My favourite local sandwich shop has a soup of the day. On Tuesday it was "Country Vegetable's". I didn't bother asking "Country vegetable's what?" since they just look at you as though you're mad.
I believe that Finnish and Hungarian are related in much the same way as English and Hindi are related. That is to say there are patterns that a linguist can see and be interested in, but the relationship is of almost no use for a native speaker of one trying to learn the other.
Consider how useful a native English speaker is likely to find a Dutch website for learning Hungarian - and English and Dutch are practically different dialects of the same language compared to Finnish and Hungarian.
Well that's because the ruling Normans spoke French, and the peasants spoke Anglo-Saxon.
That's why the meat is called mutton (it was named by the people eating it), but the animal is a sheep (it was named by the people looking after it).
Lamb is an oddity because eating lamb is /such/ an extravagance that it postdates the emergance of English.
Country vegetable's leftovers, probably.
And they don't say which country, either.
Owain
It's probably the only place in broadcasting where people called Tarquin can still get a job.
Owain
Someone I worked with went to work for them. It was probabky just as well, since if he had stayed working with me and my colleagues, one of us would have killed him. He was terribly nice, far back in a Scottish public school manner, and absolutely bloody useless. Not a Tarquin, but he could have been.
Andy Hall wrote: > I thought that "merda" was the Italian word for the brown stuff.
Which is why in France Toyota renamed the MR2 to Coupe MR ...
i'm half finnish - finnish is not good to a hungarian..
i suggest you get him onto the interweb with sound and he find a hungarian website to help...
and i bet he know beatles songs, theyre ubiquitous (gosh ive always wanted to use that word in an email) so get a beatles songbook and sing along
[george]
And also why the Rolls Royce Silver Mist didn't sell too well in Germany, "Mist" being German for the brown stuff.
And probably why the Vauxhall Nova wasn't too popular in Spain. "No va" is Spanish for "doesn't go".
And why "Irisher Mist" didn't last long as a brand name in Germany either for Cussons or as a liqueur
Un piacere, mascalzino.
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Oh. I thought that that was the Prius......
This is like my pet hate at Heathrow.
They have signs just before going through security that used to say
"Please have your passports and boarding cards ready"
This is grammatically correct, more or less, but I mentioned to a supervisor on several occasions that I neither have dual nationality, nor do I require two seats on the plane. This also produced a blank look. These people have become so institutionalised that they think that it's OK to refer to their customers as one might a herd of cattle.
In the end I wrote to BA and to BAA and received typical "We'll look into it" responses. So I wrote again.
I am pleased to say that I have scored a small victory for the individual. The sign in Terminal 1 (I haven't checked the others yet) now says
"Please have your passport and your boarding card ready"
I feel a sense of achievement.
Surname wasn't Farquar was it?
Nah, he was a McFleagle. Or something similar, name changed to protect the guilty.
I have an MR2, so I looked out for another while we were over there last year. Not one, yet over here I see another several times a week. Even renamed, it didn't sell.
It did collect a crowd of admirers once, which isn't bad for a cheap car of that age!
Andy
A story originally told about a chevy:
I was there
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