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the Omrud
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| Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2005 7:29 pm
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Tony Cooper spake thusly:
| Quote: | On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 08:39:30 GMT, the Omrud <usenet.omrud@gmail.com
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Tony Cooper spake thusly:
So you want bland? You want vanilla with no sprinkles?
=HibernoBritishEnglish "Hundreds and Thousands".
I hear the sound of rushing air over my head.
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I was simply seeking to extend your fluency in HibernoBritishEnglish.
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the Omrud
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| Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2005 7:33 pm
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Harvey Van Sickle spake thusly:
| Quote: | On 30 Sep 2005, Harvey Van Sickle wrote
On 30 Sep 2005, Tony Cooper wrote
On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 08:39:30 GMT, the Omrud <usenet.omrud@gmail.com
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Tony Cooper spake thusly:
So you want bland? You want vanilla with no sprinkles?
=HibernoBritishEnglish "Hundreds and Thousands".
I hear the sound of rushing air over my head.
Assuming "sprinkles" are those tiny, garishly multi-coloured, hard
sugar things that one puts on ice cream or fancy little cupcakes -- -
well, they're called "hundreds and thousands" in the UK.
Photo of them here -- top image -- from an Australian site:
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/09/23/1064082968598.html
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And they give rise to the most delicious and desirable "rainbow
drops":
http://www.mrsbrowns.co.uk/acatalog/RAINBOW_DROPS_BROWN.html
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Mike Lyle
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| Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2005 7:34 pm
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Salvatore Volatile wrote:
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| Quote: | I do, Coop. Most of your postings are more interesting than most
AUE
postings. That's why it's so distressing that you limit the
readability of your postings by peppering them with
Hiberno-Briticisms.
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Ang abaht! You mean those of us who use Hibernations, Britvicisms, or
Hiberno-Briticisms in the course of nature suffer limited readability
in consequence? Are those of us condemned by accident of birth
perforce to deploy Oceanianisms doomed, ex hypothesi, to a
well-nigh-total incomprehensibility?
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Mike Lyle
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| Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2005 7:39 pm
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the Omrud wrote:
| Quote: | Tony Cooper spake thusly:
So you want bland? You want vanilla with no sprinkles?
=HibernoBritishEnglish "Hundreds and Thousands".
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Ah, that right? I didn't know: I thought they called them
"nonpareils". (Used to be children's party fare in Oz: sprinkled on
bread and butter.)
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Tony Cooper
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| Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2005 8:45 pm
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On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 13:04:46 GMT, Harvey Van Sickle
<harvey.news@ntlworld.com> wrote:
| Quote: | On 30 Sep 2005, Tony Cooper wrote
On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 12:34:28 GMT, Harvey Van Sickle
harvey.news@ntlworld.com> wrote:
On 30 Sep 2005, Tony Cooper wrote
On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 08:39:30 GMT, the Omrud
usenet.omrud@gmail.com> wrote:
Tony Cooper spake thusly:
So you want bland? You want vanilla with no sprinkles?
=HibernoBritishEnglish "Hundreds and Thousands".
I hear the sound of rushing air over my head.
Assuming "sprinkles" are those tiny, garishly multi-coloured,
hard sugar things that one puts on ice cream or fancy little
cupcakes -- - well, they're called "hundreds and thousands" in
the UK.
Didn't know that. As a Registered Hiberno-Whatever Abuser, I feel
like I've missed an opportunity to earn condemnation by Areff.
Adopt it now -- before he notices -- and you might still be in time to
curdle his cupcake with it.
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Can't be bothered now. I'm working on a 27 paragraph narrative on
hanging out at an ice cream parlour in southern Indiana and my
favorite flavours of cornets. Flake 99 will be mentioned, as will be
the difficulties of pulling serviettes from over-stuffed counter
dispensers.
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Tony Cooper
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Mike Lyle
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| Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2005 8:53 pm
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Harvey Van Sickle wrote:
| Quote: | On 30 Sep 2005, Harvey Van Sickle wrote
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Assuming "sprinkles" are those tiny, garishly multi-coloured, hard
sugar things that one puts on ice cream or fancy little
cupcakes -- -
well, they're called "hundreds and thousands" in the UK.
