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  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,651
    NomadicAddick said:

    imho, imo is enough. Why would you have to clarify that you're being honest on this occasion? Do you lie when you use imo sometimes then?

    Isn't the 'h' Humble rather than Honest?

  • NomadicAddick
    NomadicAddick Posts: 2,114
    LenGlover said:

    NomadicAddick said:

    imho, imo is enough. Why would you have to clarify that you're being honest on this occasion? Do you lie when you use imo sometimes then?

    Isn't the 'h' Humble rather than Honest?

    really? i always assumed it was honest.

    You may well be right, either way the 'h' is a waste of valuable keyboard finger energy imo.
  • thai malaysia addick
    thai malaysia addick Posts: 18,334
    LenGlover said:

    NomadicAddick said:

    imho, imo is enough. Why would you have to clarify that you're being honest on this occasion? Do you lie when you use imo sometimes then?

    Isn't the 'h' Humble rather than Honest?

    I think it depends on whether you are being humble or honest.
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,651
    thai malaysia addick said:

    LenGlover said:

    NomadicAddick said:

    imho, imo is enough. Why would you have to clarify that you're being honest on this occasion? Do you lie when you use imo sometimes then?

    Isn't the 'h' Humble rather than Honest?

    I think it depends on whether you are being humble or honest.
    As Curbs would say p'raps but not according to this:

    https://www.google.co.uk/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=imho meaning
  • NomadicAddick
    NomadicAddick Posts: 2,114
    thai malaysia addick said:

    LenGlover said:

    NomadicAddick said:

    imho, imo is enough. Why would you have to clarify that you're being honest on this occasion? Do you lie when you use imo sometimes then?

    Isn't the 'h' Humble rather than Honest?

    I think it depends on whether you are being humble or honest.
    or if you are talking about the International Medical Health Organization.
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,651
    NomadicAddick said:

    thai malaysia addick said:

    LenGlover said:

    NomadicAddick said:

    imho, imo is enough. Why would you have to clarify that you're being honest on this occasion? Do you lie when you use imo sometimes then?

    Isn't the 'h' Humble rather than Honest?

    I think it depends on whether you are being humble or honest.
    or if you are talking about the International Medical Health Organization.
    WHO?
  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    NomadicAddick said:

    When people try and milk you're quite hilarious anecdotes for a cheap laugh themselves.

    :wink:

    !!!!!!!!!!
    Sort it out son before Leroy Ambrose spots it.
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,651
    Riviera said:

    NomadicAddick said:

    When people try and milk you're quite hilarious anecdotes for a cheap laugh themselves.

    :wink:

    !!!!!!!!!!
    Sort it out son before Leroy Ambrose spots it.
    Bloody students
  • PL54
    PL54 Posts: 10,757
    NomadicAddick said:

    thai malaysia addick said:

    LenGlover said:

    NomadicAddick said:

    imho, imo is enough. Why would you have to clarify that you're being honest on this occasion? Do you lie when you use imo sometimes then?

    Isn't the 'h' Humble rather than Honest?

    I think it depends on whether you are being humble or honest.
    or if you are talking about the International Medical Health Organization.
    Using z instead of s
  • NomadicAddick
    NomadicAddick Posts: 2,114
    PL54 said:

    NomadicAddick said:

    thai malaysia addick said:

    LenGlover said:

    NomadicAddick said:

    imho, imo is enough. Why would you have to clarify that you're being honest on this occasion? Do you lie when you use imo sometimes then?

    Isn't the 'h' Humble rather than Honest?

    I think it depends on whether you are being humble or honest.
    or if you are talking about the International Medical Health Organization.
    Using z instead of s
    But it's an american organisation so didn't feel the need to change the z.
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  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,318
    The news that One Direction are losing a member of the band, heartbreaking... Its up there alongside when the Beatles and Take That broke up...

    Nah only jokin' just messing with ya
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,001
    Trolls.
  • AddickUpNorth
    AddickUpNorth Posts: 8,325
    Uptight people who take life far too seriously.
  • henrythecat
    henrythecat Posts: 479
    NomadicAddick said:

    PL54 said:

    NomadicAddick said:

    thai malaysia addick said:

    LenGlover said:

    NomadicAddick said:

    imho, imo is enough. Why would you have to clarify that you're being honest on this occasion? Do you lie when you use imo sometimes then?

    Isn't the 'h' Humble rather than Honest?

    I think it depends on whether you are being humble or honest.
    or if you are talking about the International Medical Health Organization.
    Using z instead of s
    But it's an american organisation so didn't feel the need to change the z.
    Also, '-ize' is known as the Oxford spelling as it is favoured by OED. OED considers it etymologically correct as it is closer to the Greek root. '-ize' was a standard spelling in England in the 1500s. Somewhere along the way, we have taken on the French variant of using '-ise' whereas the Americans have retained '-ize'.

    I find this annoying for two reasons. (a) I dislike '-ize', looks far too aggressive and American, and (b) it means the Americans are correct.

