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ULV

Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2019 9:18 am
by ScotRoutes
Use
Less
Vowels

Is this an efficiency thing? Are we saving the planet by transmitting fewer bits and using less ink?

I give you the new Zipp handlebar..

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Yep, it's the XPLR. Perfect for your next ADVNTR.

Time the forum was renamed BRBNS?

Re: ULV

Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2019 9:34 am
by pistonbroke
I suppose using the word less instead of fewer follows the same rule :roll:

Re: ULV

Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2019 9:49 am
by psling
Don't lynch me but I imagine those bars would be quite spryly and have a certain rhythm.

Re: ULV

Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2019 9:57 am
by PaulB2
Y is a part-time vowel, it's a vowel in rhythm but it's a consonant in yellow.

Re: ULV

Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2019 10:22 am
by RIP
Good job those aren't Welsh words what with all those Y vowels Peter :smile: .

Re: ULV

Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2019 10:57 am
by ScotRoutes
pistonbroke wrote: Thu Sep 05, 2019 9:34 am I suppose using the word less instead of fewer follows the same rule :roll:
Both are considered correct these days. It's a battle on which I've long since given up.

Re: ULV

Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2019 11:13 am
by psling
RIP wrote: Thu Sep 05, 2019 10:22 am Good job those aren't Welsh words what with all those Y vowels Peter :smile: .
D'you know Reg, I thought exactly that as I was passing through Ysbyty Ystwyth on my way to Cwmystwyth once :-bd


Back on Cln's original topic, it's surprising how easily we can read words that are missing letters (in this case vowels) or are jumbled within the first and last letters. I was a great fan of Ronnie Barker who (IMO) was a brilliant wordsmith and this brings to mind the sketch in the restaurant where conversation was in single letters/numbers - "F U N E X?" "V F N N E X" and so on...

Re: ULV

Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2019 11:20 am
by ScotRoutes
Is that near Ytsy Bytsy Tyny Wyny Ylw Plkdt Bykyny?

Re: ULV

Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2019 11:51 am
by RIP
:grin:

Re: ULV

Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2019 11:56 am
by In Reverse
WTSTS CN SCK MY BLLS

Re: ULV

Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2019 12:33 pm
by pistonbroke
Both are considered correct these days.
By whom? :grin:
They're there their obviously wrong.

Re: ULV

Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2019 12:53 pm
by RIP
Agree with PB. Less is not fewer :wink: .

J Rees-Mogg

(PS. I'm going to post Andy some of my dried frog pills by the way. It won't completely work but may help suppress the worst of it...)

Re: ULV

Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2019 1:15 pm
by Lazarus
It's a battle on which I've long since given up.
So you fight it less often and therefore challenge it fewer times?

Oh and the best welsh word is mynci


It is the spelling of monkey and sounds the same.

Re: ULV

Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2019 1:27 pm
by whitestone
Lazarus wrote: Thu Sep 05, 2019 1:15 pm
It's a battle on which I've long since given up.
So you fight it less often and therefore challenge it fewer times?

Oh and the best welsh word is mynci


It is the spelling of monkey and sounds the same.
Nah, the best Welsh word (well term) is "popty ping"* Popty is oven, so popty ping is microwave oven - brilliant :-bd

One that I liked was on the side of a BBC van advertising a summer festival/concert - "hafoc".

*Yes, I know it's a joke :roll:

Re: ULV

Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2019 1:28 pm
by pistonbroke
What about ambiwlans or even better smwddio (ironing)?

Re: ULV

Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2019 1:34 pm
by Wotsits
In Reverse wrote: Thu Sep 05, 2019 11:56 am WTSTS CN SCK MY BLLS
PSS FF THY LK WRS THN UNCL DVS T PNCH SPRNGS!

Re: ULV

Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2019 6:08 pm
by fatbikephil
GTF

Re: ULV

Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2019 6:11 pm
by whitestone
htrider wrote: Fri Sep 06, 2019 6:08 pmGTF
Isn't that a fuel additive? :???:

Re: ULV

Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2019 9:16 pm
by fatbikephil
whitestone wrote: Fri Sep 06, 2019 6:11 pm
htrider wrote: Fri Sep 06, 2019 6:08 pmGTF
Isn't that a fuel additive? :???:
STP?