Re: OT: Cracking Speech by JDV!

On Sun, 23 Feb 2025 16:07:44 -0800, john larkin <JL@gct.com> wrote:

On Sun, 23 Feb 2025 23:46:24 +0100, Jeroen Belleman
<jeroen@nospam.please> wrote:
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On 2/23/25 23:03, john larkin wrote:

On Sun, 23 Feb 2025 21:29:44 +0100, Jeroen Belleman
<jeroen@nospam.please> wrote:
 

On 2/23/25 16:53, john larkin wrote:

On Sun, 23 Feb 2025 14:42:25 +0100, albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl wrote:
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We are so lucky to have a phoenetic character set. The early teletype
machines used a 5-bit Baudot code. And how did the Chinese manage to
use the telegraph?

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Surely you are joking? The latin characters may have been phonetic
in Latin, but they certainly aren't in English!
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Jeroen Belleman

 
I can see a new-to-me word and say it about right, enough that other
people will usually recognize it and can write it down.
 
granbazzle
 

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English place names keep tripping me up.
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"Cholmondeley".
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Jeroen Belleman

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Nobody can pronounce that.

Generally pronounced as 'chumly' believe it or not!

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My favorite fictitious English town is Loose Chippings.

There's also a Lower Upnor.