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Hi Ian and all,
Hmmm, seems I was mistaken where Patric Stewart picked up his accent but
it's easily recognizable as Oxford. Seems like the Royal Academy (don't
know what the next letters stand for) teaches it as what you call "actor
accent". Anyway, sure seems strange hearing it from a "Frenchman" in
STTNG. Oh he's not the only one who started out with hair, Remember Yul
Brenner in The King and I? (Today it would be Me and the King, hi.) Then
there was Telly Savales, don't remember specifics about his early career
but he shaved the remains of his Friar Tuck and like the afore mentioned
joined the Sexy Set.
Macro in I Claudius? If not for macros there would be fewer digital hams.
(;->)
Now you have me wondering about Chaucer, if they were in the original Old
English you couldn't read them, thos who can can be counted on the
fingers of one hand. Now there's a dead language, Latin isn't.
You had me going with 'Elektrischestrassenbahnwagenfahrer', it took a
while to figure out electric street way wagon driver. Then there was
"Photographiichiesliapparatura" that didn't take quite so long, thank you
for not typing it in cyrlic. (;->)
Oh it's not the language that makes for difficuly undersdtanding other
English speakers, it's the regional terms and worse, slang. That's why
when corresponding with friends across the pond and down under once in a
while I have to ask for explanation and once in a while when I use a word
or phrase likely to be unfamiliar I explain it. That reminds me of a
classic remark about those Indian marbles in the mouth service desk
people, Yeah, they speak perfect English but they don't speak OZTRAALIAN.
Oh yeah, they have the same subtle yet wicked sense of humor alright, I
remember a few comments about Bonnie Prince Charlie, that jug eared
bloke. Oddly I didn't hear any about his mum, could be her outwardly dour
appearance in public making me wonder what funny stuff she says in
private.
Now about that joke, was it about Dumbo or The Flying Nun?
73 de Warren
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