Speedy's Cafe - General Chat about anything you like!

[Doe]

It's definitely going to get a lot colder, but it's the coldest it's been so far this year. How cold does it get in Turkey in winter?

 

Turkey is big country.

 

Erzurum province is 8 degrees celcius, İstanbul province is 16 degrees celcius, Antalya province is 22 degrees celcius, my province is 21 degrees celcius,..etc.

[Arcadia]

Remember, remember the fifth of November. Gunpowder, treason and plot! 

 

It's firework city here right now. 

 

 

Aha. Is that also called Fireworks Day? Because I just saw a fanfic with the description that Sherlock doesn't like "Fireworks Day." I didn't read it so I don't know why he wouldn't. I looooooove fireworks.

 

 

 

 

Salif Keita

 

I like Salif Keita

 

https://youtu.be/DbWimgQKtMI

 

Spacially Folon

 

 

and your sharing is perfect.

 

 

Why, thank you! I hope somebody finds something they like in that list.

 

I think my favorite Salif Keita song is La Difference, I think it's just beautiful even though I don't understand a word. Love his voice.

 

 

It says it's 7 degrees celcius (44 farenheit) online, but I don't believe that because it feels way colder. I've got gloves on and I can still hardly move my fingers (and I'm indoors). Bits of the country are down to 3 degrees.

 

@Arcadia doesn't hear. Arcadia says 4-5 degrees celcius not cold.  :P

 

That's right!!!!!! That's just a cool fall day! :p

[Pseudonym]

It is a cool autumn day, but doesn't bode well for winter. Though I hope for snow days since there were none last year. 

 

No it's not called fireworks day by anyone ever. That sounds like someone in another country trying to make something sound colloquial and failing dismally. It is called bonfire night on occasion, maybe they got that mixed up. And yea, Sherlock would love fireworks, he'd probably bring a load into the flat to experiment on and give John a conniption. Maybe they were trying to tie in the loud bangs with PTSD from his time away or something? 

[SherlockedCAMPer]

7C is not cold. Friday and Sunday I was walking outside with out a coat on and 2 summer weight layers of clothing. I did put on my winter jacket later on Sunday as the temperature dropped to below 0C.

[Pseudonym]

I knew I shouldn't have bothered to say anything. Well, it's sodding cold when you're sitting in an office in it all day. 

[Boton]

Anything below 70F is sodding cold.

[Fantasy Lover]

70°F (21°c) is a pleasant temperature, 50°F (10°c) however *shudder*

[SherlockedCAMPer]

I live about 5 hours south of Canada so cold is a relative term for me. Come May-September anything below 60F will be cool to cold. Anything about 85 & low humidity will be hot. The rest of the year anything below 0F will be cold, below 0C will be cool and above 40F will be warm with above 55F as hot.

[SherlockedCAMPer]

I knew I shouldn't have bothered to say anything. Well, it's sodding cold when you're sitting in an office in it all day.

There's a DJ in California who mentioned putting on her winter gear because it was 57F outside. If the inside air temperature is that cold, I'd agree on the cold.

[Carol the Dabbler]

It's definitely going to get a lot colder, but it's the coldest it's been so far this year. How cold does it get in Turkey in winter?

 

Turkey is big country.

 

Erzurum province is 8 degrees celcius, İstanbul province is 16 degrees celcius, Antalya province is 22 degrees celcius, my province is 21 degrees celcius,..etc.

 

21 C (70 F) is as cold as your area usually gets in winter?  I don't know whether you mean in the daytime or at night, but in either case that sounds pretty nice to me!  Around here that would be more like the daytime temperature on a nice sunny spring or fall day.

 

I knew I shouldn't have bothered to say anything. Well, it's sodding cold when you're sitting in an office in it all day. 

 

It's the not moving around that does it, I think.  You need to keep some firewood handy -- not to burn, just so you can split a few cords whenever you get to feeling chilly.

[Doe]

 

 

It's definitely going to get a lot colder, but it's the coldest it's been so far this year. How cold does it get in Turkey in winter?

Turkey is big country.

 

Erzurum province is 8 degrees celcius, İstanbul province is 16 degrees celcius, Antalya province is 22 degrees celcius, my province is 21 degrees celcius,..etc.

21 C (70 F) is as cold as your area usually gets in winter? I don't know whether you mean in the daytime or at night, but in either case that sounds pretty nice to me! Around here that would be more like the daytime temperature on a nice sunny spring or fall day.

 

21C (70F) isn't like spring or fall day. North wind is blowing. Sunny is not warming up. (I cann't say last sentence. : :/ The temperature is belonging to daytime.

[Pseudonym]

I think it was actually colder inside than outside yesterday, outside warmed up a bit in the afternoon, inside didn’t.

[Hikari]

Anything below 70F is sodding cold.

 

View Halloa to my fellow Ohioan, Boton!

 

Ohio is a pretty dull place so we denizens are constantly in search of something for intellectual stimulation, if we incline that way.  If we don't, there's always sodding football . . .

[HerlockSholmes]

I think it was actually colder inside than outside yesterday, outside warmed up a bit in the afternoon, inside didn’t.

[Boton]

 

Anything below 70F is sodding cold.

 

View Halloa to my fellow Ohioan, Boton!