Photo of them here -- top image -- from an Australian site:
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/09/23/1064082968598.html
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Standard of cooking has dropped since I left, judging from that
concave sponge cake.
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the Omrud
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| Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2005 8:56 pm
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Tony Cooper spake thusly:
| Quote: | Can't be bothered now. I'm working on a 27 paragraph narrative on
hanging out at an ice cream parlour in southern Indiana and my
favorite flavours of cornets. Flake 99 will be mentioned, as will be
the difficulties of pulling serviettes from over-stuffed counter
dispensers.
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Are those dispensers which give out over-stuffed counters, or over-
stuffed dispensers which give out counters?
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Tony Cooper
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| Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2005 9:35 pm
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On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 14:56:10 GMT, the Omrud <usenet.omrud@gmail.com>
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| Quote: | Tony Cooper spake thusly:
Can't be bothered now. I'm working on a 27 paragraph narrative on
hanging out at an ice cream parlour in southern Indiana and my
favorite flavours of cornets. Flake 99 will be mentioned, as will be
the difficulties of pulling serviettes from over-stuffed counter
dispensers.
Are those dispensers which give out over-stuffed counters, or over-
stuffed dispensers which give out counters?
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Do you not have http://tinyurl.com/drty8 over there?
Here, in a place like McDonald's, the help jams in almost twice the
capacity of napkins into the dispenser in the hopes that they will not
have to refill them as often. Then, the first person trying to pull
out a napkin will have to remove a wad of them just to get one out.
The net effect is a waste of napkins
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Harvey Van Sickle
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| Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2005 9:37 pm
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On 30 Sep 2005, Tony Cooper wrote
-snip-
| Quote: | Here, in a place like McDonald's, the help jams in almost twice
the capacity of napkins into the dispenser in the hopes that they
will not have to refill them as often. Then, the first person
trying to pull out a napkin will have to remove a wad of them just
to get one out.
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Or they politely try to take just one, and it shreds into hundreds and
thousands of pieces.
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Cheers, Harvey
Canadian (30 years) and British (23 years)
For e-mail, change harvey.news to harvey.van |
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the Omrud
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| Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2005 9:37 pm
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Tony Cooper spake thusly:
| Quote: | On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 14:56:10 GMT, the Omrud <usenet.omrud@gmail.com
wrote:
Tony Cooper spake thusly:
Can't be bothered now. I'm working on a 27 paragraph narrative on
hanging out at an ice cream parlour in southern Indiana and my
favorite flavours of cornets. Flake 99 will be mentioned, as will be
the difficulties of pulling serviettes from over-stuffed counter
dispensers.
Are those dispensers which give out over-stuffed counters, or over-
stuffed dispensers which give out counters?
Do you not have http://tinyurl.com/drty8 over there?
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Oh, sure, but we wouldn't include the word "counter" in the name. Do
they have a different name if they are on a table? Just "napkin
dispenser" suffices here.
| Quote: | Here, in a place like McDonald's, the help jams in almost twice the
capacity of napkins into the dispenser in the hopes that they will not
have to refill them as often. Then, the first person trying to pull
out a napkin will have to remove a wad of them just to get one out.
The net effect is a waste of napkins.
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I don't do McDonald's any more, but the scenario is familiar.
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Tony Cooper
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| Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2005 10:15 pm
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On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 15:37:45 GMT, the Omrud <usenet.omrud@gmail.com>
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| Quote: | Tony Cooper spake thusly:
On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 14:56:10 GMT, the Omrud <usenet.omrud@gmail.com
wrote:
Tony Cooper spake thusly:
Can't be bothered now. I'm working on a 27 paragraph narrative on
hanging out at an ice cream parlour in southern Indiana and my
favorite flavours of cornets. Flake 99 will be mentioned, as will be
the difficulties of pulling serviettes from over-stuffed counter
dispensers.
