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Questions and Answers - Part 3

  
  

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Twice
20:57 / 18.02.07
Question 1, Tsuga. I'm not sure. I suspect I might say Carstro, too. It's me dialect, dontchaknoo.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
22:53 / 18.02.07
The only accent that regularly adds an "arrr" to words in English is that of Mark E Smith, I believe. Could you provide context, Tsuga? Where are the voices coming from?
 
 
MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!
23:16 / 18.02.07
I get the same impression as Tsuga -- something that sounds like an "er" to my ear -- when I listen to Australian World Service broadcasts on my local CBC station at around 5:10 every morning. It sounds to me like the announcer is saying "Austrailier," but when I listen closely it's more that they don't have the same accent as Ontarians -- a kind of clipped closer on the final "a" -- but when I listen more closely, it's more that the final "a" kind of drops off rather than getting cut off, and my mind actually attaches the "r" to close the vowel off in my head.

I know that's incoherent -- it's hard to talk about accents when typing -- but when I say "Canada," for instance, I finish the word with sort of a gate-closing "uh" to shut the word off, and Australian/British accents don't always clamp down as hard on the final "a."
 
 
Leigh Monster loses its cool
01:31 / 19.02.07
yeah, i had a chem teacher from Manchester to did the R thing to my name.

my question: if my yogurt says "bio live" on it, does that mean it's an active culture i can use to make new yogurt?
 
 
Princess
09:49 / 19.02.07
I'm pretty sure it does.
 
 
Quantum
10:07 / 19.02.07
Here's a question- say you were in the UK and a bit of one of your teeth fell off, what might be the best way to go about getting a dentist? I just moved house and this morning for no reason a chunk came off a tooth with an old filling, and now my tooth is bleeding.

Bleeding teeth is not good.

Dentist?
 
 
Evil Scientist
10:23 / 19.02.07
I would have thought you could go to a dental surgery with that and they'll treat it as an emergency (ie won't insist on you being signed-up with them).

Might charge you though.
 
 
Our Lady Has Left the Building
10:39 / 19.02.07
Quantum, aren't you supposed to collect all the bits of you that fall off in jars while you turn into QuantumFly?

(Although if you were turning into QuantumFlyboy that would be a real concern)
 
 
Quantum
11:06 / 19.02.07
I have the bit. Not between my teeth though. Have phoned a nice dentist and cancelled work, going to register and get an appointment in an hour or so. It doesn't hurt much, which is good, but it is disconcerting.

Geena Davis: You're getting worse!
QuantumFlyboy : No. I'm getting *better*...
 
 
Olulabelle
17:48 / 20.02.07
Can anyone please tell me where the autotrace tool is in Illustrator CS (8)? Everything online just says 'choose the autotrace tool from the toolbox', but I have no autotrace tool that I can see, so how can I choose it? I have found autotrace preferences, so it must exist.

Help me someone, please!
 
 
MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!
18:05 / 20.02.07
Extended option on Blend Tool. Click on Blend and hold for two secs and other options will pop up; the one that looks kind of like a grey wave is the one you need.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
18:07 / 20.02.07
Ooooooh, I hate things like that! I get all tense and fed up and clomp the mouse around and have to go and make a cup of tea.
 
 
MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!
18:18 / 20.02.07
Er -- that's on Illo 10 here at work. I assume it's the same for 8. And yes, it's annoying -- they try to keep the toolbar small, but they do it by hiding useful buttons underneath totally non-intuitive other buttons.
 
 
Olulabelle
19:08 / 20.02.07
Oooh! There it is! Thank you very much indeed, I was so frustrated. I kept looking and looking.
 
 
petunia
19:53 / 20.02.07
Does anybody know of a nice (preferably free or shareware) program for os x that will let me change voices?

I want to modulate (proper word?) my voice to make it sound weird. Like Karin Dreijer from the Knife does.

And no, this has nothing at all to do with feeling self conscious about the six-word story Barbemix. Nothing at all...
 
 
grant
20:35 / 20.02.07
Record in Garageband.

Double-click track.

Select "Vocal Transformer" from the effects menu.

Either use one of the preset settings, or click the little pencil icon next to the word "Manual." (The presets are under "Manual.") Fiddle with controls until it's strange enough for you.

You can also add, well, almost any effect you can think of. Flangers, phasers, filters, tremolo, delay, chorus -- all in there.
 
 
petunia
21:06 / 20.02.07
ace!

Thankee
 
 
The Falcon
21:59 / 20.02.07
What is up with certain accents in the UK that add this slight "er" sound isntead of the "a" vowel sound pronounced usually like "uh"? Like listening to BBC, someone will say, "In Cuber today, Fidel Castro's doctors decided to send him to Argentiner for observation." Not really that pronounced, but kind of that pirate arr thing, or the caricature of Kennedys by Mayor Quimby. Is that a particular local dialect?

