Topic: Raúl

[upperlake04]

Have I been rudely calling you Raul (rawl) for the past year instead of Raúl ? 

[heffay]

how'd you get the little swigelydoo?

it goes thru my head half the time as rawl too.

haha, i'm a poet and didn't know it.
my feet show it
... they're longfellows

thank you thank you... next show in a half an hour

[upperlake04]

Cut and pasted from Raúl's last post on Hondamans' 'Transistorized ignition' thread, bottom of page two. If this true, he's been very patient with us yokels all this time

[Rocking-M]

Everyone is patient with Canadian Miscreants. Use Southern Miscreants knew
his name was Raúl. I would like to know the key codes to do the squiggle lines though.

[upperlake04]

  I dunno, ask Raúl

Edit> actually, I just found if you go Programs>Accessories>SystemTools>CharacterMap, you can select the character (U acute) and cut and paste or drag and drop to here, but I don't know if a keyboard key can be changed to be a permanent Raúl key.

[Rocking-M]

Someone once told me you could hold shift or control (can't remember) and then
type a series of numbers that were the code to character map and oops there it is.

[hopterfixer]

For some reason it took me a year or so to figure out that kghost is said K-Ghost, and not KG-Host......... nobody ever accused me of being "quick"

[MrZxp]

Someone once told me you could hold shift or control (can't remember) and then
type a series of numbers that were the code to character map and oops there it is.

ALT - 4 digit number... as in ALT0174 is the ® registered symbol....

Cheers, Phil

[Raul CB750K1]

HAHAHAHAHAHA, thanks for the undeserved attention I'm getting!

upperlake, you are completely right. My name is written Raúl. That little symbol in spanish language marks the point where the intonation should be made. That way, Raúl should be pronounced as "cool", while "Rául" should be pronounced as "Brawl". I can't find better examples.


The reason I never write the mark is because, being a particular of spanish language, it normally happens that people doesn't have the spanish character map in their computers. Therefore, instead of a simple "u", a strange character appears and riddle everything. Therefore, when writing in english, I just get rid of all those particularities.


I don't remember having written "Raúl" in any of my posts, probably I just forgot because generally I keep doing four or five times at the computer at the same time. Anyway, the fact that you noticed it means that you pay attention to my posts    I appreciate it.


Raul

[Raul CB750K1]

The spanish word for "cannon" is "cañón"

That strange "n" that you see is indeed a letter in its own, with its own pronunciation. There was a heated debate a few years ago in Spain when there was some talking about standarizing the computer keyboards. That would mean getting rid of the "ñ" key, using the "n" and the sign over it as a separate sign, like the quote or the apostrophe. Finally the project was abandoned; the "ñ" had always have a key on its own from the typewriter's times, and it's a letter that only exists in spanish language...


Raul

[Jonesy]

upperlake, you are completely right. My name is written Raúl. That little symbol in spanish language marks the point where the intonation should be made. That way, Raúl should be pronounced as "cool", while "Rául" should be pronounced as "Brawl". I can't find better examples.

Do you mean instead of saying "Rawl" (One sylable) it's pronounced "Rah-ool" (2 Sylables)? Just making sure I understand.

I've always been facinated by the way languages work. We have a new Japanese colleague at work who is teaching me bits of the Japanese language. I work with people from all over the world in my office- Brazil, Iraq, Mexico, Romania, Japan, Canada, Italy, China, Hong Kong, Jamaica and Germany- and those are just those in my building!

[Raul CB750K1]

Do you mean instead of saying "Rawl" (One sylable) it's pronounced "Rah-ool" (2 Sylables)? Just making sure I understand.

Correct. Actually, my name has two syllabes because the intonation mark breaks the word into two syllabes. People tend to pronounce it as "Paul", but "Paul" has the intonation in the "a", and "Raúl" in the "u".

Even when I lived in the States I really never minded how people would pronounce my name, because I'm aware it doesn't have a correspondant in english (some people say there is a Raoul but I'm not sure they come from the same origin). So you can pronounce it as you prefer; i can't hear you anyway... 

Thanks for your interest about my name; I feel very flattered.


Raul

[upperlake04]

cool, that was informative    
- now if we can get RM and Lumbee to start saying 'oi-yul' instead of 'ole'..or was that 'awl'

[Rushoid]

cool, that was informative    
- now if we can get RM and Lumbee to start saying 'oi-yul' instead of 'ole'..or was that 'awl'

Around here it's either "ole" or "earl." i just had a customer wanting to buy a "san" (sign).  Guess she was going to put it up in her "worsh" (wash) bay.

I'm going to request that you all call me buy my middle name now: Paul (and pronounce it "pah-ool") 

[Rocking-M]

Damn Canadians can't spell, it's y'all.
other Southern ebonics are,
skeer,

Use like this,

If I ever see that upperlake miscreant I'm gonna put the skeer in em.
I bet he's skeered now!

[Rushoid]

That's kinda like "ovair."

As in "Hey! Where'dja put the truck?"
"It's ovair." 

[tsp37]

I had a student job at the TVA (that's Tennessee Valley Authority) where a couple of other students and I were assigned the task of producing an inventory of electrical meters like you would find outside your house.  The ol' feller responsible for the warehouse always answered the telephone with the simple salutation "warehouse".  He pronounced it as "wore house", which, when said quickly and slurred carefully, sounded a lot like "whore house".  Being sensitive to the culture of the work place, we students were quick to adopt this practice.  Until the boss called.  A very unamused and insensitive boss.  That's the day I lost my job at the worehouse and returned to the dreary job of counting meters and recording serial numbers at the warehouse.

[crazypj]

Friend of mine from Kentucky used to ask 'jeetjet'- did you eat yet?
PJ

[heffay]

I had a student job at the TVA (that's Tennessee Valley Authority) where a couple of other students and I were assigned the task of producing an inventory of electrical meters like you would find outside your house.  The ol' feller responsible for the warehouse always answered the telephone with the simple salutation "warehouse".  He pronounced it as "wore house", which, when said quickly and slurred carefully, sounded a lot like "whore house".  Being sensitive to the culture of the work place, we students were quick to adopt this practice.  Until the boss called.  A very unamused and insensitive boss.  That's the day I lost my job at the worehouse and returned to the dreary job of counting meters and recording serial numbers at the warehouse.

serious people are so tiresome...

[burmashave]

Similar to, but not as funny as tsp's adventures with the TVA, in New England they pronounce "caulk" as "cock." This allows you to get away with using the word "cock" when you otherwise wouldn't. 

[heffay]

being a contractor that regularly paints and does things of that sort...  i love to play with my caulk    especially, in and around the bathtub but, it is also useful in the outdoors where weather can really destroy a place... that's where my caulk comes in handy