Are those dispensers which give out over-stuffed counters, or over-
stuffed dispensers which give out counters?
Do you not have http://tinyurl.com/drty8 over there?
Oh, sure, but we wouldn't include the word "counter" in the name. Do
they have a different name if they are on a table? Just "napkin
dispenser" suffices here.
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The fast food places do not usually place the dispensers on the
tables. They are usually placed on the counter, or whatever you want
to call the place where you pick up your food, or on the condiments
bar. Exceptions, of course. The ice cream shoppes go either way:
one on each table, or one on the counter.
The advantage to the counter system is that there are fewer dispensers
to buy and fewer dispensers to fill. When they're on the tables,
there are fewer dispensers that actually contain napkins.
The word "counter" could have easily been left out of my description,
but the mind just placed them on the counter since that's where I
usually see them in over-stuffed condition.
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Mike Lyle
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| Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2005 11:12 pm
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Salvatore Volatile wrote:
| Quote: | Mike Lyle wrote:
Salvatore Volatile wrote:
[...]
I do, Coop. Most of your postings are more interesting than most
AUE
postings. That's why it's so distressing that you limit the
readability of your postings by peppering them with
Hiberno-Briticisms.
[...]
Ang abaht! You mean those of us who use Hibernations, Britvicisms,
or
Hiberno-Briticisms in the course of nature suffer limited
readability
in consequence? Are those of us condemned by accident of birth
perforce to deploy Oceanianisms doomed, ex hypothesi, to a
well-nigh-total incomprehensibility?
Not at all. Hiberno-Briticisms are to be expected in the postings
of
certified Hiberno-Britons, or even special-status posters like
Australo-Britons, of which we have one or three. They can also be
tolerated in the postings of Harvey van Hoboken and Sir Garry Vass,
since those guys live over there. But they simply don't belong in
Coop's writings. Coop's natural idiom is that of the country
Midland
speaker. He's also pretty good at businessese (e.g. "out of
pocket",
"to incent", etc.).
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But that doesn't touch on his readability. He could say "bloody
bloke" ten times in a posting, and end his remarks alternately with
the interpolations "Oo-er Missis!" and "Boi Jasus, intoirely!"
without limiting his comprehensibilty. (I'm assuming, I think fairly,
that we're using "readability" in that way rather than as a stylistic
judgement.)
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Salvatore Volatile
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| Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 12:11 am
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Sara Lorimer wrote:
| Quote: | Salvatore Volatile <me@privacy.net> wrote:
You're using Britishisms on purpose when you respond to British posters or
perceive that British speakers will read your postings. There's no
justification for that. Speak in your native tongue (TCE)!
Do you have a cut-off age for when people should stop picking up new
words and phrases?
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There is no cut-off age for the *natural* picking up of new phrases. What
I condemn is the *forced* Cooperian sprinkling (= BrE "hundred and
thousanding") of Hiberno-Briticisms he's picked up from SCI (of which he
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Robert Lieblich
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| Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 3:00 am
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Tony Cooper wrote:
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| Quote: | Can't be bothered now. I'm working on a 27 paragraph narrative on
hanging out at an ice cream parlour in southern Indiana and my
favorite flavours of cornets.
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Don't expect me to read it.
| Quote: | Flake 99 will be mentioned, as will be
the difficulties of pulling serviettes from over-stuffed counter
dispensers.
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Don't expect me to read it.
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Tony Cooper
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| Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 3:55 am
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On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 17:00:46 -0400, Robert Lieblich
<robert.lieblich@verizon.net> wrote:
| Quote: | Tony Cooper wrote:
[ ... ]
Can't be bothered now. I'm working on a 27 paragraph narrative on
hanging out at an ice cream parlour in southern Indiana and my
favorite flavours of cornets.
Don't expect me to read it.
Flake 99 will be mentioned, as will be
the difficulties of pulling serviettes from over-stuffed counter
dispensers.
Don't expect me to read it.
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Well, that's it, then. The project is off. Done. Over. Dead.
Expired. No longer among the living.
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Tony Cooper
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