BS: Things we can not say

Subject: RE: BS: Things we can not say
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 25 May 19 - 06:24 PM

Bonz - you're allowed to say whay you like as long as you accept the trouble it could get you into in certain circumstances...
I.E.. you are most definitely allowed to make a dick of yourself and take the risk of consequences..


Now as for this most recent jest of yours......

Part A: no he is not a jew hater; anyone with the least sense can see he is not.

Part B: fair play to the old bloke if he can still get it up...

There's many here at mudcat who enviously wish they still could...???

Subject: RE: BS: Things we can not say
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 25 May 19 - 12:55 PM

So I'm not allowed to say that Corbyn is a jew hating wanker - ah I've just said it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Things we can not say
From: Mo the caller
Date: 24 May 19 - 11:21 AM

Contestants on Countdown produce all sorts of variations on the word 'consonant' - sometimes the same contestant.

Subject: RE: BS: Things we can not say
From: Mrrzy
Date: 23 May 19 - 09:55 PM

Mom did not distinguish th from d nor v from w. Getting her to say "wowels" was a constant ambition. Also wiper (snake).

Subject: RE: BS: Things we can not say
From: DMcG
Date: 23 May 19 - 05:29 AM

I remember a commentator during a row about the UK Labour adopting the IHRC definition of anti-Semitism saying it was not some shibboleth. Perhaps that was not the ideal situation in which to use the term.

Subject: RE: BS: Things we can not say
From: Mo the caller
Date: 23 May 19 - 05:20 AM

Judges 12v6

Subject: RE: BS: Things we can not say
From: Mo the caller
Date: 23 May 19 - 05:19 AM

It can prove fatal to be unable to say "shibboleth"

Subject: RE: BS: Things we can not say
From: Donuel
Date: 21 May 19 - 08:08 PM

Chinese really is a sing song language.
A phrase relies on an accurate and repeated pitch for the speaker.
Even if a different person uses different but relative pitches it remains steadfast for that person.

This may have something to do with Chinese people having twice the percentage of people with perfect pitch compared to westerners.

Subject: RE: BS: Things we can not say
From: Charmion
Date: 21 May 19 - 09:54 AM

Saul Goldie -- Likewise, a substantial number of English-speakers evidently cannot say the nasal U as it occurs in the French pronoun “tu”, or the German preposition “über”. I have never understood this phenomenon, but I've been told that these people either do not hear the difference in sound at all, or never learn the placement of tongue and lips required to produce it.

As for the rest ... Well, the things we cannot say in public, we are rarely unwilling to say only too often within the charmed circle of our friends and relations -- who probably wish we would stop.

Subject: RE: BS: Things we can not say
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 21 May 19 - 09:39 AM

If we are doing slightly racist Chinese gags..

there's plenty of chortle mileage to be had from "Election"...

Subject: RE: BS: Things we can not say
From: Donuel
Date: 21 May 19 - 09:29 AM

Linguisticly there is the chinese stereotype that sing "Deck the Hars with bows of hoary ra ra ra-ra-ra, ra ra ra ra."

Subject: RE: BS: Things we can not say
From: Donuel
Date: 20 May 19 - 11:50 AM

Existentially Trump says anything. He never takes responsibility.
We do not tell the public about certain predictions. Predictions are not all accurate, but some are.
On the bright side we now tell schools to close a day ahead of predicted tornados- that will hit tommorrow

Subject: RE: BS: Things we can not say
From: saulgoldie
Date: 20 May 19 - 11:36 AM

"Can't" in current common usage does not mean what it means. It most often refers to things we would not do because we do not like the consequences, but that we are *capable* of doing. It's an YUGE issue, because it allows people to rhetorically *escape* responsibility from things that they would *rather not* do, not that they are not *capable of doing* them but *choose* not to. Having said that...

For many of European background:
The "click" that is common in some African languages.
The "chkch" in Hebrew.
Some of the consonant combinations in Russian. "ny" "kv" and others.
Some of the sounds in Vietnamese.

Off the top of my head. I am sure there are more that are not occurring to me, or that I am not even aware of due to my own linguistic background. Anyway... ("Can't" hahaha!)

Saul

Subject: RE: BS: Things we can not say
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 20 May 19 - 09:26 AM

My mate couldnt pronounce 'f' or 'th'.

I said you can't say fairer than that...

