phone.
For example: I was in Manchester r a couple of weeks ago and glanced at Google maps to see how to get from the hotel to the Etihad Stadium. 40 mins walk. Couldn't be arsed. Dialled up an uber and was there 15 mins later. Couldn't have done that on a PC.
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Post by ibis on Nov 12, 2021 17:53:35 GMT 1
It's a whole more connected world if you leave your PC off and use your phone. For example: I was in Manchester r a couple of weeks ago and glanced at Google maps to see how to get from the hotel to the Etihad Stadium. 40 mins walk. Couldn't be arsed. Dialled up an uber and was there 15 mins later. Couldn't have done that on a PC. Sorry but you can...
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Post by ForumUser2 on Nov 12, 2021 17:56:18 GMT 1
It's a whole more connected world if you leave your PC off and use your phone. For example: I was in Manchester r a couple of weeks ago and glanced at Google maps to see how to get from the hotel to the Etihad Stadium. 40 mins walk. Couldn't be arsed. Dialled up an uber and was there 15 mins later. Couldn't have done that on a PC. Sorry but you can...
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Post by FFS on Nov 12, 2021 18:19:49 GMT 1
An uber? I would have said "A uber", but I suppose it depends how you say 'uber', you-ber or oo-ber.
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Post by ForumUser2 on Nov 12, 2021 18:25:27 GMT 1
A n uber? I would have said "A uber", but I suppose it depends how you say 'uber', you-ber or oo-ber. The German way. |
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Post by ajm on Nov 12, 2021 18:38:28 GMT 1
A n uber? I would have said "A uber", but I suppose it depends how you say 'uber', you-ber or oo-ber. Like you would say "an hotel" |
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Post by ForumUser2 on Nov 12, 2021 18:43:26 GMT 1
A n uber? I would have said "A uber", but I suppose it depends how you say 'uber', you-ber or oo-ber. Like you would say "an hotel" That's an odd one, isn't it. I've always thought that anyone speaking English who says an hotel is being somewhat pretentious. The 'H' is pronounced so the indefinite article should be 'an'. Would there be an hurricane or an Humber Estuary? |
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Post by FFS on Nov 12, 2021 18:51:02 GMT 1
A n uber? I would have said "A uber", but I suppose it depends how you say 'uber', you-ber or oo-ber. The German way. The German way is with an umlaut, ie über, so 'yuber', ergo 'a uber', because you don't say 'an yacht' or 'an yard', do you? |
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Post by ForumUser2 on Nov 12, 2021 19:11:54 GMT 1
The German way is with an umlaut, ie über, so 'yuber', ergo 'a uber', because you don't say 'an yacht' or 'an yard', do you? Actually, you are correct that the u carries an umlaut but the sound in German is not as if the word starts with a y. The umlauted u (there is such a word as umlauted - I just invented it) is more ooo sounding than a plain u. Although I speak German with a Nordrhein-Westfalen accent I'm not aware that the 'Queen's' German is different in this regard. Regardless of such fine detail, I posit that an English speaker would pronounce ueber as oober in the same way that they would say hotel not 'otel |
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Post by exile on Nov 12, 2021 19:51:44 GMT 1
Strangely elsewhere I have posted in the last 24 hours about an horrendous death toll. Try saying that out loud as a horrendous death toll. It comes out as a staccato blast.
I see the insertion of an "n" as a mechanism for allowing the spoken language to flow in much the same way as in French a "t" is inserted in phrases such as "a-t-elle ..."
Oh and as already stated no way does an umlauted "u" equate to "yu" phonetically in German.
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Post by FFS on Nov 12, 2021 20:44:27 GMT 1
Strangely elsewhere I have posted in the last 24 hours about an horrendous death toll. Try saying that out loud as a horrendous death toll. It comes out as a staccato blast. I see the insertion of an "n" as a mechanism for allowing the spoken language to flow in much the same way as in French a "t" is inserted in phrases such as "a-t-elle ..." Oh and as already stated no way does an umlauted "u" equate to "yu" phonetically in German. Not saying you're wrong, exile and ForumUser2, but I was relying on the German I learnt when young and less wise, as well as Wiktionary: As for horrendous, 'an horrendous death toll', to me, sounds false. |
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Post by ajm on Nov 12, 2021 20:54:33 GMT 1
Like you would say "an hotel" That's an odd one, isn't it. I've always thought that anyone speaking English who says an hotel is being somewhat pretentious. The 'H' is pronounced so the indefinite article should be 'an'. Would there be an hurricane or an Humber Estuary? I've been called many things but pretentious is a first. Thank you! The way I speak English is probably down to my parents who drug me up proper fer to speak right. Have a good weekend. |
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Post by suein56 on Nov 12, 2021 20:54:39 GMT 1
FFS posted :
As for horrendous, 'an horrendous death toll', to me, sounds false.
It's what I was taught .. it seems natural/automatic to me .. so that's what I would say, even today when anything seems to go in speech.
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