The Cambridge Chat Thread - it's over 90,000!
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Re: The Cambridge Chat Thread - it's over 90,000!Most of my friends who drink rooibos started drinking it in Russia, where they call it roibosh so that's how they say it. I started drinking it before that though so I call it rooibos as that's how I've always seen it spelt!(Original post by Craghyrax)
I just don't bother. If people want to invest time learning languages, good for them. But nobody's going to know ALL the languages, and if you try and say foreign words authentically (for which there isn't an English translation) then you're bound to get it wrong, so best not to even try and just say the English version.
I've even stopped correcting people who say 'rooibush' or 'redbush' or 'rooibosch'
To English people its redbush, and that's fine.
I also don't say jalapeños right when I'm talking to English people. I feel like a dick if I slip into a Spanish accent halfway through a sentence, so I just say it like 'halapenyos' or 'halapeenos' if I'm clearly not being understood. Sometimes we must accept anglicisations of words like that - there are plenty of words that have entered into common parlance from other languages and that are now said a different way, so if we tried to say everything right we would sound very strange.
However, I maintain that you shouldn't use cyrillic script to approximate English lettering. That is just bad and wrong
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Re: The Cambridge Chat Thread - it's over 90,000!All rooibos is grown in South African and exported, and they drank it for centuries before it became popular elsewhere. So I have a stubborn defensiveness of 'rooibos' over the other terms, but I know I'm just being silly and should let people call it what they want.(Original post by Zoedotdot)
Most of my friends who drink rooibos started drinking it in Russia, where they call it roibosh so that's how they say it. I started drinking it before that though so I call it rooibos as that's how I've always seen it spelt!Exactly!I also don't say jalapeños right when I'm talking to English people. I feel like a dick if I slip into a Spanish accent halfway through a sentence, so I just say it like 'halapenyos' or 'halapeenos' if I'm clearly not being understood. Sometimes we must accept anglicisations of words like that - there are plenty of words that have entered into common parlance from other languages and that are now said a different way, so if we tried to say everything right we would sound very strange.
I mean I think it would be nice if everybody pronounced foreign words correctly, but it just isn't pragmatic. And I think I prefer people just giving the English pronunciation to something than trying to pronounce it correctly and then coming across as very pretentious
I tried to make my fiance pronounce Bobotie correctly (a South African curry I occasionally make) but he's useless
Still it sounds so funny when he says it the English way 'Bob (as in Bob the Builder) otie (like the o in otter)'. Makes it sound like a Noddy character! The Afrikaans pronunciation is 'Bo (like book)- Bo (like 'booah') - tie'.
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Re: The Cambridge Chat Thread - it's over 90,000!Library Whispers has closed down due to a high number of "abusive" posts.
I don't really recall seeing abusive messages. Lots of what would be termed "laddish banter" (horrid word) but I can't recall anything intentionally offensive. -
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Re: The Cambridge Chat Thread - it's over 90,000!There were a lot of in-jokes being passed around I think, and a lot of open naming of individuals and embarrassing situations(Original post by The Mr Z)
Library Whispers has closed down due to a high number of "abusive" posts.
I don't really recall seeing abusive messages. Lots of what would be termed "laddish banter" (horrid word) but I can't recall anything intentionally offensive. -
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Re: The Cambridge Chat Thread - it's over 90,000!Is that what really got it shut down? I knew the people involved in one of those and it was complete fiction (you could have guessed reading it)(Original post by ArchedEdge)
There were a lot of in-jokes being passed around I think, and a lot of open naming of individuals and embarrassing situations
also, no worse than the college gossip machine. -
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Re: The Cambridge Chat Thread - it's over 90,000!Back home as well? I got absolutely soaked walking home today.(Original post by blueletter)
What's that coming over the hill? Is it a monster? No, it's rain. ****.
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Re: The Cambridge Chat Thread - it's over 90,000!Just bought tickets for the Footlights main show in June
Also, college want to kick me out of my room on Saturday evening, just after graduation. I'm hoping to convince them to let me stay till Monday morning, that's when I leave Cambridge... -
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Re: The Cambridge Chat Thread - it's over 90,000!I think this town is big enough for the both of us.(Original post by blueletter)
Unfortunately for most of this thread's participants, I'm in Cambridge. -
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Re: The Cambridge Chat Thread - it's over 90,000!Yeah same (well, Friday, which is when we graduate). I'm going to try to pay for an extra night and go home on the Saturday instead.(Original post by Y__)
Just bought tickets for the Footlights main show in June
Also, college want to kick me out of my room on Saturday evening, just after graduation. I'm hoping to convince them to let me stay till Monday morning, that's when I leave Cambridge... -
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Re: The Cambridge Chat Thread - it's over 90,000!Join the club(Original post by lp386)
Problem: convincing people to come to your grace reading just before exams start.
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Re: The Cambridge Chat Thread - it's over 90,000!Eurgh it's ridiculous, my paper is all about modern societies and globalisation, yet they can't even provide a reading list which has anything from within the past 10 years... :/
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Re: The Cambridge Chat Thread - it's over 90,000!Castells.(Original post by ArchedEdge)
Eurgh it's ridiculous, my paper is all about modern societies and globalisation, yet they can't even provide a reading list which has anything from within the past 10 years... :/
Mind you if you're doing the Therborn stuff, my advice is don't
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Re: The Cambridge Chat Thread - it's over 90,000!(Original post by ArchedEdge)
Eurgh it's ridiculous, my paper is all about modern societies and globalisation, yet they can't even provide a reading list which has anything from within the past 10 years... :/
I found that the Cambridge Tripos is a bit like that. In first year one of my reading lists had a suggested essay title: "Should the UK introduce a national minimum wage?" 
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Re: The Cambridge Chat Thread - it's over 90,000!I see your rain, and raise you a rather large amount of hail...(Original post by blueletter)
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Re: The Cambridge Chat Thread - it's over 90,000!Information society? I'm not really doing the media module, focussing on economic/political transformation, globalisation and global health (so's the plan at least...). Also no Therborn on the course this year...(Original post by Craghyrax)
Castells.
Mind you if you're doing the Therborn stuff, my advice is don't
Not sure whether I should be focussing on the set texts even if they're largely out of date or not...just seems pointless/ridiculous(Original post by alex_hk90)
I found that the Cambridge Tripos is a bit like that. In first year one of my reading lists had a suggested essay title: "Should the UK introduce a national minimum wage?"
Have the scandals of the Upper East Side relocated to Cambridge??
