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Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution

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On Wed, 03 May 2017 02:54:40 +0100, Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> wrote:

> On 5/2/17, 5:07 PM, in article op.yzmynal9js98qf@red.lan, "James Wilkinson
> Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> wrote:
>
> ...
>>>>>> It's as bad as "burrrrglarrrr alarrrrm": https://youtu.be/S5WFl4E8VCI
>>>>>
>>>>>     <https://youtu.be/y8lArz1_jO0>
>>>>
>>>> Surely Germans could be told the shape to make with their mouths.  I
>>>> severely doubt their facial muscles are any different.
>>>>
>>> What would make you think this had anything to do with different muscles?
>>> Seems like a very odd jump to me... don't see how you got there.
>>
>> How the hell do you think we make consonants?
>
> Please tell me you are just playing at being lost here... if not I am
> concerned for you. Maybe you really think making speech sounds is just about
> the physical way we are made and not how we learn? Try making sounds from
> some African, Middle Eastern, or Asian languages... not easy of you are not
> used to it. Heck, try throat singing for a while. :)

Watch yourself in the mirror making different consonants.  You make shapes with your lips and tongue.  That requires the use of different facial muscles.  Nobody anywhere in the world lacks those muscles, so anyone can make any sound when taught how to do so.

>>>>> And then there is this... how English sounds to non-English speakers:
>>>>>
>>>>>     <https://youtu.be/-VsmF9m_Nt8>
>>>>
>>>> Sounds like a whole load of English syllables shoved together.  Reminds me
>>>> of the spam software that makes random sentences that are quite readable but
>>>> mean nothing.  You can do it yourself if you turn off you brain:
>>>>
>>> Or what the script-troller and stalker are doing with their flooding
>>> nonsense. Sigh.
>>>
>>>> Suddenly he invented henceforth that tomorrow should become normal to the
>>>> kinder pigs, as they became lower then the precipice of eternity.  But
>>>> without the whaling it was not known that we should refrain from giving up
>>>> our sandwiches for the daily rituals of hiking towards the momentous
>>>> occasion that will forever be shorter than what was expected.
>>>
>>> I posted some computer-generated gibberish like that a few years ago. Some
>>> of those who troll me, including the script-troller, insisted it was
>>> something other than gibberish. Absolutely hilarious.
>>>
>>>     <http://tmp.gallopinginsanity.com/coherent_gibberish.mov>
>>
>> A video of some usenet posts?  Can't be bothered.
>
> Fair enough.
>
>> Are Apple really still using .mov format?
>
> .mov is a container format, the one .mp4/.m4v is based on... and Apple
> mostly uses .m4v these days.

The extension doesn't seem to mean much actually.  There are about 100 different codecs in common use, but only about 10 extensions.  Doesn't make much sense really.

>>>>>> I was never taught it, but I saw some people doing it and realised it was
>>>>>> much neater and easier to read, so I do it too.
>>>>>>
>>>>> I home school my kids
>>>>>
>>>> Good for you.  I think ALL kids should be home schooled.  Why let the
>>>> government brainwash them?
>>>
>>> Depends on what is best for the family... I do not put down others for
>>> making different choices.
>>
>> Why entrust your kids' education to anyone else?  Schools teach them al sorts
>> of shit, like religious education....
>
> They do push religion... and that is one reason (of many) why our kids are
> not there. To be more fair: SOME schools push religion.

Some push, but they all include it.  The one I went to, and later the one I worked at, both teach all religions.  Most of the RE teachers were agnostics - I suppose you have to be to teach it.  If you were religious you'd disagree with most of what you were teaching, and if you were an atheist you'd disagree with all of it.

>>>>> and look at lot of this stuff up.
>>>>
>>>> And what opinion have you formed on it?
>>>
>>> Well, one big one is most adults have horrid grammar. :)
>>
>> I'm not fussy, as long as it's understandable.  Mind you the twat in here that
>> uses no capital letters has pissed me off enough to killfile him.
>
> I have pet peeves of people who use "good" and "well" incorrectly and a few
> other things. But in text I am far more forgiving for some reason. Not
> saying that is consistent. :)

How can you use those wrongly?  "I'm having a well time"?  Nobody would say that.

>>> Also there is no one "right" way with a lot of things... we think of grammar
>>> as "the rules" but "the rules" change and different groups see them
>>> differently. Look up the "right" way to write cursive, for a related
>>> example. Oy!
>>
>> Agreed.  I also don't believe in rules for driving :-)
>
> Well, driving on the left or right side of the road is the correct way...
> depending on where you are. :)

Not if there's nothing coming the other way and you're going fast round a corner.

>>>> That brings me onto another annoyance.  I detest people using an apostrophe
>>>> instead of a quotation mark:
>>>> 'No need for that,' said Zack.
>>>
>>> Ok, if you have a quote within a quote do you use a single or double on the
>>> internal quote?
>>
>> Single, to differentiate.  But quotes should normally use a ", a ' is an
>> apostrophe for a missing letter.
>
> For the most part I agree on that one.

It annoys me when people say "quote unquote" before saying something.  I always tell them to put the unquote at the end.

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Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-05-02 20:04 +0100
  Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-05-02 12:19 -0700
    Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Ron C <r.capik@verizon.net> - 2017-05-02 15:51 -0400
      Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-05-02 21:07 +0100
      Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-05-02 13:59 -0700
    Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-05-02 21:14 +0100
      Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-05-02 14:07 -0700
        Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-05-03 01:07 +0100
          Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-05-02 18:54 -0700
            Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-05-03 15:38 +0100
              Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-05-03 10:02 -0700
                Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> - 2017-05-03 16:22 -0400
                Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-05-03 13:40 -0700
                Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> - 2017-05-03 17:01 -0400
                Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-05-03 14:25 -0700
        Snit digest 435 / 2017-05-03 Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2017-05-03 07:01 +0000
          Re: Snit digest 435 / 2017-05-03 "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-05-03 10:46 +0100
            Re: Snit digest 435 / 2017-05-03 Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-05-03 10:09 -0700
              Snit digest 436 / 2017-05-04 Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2017-05-03 22:06 +0000
                Re: Snit digest 436 / 2017-05-04 "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-05-03 23:16 +0100
                Re: Snit digest 436 / 2017-05-04 Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-05-03 15:21 -0700
                Re: Snit digest 436 / 2017-05-04 "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-05-04 00:19 +0100
                Re: Snit digest 436 / 2017-05-04 Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-05-03 16:46 -0700
              Re: Snit digest 435 / 2017-05-03 "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-05-08 00:04 +0100
                Re: Snit digest 435 / 2017-05-03 Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-05-07 16:08 -0700

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