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I own a car...
Topic Started: Oct 27 2007, 07:17 PM (477 Views)
Lothar Hex
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I've just inherited my Dad's old Ford Escort and I just got it insured for under £500.

HOLY CRAP I'LL HAVE A MORTGAGE NEXT.

*Fetal position*
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Dark Comet
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Don't say that! Don't even THINK it!

In other news, congrats on the motor.
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Hercule Pyro
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Do you like driving in your car?
Is it not quite a Jaguar?

I'd continue, but I fear wrath.
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Pixellated
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"Yeah, mine's a 1.5 with a V6, 256horsepower. What's your car like, Dylan?"
"I don't have a car, but when I do, IT WILL BE BLUE!"

Gratz on the car. I'm learning in an old burgundy Corsa, and it drives easily.
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Grey Wolf
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Congratulations on the car. I at the moment use my mum's Ford KA which although great fun to drive, is also a tad on the cramped side.
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Exu
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You've spent under £500 on that car, now it's your God-given duty to put a £3000 stereo in it.
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HunteRS
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*Hums two ton paperweight by Psychostik*

Sorry first thing I think of with second hand cars.
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Sabre_Justice
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I really gotta get around to getting that driver's license, my mum said she'd give me her Holden Gemini when I did.
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Bleh. Insurance companies. They royally fucked me around when I was trying to get insured on a car.

My dad's BMW 5-series - didn't even bother asking for insurance for that.

My mum's Mini Cooper convertible - 1.6 litres is apparently way too much for my scrawny muscles to handle.

Hmm...what about my dad's Caterham 7? - "Ah, yes, that'll be £7000 a year, please."


Rather than bugger about trying to buy a new car, I asked for insurance on a 2.5 litre turbo diesel long wheel base Land Rover Defender that I could really do some damage in.

£800 a year. So, 1.6 litres = no but 2.5 litres plus a turbo = fine? Perhaps they think I'm saving the environment by driving a diesel and that I drive everywhere doing less than 30mph, but unfortunately for them that's the kind of speed where the turbo really packs a punch.
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Raye
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What's wrong with getting a mortgage! D:<
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RealityAbyss,Oct 28 2007
09:56 AM
What's wrong with getting a mortgage! D:<

First it's insurance... then it's a mortage... then what? What comes next? When will it all END?!

*gibber*
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RedFox742
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Eastwood,Oct 27 2007
07:58 PM
Do you like driving in your car?
Is it not quite a Jaguar?

Heh. That doesn't even scan for me--or any other Yanks on the forum. "Jaguar" isn't a three-syllable word here.

Incidentally, do you pronounce the animal's name the same way, tri-syllabic?

(Congrats on the car, Loth.)
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Pixellated
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RedFox742,Oct 30 2007
05:58 PM
Eastwood,Oct 27 2007
07:58 PM
Do you like driving in your car?
Is it not quite a Jaguar?

Heh. That doesn't even scan for me--or any other Yanks on the forum. "Jaguar" isn't a three-syllable word here.

Incidentally, do you pronounce the animal's name the same way, tri-syllabic?

(Congrats on the car, Loth.)

Yep, it's 'jag-u-ar', three syllables.
Heh. Jag-war.
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Taneis
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Car insurance, mortgage... You will never see your paycheque again.
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Pixellated,Oct 30 2007
05:47 PM
Yep, it's 'jag-u-ar', three syllables.
Heh. Jag-war.

Does the jag-yoo-ar eat an ig-yoo-ana?

Isn't it fun discussing differences in lang-yoo-age?

:lol:
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Pixellated,Oct 30 2007
05:47 PM
RedFox742,Oct 30 2007
05:58 PM
Eastwood,Oct 27 2007
07:58 PM
Do you like driving in your car?
Is it not quite a Jaguar?

Heh. That doesn't even scan for me--or any other Yanks on the forum. "Jaguar" isn't a three-syllable word here.

Incidentally, do you pronounce the animal's name the same way, tri-syllabic?

(Congrats on the car, Loth.)

Yep, it's 'jag-u-ar', three syllables.
Heh. Jag-war.

Sounds like Jar-Jar's retarded brother.

"Heysa' Jag-War, whatsa happening!!"
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Hercule Pyro
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RedFox742,Oct 30 2007
04:58 PM
Eastwood,Oct 27 2007
07:58 PM
Do you like driving in your car?
Is it not quite a Jaguar?

Heh. That doesn't even scan for me--or any other Yanks on the forum. "Jaguar" isn't a three-syllable word here.

Incidentally, do you pronounce the animal's name the same way, tri-syllabic?

(Congrats on the car, Loth.)

