A guy called and ask if I could fix his" brolly" the spelling may not be correct. I never heard of a awning called a brolly so it took a few minutes to figure out what he was talking about lol a easy fix his brolly was just locked in the travel position.These RV rental co's must just take the peoples money and send them on their way he knew nothing about a RV but he does know now how to roll a brolly in and out now :o
Brolly= Rain umbrella, lol ;D
Was he speaking with a British accent?
Yes he was Craig and me speaking Texan it was a show ::)we got through it
Quote from: gumpy on February 28, 2015, 04:23:23 PM
Was he speaking with a British accent?
Excuse me, there's no such thing as a "British accent"! The English speak English (except for Scousers and Geordies). OK? It's their trans-Atlantic colonial cousins who speak with varying degrees of accent (or speech impediment in some southern states). However, the Scots speak something unintelligible to anyone else, and the Welsh are from another planet altogether. These days it's easier to find good English in India than in England.
Two nations separated by a common language?
John, a true son of Albion
John, I visited Albion before MI that is ;D
Clifford someone asked the Wife where her Accent was from. She said, Unless your an Indian I don't have an Accent you moron I am from Boston, LOL you know her and you know I'm not fibbin. ;D
Dave5Cs
Quote from: Iceni John on February 28, 2015, 05:34:25 PM
Excuse me, there's no such thing as a "British accent"! The English speak English (except for Scousers and Geordies). OK? It's their trans-Atlantic colonial cousins who speak with varying degrees of accent (or speech impediment in some southern states). However, the Scots speak something unintelligible to anyone else, and the Welsh are from another planet altogether. These days it's easier to find good English in India than in England.
Two nations separated by a common language?
John, a true son of Albion
I didn't ask if he was speaking English, and yes, there is such thing as a British accent. There are actually multiple British accents, because, as in different regions of America, the people of
the varying regions of England speak with very distinct accents and dialects indicative of those regions to which they belong. A good linguist can tell from whence they came by the timbre
in their voice! :D
Would a person from Scotland and a person from Boston, be able to talk to eachother without subtitles?...one of the NHP officers stopped me, after getting of a fwy and he accused me of crossing the "gore" , but he had such a thick Boston accent, I wasn't sure what he was saying, such is life in an international city, people speak foreign languages all the time! lvmci...
Clifford did the diagnosis go like this?
"I think it's prolly your brolly by golly.
RB
Quote from: gumpy on March 01, 2015, 05:38:47 AM
I didn't ask if he was speaking English, and yes, there is such thing as a British accent. There are actually multiple British accents, because, as in different regions of America, the people of
the varying regions of England speak with very distinct accents and dialects indicative of those regions to which they belong. A good linguist can tell from whence they came by the timbre
in their voice! :D
I agree that there are multiple
English accents. For example, I used to live in Norwich, and the accent there was subtly different than that of Cromer (25 miles to the north) and Swaffham (20 miles to the west), enough that I could recognize someone's home town just from their speech, and that's just within the county of Norfolk. However, Britain consists of Scotland (at least, pro tem) and Wales, both of which countries speak their own unique languages. There are parts of Scotland and Wales where English is just not spoken. The Welsh linguistically have more in common with the Bretons across the English Channel - notice I did not say in France, because a true Breton considers himself Breton first and French second, somewhat like the Galicians and Basques and Catalans in Iberia. Scotland and Wales are separate and proudly-distinctive countries, not part of England, but they collectively constitute Britain. Add in the six counties of Northern Ireland (Ulster) and you have the United Kingdom; however, the Isle of Man (with the world's oldest parliament), and the Channel Islands (originally Norman (i.e. Norse/Viking)) are not even part of the UK, having their own governments and taxations. Simple! So, no more "British accent" please!
And now back to our regular programming. I haven't a clue why he refers to an awning as a brolly. What a wally
(pronounced woll-ey). Why didn't he just say awning? Darned foreigners.
John
Quote from: Iceni John on March 01, 2015, 09:18:16 AM
I agree that there are multiple English accents. For example, I used to live in Norwich, and the accent there was subtly different than that of Cromer (25 miles to the north) and Swaffham (20 miles to the west), enough that I could recognize someone's home town just from their speech, and that's just within the county of Norfolk. However, Britain consists of Scotland (at least, pro tem) and Wales, both of which countries speak their own unique languages. There are parts of Scotland and Wales where English is just not spoken. The Welsh linguistically have more in common with the Bretons across the English Channel - notice I did not say in France, because a true Breton considers himself Breton first and French second, somewhat like the Galicians and Basques and Catalans in Iberia. Scotland and Wales are separate and proudly-distinctive countries, not part of England, but they collectively constitute Britain. Add in the six counties of Northern Ireland (Ulster) and you have the United Kingdom; however, the Isle of Man (with the world's oldest parliament), and the Channel Islands (originally Norman (i.e. Norse/Viking)) are not even part of the UK, having their own governments and taxations. Simple! So, no more "British accent" please!
And now back to our regular programming. I haven't a clue why he refers to an awning as a brolly. What a wally (pronounced woll-ey). Why didn't he just say awning? Darned foreigners.
John
And yet, after all that, here in America it's still a British accent!
Maybe brolly is like an umbrella. You know like tire iron and tararn.lol
Rick
Quote from: Dave5Cs on February 28, 2015, 04:09:06 PM
Brolly= Rain umbrella, lol ;D
Ok so you all are just ignoring me. That's fine but I looked it up and it said what I posted above.
