Thunderbird Club

[PillO]

What? You changed the strap?


Just kidding, just kidding. The new strings look great!

I thought @GBassNorth was showing off his new fainting couch...

 

[Gaolee]

Really? A lot of venues here supply cabs and you bring your own amplification.

Around here, the usual venue has a pa at most.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

Yes, Latin spread everywhere as a result of the Roman empire. In it's age, it was the international language of commerce. Similarly, the British empire lead to the spread of English everywhere resulting in it being the modern international language of commerce.


Not the word(s) most Canadians would choose, but sure...

interesting but somewhat (with all due respect) erred opinion......the Spanish, French, Portuguese and Dutch spread their languages as well....the advantage to English was it's incredible economy with words and letters, iow; it takes less characters and punctuation (including accents, etc.) to relay the same idea......a huge advantage when it came to printing presses....

 

[Count Bassie]

interesting but somewhat (with all due respect) erred opinion......the Spanish, French, Portuguese and Dutch spread their languages as well....the advantage to English was it's incredible economy with words and letters, iow; it takes less characters and punctuation (including accents, etc.) to relay the same idea......a huge advantage when it came to printing presses....

In our more post-modern times we seem to be winnowing the language down to an even simpler kind of content. What were once only nouns are now also verbs... "partner", "gift", etc.
And grammar is taking a backseat to a more expedient form of usage... maybe less time is just being spent on proofreading and editing. That all takes time...

 

[RedVee]

Technically, he can sue, but truth is an absolute defence.

Unlike the US system, in Canada typically the loser is ordered to pay the winner's costs (removes the pyrrhic victory problem) so it could be costly to bring such a suit.

Same. Though the Judge / Magistrate has some leeway on this.

Canadians do not use metric paper sizes. Letter and legal, none of this A2, A3, A4 nonsense.

oops, I best don the fools cap. I’m quite relaxed about A3, A4, A5. The ones we generally use at my work.
Logical - the bigger the number the smaller the paper. Simples!

(A4 is 1/2 the size of A3; A5 is 1/2 the size of A4)

 

[Gaolee]

Just to let everyone know... in case some don't browse the classified section much..
For Sale/Trade - Gibson USA no reverse Thunderbird

That one is a stunner. It will find a good home, no doubt.

 

[PillO]

interesting but somewhat (with all due respect) erred opinion......the Spanish, French, Portuguese and Dutch spread their languages as well....the advantage to English was it's incredible economy with words and letters, iow; it takes less characters and punctuation (including accents, etc.) to relay the same idea......a huge advantage when it came to printing presses....

There is that too; as well as the propensity for English to borrow words from other languages. But, the British empire was larger than the others (25% of the world at one point) and as a result had a huge "installed base". We still see the effects of the Spanish empire, particularly in south and central America (Latin America with good reason). But because the British empire covered north America, Africa, and Asia, it was far reaching (compared to the Spanish). The growth of the US and its history of being a (rogue) colony was also instrumental in the growth of English as the international language of commerce.

There were many factors that lead to the dominance of English. A number of things lined up favorably.

It is interesting from an economics point of view - if you learn a second language, it adds at most 1-2% to your lifetime earnings. Unless the second language is English in which case it adds more than 10% to lifetime earnings.

 

[GonePlaid]

Cool....VFW?...Legion?

Legion, Ft. Pierce.

 

[PillO]

In our more post-modern times we seem to be winnowing the language down to an even simpler kind of content. What were once only nouns are now also verbs... "partner", "gift", etc.
And grammar is taking a backseat to a more expedient form of usage... maybe less time is just being spent on proofreading and editing. That all takes time...

Hieroglyphics are the new language!

 

[PillO]

Same. Though the Judge / Magistrate has some leeway on this.



oops, I best don the fools cap. I’m quite relaxed about A3, A4, A5. The ones we generally use at my work.
Logical - the bigger the number the smaller the paper. Simples!

(A4 is 1/2 the size of A3; A5 is 1/2 the size of A4)

Yeah it all relies upon folding. And we know what a catastrophe that can be.

 

[GonePlaid]

Fun with flags!
That is an optimistically sized tip jar.
And how old is that mic stand?

We want the older folks in our audience to be able to see it.
Which one? There are 3.

 

[BklynKen]

Hieroglyphics are the new language!

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[GonePlaid]

totally agree, knowledge of Latin helps in speaking better English (or any other Indo-European language for that matter)...incidentally, did you know French Canadians are technically Latin Americans?..,

Must be why so many come to Miami in the winter. That, and Panthers tickets are less than Habs tickets.

 

[GonePlaid]

Looks like the Cataldo NR41 will be staying home with me. Getting a new neck from Carlo

Awright!

 

[GonePlaid]

It is really just arithmetic.

"They said there'd be no math".

 

[GonePlaid]

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[Chucky Stiletti]

There is that too; as well as the propensity for English to borrow words from other languages. But, the British empire was larger than the others (25% of the world at one point) and as a result had a huge "installed base". We still see the effects of the Spanish empire, particularly in south and central America (Latin America with good reason). But because the British empire covered north America, Africa, and Asia, it was far reaching (compared to the Spanish). The growth of the US and its history of being a (rogue) colony was also instrumental in the growth of English as the international language of commerce.

There were many factors that lead to the dominance of English. A number of things lined up favorably.

It is interesting from an economics point of view - if you learn a second language, it adds at most 1-2% to your lifetime earnings. Unless the second language is English in which case it adds more than 10% to lifetime earnings.

geniuses like Shakespeare helped...ime, you are nobody in the international business world if you don’t speak English...

 

[PillO]

geniuses like Shakespeare helped...ime, you are nobody in the international business world if you don’t speak English...

I have done business in all the major economies in the world - Asia, Europe, the Americas - and in each and every one, all was done in English. Meetings in Sweden, Italy, France, Germany, Poland, Japan, Malaysia to name a few (I'm not counting the English ones).

In fact, in Japan, one of the companies I was dealing with exclusively used English as their internal working language because they recognized that if they wanted to do business globally, that is what was required.

 

[fasterpussycat]

Reverse and Non-reverse.

 

[BklynKen]

Reverse and Non-reverse.

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How does the Reverse sound through the Cat Tail?