Don't make me beat you with the English Bat again, colonial.
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Lothar Hex
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RedFox742,Oct 30 2007
07:04 PM
Does the jag-yoo-ar eat an ig-yoo-ana?

Isn't it fun discussing differences in lang-yoo-age?

:lol:

Who the flying fuck pronounces inguana like that?
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Pixellated
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Lothar Hex,Oct 30 2007
10:21 PM
RedFox742,Oct 30 2007
07:04 PM
Does the jag-yoo-ar eat an ig-yoo-ana?

Isn't it fun discussing differences in lang-yoo-age?

:lol:

Who the flying fuck pronounces iguana like that?

I've said both ig-you-a-na and ig-wa-na so many times to myself just now, trying to deciding which one I say it as that the word has lost all meaning to me, and I still haven't made my mind up. My accent is a strange mix between far north and Yorkshire, however. I can say it with more syllables than seems possible.
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RedFox742
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Lothar Hex,Oct 30 2007
09:21 PM
RedFox742,Oct 30 2007
07:04 PM
Does the jag-yoo-ar eat an ig-yoo-ana?

Isn't it fun discussing differences in lang-yoo-age?

:lol:

Who the flying fuck pronounces inguana like that?

What the flying fuck is an "inguana"? Unless you mean defender Tomas Manuel Inguana of the Mozambique national football team? That's all I got there.

If you're asking about "iguana", on the other hand, I was making the point that it's silly to pronounce "jaguar" differently from "iguana"... or even "language". Nobody says "lang-yoo-age", why "jag-yoo-ar"?

But, hey, since when has the English language made sense anyways? ;)
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The Virus
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I've heard iguana pronounced with four syllables. It sounds wrong. But needless to say, for me too, it is quite a Jag-yoo-ar. For a crazy english demonstration, check this out. Adding one letter each time:

Rough
Trough
Through
Thorough

How many ways can you possibly pronounce "-ough"?!
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RedFox742
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Yeah, added to Bernard Shaw's classic example of how to pronounce the following word: "ghoti".

The answer? "Fish". (The [gh] comes from "laugh", the [o] from "women" and the [ti] from "nation".)

I'm sticking to my guns on this one, though. The word "jaguar" has it's roots in the Tupi language--"yaguara" or "jaguarete", depending on your source. Both make a diphthong out of the [ua]. It then comes via Spanish and Portuguese, who use the English spelling, and pronounce it "yah-gwar" (j's are pronounced like English y's in Spanish). The word is a cognate in nearly every Western language. In actuality, as far as I know, only in British English is the [ua] in "jaguar" NOT a diphthong. All in all, it strikes me as one more incident of the British fascination with extra vowels. (Or is that a fascinatione with voweles? *is a jackass*)

How do I know all this crap? Well, truth be told, the jag is my second favorite animal (after... well, take a bloody guess). S'why I asked in the first place (and I'm also always interested in differences in dialects). And at least it couldn't be worse than my roommate from last year, who had the ever-irritating habit of referring to the poster on my wall as a "jag-wire". That one's just indefensible. ;)

A very, very fast Google search produced this, along with hundreds of other results, of course. (Most seem to care more about the car than the animal, heh.)

(P.S.: As long as we're on different ways of pronouncing animal names: Anyone here say 'cai-yote" instead of "coy-oh-te"? I like to bring this one up in any pronounciation debate.)
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RedFox742,Oct 31 2007
01:07 AM
(Or is that a fascinatione with voweles? *is a jackass*)

Jackasse ;)
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RedFox742,Oct 31 2007
12:07 AM
(P.S.: As long as we're on different ways of pronouncing animal names: Anyone here say 'cai-yote" instead of "coy-oh-te"? I like to bring this one up in any pronounciation debate.)

Yo. Wile E cai-yo-tee for me, and always has been.

We Aussies are about stuck right in the middle of this language gap, and while we mainly talk like you Brits do, American words are sneaking in, mostly due to your terrible TV invading our airwaves.

But we will never say SUV. It's four-wheel-drive for all of us, and you had better damn change your ads to fit it.
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SilverSword,Oct 31 2007
12:24 AM
RedFox742,Oct 31 2007
01:07 AM
(Or is that a fascinatione with voweles? *is a jackass*)

Jackasse ;)

It would probably be even more true to the spirit of the idea (I hope) to go as far and say "Jackarse", imitating the middle english a little more.


Here's what I learned from studying the English language and its medieval literature (my major)
- You cannot speak it the way it's written (unless it is ME... but you have to know that and the vowel change to get it right).
- Learning to speak English is not to complicated. But saying it is a simple language is wrong, for at least, if you're going to indulge in it, you need: Latin, Old Saxon, French & German (of the latter two: the older, the better)
- Better have a dic' ready

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