Subject: RE: BS: Things we can not say
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 20 May 19 - 01:47 AM

Existentially - you can say anything. If you're prepared to accept responsibility

The trouble is, sometimes you say things and you can't really predict the consequences. You can't control other peoples' interpretation or understanding of what you say.

The best thing is to say nowt if you want a quiet life.

Subject: RE: BS: Things we can not say
From: Bill D
Date: 19 May 19 - 07:51 PM

gillymore... I read my post 3 times before I saw my error...
too many Ss, I guess

Thanks...

Subject: RE: BS: Things we can not say
From: Donuel
Date: 19 May 19 - 04:41 PM

The Ephemeral Journals vol. 58,877 shows how impossible it is to say nothing.

Thanks for the link Walkabout

Dear former SS Officers, suicide your work brittle indoctrinated lives at once before biologic inertia fails you completely.

Subject: RE: BS: Things we can not say
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 19 May 19 - 03:10 PM

I find it impossible to say nothing!

Subject: RE: BS: Things we can not say
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 19 May 19 - 01:21 PM

I am against capitalism AND economic/CAPITALIST immigration, and don't care if you call me Far Right or Far Left - I have got it right in http://walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com

Subject: RE: BS: Things we can not say
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 19 May 19 - 01:04 PM

Nigel - what the L's all that about then...

I copy and pasted that off what looked like an oficiall site...

So, I just asked my mrs [south Wales valley girl] if she could pronouce it from memory.
She hesitated for second's thought, then promptly did...

But.. how could we verify she got it right...???

Subject: RE: BS: Things we can not say
From: gillymor
Date: 19 May 19 - 12:45 PM

Hey Bill, Should that last line have read
"and the stump thunk the skunk stunk"?

Good one, though.

Subject: RE: BS: Things we can not say
From: keberoxu
Date: 19 May 19 - 12:29 PM

… and found out, the hard way,
what you can not say …

Subject: RE: BS: Things we can not say
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 19 May 19 - 12:24 PM

After enduring one of Alicia Castro's rants (former Argentine ambassador to UK) at an Asado, I walked up to her and advised her that it would make me very happy to ready in the news that she had been expelled from the UK, I said "you talk too much woman"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Things we can not say
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 19 May 19 - 12:15 PM

pfr:
And the letter 'l' appears only once. All the others are the letter 'll'.

Okay, so I'm a pedant :)

Subject: RE: BS: Things we can not say
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 19 May 19 - 09:51 AM

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch...

Though, actually me and my mates challenged each other to learn to say it when we were about 12...

Subject: RE: BS: Things we can not say
From: Donuel
Date: 19 May 19 - 09:06 AM

Yep there are things we can't physically say, people we can not joke with, truth that eludes us and if we give a shit, things that needlessly hurt others.

Subject: RE: BS: Things we can not say
From: Bill D
Date: 18 May 19 - 10:36 PM

A skunk sat on a stump.
The skunk thunk the stump stunk
and the stump thunk the stump stunk.

Subject: RE: BS: Things we can not say
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 18 May 19 - 03:46 PM

Yes, Trump is a bully and a coward. And, like most such men in positions of power, it would be his minions who would do the dirty work, not himself.

Subject: RE: BS: Things we can not say
From: Mrrzy
Date: 18 May 19 - 03:33 PM

Nem minden fajta szarka farka tarkabarka, csak a tarkabarka farkú szarkafajta farka tarkabarka.

Subject: RE: BS: Things we can not say
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 18 May 19 - 03:32 PM

no to single malt whisky.

Dave H

Subject: RE: BS: Things we can not say
From: David Carter (UK)
Date: 18 May 19 - 03:22 PM

Trump is a bully, and like all bullies he is a coward. I would be quite happy to say exactly that to him, were I to encounter him.

Subject: RE: BS: Things we can not say
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 18 May 19 - 03:19 PM

Well, there are things we can't say, and then there are things it would simply be prudent to not say. One can attend a Donald Trump rally, walk up to a large man and say, "Hey, you big ugly sumbitch, take that 'MAGA' cap off and shove it up your ass!" It's probably just not a good idea to do so if one's plans for the future involve living beyond the next thirty seconds. Especially if the big ugly sumbitch in question happens to be Donald Trump himself.

Subject: RE: BS: Things we can not say
From: DMcG
Date: 17 May 19 - 06:04 PM

Tractatus 7.

Subject: BS: Things we can not say
From: Donuel
Date: 17 May 19 - 05:39 PM

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