Check six using voice

[bozon]

It kind of makes you wonder about the reason for an international standard for air traffic control. .... Hmm. ... I wonder what that language would be?

it all works fine till you need to say something unusuall, then suddenly pilots and controllers start to speak like Tarzan

Bozon

[MANDOBLE]

Dont know about Finns, but for me is much easier to understand swedish and danish people speaking english than british ones.

Just a small spelling question:

Any sound difference betweel "able" and "aball". If no differences I'll confirm that english designers just used a pair of dices to decide how should be the writting and pronunciation of each world.

[Urchin]

There would be for me, if I was speaking slowly.  If I was speaking quickly it would probably not be noticable.  I'll try my hand at this phonetic spelling stuff again .

Able-  'A - bull'  (believe it or not )

Aball (is this a word?)- A - ball/bawl.

Able is another word with a ble ending, the E is silent in every one that I can think of off the top of my head.

Oh, and it is hard for ME to understand British people once they rev up and start talking fast .  All the "american" accents are fairly easy to interpret as far as I'm concerned, but maybe the Brits have a tough time understanding us too.

[Kieran]

Really? Wanna try your hand with ebonics?

[Urchin]

Hey, I am an enlightened WASP... I have a mental English to Ebonics dictionary I keep in my head .

[thrila]

Able and Aball are pronounced differently, mandoble.  

Argh!! i'm awful at expressing how things are said in type.

well here goes-

Able= Ay-bull    not convinced that bull is how i say the "ble" bit in able.  It sounds more like "bl" (not "bluh" but just bl, it's like saying "bull" but without the U)

Aball= Ay-ball  

It's also to do with which syllable you express the most when you say a word- with "able" it's sorta like aaaaaable and with "aball" it's sorta like abaaaaall.  I think this is right, i dunno- i'm more confused than when i started.

Also from as far as i can tell Mandoble wants to be called either-

Manoblee
Mandoblai(r)- sounds like the noise you make when you are being sick -BLAI!!!!


Mandoble you'll be able to understand my accent no problem.  My accent is sort of odd-  it's sort of a posh Cornish farmer accent (prob wont mean much to non-brits).  It's a very slow speaking accent with a tendancy to over pronounce vowels (especially A's) and also R's.  For an example- Farmer would be Faaaaarrrmerrr.   I have trouble understanding cockney's and scouser's in England- i wouldn't expect a foreigner to cope.

Oh yeah i pronounce Mandoble- Man-Doh-bl.

[ccvi]

Originally posted by Dennis
It kind of makes you wonder about the reason for an international standard for air traffic control. .... Hmm. ... I wonder what that language would be?

From the flights into holidays and back home I remember one thing: The strange way the pilots talk to their passengers. Extremely monotonous and slow. This is probably not because of their passengers but because they're talking to ATC and center that way and can't switch to a normal voice when talking to normal people.

Could players in AH please try to talk the way the real pilots do? Would probably ba a lot easier to understand, given the fact that transmission quality isn't actually crystal clear, which makes it even harder for non native speakers.

[Xjazz]

LOL!

Do you know Finnish rally driver Tommi Mäkinen (four times rally champion)?

"I tink our suspensöön priti kood put ve need tsek still te kar setup. Korsika ralli is  veeri veri nise and I lov tiis rouds soo mats! Ok,  tank juu veri mats and kuutpai"

[straffo]

hem ... at least Mandoble they don't confuse Mandoble and Mantequilla  like a dweeb we both know

[MANDOBLE]

LOL straffo, very true, they only confused it with "mandibula"


Thrila, it would be nice to have all the brits spelling their lenguage with some sense like your example, obviously, farmer MUST be pronounced FAAAARRRRRRRMEEEEEERRRRRR, agree 100%

About "able" an "aball", yep, "aball" doesnt exist, I just used "ball" of "football", and "a" of "able". The pure logic says me that "able" and "aball" should sound the same. But it seems this is the same logic behind "ch" of "champion" and "ch" of "character" ...

Actually I have a book of english grammar/speling rules and a book of english exceptions to the rules, the second is twice as big as the first ...

hehe Calculating a protocol CRC for english spoken words would be much more difficult than finding out the human genoma