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Berlin
Aug 10, 2017 17:16:06 GMT
Post by Rob on Aug 10, 2017 17:16:06 GMT
Ivor is a steam locomotive. He's not a train. Bit late to this important conversation - been busy today because I'm off from work tomorrow and had something that needs completing by the end of the week. I thought a train was the locomotive plus the carriages. And Idris didn't live in a carriage so he's never lived in or on a train anyway.
Perhaps he could move into the PPOS... but what is PPOS... isn't it POPS as in pile of plastic shite?
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Berlin
Aug 10, 2017 17:36:29 GMT
Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2017 17:36:29 GMT
Ref: Humph and in / on / at.
That and adjective order are two big reasons why one should always contract a translator who is a native speaker of the "translate to" language. A source of much argument in the language industry, let me tell you.
p.s. if you didn't know....
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Berlin
Aug 10, 2017 17:37:04 GMT
Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2017 17:37:04 GMT
PPOS is colloquial slang for one of my Landcruisers.
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Berlin
Aug 10, 2017 17:57:38 GMT
Post by Humph on Aug 10, 2017 17:57:38 GMT
A bank customer might ( quite correctly in my opinion ) request a meeting at a branch on Friday. A bank employee might ( quite unreasonably in my view ) invite that customer to a meeting "in branch" on Friday. This annoys me. It shouldn't really, after all there are far more annoying things in this world, but it does. That and when they say, "but it's procedure".
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Berlin
Aug 10, 2017 18:00:52 GMT
Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2017 18:00:52 GMT
Well "it's procedure" annoys me just as much. Do they mean it is *A* procedure? Well talk about stating the obvious. Or does it simply show they put a similar level of care and effort into everything in their life, including their speech and their job.
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Berlin
Aug 10, 2017 18:05:02 GMT
Post by Humph on Aug 10, 2017 18:05:02 GMT
I had one on the phone from my bank yesterday who kept calling me "Yourself". 😡
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Berlin
Aug 10, 2017 20:16:33 GMT
Post by tyrednexited on Aug 10, 2017 20:16:33 GMT
Is it only me, or does anyone else find the fact that we've a protracted discussion going on about the correct way to describe a dragon riding a locomotive rather pointless surreal? Well that'd be just me then!
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Rob
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Berlin
Aug 10, 2017 21:16:03 GMT
Post by Rob on Aug 10, 2017 21:16:03 GMT
But he wasn't riding it - he lived in it. To ride it you'd describe that as being on it :-)
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Berlin
Aug 10, 2017 21:17:41 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2017 21:17:41 GMT
No. Its not just you. The others are bonkers.
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Berlin
Aug 10, 2017 21:36:11 GMT
Post by tyrednexited on Aug 10, 2017 21:36:11 GMT
But he wasn't riding it - he lived in it. To ride it you'd describe that as being on it :-) ....well, it looks like a few people are certainly on something, but it sure ain't a train! (It doesn't sound like it's good sh*t either )
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Berlin
Aug 11, 2017 8:15:09 GMT
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Post by Humph on Aug 11, 2017 8:15:09 GMT
I don't really have a problem with the dragon bit, I'm not familiar with the story, but it seems perfectly reasonable that the dragon would favour somewhere hot to live. It's the talking train I'm struggling with. I mean that's just stupid right?
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Berlin
Aug 11, 2017 8:34:08 GMT
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Post by WDB on Aug 11, 2017 8:34:08 GMT
Ivor doesn't talk, he sings - but he's Welsh, so that's normal enough.
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Berlin
Aug 11, 2017 9:11:12 GMT
Post by Alanović on Aug 11, 2017 9:11:12 GMT
Oh dear Humph. You seem to be confusing Ivor the Engine with Thomas the Tank Engine. The former being charming and delightful, the latter being utterly dreadful. Most of the talking in the Ivor the Engine programme is done by his driver, Jones the Steam. Although Ivor can communicate with puffs and whistles.
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Berlin
Aug 11, 2017 9:13:25 GMT
Post by tyrednexited on Aug 11, 2017 9:13:25 GMT
.....nurse!..............NURSE!.......
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Berlin
Aug 11, 2017 9:18:01 GMT
Post by Alanović on Aug 11, 2017 9:18:01 GMT
I'm not going to change your bedsheets again, Mr Hastings.
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