  • nth_london_addick
    nth_london_addick Posts: 35,919
    People in huge corporations who really don't deserve to be in the post they are,
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,737
    Covered End said:

    Trolls.

    and we all know who you're talking about..
  • Bryan_Kynsie
    Bryan_Kynsie Posts: 2,179
    Commentators who insist on referring to Man City's Navas as "Hey Zeuss" Navas every time he touches the ball. It's Jesus you twonks and if you don't know how to pronounce it in an English commentary then nip into church on your way to "Super Sunday" and you may find out. And why do you never refer to Milner as "Hay Mees" Milner? Or Hart as plain old Joe Hart? It's only the foreign ones whose first names are chucked around and mispronounced by those dingbats.
  • WayneK
    WayneK Posts: 639
    One of my colleagues in New York was a Jesus. He pronounced it Hey Zeuss.
  • Bryan_Kynsie
    Bryan_Kynsie Posts: 2,179
    He is allowed to pronounce it any way he likes. Its commentators on British TV trying to be clever that annoys me! navas himself may do the same and I'll even grant you that David Silva may not pronounce his name in the same way as David Beckham! Doesn't mean I want some Sky Sports Berk trying to show off every 5 minutes.
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,651
    Political double standards.
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  • IA
    IA Posts: 6,103
    Bryan_Kynsie said:

    He is allowed to pronounce it any way he likes. Its commentators on British TV trying to be clever that annoys me! navas himself may do the same and I'll even grant you that David Silva may not pronounce his name in the same way as David Beckham! Doesn't mean I want some Sky Sports Berk trying to show off every 5 minutes.

    If you met Jesus Navas, would you say "Hi Jeezus" ?

    If you did, and he corrected your pronunciation, what would you do?
  • Bryan_Kynsie
    Bryan_Kynsie Posts: 2,179
    Nope. I don't reckon I would recognise him. If he was introduced to me as Hey Zeuss then I'd assume that was his name. Why wouldn't i?
  • IA
    IA Posts: 6,103
    So then if you were to talk about him to someone else, you would call him "Hey Zeus"...?
  • Fiiish
    Fiiish Posts: 7,998
    edited March 2015
    Apple - when I put my phone into Silent mode, that's exactly what I want it to be - silent.

    I don't want Siri piping up

    I don't want the Google microphone thingy to start bleeping

    I don't want Facebook videos to start playing sound as I'm scrolling down

    I don't want Vine videos playing sound when on Twitter

    If these things are making noise, that's the opposite of silence. Silent mode should mean the speaker on my phone does not make a single sound.
  • brogib
    brogib Posts: 2,128
    News channels filming and showing kids grieving for their pals they lost in a plane crash disaster.

    We know what desperately sad people look like ffs!
  • Bryan_Kynsie
    Bryan_Kynsie Posts: 2,179
    IA said:

    So then if you were to talk about him to someone else, you would call him "Hey Zeus"...?

    Yes. I wouldn't know any better, would I? (But if I was reading out his name to a bunch of English speakers off a team sheet I would probably say Jesus...wouldn't you?)
  • JaShea99
    JaShea99 Posts: 5,458
    Bryan_Kynsie said:

    Commentators who insist on referring to Man City's Navas as "Hey Zeuss" Navas every time he touches the ball. It's Jesus you twonks and if you don't know how to pronounce it in an English commentary then nip into church on your way to "Super Sunday" and you may find out. And why do you never refer to Milner as "Hay Mees" Milner? Or Hart as plain old Joe Hart? It's only the foreign ones whose first names are chucked around and mispronounced by those dingbats.

    Bryan_Kynsie said:

    Commentators who insist on referring to Man City's Navas as "Hey Zeuss" Navas every time he touches the ball. It's Jesus you twonks and if you don't know how to pronounce it in an English commentary then nip into church on your way to "Super Sunday" and you may find out. And why do you never refer to Milner as "Hay Mees" Milner? Or Hart as plain old Joe Hart? It's only the foreign ones whose first names are chucked around and mispronounced by those dingbats.

    To be fair to commentators I believe it's paranoia about offending Christians. Supposedly you're not allowed to call yourself 'Jesus' and pronounce it that way.
  • IA
    IA Posts: 6,103
    Bryan_Kynsie said:

    IA said:

    So then if you were to talk about him to someone else, you would call him "Hey Zeus"...?

    Yes. I wouldn't know any better, would I? (But if I was reading out his name to a bunch of English speakers off a team sheet I would probably say Jesus...wouldn't you?)
    My point is this: If you don't know how to pronounce someone's name, it's not a problem to get it wrong when reading from a sheet. However, once you do know the way he pronounces his name, it would be weird to pronounce it any other way. The commentators are far more likely to know, as they're likely to meet and interview these players,or talk to other commentators/journalists from the player's country.

    I don't think it's about "showing off". No one is going to be impressed by how you or I say 'James Rodriguez'. It's just about knowing how the person pronounces the name and repeating that.
  • Fiiish
    Fiiish Posts: 7,998
    There's no clear convention on how to say names of those where their native pronunciation differs from how the English would pronounce it. If there is no anglicised version of the name, such as Jose (which again differs depending on if your country pronounces it Hosay or Josay) then pundits generally pronounce these as the person himself says it. If there is an anglicised version then it usually varies. Jesus has been Anglicised but it isn't actually very common to call anyone apart from Jesus Christ Jesus when pronounced the anglicised way. Most notable people called Jesus excepting Christ are from Latin countries and so I would agree that 'Hey-zeus' is probably more conventional. The other thing is when players from countries that don't follow the our system of 'first-name family-name'. Particularly notable when pundits would alternate between Park Ji-Sung and Ji-Sung Park like the spanners they are.

    What annoys me is why we went from Ivory Coast to Cote D'Ivoire when it is displayed on telly yet the same isn't done for the other countries that aren't officially known as what the English call them (Switzerland, Japan, Spain, Italy, Germany to name a few).
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,153
    A quick butchers around the internet shows that the Ivorians themselves requested that every country refer to them as Cote D'ivoire in 1985. Took a while to catch on though... And a bit precious if you ask me. :wink:
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