Re: CHAT: IPA Question

John Cowan wrote:

>Tristan scripsit:
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>>>>You, presumably, haven't heard of one George W. Bush, or the people who
>>>>voted him in.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>Who, us?  We didn't vote for him.
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>>You could've, I couldn't've.
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>I personally could have.  The American people did not.
>
Which is just another reason why voting should be compulsory. Not that
it avoids that kind of situation, but just that at least most people
have had a say. And if you have a public holiday for voting *anyway*...
(Elections happen on Saturdays here, which I'm sure annoys Jews and
other people who have a sabbath on Saturday, but that's the way it is.)

>>>Hey, I've managed to cope with [kur\dZEt] for "zucchini".
>>>
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>>[kur\dZEt]? Sounds... odd...
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>Conventionally spelled "courgette", a green variety of squash.
>
Oh... I would've said /ko:Zet/ for that, then... I think I've heard of
them...

>>>Americans know what fish-and-chips is, [...]
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>>You do? Rumor has it that you didn't.
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>http://www.franchisegator.com/cgi-bin/profile.php?key=73&f_type=11
>I say nothing about Arthur Treacher's quality, but I dare say that most
>Americans have at least heard of it, thanks to TV advertising.  Fish and
>chips is also available in various restaurants at more upscale prices.
>
Find and chips at upscale prices at a restaurant? They aren't really
fish and chips! Fish with chips, maybe, but not fish and chips... (And
you don't have fish-and-chips stop chains, either.)

>>Rumor also has it that we have
>>different ideas on what a pizza is, but I've never been able to confirm
>>that. Describe a vegetarian pizza from the base up.
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>(I suppose you mean "without meat" rather than strictly vegetarian.)
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>Crust, tomato sauce, mozzarella cheese.  It should rightly be cooked in a
>coal-fired brick oven, but permits to burn coal are not easily obtained
>these days, and most pizzerias are using gas-fired ovens now.
>
For the record, you're wrong by my definition, implying there is some
sort of difference. There are many pizzas without meat, but a vegetarian
pizza has the base, tomato sauce, cheese with capsicum, tomato,
mushroom, olives and onion on top, and probably some more chees on top
as well. What you've described there would be closer to a just a pizza
base, or a margherita, which has herbs on it as well.

Tristan.


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