Text in some of the many languages of the world

FannyCornforth

I imagine that you’d make a very good cruciverbalist EP

I had to look up that word.

Alas, I could never understand the cryptic ones.

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MissA that is excellent! ?

? love it MissA

FannyCornforth

Instead of ‘kill two birds with one stone’, I say ‘feed two birds with one scone’.

Sadly, my success with scones might well achieve the same outcome as the original saying. ?

I asked the maid in dulcet tone
To order me a buttered scone;
The silly girl has been and gone
And ordered me a buttered scone.

FannyCornforth

Aha! That means you say it to rhyme with gone!

Oh no it doesn't.

I don't eat them so the word just doesn't come up for me. I know there are at least two pronunciations around and that it is a contentious issue.

Perhaps one could look at the etymology of the word.

I have now found this.

www.lexico.com/definition/scone

Now that is enlightening.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scone includes a poem

What sort of jam?

As in ‘what’s the fastest cake on earth?’

FannyCornforth

Aha! That means you say it to rhyme with gone!

They certainly don’t hang about when I’m around

FannyCornforth

Maw
If my pronunciation of ‘scone’ offends, I’m sure that you’d be horrified by much of my diction!
While we’re at it - I put the jam on first, is that correct ?

Why on earth should anyone be offended by either of the two alternative pronunciations of scone? Neither is 'right'. Neither is 'better' or 'superior'. Goodness me, I didn't realise such snobbery still surrounded this word

I imagine that you’d make a very good cruciverbalist EP

FannyCornforth

And mobile classrooms, they’re known as mobiles too

So a mobile classroom and a classroom mobile are two entirely different things!

Aha! That means you say it to rhyme with gone!

FannyCornforth

EP how do you pronounce ‘scone’?

I am a superb diplomat ma'am.

I must remain neutral with my readers concerning such highly contentious matters.

Tapadh leat Ailidh. Tha Duolingo agam ach rinn mi clasaichean air-loidhne cuideachd - UHI!

That's about the limit for me I'm afraid!

And mobile classrooms, they’re known as mobiles too

ElaineI

Was put off by text as a headline as that means sending a message via mobile to me.

Ah, you took 'Text' as a verb, possibly in the imperative, rather than as a noun.

That is interesting.

The word 'mobile' is also interesting too.

I tend to think of those wonderful sculptures that move, suspended from above.

Also, of the large red van run by the co-op that people could step into and there was a counter with a man behind it and groceries could be purchased, back in the 1950s. Known as 'the mobile'.

Oops, Algerias1, not Algeria. And and, not is. Autocorrect ?‍?

It’s ironic really, because I have one of those ‘flat vowel’ accents, yet we don’t flatten the vowel in scone.

Alegrias1

Ailidh

Tha mi ag ionnsachadh Gàidhlig.

Tha mi Albannach ach bidh mi a' bruidhinn Beurla.

Mise cuideachd, Ailidh. (should that be vocative? )

I always think that its ironic that it is so difficult to pronounce ionnsachadh!

Thusa cuideachd, Algerias1?! Meal do naidheachd!!

Ailidh and indeed Algeria is as vocative as they can get with them starting with a vowel.

A bheil Duolingo agad?

FannyCornforth

Maw
If my pronunciation of ‘scone’ offends, I’m sure that you’d be horrified by much of my diction!
While we’re at it - I put the jam on first, is that correct ?

I expected that to rhyme, such as

If my pronunciation of 'scone' offends,
please say how I can make amends

EP how do you pronounce ‘scone’?

Was put off by text as a headline as that means sending a message via mobile to me.

ElderlyPerson

Blossoming

I don’t understand what’s expected here, tbh.

Well nothing is expected but if you want to have a go, you could watch the video to which I posted a link and then copy the title and paste into Google translate and detect the language.

Then if you wish you could paste the title into a search engine and added a space and the word

lyrics

and find the lyrics.

There may be an invitation to translate to English. If not, you could copy and paste into Google translate and get an idea of what the lyrics mean in English.

Then you could play the video again and notice how the singer emotively expresses the lyrics, whilst you are understanding the gist of what she is singing about.

Reading this whilst the kettle is on.

It seems then EP that this thread and the others are more about education or a game perhaps than a chat. Wrong forum thread?

Polly12

We have a phrase in our family - “You need to get out more”

Well maybe there is a clue in what you write!

Maw
If my pronunciation of ‘scone’ offends, I’m sure that you’d be horrified by much of my diction!
While we’re at it - I put the jam on first, is that correct ?