From what I can recall of my English Language lectures, they said that in R(eceived)P(ronunciation), which I should bloody well hope is what they still use on the World Service, you sometimes got an 'r' sound between two vowels as a break. 'Law and order' was the example, pron. "lore and ohder", iirc. But not just everywhere.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
12:55 / 21.02.07
Well, a lot of people on the BBC World Service have the accents of their own nations, which is why it could be a number of accents.

Meanwhile - help me, Barbelith Kenobi. Can anyone translate for me the phrase

"Please select your preferred language and then click 'Next'"

Into

a) Japanese
b) Italian
c) Spanish
d) Danish

? I think I can bluff most of these, but the Japanese is a bit of a killaargh.
 
 
Leigh Monster loses its cool
13:22 / 21.02.07
"gengo wo erande, 'tsugi' wo kurikku shite kudasai."

except i can't remember 'preferred.' does anyone know of a free Japanese word processor I can download that will work on OSX?
 
 
Leigh Monster loses its cool
13:37 / 21.02.07
好む言語を選んで, ネクストをクリックしてください

I think?
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
13:39 / 21.02.07
Gentium fonts, maybe, on OpenOffice? I recommend NeoOffice pretty much without reservation - a staggering labour of love and one no Mac user should be without if they need a productivity suite.

How's this?

あなたの言語を選んでください。先に進むには “Next” をクリックしてください。
 
 
Leigh Monster loses its cool
14:11 / 21.02.07
that seems more polite than mine.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
14:21 / 21.02.07
Perhaps if I add "ASSFACE" at the end?

Thanks, laoi - I appreciate the help. I'm not that confident in these languages, but as long as it's people telling me that I have got a character wrong rather than, say, that I have called their mother a donkey ho, that's more reassuring.
 
 
Leigh Monster loses its cool
14:27 / 21.02.07
this is going to look like a really stupid question, so apologies in advance. on the neo office site, i have the option to download via bitTorrent. what does that mean? I looked it up but didn't understand the explanations i found, except that I have the hazy impression I'd be getting the program in bits and pieces.
 
 
Leigh Monster loses its cool
14:31 / 21.02.07
sorry crosspost. I appreciate the help as well, and your Japanese seems better than mine anyway =)
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
14:39 / 21.02.07
It really isn't. I don't understand a word of the above - I've just pulled it out using pattern recognition.

BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer downloading client - in essence, it turns a shared folder on your computer into a tiny server, and allows you to pull data from other people's computers to download files. It decentralises downloading - so, if fifty people are online and have the NeoOffice installer available to download, you can get the data from all of them at once, whhich speeds up the download. If you don't have a peer-to-peer downloader like BitTorrent, it's best to use the normal download option, which should be around there somewhere, which will download it from a single source.
 
 
MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!
14:40 / 21.02.07
Some old Torrent chat here.
 
 
All Acting Regiment
15:02 / 21.02.07
Why are there no fucking jobs? More usefully, does anyone know if there are any websites specifically offering jobs for undergraduates?
 
 
Leigh Monster loses its cool
15:12 / 21.02.07
oooh. i see i see, thanks. i chose the normal download, it's got an hour and a half to go.

Haus, on second glance I might leave off the あなたの. "you" isn't that often said, and あなた as a polite term is usually only addressed to inferiors.

so,

言語を選んでください。先に進むには “Next” をクリックしてください。

or

言語を選んで, “Next” をクリックしてください。
 
 
jentacular dreams
15:17 / 21.02.07
Allecto - what field are you looking for? When did you graduate and did you do any 'proper' jobs or placements prior to graduation?
 
 
jentacular dreams
15:28 / 21.02.07
Sorry, that's all a bit personal isn't it? I just wanted to help and wan't really thinking when I wrote that. If you'd like some suggestions PM me and I'll see if I can help in any way.
 
 
Closed for Business Time
17:07 / 21.02.07
Allecto: Not specifically a site for undergrads - but www.jobs.ac.uk is still a good place to start looking for academic and research jobs in the UK.

A question of my own. How come republicans/conservatives are "red" and democrats/liberals are "blue" in the US of A, while (roughly) the situation is reversed in Europe?
 
 
MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!
17:09 / 21.02.07
Also reversed in Canada, where Liberals are red and Tories blue.
 
 
unheimlich manoeuvre
20:45 / 21.02.07
A question of my own. How come republicans/conservatives are "red" and democrats/liberals are "blue" in the US of A, while (roughly) the situation is reversed in Europe?

Found this which may explain it. Washington Post in 2004.

Before Bush's disputed victory over Al Gore four years ago, there was no consensus on the color of liberalism or conservatism. Indeed the scheme was often reversed, reflecting traditional European associations (red being not just the color of communism but of Great Britain's Labor Party, too).

Also a interesting table at Washington Monthly. Clinton was Red in 1992, apparently.
 
  

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