DIGRESSION THREAD!!

Hitch wrote:

AHHHH thing have changed around here ...

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Hitch wrote:

AHHHH thing have changed around here ...

Not sure what you're talking about Habibi.

This is definitely one of my favorite threads

Hitch wrote:

thanks "Alie" you were always the nicest person to me..

Hitch wrote:

how are you my friends ?

how have you been ..?

thanks "Alie" you were always the nicest person to me..

BTW, I wrote a thread about you!  Find it and read it

Alliecat wrote:

This is actually a damned good list and if any of you are interested in improving your writing skills, please take note!


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Talking about English spelling and pronunciation, I'd like to share a poem by G. Nolst Trenite, a.k.a. Charivarius (1870-1946) called "The Chaos"

"Dearest creature in creation
Studying English pronunciation,

I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse and worse

I will keep you, Susy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.

Tear in eye your dress you'll tear,
So shall I! Oh, hear my prayer,

Pray, console your loving poet,
Make my coat look new, dear, sew it!

Just compare heart, beard and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,

Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
(Mind the latter, how it's written).

Made has not the sound of bade,
Say said, pay-paid, laid, but plaid.

Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as vague and ague,

But be careful how you speak,
Say break, steak, but bleak and streak.

Previous, precious, fuchsia, via,
Pipe, snipe, recipe and choir,

Cloven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, shoe, poem, toe.

Hear me say, devoid of trickery:
Daughter, laughter and Terpsichore,

Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles.
Exiles, similes, reviles.

Wholly, holly, signal, signing.
Thames, examining, combining

Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
Solar, mica, war, and far.

From "desire": desirable--admirable from "admire."
Lumber, plumber, bier, but brier.

Chatham, brougham, renown, but known.
Knowledge, done, but gone and tone,

One, anemone. Balmoral.
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel,

Gertrude, German, wind, and mind.
Scene, Melpomene, mankind,

Tortoise, turquoise, chamois-leather,
Reading, reading, heathen, heather.

This phonetic labyrinth
Gives moss, gross, brook, brooch, ninth, plinth.

Billet does not end like ballet;
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet;

Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould like should and would.

Banquet is not nearly parquet,
Which is said to rime with "darky."

Viscous, Viscount, load, and broad.
Toward, to forward, to reward.

And your pronunciation's O.K.,
When you say correctly: croquet.

Rounded, wounded, grieve, and sieve,
Friend and fiend, alive, and live,

Liberty, library, heave, and heaven,
Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven,

We say hallowed, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed, but vowed.

Mark the difference, moreover,
Between mover, plover, Dover,

Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
Chalice, but police, and lice.

Camel, constable, unstable,
Principle, disciple, label,

Petal, penal, and canal,
Wait, surmise, plait, promise, pal.

Suit, suite, ruin, circuit, conduit,
Rime with "shirk it" and "beyond it."

But it is not hard to tell,
Why it's pall, mall, but Pall Mall.

Muscle, muscular, gaol, iron,
Timber, climber, bullion, lion,

Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, and chair,
Senator, spectator, mayor,

Ivy, privy, famous, clamour
And enamour rime with hammer.

Pussy, hussy, and possess,
Desert, but dessert, address.

Golf, wolf, countenance, lieutenants.
Hoist, in lieu of flags, left pennants.

River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
Doll and roll and some and home.

Stranger does not rime with anger.
Neither does devour with clangour.

Soul, but foul and gaunt but aunt.
Font, front, won't, want, grand, and grant.

Shoes, goes, does. Now first say: finger.
And then: singer, ginger, linger,

Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, and gauge,
Marriage, foliage, mirage, age.

Query does not rime with very,
Nor does fury sound like bury.

Dost, lost, post; and doth, cloth, loth;
Job, Job; blossom, bosom, oath.

Though the difference seems little,
We say actual, but victual.

Seat, sweat; chaste, caste.; Leigh, eight, height;
Put, nut; granite, and unite.

Reefer does not rime with deafer,
Feoffer does, and zephyr, heifer.

Dull, bull, Geoffrey, George, ate, late,
Hint, pint, Senate, but sedate.

Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,
Science, conscience, scientific,

Tour, but our and succour, four,
Gas, alas, and Arkansas.

Sea, idea, guinea, area,
Psalm, Maria, but malaria,

Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean,
Doctrine, turpentine, marine.

Compare alien with Italian,
Dandelion with battalion.

Sally with ally, yea, ye,
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, key, quay.

Say aver, but ever, fever.
Neither, leisure, skein, receiver.

Never guess--it is not safe:
We say calves, valves, half, but Ralph.

Heron, granary, canary,
Crevice and device, and eyrie,

Face but preface, but efface,
Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.

Large, but target, gin, give, verging,
Ought, out, joust, and scour, but scourging,

Ear but earn, and wear and bear
Do not rime with here, but ere.

Seven is right, but so is even,
Hyphen, roughen, nephew, Stephen,

Monkey, donkey, clerk, and jerk,
Asp, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.

