SarahMP ... what's GMS?

[arthroceph]

OK I'm only side-listening to Sarah Mohr-Pietsch this morning
but did I miss her definition of GMS?

If she did explain it, it was only once, and then she liberally used it.

It's something got to do with Gilbert and Sullivan productions, looked it up on Google. In short, spent too much time on it
and I'm not even interested in the topic.

This is typical of the medical profession, but I don't want to see it spreading. What's hilarious, is that I am the first to cry foul when dumbing-down commentaries appear on R3
and yet here I am, caught out with GMS.

GMS? Oh let it be what you want! Pity the Francophones ... for them, they can't even be sure it's GMS, as it could be JMS.

MVH / AC.

[arthroceph]

Hang on ... is it G 'n S? Oh right, that must be it.

[ahinton]

Hang on ... is it G 'n S? Oh right, that must be it.

Well, I've heard of GPS, as indeed many of us has done, but GMS is a new one on me; that said, if it supposedly stands for Gilbert and Sullivan, give me a G & T any day...

Anyway, on that front, isn't Ms Mohr-Pietsch "Sara" rather than "Sarah"?

[Serial_Apologist]

Generically modified sycophancy.

[Alain Maréchal]

Pity the Francophones

Why? Unless you think we might inadvertently listen to the lady.

[french frank]

Why? Unless you think we might inadvertently listen to the lady.

I assumed it referred to the way they/you pronounce the letter names for G and J, compared with anglophones?

[arthroceph]

Generically modified sycophancy.

You nailed it there SA ... especially in relation to R4's Front Row. Unbridled GMS all the way over there ...

[arthroceph]

I assumed it referred to the way they/you pronounce the letter names for G and J, compared with anglophones?

Taking a noun and adding one letter letter to it has become really fashionable. Of course Apple have grabbed i- and put it on everything, but the trend caught on, especially in software. So, if you have a product which does the same as some other product else just modify the letter in front. i.e. GBrowse and JBrowse (a familiar example for your truly).

When pronounced in English, the pronunciation of JBrowse (jay) is closer to the way a Francophone would hear (zhé) in GBrowse, (witness CGT) and I think their pronunciation of J is closer to an Anglophone's pronunciation of G. In normal speech, it might be possible to distinguish, but in software, foreign languages have to use tons of english words ,,, and with the single letters it's very hard to guess whether the speaker is using their own languages pronunciation of the letter, or trying to imitate the English version. But of course, which English version? The US or the UK?

Basically you need to back up the pronciation with a written version of what your talking about.

It's not software, it's human language that is buggy!

[Alain Maréchal]

I assumed it referred to the way they/you pronounce the letter names for G and J, compared with anglophones?

My point was the unlikelihood of anybody over here hearing the lady speak at all, at that hour of day. I may not have expressed myself well, not for the first time.

ps, I'm not sure I understood arthroceph at all, but since he/she mentions something becoming fashionable, then that may explain it. We don't follow fashion down here in le Bourbonais.

[arthroceph]

Why? Unless you think we might inadvertently listen to the lady.

haha chapeau!

[Alain Maréchal]

I hope arthroceph you were not offended by #9: I genuinely did not understand your opening paragraph, since it seems to have something to do with a world of which I know little.
ps please do not enlighten me.

[arthroceph]

don't worry ... IN fact there's tons of francophiles in the UK now more than ever if you believe media reportts,
and I thought you were saying that it would only be by mistake that you would listen to her, as you would never do so wilfully.

I'm not a fan of SMP, though she is bearable, so I don't go out of my way to listen to her, and avoid it if I can.

[Bergonzi]

Taking a noun and adding one letter letter to it has become really fashionable. Of course Apple have grabbed i- and put it on everything, but the trend caught on, especially in software. So, if you have a product which does the same as some other product else just modify the letter in front. i.e. GBrowse and JBrowse (a familiar example for your truly).

When pronounced in English, the pronunciation of JBrowse (jay) is closer to the way a Francophone would hear (zhé) in GBrowse, (witness CGT) and I think their pronunciation of J is closer to an Anglophone's pronunciation of G. In normal speech, it might be possible to distinguish, but in software, foreign languages have to use tons of english words ,,, and with the single letters it's very hard to guess whether the speaker is using their own languages pronunciation of the letter, or trying to imitate the English version. But of course, which English version? The US or the UK?

Basically you need to back up the pronciation with a written version of what your talking about.

It's not software, it's human language that is buggy!

"But of course, which English version? The US or the UK?"

I was under the mistaken impression that they do not speak English in the US ...

[LMcD]

As any semi-skilled garage mechanic will tell you, it stands for 'grease my spanners' (assuming, of course, that he has an apprentice he can order about).