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DerekT-P4-Jan-23 6:28

DerekT-P

4-Jan-23 6:28

I grew up using rotary phones. At the heritage railway where I volunteer, we still use them for internal network calls. As a Lead Porter I am one of the trainers of new porters. Often the "newbies" are in their 60s or 70s so know how to use the phones, but I had occasion last year to have a training session with a 17 year old. He was familiar with the numbering system and knew where to find the phone lists and how to communicate emergency info etc. When I asked him to demonstrate his knowledge by calling the signalbox, he looked around the room (including looking straight at the telephone) and after a while said "I give up - where's the phone?". He caught on pretty quick when I explained it all to him (it's not hard, after all!) I've advised the head trainer that we ought to include a practical session on a rotary phone for all staff under about 60 Smile | :)

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yacCarsten3-Jan-23 22:59

yacCarsten

3-Jan-23 22:59

I liked the "I hate verbs in English".

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trønderen4-Jan-23 4:08

trønderen

4-Jan-23 4:08

Do you like English spelling as well?

If you don't know it already, enjoy English is tough stuff[^] - meant to be read out aloud, preferably without any preparation Smile | :)

(If this link doesn't work, just google the title - you'll find it hundreds of places on the internet.)

The "poem" (which has the title "The Chaos", but is far more referred to as 'English is tough stuff') was authored by a Dutch writer, Gerard Nolst Trenité, in the 1920s. Various versions were published at various times, so an single, exact publication date cannot be given.

Lots of web sites claim that it was written by non-native-English-speaking NATO personnel in frustration over having to communicate in a language they didn't fully master. That is not correct - the poem was published long before NATO was formed.

jmaida4-Jan-23 8:31

4-Jan-23 8:31

I don't recall seeing this "poem", but it is quite funny and informative.
English is my native tongue, so after taking Spanish and German courses I had to compare.
According to our professors, Spanish was the easiest (very phonetic) followed by Italian (also phonetic). They said these two also had the fewest rule exceptions. Also easy to speak and read. Would be interested in others opinions about languages. They said one of the most difficult was Hungarian.

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trønderen4-Jan-23 9:15

trønderen

4-Jan-23 9:15

I guess we all grew up learning our mother tongue and it spelling as obvious, direct and natural, with only a small number of quirks and irregularities, which we learned to handle, forgetting that they are irregularities.

One way to discover the irregularities of your own language is to try to teach it to an immigrant. The brighter and more interrogative you pupil is, the more you will discover of quirks in your own language, going from pronunciation rules, through word ordering, through spelling rules, punctuation rules and whathaveyou. It is a mess!

I've had a hobby project for a couple of years: After hearing a couple really bad, misplaced mis-pronunciations by synthetic speech systems, I started collecting words spelled the same way, but may be pronounced two or three different ways, with different meanings. I thought I would find a couple dozens of such words. Today, I have a few hundred of them, and the collection is still growing.

To give an illustration in English: As a young teenager, I was not much into English music terminology. So when I read on an LP cover that this one guy was playing the lead guitar, I laughed, pointing it out to my friends: The heavy bass guitar referred to as a lead guitar, just like a steel guitar ... My friends laughed, thinking that I made a great joke. I didn't discover until later that lead and lead are quite different terms, but I never revealed to my friends that the joke was not what I thought it to be, even though I was the one telling it Smile | :)

jmaida4-Jan-23 14:38

4-Jan-23 14:38

I agree with all you say. You learn a language over time even your own native language.
My Aunt in MN would speak Norwegian on occasion, but it sounded very strange to a teen from TX.
Funny about the guitars. Makes sense. steel, lead guitar Smile | :)

Heavy metal sound.
The past tense of lead is led. Ironic.
English can be a "bear", "bare".

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Amarnath S4-Jan-23 20:58

Amarnath S

4-Jan-23 20:58

Here is one more, about English as a language:

Linguistic humor[^]

Maximilien4-Jan-23 5:16

Maximilien

4-Jan-23 5:16

Most of them are better than some of the phone number fields I've seen.

Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

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trønderen4-Jan-23 6:46

trønderen

4-Jan-23 6:46

A former coworker showed me one application that he uses nowadays: It has a phone number entry field with spin buttons. This was definitely a "serious" application, not meant as a joke or parody.

honey the codewitch4-Jan-23 9:55

honey the codewitch

4-Jan-23 9:55

I think you should have to solve wordles to put in your phone number. Smile | :)

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Jeremy Falcon4-Jan-23 10:19

Jeremy Falcon

4-Jan-23 10:19

Ain't even gonna lie... that rotary dial control is pretty awesome. $Shucks | :-\$

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StarNamer@work3-Jan-23 13:15

StarNamer@work

3-Jan-23 13:15

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Amarnath S3-Jan-23 13:32

Amarnath S

3-Jan-23 13:32

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Sandeep Mewara3-Jan-23 16:28

Sandeep Mewara

3-Jan-23 16:28

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Peter_in_27803-Jan-23 16:54

Peter_in_2780

3-Jan-23 16:54

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Shane01033-Jan-23 18:00

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3-Jan-23 18:00

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OriginalGriff3-Jan-23 18:50

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3-Jan-23 18:50

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pkfox3-Jan-23 20:58

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3-Jan-23 20:58

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Sander Rossel4-Jan-23 1:01

Sander Rossel

4-Jan-23 1:01

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Cp-Coder4-Jan-23 1:31

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4-Jan-23 1:31

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musefan4-Jan-23 1:55

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4-Jan-23 1:55

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jmaida4-Jan-23 8:02

4-Jan-23 8:02

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jmaida3-Jan-23 11:15