Pronunciation--think of psyche--!
Is a paling, stout and spikey,

Won't it make you lose your wits,
Writing "groats" and saying "grits"?

It's a dark abyss or tunnel,
Strewn with stones, like rowlock, gunwale,

Islington and Isle of Wight,
Housewife, verdict, and indict!

Don't you think so, reader, rather,
Saying lather, bather, father?

Finally: which rimes with "enough"
Though, through, plough, cough, hough, or tough?

Hiccough has the sound of "cup."
My advice is--give it up!"

Alliecat wrote:

Hitch wrote:

how are you my friends ?

how have you been ..?

thanks "Alie" you were always the nicest person to me..

BTW, I wrote a thread about you!  Find it and read it

about me , ummm INTERESTING .

well give me the link let me see it

sevo111 wrote:

Pepol in UK name their sons simon cause cant name them Mohamed!

lol

good  point!

Alliecat wrote:

It's a good idea, the jobs part; the part that hasn't been thoroughly thought through, however, is why in God's name anybody would come here for a holiday.

Do you think they should take lessons from the UAE?

Bruckner wrote:

Alliecat wrote:

It's a good idea, the jobs part; the part that hasn't been thoroughly thought through, however, is why in God's name anybody would come here for a holiday.

Do you think they should take lessons from the UAE?

Well no, but they have to have something to offer if they want people to come here on holiday, don't you think?

Hitch wrote:

guys you make me feel like we are in gontanamo !! not in KSA , well you came here and you knew there will be advantage and disadvantage !! you cant eat all the pie without being a adiabatic !!

i know some one will only focus on the pie , but its an example !!

just stay put adapt over come your issues . gee"
you have to respect the rules in here ! you dont want to be in a situation that you will regrade your self . you want to go dive like you are in new-york fine than expect that you will have some problems and you need to face it .

im sorry to be the bad person in here but i have to say the truth you have no idea when people look at you like if you were a sort of scam bag " or a police will caught you and take an advantage of you .

maybe you will be back to your country ... i expect you have a brain use it . just dont be sorry when you abuse it !!

Calm down, habibi!  I've read in the Arab News/Saudi Gazette that Saudia wants to become a tourist destination.  TOURIST.  Those of us who have come here to WORK have accepted all the restrictions and obey the laws. 

BUT if the Saudi government wants foreign TOURISTS--in other words people who travel to foreign destinations for holidays--they'll have to have something fun/worthwhile to offer these tourists.  This is what we're talking about!  And we know there will never be a Disneyland here--it's just a kind of fun mental exercise.

So let me ask you:  if YOU were put in charge of attracting foreign tourists to Saudi Arabia for holiday, what would YOU do?

Personally, I think Jordan is on the right track.  They make use of their beautiful deserts.  Many Beduoins operate desert camps where tourists can sleep in tents, eat meals cooked outdoors, explore the desert, ride camels, learn about an ancient way of life

Hitch wrote:

Well plenty , but im not when im in charge i will make sure to keep every one safe - happy - and have a good kind of life . that's the plan

Come on! Don't be a party pooper.  What is your plan for the TOURISTS ?!?

Riyadh Networker wrote:

Kingdom Company has initiated a huge project on Dammam-Riyadh Highway similar to Disneyland. It will be sort of entertainment city. You can notice the sign boards on the Highway while you are heading to Dammam.

You can read this article too about a new project on the Ring Road: 

Disneyland-type Project in Riaydh

Wail

Interesting but did you notice something?  The original ate of the article is  Tuesday 2 January 2001!!  Then, to the right of that date, it says:  Last Update 7 July 2012 1:28 pm.

Has anybody seen any sign of this project or is it just blah-blah for the last 12 years?

hassaanpervez wrote:

lol you are creating my interest of visiting Jordan maybe time soon!

I LOVED Jordan!!  Small country but SO much to do.  Fly into Amman.. drive north to Jarash (most extensive Roman ruins in the Middle East); then south again to the Dead Sea (incredible--you can't sink!); visit the Jordan River (important place for Christians); go to Wadi Rum (incredible desert where Lawrence of Arabia was filmed); then down to Wadi Musi, to the most important thing:  Petra!  Then farther south, Aqaba, a seaside city for scuba, etc.

The people are very friendly, prices are reasonable, food is good.  I loved it!

hassaanpervez wrote:

is the dead sea clean and stuff?

The dead sea is BEAUTIFUL!  It's just called 'dead' because the salinity (salt) is so high nothing can live in it.  But it's a beautiful sea surrounded by beautiful mountains.

hassaanpervez wrote:

You mean to say that the trip should not be less than a week? I was actually thinking of driving from Khobar for the weekend. Is that a fine idea?

Khobar to Jordan would be a helluva trip.  Closest city over the border is Aqaba; to give you an idea, the distance between Aqaba and Riyadh is 1277.54 kilometers.