Raithe Posted December 14, 2017 Posted December 14, 2017 But can we have a thread on this subject without including... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_rVzBt20N0 1 "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum."
Raithe Posted December 14, 2017 Posted December 14, 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8T-J0suoSQM "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum."
kirottu Posted December 14, 2017 Posted December 14, 2017 I tried watching this movie once, but had to stop because I kept missing too much stuff. This post is not to be enjoyed, discussed, or referenced on company time.
ShadySands Posted December 14, 2017 Author Posted December 14, 2017 I thought that movie was hilarious but my wife got up and left the room after about 8 minutes Free games updated 3/4/21
LadyCrimson Posted December 15, 2017 Posted December 15, 2017 Best: Native speaking English: Cumberbatch, Colin Firth, John Cleese types. Can't help it, I'm a sucker for such ever since I was little. Also certain southern drawls are fun - more the Texas drawl type. Non-native: Not sure. I like the way a lot of S. Korean actors pronounce/speak English but I doubt that's typical, they're probably well coached on lines and interview answers. Worst: Well, there's both some native and non-native that can all be "worst" depending on how heavy/prominent the accent is, how rapidly they're speaking, shouting or calm, whether there's other noise (music, traffic, general white noise type stuff), how much time I have to get "used" to it, etc. Trying to understand over the phone can be torturous at times but watching films I'm more flexible. ...and I also thought The Guard was hilarious. I love Brendan Gleeson. 1 “Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.” – Alan Watts
ShadySands Posted December 15, 2017 Author Posted December 15, 2017 Because it all comes back to Trek https://youtu.be/f05snS3zUaM https://youtu.be/oXZg_GZYb7A 2 Free games updated 3/4/21
Valsuelm Posted December 21, 2017 Posted December 21, 2017 My students are doing country presentations this week, and I was talking to them about presenting with the accent of the country. It was decided that most European accents are safe for anyone, but you can really only get away Indian and Japanese if you are white. Chinese and Mexican sounds pretty offensive unless you are from those cultures. It was a fun conversation. My French accent is pretty solid. ....
Agiel Posted December 21, 2017 Posted December 21, 2017 1 Quote “Political philosophers have often pointed out that in wartime, the citizen, the male citizen at least, loses one of his most basic rights, his right to life; and this has been true ever since the French Revolution and the invention of conscription, now an almost universally accepted principle. But these same philosophers have rarely noted that the citizen in question simultaneously loses another right, one just as basic and perhaps even more vital for his conception of himself as a civilized human being: the right not to kill.” -Jonathan Littell <<Les Bienveillantes>> Quote "The chancellor, the late chancellor, was only partly correct. He was obsolete. But so is the State, the entity he worshipped. Any state, entity, or ideology becomes obsolete when it stockpiles the wrong weapons: when it captures territories, but not minds; when it enslaves millions, but convinces nobody. When it is naked, yet puts on armor and calls it faith, while in the Eyes of God it has no faith at all. Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man...that state is obsolete." -Rod Serling
Hurlshort Posted December 21, 2017 Posted December 21, 2017 My students are doing country presentations this week, and I was talking to them about presenting with the accent of the country. It was decided that most European accents are safe for anyone, but you can really only get away Indian and Japanese if you are white. Chinese and Mexican sounds pretty offensive unless you are from those cultures. It was a fun conversation. My French accent is pretty solid. .... Ah, the judgemental dot dot dot of Val. So predictable. 1
Valsuelm Posted December 21, 2017 Posted December 21, 2017 My students are doing country presentations this week, and I was talking to them about presenting with the accent of the country. It was decided that most European accents are safe for anyone, but you can really only get away Indian and Japanese if you are white. Chinese and Mexican sounds pretty offensive unless you are from those cultures. It was a fun conversation. My French accent is pretty solid. .... Ah, the judgemental dot dot dot of Val. So predictable. Just like the Spanish Inquisition.
Bartimaeus Posted December 21, 2017 Posted December 21, 2017 Ah, the judgemental dot dot dot of Val. So predictable. Hey, at least he isn't calling you the worst teacher in America like Sharp_one might. Quote How I have existed fills me with horror. For I have failed in everything - spelling, arithmetic, riding, tennis, golf; dancing, singing, acting; wife, mistress, whore, friend. Even cooking. And I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying'. I tried with all my heart. In my dreams, I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.
Hurlshort Posted December 21, 2017 Posted December 21, 2017 Ah, the judgemental dot dot dot of Val. So predictable. Hey, at least he isn't calling you the worst teacher in America like Sharp_one might. He has already had his go. My confidence was shaken. ;-) 1
Valsuelm Posted December 21, 2017 Posted December 21, 2017 Ah, the judgemental dot dot dot of Val. So predictable. Hey, at least he isn't calling you the worst teacher in America like Sharp_one might. Where is Sharp anyways? He go on vacation?
Valsuelm Posted December 21, 2017 Posted December 21, 2017 Ah, the judgemental dot dot dot of Val. So predictable. Hey, at least he isn't calling you the worst teacher in America like Sharp_one might. He has already had his go. My confidence was shaken. ;-) Nah... if there's one person I've pulled punches with on this forum it's you. and that's no joke.
Hurlshort Posted December 21, 2017 Posted December 21, 2017 Sharpie changed his vocabulary and syntax and then he disappeared. We live in strange times. Thanks for pulling your punches Val. I have a fragile ego.
Bartimaeus Posted December 21, 2017 Posted December 21, 2017 I wouldn't say "disappeared", given that his latest post was yesterday. Quote How I have existed fills me with horror. For I have failed in everything - spelling, arithmetic, riding, tennis, golf; dancing, singing, acting; wife, mistress, whore, friend. Even cooking. And I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying'. I tried with all my heart. In my dreams, I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.
Valsuelm Posted December 21, 2017 Posted December 21, 2017 (edited) Sharpie changed his vocabulary and syntax and then he disappeared. We live in strange times. Demonic possession perhaps? Edited December 21, 2017 by Valsuelm
FlintlockJazz Posted December 21, 2017 Posted December 21, 2017 (edited) Being British naturally my accent is downright a ladies' magnet. And for those embarassed by not understanding certain accents, don't be, we can't understand most of our own accents either. Native speakers in Britain cannot understand the Liverpudlian accent known as Scouse, we are convinced they aren't actually speaking English at all and its just been some big con. There was a kids' show called Byker Grove that was infamous for being indecipherable, so if you want to experience it for yourself look for that. Edited December 21, 2017 by FlintlockJazz 1 "That rabbit's dynamite!" - King Arthur, Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail "Space is big, really big." - Douglas Adams
Chilloutman Posted December 21, 2017 Posted December 21, 2017 2 I'm the enemy, 'cause I like to think, I like to read. I'm into freedom of speech, and freedom of choice. I'm the kinda guy that likes to sit in a greasy spoon and wonder, "Gee, should I have the T-bone steak or the jumbo rack of barbecue ribs with the side-order of gravy fries?" I want high cholesterol! I wanna eat bacon, and butter, and buckets of cheese, okay?! I wanna smoke a Cuban cigar the size of Cincinnati in the non-smoking section! I wanna run naked through the street, with green Jell-O all over my body, reading Playboy magazine. Why? Because I suddenly may feel the need to, okay, pal? I've SEEN the future. Do you know what it is? It's a 47-year-old virgin sitting around in his beige pajamas, drinking a banana-broccoli shake, singing "I'm an Oscar Meyer Wiene"
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