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

[Susan Fox-Davis]

Also also sprach Adamantius:

> Also sprach Philippa Alderton:
> >--- 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.....
>
> I don' know about the rest of that stuff, Mizzy Phlip, but...
>
> ... if his ancestors discovered Aluminum, they would be French.  If
> they isolated and produced the first pure metallic samples of it,
> they would be Dutch and German, and if they first manufactured and
> promoted its use as an industrial material, rather than a
> semi-precious oddity, they would be American. Only if they
> experimented with it unsuccessfully, decided to change its name to
> comply with some other metal names in the developing periodic table
> (as well as to not comply with the names of many other metals),
> pretended to be lead this particular field of endeavor, and
> consequently were ignored by the chemists of the rest of the world,
> would they be English.
>
> The people of the U.K. have made quite a lot of brilliant
> discoveries. This wasn't one of them.

Clearly, he was a better chemist than he was a historian.  My ancestors
weren't killing buffalo [unless some uncle was a shochet?], they were
smuggling diamonds, thank you.  But I had enough manners not to
"correct" my teacher's charming accent.

Selene, Caid