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The difference between valve and tube
- Thread starter themickster
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As a collector of vintage vacuum tubes*, I like the German term "Röhre".
Using it in this application allows for its reading as "tube" or "valve". And it annoys Britons even more than this usage of "tube" does.
* My collection includes a number of fine British valves. For audio, Mullard deservedly gets most of the attention. But some of my Brimar valves of British production sound to me as sonorous and distinctive as any make I ever heard. Never pass up a working Brimar valve!
Maybe it's called a "valve" in the UK because tube is too hard to pronounce and comes out sounding like "chube"?
How 'bout the 800-VT? It IS different, but still the same. A good lawyer can straighten out all the "fine print"I suppose we could have called it the TV-800 except that Fender owns that trademark
It's shortened to Llanfair PG or Llanfair, otherwise the trains already through the station before they've said it.
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I feel the need to point out that here in the USA if you do this, like at the one they put in 3 months ago a half mile from my house, you will likely cause a accident.
Lemme translate, then:
Give way to traffic already on the roundabout. Keep right when turning right or going straight on. Go to the inside lane to turn left.
Altho' as noted above, ours in this town are only 1 lane wide.
I didn't think you meant teach Americans how to use an American roundabout. My mistake. We give way as I said; Europeans give way to those coming onto the roundabout. Maybe that's why they're not talking to us any more; Brexit happened before they could make us change how we use roundabouts.
No, Europeans have it the same way. Of course in practice it is fluent chaos but in theory if you are in, you'll continue and those who are coming have to wait.
The whole thread is so strange...
TomAto, tomaato
^ I have gone to type this phrase many times in my life, only to back away from the cliff laughing at trying to convey that concept via text.
I see you engaged the go go gadget creativity and jumped. Impressive.
Can you, then, account for the euro roundabouts I've been on where those waiting to go on have to give way? I will accept that there might be some where it's like in the UK, and that if the driver is called Max Verstappen, everyone has to give way to him wherever they are.
You've got it. It started as Saxon and Angle. Someone later thought it much better to make it into Latin and others thought we should have been Greek as well. The Normans couldn't speak English but assumed that English words were spelt like French.
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Sometimes I feel that no one knows how to drive those. And yes, Verstappen in big SUV has right to go whenever desires.
I see that happen a lot. Folk behave oddly when I'm about. I wish I knew what to do about it.
I got like 5 minutes into a Nordic film before I realized it wasn't in English. I thought I was just having problems with the accent and kept clicking the volume up a notch. The girl with the dragon tattoo or one of the ones in that series. Swedish? Norwegian?
I don't know the series. Looking it up, the novel was written in Swedish, the director is Danish and the film was made by Sweden and Denmark.
I was at a bikers rally with folk from all over western Europe. Some were Swiss German. Knowing how to speak High German, I greeted to one in it. I'd heard him speaking Swiss German, after all. He answered in what I understood to be Danish Ja takk - Yes thank you. Muddled by that, I spoke about to someone that knew him. She asked him why he answered in Danish, when I'd spoken German to him. He answered that the way I said it made him think I was Swedish and he'd answered as such. I then found out that he's English.
Here in Canada we call them traffic circles.
If you are in the circle, you have the right of way, and drivers about to enter have to yield to traffic already within the circle until there is a safe opportunity to enter. In light to moderate traffic this works well if the other drivers understand how it works, but in heavy rush hour and gridlock, traffic is at a standstill within the circle, so it blocks traffic flow in all directions.
We have mini roundabouts with a problem of their: sometimes all four ways onto them have a driver too polite to go first. They all give way to the driver on the right.
