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Matt H

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This happens in typing too, like when someone types "walla" instead of "voila" :) heard the phrase before, and repeating it without ever seen it written down :) (I haven't searched for that word before posting this, so I'm not actually aiming this pacifically at anyone)

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Oh oh that reminds me - I was scooting around Norwich once doing whatever, had missed a meal, was beginning to crash, so ducked into ye local shoppe in a ropey part of Norwich. In front of me in the queue to the till was a comically cliche'd chav family. I amused myself by observing their default behaviour in a snootily aloof fashion. It was the rounding up of crap to eat for a special night in.

 

"Do you want Doreetows, dad?" says chavette #1

 

"Yeah, get me the tanjy cheese ones"

 

Yes, tan-jy. With a j. I snorked an involuntary laugh out my nose and had to immediately feign a coughing fit. For quite a while.

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We have an elderly neighbor who speaks in a beautifully clipped BBC way. She pronounces house as hice, pounds as pineds and bugger as baggah. I bet she'd pronounce Ralph as Raif too if I axed her to. Her cat is called Tiffin. She would never say 'someone I used to know', she would say 'someone I once knew'.

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We have an elderly neighbor who speaks in a beautifully clipped BBC way. She pronounces house as hice, pounds as pineds and bugger as baggah. I bet she'd pronounce Ralph as Raif too if I axed her to. Her cat is called Tiffin. She would never say 'someone I used to know', she would say 'someone I once knew'.

 

That's how I talk. :D

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I might be reading that wrong, but it makes sense to me?

 

Ideals as in 'aspirational targets' or something? like corporate bollocks? :blink:

 

How about: "We came up with a few ideals that I think might work."?

I understand what you mean with "We came up with a few ideals", but surely bouncing ideals around doesn't work? You don't brainstorm ideals do you?

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How about: "We came up with a few ideals that I think might work."?

I understand what you mean with "We came up with a few ideals", but surely bouncing ideals around doesn't work? You don't brainstorm ideals do you?

 

In a blue sky outside the envelope, anything is possible :)

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I find the beginning of this thread rather funny. Used is pronounced "yoost"? Are you mad? that is completely the wrong way to say that word and fits in nicely with the other mispronunciations. Ironically you think that a much more fitting pronunciation of the word sounds "ghetto".

 

you-zed

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