BeerWolf wrote:Enfield577 wrote:Funy you say that, I used to be a toolmaker, then tooling engineer in the Aerospace industry when I lived in the UK
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Oh...so you're one of those funny chaps who says "Tit-tan-nium" and "Airscrew" instead of "Ti-tainium" and "Propeller" like us American folks.
Still, I have to say, on this and others I've seen, mighty fine work.
Mighty fine work indeed.
Beerwolf, since you are shinning your
TORCH on the subject, add
'Al-You-Mini-Umm' and
'Lab- OR-atory' ....
But then after all, they did 'invent' the wonderful English Language, with the help of some
Saxons, Norsemen, Romans, Anglos ( not allowed in East LA ), Welsh, etc.
OK, and some French or as my UK buddy used to say "Froggy Talk".
And who can forget the acute panic when you drive out of London for the first time
and discover that the 'bloody' traffic is coming directly at you from the wrong side of the road!
As Bertrand Russell, the great Logician, philosopher, and of course philander,
said, the power of the English Language lies in
its ambiguity that allows for multiple
contextual interpretations thus capturing unlimited numbers of creative
metaphors. Contrast this with German that requires, e.g., Kant, five lines of concatenated
words to convey a new metaphor.