Comments on: Two for the show

By: Larry

Larry — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 15:38:07 +0000

Hey Heylane,

Uh, Jack does rhyme with back in English.

By: Gabelstaplerfahrer Klaus

Gabelstaplerfahrer Klaus — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 12:32:37 +0000

I ran into a few problems with my speech recognition software (ScanSoft Dragon NaturallySpeaking while training it. These are the kind of pronunciation errors made easily if you’re not very careful!

By: Natashka

Natashka — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 16:04:46 +0000

Door elkaar = Dunglish, maakt niet uit waarom. Deal is geen Nederlands het is onnodig en dat maakt de boel Dunglish.

By: mois

mois — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 13:49:13 +0000

Bewuste keuze om inderdaad Nederlands en Engels te kombineren.
Een mee-zing concert.

Dus niks Dungish, was een bewuste keuze om twee talen door elkaar te halen.

Guut Meuning

By: marsvin

marsvin — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 16:20:20 +0000

This reminds me of the time I was listening to the radio and the Dutch DJ was saying something about a song called “In sight your hat”. I spent several puzzled seconds trying to figure out what the title meant, until I realised the song was really called “Inside your head”.

By: Natashka

Natashka — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 19:08:05 +0000

I remember you telling me this story. Screw them is the answer

By: Anonymous Doughboy

Anonymous Doughboy — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 16:10:51 +0000

I once worked for an American linguist who insisted that there is no ash in American English. (Ash is the a-sound in access.) She also claimed that American linguistics students were better than their Dutch brothers-in-arms, because the former were taught phonetic transcription as part of their standard curriculum. Without the ash-character, I imagine.

By: Natashka

Natashka — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 13:36:54 +0000

Axes is ook het meervoud van axis. Laat we eens proberen: axes.mp3 axis.mp3

By: bram

bram — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 13:04:23 +0000

Over ‘excess’ gesproken, er zijn ook nog de woorden ‘axis’ (=as, korte i, scherpe s), ‘axes’ (=assen, lange(re) ie, zachte(re) z) en ‘axes’ (=bijlen, meervoud van axe). Het laatste woord klinkt meer dan het tweede als excess/access, mede doordat de klemtoon (meer) op de eerste lettergreep ligt dan in axes (assen).

(het heeft niet zoveel meer met meezingen te maken, nietwaar? )

By: Natashka

Natashka — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 12:45:00 +0000

Ik heb wat vrienden die bij XS4all werken en het kan wat ‘excess’ opleveren Leuk bedrijf vind ik.