Deadline or Dateline?

• sinicker

  31 Oct 05, 12:10

  Originally posted by redstone:
  
  
  Another potential tongue twister is [b]Clemenceau.
  As in Clemenceau Avenue.
  
  And might be Cavenagh. As in Cavenagh Road.
  
  Confirm most people would pronounce Gloucester Road and Worcester Road wrongly.
  
  Devonshire Road?
  
  And Balestier?
  Bear-lers-steer?
  Ber-les-steer?
  
  [/b]

  how to pronounce clemenceau? cle-ment-ko?
  cavenagh? care-ver-nag?
  
  i pronounce balestier as bear-lest-tier.
• Griffie

  31 Oct 05, 12:17

  Originally posted by sinicker:
  [b]
  
  how to pronounce clemenceau? cle-ment-ko?
  b]

  its cle-ment-xiu (xiu as in the hanyupinyin one...same as chinese for shame), french pronunciation my boy...
• sinicker

  31 Oct 05, 13:02

  Originally posted by Griffie:

  its cle-ment-xiu (xiu as in the hanyupinyin one...same as chinese for shame), french pronunciation my boy...

  ouh okay. thank you.
  
  how does the 'xiu' sound like? i dono hanyu pinyin. i only know hanyu pinyin got rising, decreasing, straight lines. so which is this? decreasing?
• Aveme

  31 Oct 05, 13:06

  Originally posted by sinicker:

  ouh okay. thank you.
  
  how does the 'xiu' sound like? i dono hanyu pinyin. i only know hanyu pinyin got rising, decreasing, straight lines. so which is this? decreasing?

  it sounds like sew in english
• alfagal

  31 Oct 05, 15:40

  Gulliemard road how to pronounce?
  
  same name as e street fighter guy right?
  
• NT2

  31 Oct 05, 15:48

  Ribbon: Re-burn
  
  not 'Leh-Bin'
  
  eg...wha look at that bear....the Leh Bin is pink color one!
• kc_leung

  31 Oct 05, 15:54

  Originally posted by alfagal:

  Gulliemard road how to pronounce?
  
  same name as e street fighter guy right?
  

  I pronounce it as gill-er-mard road.
  
  Dunno if that's correct though.
• sinicker

  31 Oct 05, 17:20

  Originally posted by kc_leung:

  I pronounce it as gill-er-mard road.
  
  Dunno if that's correct though.

  yah correct. gill-li-mard road.
• philia

  31 Oct 05, 18:15

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  we borrow stuff from people.. the stuff is theirs and we borrow it from them...
  
  we lend stuff to people.. the stuff is ours and we loan it to them...
  
  we live in that place = a sense of permanence...
  
  we stay at that place = we're putting up there.. maybe temporarily..
  
  the difference between live and stay is subtle
  
  oh. another... after "to", please please please please please use the present tense...
  
  ".. to go", "to stay", "to come"
  
  and NOT "to went", "to stayed", "to came"
  
  

  I prefer sleeping to studying.
• philia

  31 Oct 05, 18:22

  Btw, it's KENA (malay) not KANA or KANNA la kanasai...
• the Bear

  31 Oct 05, 18:40

  here's another (from a thread)
  
  "my son is a gay"
  
  a gay what??
  
  if the gist of it is: he is homosexual, the correct way of writing it would be: "my son is gay"
• laurence82

  31 Oct 05, 18:42

  eh, borrow me ten dollars....
  
  
• the Bear

  31 Oct 05, 18:48

  "what do you get for $10?"
  
  

  Originally posted by laurence82:

  eh, borrow me ten dollars....
  
  

• sinicker

  31 Oct 05, 19:21

  Originally posted by philia:

  Btw, it's KENA (malay) not KANA or KANNA la kanasai...

  ah yes, ur single post has reminded me of a few.
  
  to skip lesson is to "ponteng".. not pontang/bontang/pontan/pongtang/bonteng.
  
  the word "macam" to be used as... "like crazy" or "macam gila".. not maciam/machiam/macham.
• redstone

  31 Oct 05, 19:25

  I pronounce Devonshire (near Orchard Road) as De-von-sheer.
  Dunno if correct...
  
  Gloucester and Worcester Road, anyone?
• laurence82

  1 Nov 05, 14:33

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  "what do you get for $10?"
  
  

  one nice cheesy meaty burger slapped between two thick slices of buns at MM.....
• Griffie

  1 Nov 05, 14:38

  Originally posted by redstone:

  I pronounce Devonshire (near Orchard Road) as De-von-sheer.
  Dunno if correct...
  
  Gloucester and Worcester Road, anyone?

  i tot shire is pronunced as shy-er
  so should be De-von-shy-er?? is it?
• laurence82

  1 Nov 05, 14:38

  Originally posted by Griffie:

  i tot shire is pronunced as shy-er
  so should be De-von-shy-er?? is it?

  like Shire from LOTR?
• BillyBong

  1 Nov 05, 14:40

  Dateline or Deadline is outdated liao...whatever the former means (no such word)
  
  Now the in-word is MILESTONE!
• the Bear

  1 Nov 05, 14:45

  milestone used to be a running gag in the office...
  
  whenever one of the guys needed to go take a dump and sit in the smallest room in the office, he'd say "i'm going to go reach a milestone"
• BillyBong

  1 Nov 05, 14:46

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  milestone used to be a running gag in the office...
  
  whenever one of the guys needed to go take a dump and sit in the smallest room in the office, he'd say "i'm going to go reach a milestone"

  I used to tell the head honcho who would bug me over some project milestones to meet:
  
  "bug me again over your milestone target and i will give you your TOMBSTONE!"[/b]
• Justy

  1 Nov 05, 16:27

  Gelare the ice-cream place?
  
  I used to call it G-Lair. Then someone told me its Girl-La-Ray, so i switched and called it that. Anyone knows if its correct? Seems correct...
• sinicker

  1 Nov 05, 16:36

  Originally posted by Justy:
  [b]Gelare the ice-cream place?
  
  I used to call it G-Lair. Then someone told me its Girl-La-Ray, so i switched and called it that. Anyone knows if its correct? Seems correct...[/b]

  wah really ah? i call it jer-lah-ray.
• ^mR.yellow^86

  1 Nov 05, 16:56

  The answer from Cambrigde Dictionary:
  Dateline - the line in a newspaper articles which tells the place and the date of the writing.
  
  Deadline - a time or day by which something must be done.
• vindicated

  1 Nov 05, 17:36

  Originally posted by philia:

  Btw, it's KENA (malay) not KANA or KANNA la kanasai...

  it's KENA (Indonesian) lah stupid!