and onboarding, which sounds like some kind of torture - mind you that's true of most induction sessions, I suppose...'Optic' and 'up-tick' - increasingly used by those who want to sound clever and cool. What's wrong with 'appearance' and 'increase'?
Two radio adverts are annoying me at the moment.
Skoda and Hyundai.
Both are trying to get us to pronounce their name differently.
It’s nonsense, all brand names are anglicised.
Are they? Peugeot? Renault? Alfa Romeo? Those are the ones off the top of my head that are generally, usually pronounced in the native way.
Why shouldn't a brand dictate how they are said? Just like a person who corrects pronunciation of their own name. It sounds odd hearing Shkoda after years of lazily saying Skoda, but we shouldn't just ignore and often remove those diacriticals. The brand is Škoda, with the squiggle over the S. We don't use diacriticals in the English alphabet so we just lop them off wherever we find them. They mean something though and alter the pronunciation of the letter involved. There are often ways to rewrite them without - for example Nürburgring should be Nuerburgring, but most just lop off the inconvenient umlaut and go all Brit abroad on it, saying and writing it how they think it should be rather than how it is.
I get annoyed beyond expectation by such arrogant ignorance of foreign languages and dogmatic Anglicisation of everything.
There is a line of thought that cats should be allowed one litter. By neutering straight away they are not evolving as much as they might away from the need to hunt to survive.
my ex wanted her cat to have a litter just because she thought every female animal should experience it. She was of course very well cared for and gave birth at our house, not in a shed
There is a line of thought that cats should be allowed one litter. By neutering straight away they are not evolving as much as they might away from the need to hunt to survive.
February the 29th.
Largely because it falls during the time I intend to be working my notice, so I have to work an extra day.