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Radio ... do people still listen to that? I'd have thought most people could afford TVs by now.While talk radio listeners are pretty emphatically "kwee-bec"...
Radio ... do people still listen to that? I'd have thought most people could afford TVs by now.While talk radio listeners are pretty emphatically "kwee-bec"...
Radio ... do people still listen to that? I'd have thought most people could afford TVs by now.
What piques my interest more is how it is widely accepted to mispronounce Etobicoke as "ee-toh-bee-koh" instead of the more correct Indian pronunciation of "ee-toh-bee-koh-kay".
I listen to CBC Radio 1 when driving to and from work. A lot of them say Kwahbeck
English is a complete mess when it comes to pronunciation. A letter can have half a dozen pronunciations and there is no rule to speak of, and there are so many random silent letters. For example, the L is often silent in many words, such as "almond", "palm" "Lincoln" but are not in others such as "hold" "pulp" or "altitude" and there doesn't seem to be any reason for it.
When you have learned another language such as Spanish or Italian, you realize the English system makes no sense whatsoever.
Radio ... do people still listen to that? I'd have thought most people could afford TVs by now.
The English system as you call it makes sense from a historical perspective.
What's interesting to me isn't the pronounced and unpronounced letters here and there, but the Great Vowel Shift and how/why it happened.
I remember learning to read Polish was very hard for me growing up, until I learned/realized that their vowels are different from ours (and actually consistent).
Once I learned the vowels, and the different consonants (e.g. w = v) it was a lot easier to be able to read.
As frustrating as English can be at times, I think it's an amazing language.
I'd have thought it was plainly obvious that I was simply joking to radio as a dead medium, referring to the situation the last time it had much relevance in the late 1950s or early 1960s. If it wasn't for people having the radio on when in the car, I doubt that radio would even be functioning any more.Poor people listen to radio, while the wealthy watch TV?
That one spends too much time driving?And we all know what listening to CBC radio implies.
I'd have thought it was plainly obvious that I was simply joking to radio as a dead medium, referring to the situation the last time it had much relevance in the late 1950s or early 1960s. If it wasn't for people having the radio on when in the car, I doubt that radio would even be functioning any more.
Talk radio?Radio gets a lot of play in many workplaces.
That one spends too much time driving?
This is a joke, right? Radio will never die....not before standard television does.
I don't know...I'm pretty young (27) and I listen to the radio to death, but TV? LOL!!!! Sure, if by watching TV you mean having it hooked up to my laptop and once in a while streaming films or shows from the internet, then yeah.
Anyways....anyone else here pronounce Scarborough the proper way? As in: Scarbrah
just wondering
PS: Yo, C.C.....you're missing Toronto's best radio station for music: CIUT FM 89.5!!! Commercial-freeee! (kinda like my streaming films and serials )
Oh, and even better: there were a couple of pirate radio stations running a couple years back in Scarborough (just the two I knew of) playing some pretty good hip hop, dub, reggae, and jungle