I have no beef with the English pronunciation, be it regional or 'Standard':)
I was just commenting on the implied 'wish of continentals' worded in the old joke.
Yes continental Europeans do initially have a problem with the English pronunciation but that's not with the consonants which seem to be the main subject of the joke.
Indeed, seen from an international perspective there is no such thing as a 'correct' pronunciation (or spelling!), yet we Europeans all use the Latin alphabet and I don't think it's far fetched to see its original pronunciation as a sort of common basis.
As mentioned Dutch and German went through their own (smaller) vowel change, interesting is that Dutch had another vowel change that more or less returned us to the older version.
It's just that a European student new to English will have a natural inclination to pronounce English somewhat like it used to sound when the spelling was standardised, that's before the great vowel shift.
Typical for someone who's mother tongue is English
The main problem for continental Europeans with the pronunciation of English is that weird thing called The Great Vowel Shift.
We are all fairly accustomed to the English' Latin-style spelling of the consonants and pronouncing a hard 'c' as a 'k' or the 'ph' as an 'f' is not too hard to do on the fly.
But the change away from the original Germanic and even Latin pronunciation of the vowels yet leaving the spelling in tact is really weird.
Because from a continental European's point of view the main problem with English is the oddball pronunciation of the vowels, not the Latin origin consonants.
During the past month I was on a Pretty bad satellite connection and my main reading like slashdot (and telegraaf.nl) would continuously crash when the page was nearly completely loaded.
Out of desperation I installed Chrome from the Ubuntu repo's and was amazed by it's agility and the fact these two sites were usually (but not always) rendering where Firefox 3.7 would fail.
Yet now I'm back on a good connection I've after a few days returned to Firefox because now there isn't really an appreciable speed gain and I miss certain options.like flashblock in Chrome.
Same here, no problems since I subscribed to the 3.7 ppa.
But I always run flashblock yet do allow Flash on certain sites like youtube.
So you might be right, Flash is still the main cause of browser instability.
Yet I thought the idea behind this 'Chromified' is to have tabs and processes run independently and thus a single bad page/tab should not take down the whole application.
The toxicity is one thing but Lithium vapour will potentially destroy your lungs and that's a real-life danger when inhaling it, just read the data sheets.
If you have multiple tabs open, and you center-click a link to open it in a new tab, Chrome opens the new tab immediately after the current tab(rather than opening it at the very end of the tab bar, as FF and Konqueror do).
It doesn't matter which religion is mentioned, the moment the (self proclaimed!) righteous come into view the rest of humanity needs to follow their 'superior' beliefs.
I really wonder how they console the idea there are different gods and theirs' the best yet he needs their feeble human help to save his face.
Basically they are ass-wipes and now they have a government working for them.
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They are blocking them from certain websites and the question is who is making the distinction and based on what?
For example in my country we don't so much have Freedom of Speech but we have Freedom of Information.
Any research or professional development can be done at home, when you aren't getting paid to do specific tasks.
That's the sort of employer that can't hold on to good staff.
I was just commenting on the implied 'wish of continentals' worded in the old joke.
Yes continental Europeans do initially have a problem with the English pronunciation but that's not with the consonants which seem to be the main subject of the joke.
Indeed, seen from an international perspective there is no such thing as a 'correct' pronunciation (or spelling!), yet we Europeans all use the Latin alphabet and I don't think it's far fetched to see its original pronunciation as a sort of common basis.
As mentioned Dutch and German went through their own (smaller) vowel change, interesting is that Dutch had another vowel change that more or less returned us to the older version.
It's just that a European student new to English will have a natural inclination to pronounce English somewhat like it used to sound when the spelling was standardised, that's before the great vowel shift.
The main problem for continental Europeans with the pronunciation of English is that weird thing called The Great Vowel Shift .
We are all fairly accustomed to the English' Latin-style spelling of the consonants and pronouncing a hard 'c' as a 'k' or the 'ph' as an 'f' is not too hard to do on the fly.
But the change away from the original Germanic and even Latin pronunciation of the vowels yet leaving the spelling in tact is really weird.
Because from a continental European's point of view the main problem with English is the oddball pronunciation of the vowels, not the Latin origin consonants.
Could it mean Microsoft is already complying?
Please be aware in France it's illegal to use WIFI outside of buildings.
Just for the record, I also tried a good hosts file but without success.
Doh! What does an Acrobat Reader vulnerability have to do with Flash?
Anyhow, would this have been a Flash vulnerability it could have affected the account you work in.
But as the same antenna is used for both the TX power will of course be affected as well.
Out of desperation I installed Chrome from the Ubuntu repo's and was amazed by it's agility and the fact these two sites were usually (but not always) rendering where Firefox 3.7 would fail.
Yet now I'm back on a good connection I've after a few days returned to Firefox because now there isn't really an appreciable speed gain and I miss certain options.like flashblock in Chrome.
But I always run flashblock yet do allow Flash on certain sites like youtube.
So you might be right, Flash is still the main cause of browser instability.
Yet I thought the idea behind this 'Chromified' is to have tabs and processes run independently and thus a single bad page/tab should not take down the whole application.
Thanks for the info, I can imagine use for this or better.
Indeed, like right now there are billions watching a South African lawn, I think it's called soccer.
The toxicity is one thing but Lithium vapour will potentially destroy your lungs and that's a real-life danger when inhaling it, just read the data sheets.
The effects might only show up hours to a day after exposure and can be fatal.
Is a Linux driver available?
This clearly shows that although Bill is no longer involved in the day to day management of MS Melinda still pulls some strings.
That doesn't address a lack in sensitivity/reception.
To make up your mind go over to the UK, every miserable punk is covered in ink and it looks horrible.
If you have multiple tabs open, and you center-click a link to open it in a new tab, Chrome opens the new tab immediately after the current tab(rather than opening it at the very end of the tab bar, as FF and Konqueror do).
It seems it's been a while since you've ran FF ;)
I really wonder how they console the idea there are different gods and theirs' the best yet he needs their feeble human help to save his face.
Basically they are ass-wipes and now they have a government working for them.
And I'm very happy with it.
Just to see how it worked I later bought a prepaid SIM and I must say the regular phone part works great too.