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[Freuds_Cat]

I stand collected.

[uwe]

And it appeals I was light all along.

[Chaser001]

Some very funny stuff here. 

[uwe]

Actually, I always thought the "l instead of r" was a racist clichée as regards the Japanese, spawned in large part by US WW II propaganda cartoons. There are a lot of "r"-sounds in the Japanese language, I'm sure they don't say "Hiloshima" or "domo aligato (Mistel Loboto?)".

With Chinese interns at our firm I've heard it myself. It's not so much that they can't pronounce it as that shaping the sound of an r is unaccustomed to them, just like we have to try harder with "th" or you guys have issues getting the Umlauts ä, ö and ü right.

Our Japanes lresidents please speak up then. This folum is dedicated to ze scientific tluth.

[dadagoboi]

China's a huge place with countless local dialects.  The Chinese I know use the 'R' sound all the time,  phonetically 'are" is the number 2, 'ling' is zero and Lyu is 6.

Hillbilly Sicilians commonly use a 'd' sound in place of an 'l'. instead of bella (beautiful) they say bedduh and p sounds become b's  as in Bizza(what you eat) and Butana (what you...)

Nukular anyone?

[Dave W]

Nukular anyone?

Or noo-kee-ah, as Jimmy Carter sez.

[TBird1958]

Hopefully Chris can stop by Mike's booth and meet Tom Petersson, with his sig Thunderbird.
Tom's page on Mike's site.
http://www.mikelull.com/Instruments/TPT4.htm

[Highlander]

Hey Ken, does that little old Chinese lady still run the Chinese takeaway near you on Hawks road?  Ask her for a can of Lilt for me will ya! Just for old times sake.  

You have a stlange sense of humoul, Blet... ahh so...

I can't remember the last time I drove down Hawks road now but the pub up near the New Malden end, I was working there one morning when a "poacher" wearing camos came in with a black bag containing what he described to the owner as "Bambi"

[Pilgrim]

Or noo-kee-ah, as Jimmy Carter sez.

I prefer the abbreviated version, "noo-kee".

[chromium]

I prefer the Sun Ra version... 



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[Hornisse]

I prefer this version

[Rhythm N. Bliss]

I can feel the pull.....it's DAY ONE of NAMM!

I'm still gettin' over the flu tho....DOH!

[Rhythm N. Bliss]

Strange that Chris P. is just 15 minutes down the road.

Hope to see ya, man! I'll be wanderin' around this weekend scopin' the ladies...

[Denis]

Strange that Chris P. is just 15 minutes down the road.

Hope to see ya, man! I'll be wanderin' around this weekend scopin' the ladies...

Don't forget to check out the guitars and stuff. 

[Basshappi]

Hopefully Chris can stop by Mike's booth and meet Tom Petersson, with his sig Thunderbird.
Tom's page on Mike's site.
http://www.mikelull.com/Instruments/TPT4.htm

Very cool and an awesome looking Bird. I do however, shudder to think what the price might be!