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Post by bjd on Nov 21, 2018 6:26:39 GMT
People must feel very insecure if their status depends on their telephone area code.
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Post by questa on Nov 21, 2018 10:13:52 GMT
In Oz it is the postcode that is used for statistics and peoples' perceptions of an area.
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Post by Kimby on Nov 21, 2018 11:31:49 GMT
People must feel very insecure if their status depends on their telephone area code. Real estate values can hinge on such silly things.
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Post by Kimby on Nov 21, 2018 11:33:25 GMT
In Oz it is the postcode that is used for statistics and peoples' perceptions of an area. Beverly Hills 90210 was a popular TV show. Never saw it.
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Post by patricklondon on Nov 21, 2018 12:26:40 GMT
In Oz it is the postcode that is used for statistics and peoples' perceptions of an area. More or less the same in London, and other big cities in the UK. The full postcode locates you to a couple of streets, but the larger postal district can be taken as a rough indicator (in London, your local tube or railway station also serves). More worryingly, postcodes can be the marker for gang rivalries in certain urban areas. But estate agents normally prefer to use generic neighbourhood names (with a certain degree of elasticity if they can make it sound as though it's got some relation to a more upmarket area). Out in the country, it's less easy, since quite wide swathes of the countryside are postcoded in relation to the main local sorting centre, which people don't identify with at all for most other aspects of life. My blog | My photos | My video clips | My Librivox recordings"too literate to be spam"
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Post by whatagain on Dec 13, 2018 21:05:45 GMT
Gave a kiss to my little daughter... Such a lovely moment. so my rndom thought is : what would I be without children and ket us love them befre they are too old... and after too.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 15, 2018 0:44:04 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 20, 2018 17:48:31 GMT
I am totally astounded at one of the greatest problems of our time -- disposing of the cardboard tube of an empty roll of toilet paper. After the brand that made the amazing breakthrough of the tube that dissolves when you toss it in the toilet, it clearly was decided that this is still too much of a chore to ask or anybody. So now we have the commercials for the toilet rolls that do not have a tube inside, so there is nothing to throw away.
Unfortunately, we all know that they are totally sidestepping the real problem, so I am waiting for the next innovation -- the new toilet roll that arrives and puts itself in place without any annoying human intervention.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 29, 2018 17:13:39 GMT
All of the media retrospectives of the year 2018 are pretty depressing.
About the only bright spot in France is the consensus that Kyllian Mbappé is the person of the year, not even for his sports achievements but because he is a bright young man with his head on his shoulders and not all full of himself.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 3, 2019 13:22:25 GMT
Netflix is still a tiny frog in the big pond. It has only 137 million subscribers. Remember when figures like that used to sound impressive?
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 28, 2019 17:48:25 GMT
Dog food absolutely not, but television commercials make cat food look so good that I would eat it in a heartbeat.
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Post by whatagain on Mar 29, 2019 20:19:25 GMT
I heard it is the goal actually. Some of the pet food ends up as special food for low revenues.
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 29, 2019 20:51:40 GMT
Cat tuna has been eaten by poor humans for decades.
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Post by Kimby on May 18, 2019 14:02:19 GMT
Wondering why British English speakers drop articles like “the” where Americans always use them: “In hospital” instead of “in the hospital” and “at university” instead of “at the university”, But then ADD them where they aren’t needed: as in the BBC headline: “What does the menopause do to the body?” (Americans never insert “the” before menopause.) WUWT?
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Post by onlyMark on May 18, 2019 15:24:01 GMT
Are you ever at the work, or just at work? Are you at home or at the home? Are you in hospital, yes you are. If you are not at University that is. We don't drop the the all the time, such as we are in the kitchen, in the bedroom, at the garage, at the supermarket, in the restaurant etc. You may have just focussed on a couple of rarities.
And why do Americans insist that it is 'menopause', when clearly a 'the' must precede it? Yet, at the other end of the human timeline, we do just say puberty rather than the puberty. But there is an assumption that the menopause is exclusively female, whereas there is the male menopause as well. Called andropause - so if you identify the sex in the sentence, it doesn't sound right to say, "What does female menopause do to the body?", whereas, "What does the female menopause do to the body?" does.
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Post by kerouac2 on May 18, 2019 15:39:39 GMT
If only the use or not of articles was the only problem in the different versions of English!
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Post by Kimby on May 18, 2019 19:23:14 GMT
Mark is in senescence. (Not the senescence.) Similar usage to menopause.
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Post by bjd on May 18, 2019 19:31:26 GMT
Never heard anyone say "the menopause". It sounds odd. I don't say "in hospital" either. I was always surprised to hear Brits say "the Lebanon".
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Post by onlyMark on May 18, 2019 19:39:51 GMT
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Post by onlyMark on May 18, 2019 19:42:14 GMT
Senescence and menopause have a common factor in ageing, but I believe they are different things.
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Post by kerouac2 on May 18, 2019 20:13:17 GMT
Rather long, but interesting nevertheless regarding "the" and countries. The Gambia or just Gambia for example. Same with Sudan. You left out Ukraine.
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Post by Kimby on May 18, 2019 21:04:09 GMT
Senescence and menopause have a common factor in ageing, but I believe they are different things. However, they both don’t need a “the”.
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Post by onlyMark on May 19, 2019 6:19:27 GMT
I wonder how many British English speakers there are in the world as opposed to American English? Just our former colonies? Nevertheless, it seems we have to correct them to miss out the 'the' then.
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Post by deyana on Jun 1, 2019 16:22:29 GMT
Hello! How are you Anyporters all doing?
I've been busy with the 9 year anniversary over at the other place.
Finally we are having some warmer weather, so am trying to make the best of it while it lasts!
All the best
Dey
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Post by Kimby on Jun 2, 2019 3:43:57 GMT
Hi Deyana, welcome back!
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 2, 2019 6:11:06 GMT
Happy anniversary.
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Post by questa on Jun 2, 2019 10:24:25 GMT
Menopause is a set period in a woman's life. It has a beginning, a length of time to occur and a finish when all the signs and symptoms have closed down. Thus it is an entity and needs 'the'. Senescence creeps up, comes and goes and eventually is just waiting for the end, which is up to the person not the condition. As such it is not an entity but a descriptive adjective for a series of older people's behaviours and does not need a 'the'.
Not from a grammar book, just a gut feeling. I can see the flaws already but I gotta go, busy.
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Post by bjd on Jun 2, 2019 11:27:57 GMT
Frankly, I have never heard anyone saying "the menopause" until I saw it on this thread.
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Post by Kimby on Jun 2, 2019 12:09:40 GMT
That’s life!
We don’t say “the life” which also has a beginning and an end.
Well, if we do say “the life” we mean a TYPE of life, like “the good life”, or perhaps a criminal life.
I think there is no rhyme or reason to Brits’ use or non-use of “the”. They just do it to amuse Americans. :-)
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Post by mossie on Jun 2, 2019 15:38:28 GMT
Is that why he is called The Donald
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