Essential Classics - The Continuing Debate

[kernelbogey]

I like pencils too, they can be used at an angle, unlike biros.

It is told that in the '60s NASA spent a million dollars inventing a ball point pen that would write in space.

The Russian astronauts used pencils.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

It is told that in the '60s NASA spent a million dollars inventing a ball point pen that would write in space.

The Russian astronauts used pencils.

Apparently the Canadians love this one.

[Serial_Apologist]

Uniball makes me think of the Chancellor of the Third Reich.

[LezLee]

“Uniball makes me think of the Chancellor of the Third Reich.”



Not much lead in his pencil either...

[Serial_Apologist]

“Uniball makes me think of the Chancellor of the Third Reich.”



Not much lead in his pencil either...

The stupid names companies are coming up with these days! There's one called Booking.com which is advertised every other ad break on Channel 5 in the mornings: any hard-of-hearing English person living north of a line roughly between Worcester and Peterborough will hear that as something quite different!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

The stupid names companies are coming up with these days! There's one called Booking.com which is advertised every other ad break on Channel 5 in the mornings: any hard-of-hearing English person living north of a line roughly between Worcester and Peterborough will hear that as something quite different!

I'm intrigued. How they pronounce it? Correctly, or the CB-H way?

[LezLee]

This is a Booking.com ad - go to 0.42

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xSC6x-qpdJA

I’m ‘Northern’ (Liverpool) and that’s how I pronounce it!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

This is a Booking.com ad - go to 0.42

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xSC6x-qpdJA

I’m ‘Northern’ (Liverpool) and that’s how I pronounce it!

I really don't see what the problem is. It's correctly pronounced in standard English. Far better than the sickly CB-H "berking". [I'm northern (ex-Salford) too]

[cloughie]

The stupid names companies are coming up with these days! There's one called Booking.com which is advertised every other ad break on Channel 5 in the mornings: any hard-of-hearing English person living north of a line roughly between Worcester and Peterborough will hear that as something quite different!

I haven’t a clue what you’re on about!

[Serial_Apologist]

This is a Booking.com ad - go to 0.42

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xSC6x-qpdJA

I’m ‘Northern’ (Liverpool) and that’s how I pronounce it!

The diction is clear on that version of the ad. The one most frequently heard on Channel 5 in the mornings makes "booking" sound more like it starts with an F!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

The diction is clear on that version of the ad. The one most frequently heard on Channel 5 in the mornings makes "booking" sound more like it starts with an F!

Yes, but why would northern citizens not understand that any more or less than the cockney brigade?

[LMcD]

I haven’t a clue what you’re on about!

Same here (but then, I'm a higgorant Easterner). Is it something to do with Buckingham, perhaps?

[teamsaint]

Blimey .

Stockhausen feature.

[Bryn]

Blimey .

Stockhausen feature.

Still stuffed with old dead composers, eh?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Still stuffed with old dead composers, eh?

But certainly "essential"!

What was it, ts? (And do I win a prize if I guess that it isn't SK presiding this week?)