[HPFGU-OTChatter] Speaking 'properly'

[Ladi lyndi]

storm  wrote:I heard a woman on the NPR today talking about Pfizer doing a
'pre-sen-tation'.

I wondered to myself, what can be before a 'sentation'?

oh those kooky yanks!

storm, in sydney who prefers to avoid pres-en-tations because sitting still
is difficult.
 
Lynn:
 
ROFLMAO  Yea, we certainly have a way with words.  I'm constantly getting into trouble for pronouncing all the letters in a word rather than dropping the inconvenient ones, i.e., pronouncing Warwick Castle as War-wick rather than War-ick.  Back in the days when the Iraq thing was just getting started, the Dutch government stated that their support was political only - not with troops.  One day Gen. Franks introduced some senior members of the "coalition" and lo and behold, there was a Dutch colonel along with an Australian and Brit.  The running gag after that was that given the language of the Americans, Australians and Brits, they needed the Dutch guy to translate for all of them.  LOL.
 
Lynn




 

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