And you wonder why we Irish like being by ourselves, LOL shaking head................. ::) ;D
Umbrella sounded good to me Dave lol I didn't look it up but it made sense a 12x8 umbrella this guy was funny I liked him alot he threw another curve at me when he ask where to buy autogas for the furnace then he showed me the propane tanks , but the English beer he gave me sucks big time :o
Clifford Trust me on this, Guinness in the Day!..... ;D
Ó Éireannach riamh, rinne an Engish flippin beoir maith ina saol. lol
Dave
Quote from: luvrbus on March 01, 2015, 11:10:48 AM
..he threw another curve at me when he ask where to buy autogas for the furnace then he showed me the propane tanks..
It'd be interesting to know what car he had because only a relatively tiny percentage (less than 1%) of cars here run on Autogas and it's not necessarily a term that many people would even be familiar with. It's 40% butane incidentally, rather than straight propane.
About accents etc - last week a friend of mine who's doing a TV & film production course at college let me watch one of her assignments, which was a 2-minute long action scene from a Batman movie where she'd had to replace the entire soundtrack (music, sound effects, dialogue) with one she'd created herself. And she'd done a bloody good job of it, except that she'd only had British actors (ie, her fellow students) available to re-voice the speaking parts - and it was deeply strange watching NYPD officers eating doughnuts and driving black-and-whites, but talking with very British accents. Or to be more accurate for Iceni John - West Midland accents from around Coventry - slightly South of being classic Black Country accents I guess...
Jeremy
PS - To say 'Brolly' is strange because 'awning' is in widespread use here, especially relating to motorhome and caravan awnings etc. But at least he didn't say 'parasol'. My Mother probably would have....
Quote from: luvrbus on March 01, 2015, 11:10:48 AM
Umbrella sounded good to me Dave lol I didn't look it up but it made sense a 12x8 umbrella this guy was funny I liked him alot he threw another curve at me when he ask where to buy autogas for the furnace then he showed me the propane tanks , but the English beer he gave me sucks big time :o
Prolly cause the beer was warm!
I think brolly is a Yorkshire word. :D
At least he didn't call it a Bumbershoot . . .
John
He was a nice guy he even he did a repair on the wife's little Triumph car something I thought was a major deal was a 5 minute repair for him
Quote from: luvrbus on March 02, 2015, 06:21:36 AM
He was a nice guy he even he did a repair on the wife's little Triumph car something I thought was a major deal was a 5 minute repair for him
He probably has to do it every day.
John
Quote from: Iceni John on March 02, 2015, 07:52:26 AM
He probably has to do it every day.
John
Only if he wants to drive it. BTW, through this whole thread (despite mention of Scottish, or Yorkshire, or Nawridge accents), I've been thinking that this fellow is probably "an ahffarwfally nice chap, axxshooalley".
You know why the British drink their beer warm, right?
Because Lucas makes refrigerators.
The guy told me the Brits don't make computers because they cannot figure out to make one leak oil :o
Quote from: Iceni John on March 01, 2015, 08:25:29 PM
At least he didn't call it a Bumbershoot . . .
John
That's a new one I don't think I've every heard. What are it's origins of fame?
Quote from: gumpy on March 02, 2015, 04:30:54 PMThat's a new one I don't think I've every heard. What are it's origins of fame?
I think it's just twee. Maybe even too twee for words. Or, maybe it's just naff.
Quote from: gumpy on March 02, 2015, 04:30:54 PM
That's a new one I don't think I've every heard. What are it's origins of fame?
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bumbershoot (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bumbershoot)
John
There is a music and art festival in Seattle called Bumbershoot. It is held on the Labor Day weekend......and being Seattle, odds are you might need an umbrella that day! ;D
Quote from: TedCalvert on March 02, 2015, 04:15:40 PM
You know why the British drink their beer warm, right?
Because Lucas makes refrigerators.
Oh oh, here we go again . . .
I refuse to discuss the differences between fine British hand-drawn ales versus American "beer"! Can one really compare a subtly-complex and characterful IPA or Porter or Stout to, er, Bud Lite? Yeah.
Seriously though (!), I read somewhere that the legendary electrical problems with English cars using Lucas equipment were largely a result of their having positive grounds - somehow a positive ground could encourage corrosion on electrical connections more than a negative ground, especially in damp conditions? Is galvanic corrosion polarity-dependant? Is this the same reason that boats need sacrificial anodes? Maybe Lucas has been unfairly maligned because of this - I feel I have to defend The Prince Of Darkness if nobody else here will.
John
Quote from: Iceni John on March 02, 2015, 07:07:46 PM
Oh oh, here we go again . . .
I refuse to discuss the differences between fine British hand-drawn ales versus American "beer"! Can one really compare a subtly-complex and characterful IPA or Porter or Stout to, er, Bud Lite? Yeah.
Seriously though (!), I read somewhere that the legendary electrical problems with English cars using Lucas equipment were largely a result of their having positive grounds - somehow a positive ground could encourage corrosion on electrical connections more than a negative ground, especially in damp conditions? Is galvanic corrosion polarity-dependant? Is this the same reason that boats need sacrificial anodes? Maybe Lucas has been unfairly maligned because of this - I feel I have to defend The Prince Of Darkness if nobody else here will.
John
I don't know. I buy American! We don't have those problems here.
But I'll agree with you regarding the porter and stout (not the IPA) but they still have to be cold!