The totally off-topic thread

[JohnK]

I didn't saw it!

I didn't able to see it!

Which one sounds better?

 

[TomVexille]

I didn't saw it!

I didn't able to see it!

Which one sounds better?

Neither...

 

[QF WP]

I didn't see it
I wasn't able to see it

The only two ways to say or write them

 

[QF WP]

At least the women could do it

Australia win third women s T20 title - The West Australian

 

[QF WP]

I wonder what fumes they were...

Jetstar flight diverts to central Qld after passengers smell fumes - Yahoo!7

 

[anat0l]

I wonder what fumes they were...

Jetstar flight diverts to central Qld after passengers smell fumes - Yahoo!7

Pot? .....

 

[anat0l]

I didn't saw it!

I didn't able to see it!

Which one sounds better?

I didn't see it
I wasn't able to see it

The only two ways to say or write them

It's like from The Simpsons...

Homer: "Now, Marge...if anything should go wrong at work, blame it on the guy who can't speak English. Aaaah Tibor, you've saved my butt so many times, heh heh heh...."

 

[blackcat20]

I wonder what fumes they were...

Jetstar flight diverts to central Qld after passengers smell fumes - Yahoo!7

Fumes forced the evac of our lab today. Something about being a neuro-toxin....

 

[anat0l]

Fumes forced the evac of our lab today. Something about being a neuro-toxin....

You know that cannot be good... although I wonder how they detected it. I don't know about biolaboratories much, but I assume it's not like a regular lab with smoke detectors or special detectors that can pick up the concentration of certain gasses (or types of them). Let alone a potentially deadly neurotoxin.

 

[Buzzard]

I didn't saw it!

I didn't able to see it!

Which one sounds better?

Well, if you were talking about a piece of wood for example .... and you didn't cut it ... then I didn't saw it could be correct.

On the other hand, I did have fun with a chainsaw over the weekend :mrgreen:

 

[Buzzard]

RIP Mickey Rooney

One of the great child actors, in many movies with Judy Garland.
Sadly another Hollywood great is gone..... but not forgotten.

 

[anat0l]

With Palmer's United Party doing the rounds more than we thought, there's more PUP being thrown out there.

Not sure if that sits well with some. Apart from pup meaning a small dog, PUP in computer speak is "Potentially Unwanted Program". Although certainly not true blue Australian, in the NFL, it's an abbreviation for "Potentially Unable to Participate".

 

[JohnK]

I didn't see it
I wasn't able to see it

The only two ways to say or write them

You would think the person that spoke/wrote English that way would practice English at every opportunity? No?

 

[Buzzard]

Last week on the early morning news, 3 young men who could barely string a sentence together between them, had their spokesperson come out with this beauty "........ I stopped the blood from bleeding"

 

[Hvr]

Last week on the early morning news, 3 young men who could barely string a sentance together between them, had their spokesperson come out with this beauty "........ I stopped the blood from bleeding"

Or even a sentence?

I didn't see the report but wonder if they were new to Australia and English was their second or even third language?

Sometimes those of us with English as our first and often only language laugh as what seem to be incomprehensible comments. Yet English ranks right up there with the tonal languages such as Mandarin to learn properly.

 

[Flashback]

WT?? Email me...

How about Mal's sofa??

Unfortunately not an option.

 

[Pushka]

Sometimes those of us with English as our first and often only language laugh as what seem to be incomprehensible comments. Yet English ranks right up there with the tonal languages such as Mandarin to learn properly.

I agree. I wonder how our attempts at languages where sounds are all important must actually translate to locals.

But, when people born in Australia as second generation Australians massacre our language then this is what does my head in.

 

[blackcat20]

You know that cannot be good... although I wonder how they detected it. I don't know about biolaboratories much, but I assume it's not like a regular lab with smoke detectors or special detectors that can pick up the concentration of certain gasses (or types of them). Let alone a potentially deadly neurotoxin.

Could smell it a mile away. Very unpleasant.

 

[drron]

With Palmer's United Party doing the rounds more than we thought, there's more PUP being thrown out there.

Not sure if that sits well with some. Apart from pup meaning a small dog, PUP in computer speak is "Potentially Unwanted Program". Although certainly not true blue Australian, in the NFL, it's an abbreviation for "Potentially Unable to Participate".

Quite relevant abbreviations.

 

[JohnK]

Sometimes those of us with English as our first and often only language laugh as what seem to be incomprehensible comments. Yet English ranks right up there with the tonal languages such as Mandarin to learn properly.

I don't laugh. I struggle to understand the comments they put on jobs explaining the investigation they have done or the investigation they want done. It gives me a headache trying to read it.

And then you see them yapping to each other in foreign tongue in lunch room. It can't hurt to try and improve their English. Can it?

Which reminds me. I need to practice my Thai for an important event in June!