[Sca-cooks] Reptilian Pronunciation (was Drive up ATM's OT,OOP (was Languages)

Philippa Alderton phlip_u at yahoo.com
Thu May 23 08:56:33 PDT 2002


--- Selene skrev:

> My freshman chemistry TA at UCLA was English,
> educated at Oxford.  He got
> tired of the teasing about his pronunciations and
> shot back, "While your
> ancestors were painting themselves and killing
> buffalo, my ancestors were
> discovering al-you-min-ium and mee-thane."

The obvious answer to that would be, "Funny. I was
under the distinct impression that MY ancestors were
busy building a new country and kicking Your
ancestors' overbearing tails out of the New World."

Phlip, nah, not an American, or proud of it.....




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