 

Ohio is a pretty dull place so we denizens are constantly in search of something for intellectual stimulation, if we incline that way.  If we don't, there's always sodding football . . .

 

 

Hi there, Hikari!

 

Yeah, Ohio is not the most intellectually stimulating place in the world.  I mean, it *can* be, but my part of it seems to be so self-important and self-absorbed, quite frankly.  And I don't like sodding football, so I'm kind of out of luck.  

 

45F and rain here this morning.  Yuck.  Sometimes I think this temp with the rain is actually worse than colder with snow, because it just feels so bitter.  I have the space heater on in the office.

 

Been watching Japanese comedies at night.  I really want one of those heater tables, whatever they are called.

[Pseudonym]

This is a weird question, but does anyone else have trouble pronouncing ‘beautiful’? I can say it in a more English accent or a stronger Welsh accent but it just doesn’t come out right in my own accent.

[Boton]

That's an interesting question.  I don't think I have trouble, but I'm in that swath of the US where we sometimes muddy our vowel sounds.  So I tend to say byoo-ti-full

[Pseudonym]

I think that might be part of my problem, the Welsh way would be to mash the vowels together, the English way would be to pronounce each syllable clicking the 't'. I pronounce things a lot more precisely than my parents, strangely, but neither way of saying this seems right. My folks would definitely mash it together. 

[Carol the Dabbler]

That's an interesting question.  I don't think I have trouble, but I'm in that swath of the US where we sometimes muddy our vowel sounds.  So I tend to say byoo-ti-full

That's how I say it, and maybe it's just because I'm also a Midwesterner, but I've always thought it was the normal way to say it just about anywhere. I am seriously puzzled -- how do think it should be pronounced?

 

There are some words that do tend to tangle my tongue, and not necessarily long or complicated ones. For example, "rural" keeps wanting to come out as "rurer."

[Hikari]

That's an interesting question.  I don't think I have trouble, but I'm in that swath of the US where we sometimes muddy our vowel sounds.  So I tend to say byoo-ti-full

 

I say byoo-ti-ful too.  I think. Isn't that the way it's said?  lol

 

Okay, everyone, here's a quizzer:

 

COUPON:

 

Do you say "QUE-pon'

 

Or

 

"KOO-pon"?

 

Also, I trust everyone here can say "Penguins".  Our Benedict C., bless his heart, for all his poshness cannot.  It comes out "PENG-wings".    He tried so hard and it was wrong every time.  Someone should have done him a favor and written it out phonetically in his script for "PENG-wings of Madagascar".

 

*****

 

For all you UK-based carbon life forms out there, let me say on behalf of your former rambunctious colony that we find your accents charming.  Everything sounds better in a Brit accent.  You either sound very intelligent, or at least like a whole lot of fun down at the pub.  The Scots are well nae unintelligible but I confess a weakness for Scots men.  We've got one of them now, Craig Ferguson, and we aren't giving him back. 

 

If you fail to find the dulcet American tones charming likewise, we understand.  We can barely stand the sound of our own voices.

 

The British pronunciation of many shared words is notable for how it separates each and every syllable, vs. we Yanks who are too lax or in too much of a hurry to be arzed and just run them all together.

 

Ex.  Aluminum--Ha!  I just tried it with the extra "I" you Brits insist on putting in and your UK-based spell checking software didn't like it!

 

I love the way Benedict Cumberbatch says "Authoritative".  Au-THOR-I-ta-tive.  The less attractive American usage is 'Au-THOR-I-TAY-tive.

 

Of course, Bendi says "Jaguar" in an inimitable fashion, too.  Over here across the water, we say 'JAG-WAR'.  'JAG-u-Wah' makes me laugh, but it's cool.

[T.o.b.y]

I say "koo-pon".

 

Hikari, have you discovered the language and travel thread yet? Seems like that might interest you. If I weren't on my phone, I would post a link here.

[Hikari]

I say "koo-pon".

 

Hikari, have you discovered the language and travel thread yet? Seems like that might interest you. If I weren't on my phone, I would post a link here.

 

Thanks for the tip, T.  I am still navigating the features of this site but I will be sure to check that thread out.

 

So where in the world are you?

 

Ooh, fist bump me!  I just realized that I have been promoted a rank!  I don't remember sitting for my Sergeants' Exam but I must have passed.

 

Now watch me make DI in record time.  Well, not quite.  I will be well behind the record set by Herlock Sholmes, who achieved DCI rank in 6 weeks.  What a career!

[Boton]

 

That's an interesting question.  I don't think I have trouble, but I'm in that swath of the US where we sometimes muddy our vowel sounds.  So I tend to say byoo-ti-full

That's how I say it, and maybe it's just because I'm also a Midwesterner, but I've always thought it was the normal way to say it just about anywhere. I am seriously puzzled -- how do think it should be pronounced?

 

There are some words that do tend to tangle my tongue, and not necessarily long or complicated ones. For example, "rural" keeps wanting to come out as "rurer."

 

 

I think most people say byoo-ti-full, but I have heard the initial vowels enunciated more clearly, so more like be-a-yoo-ti-full.

 

Otherwise, I make a mess of rural, which tends to come out "rurl," unless you are giving an address, like "Rural Route (RR) 1," which invariably becomes "rull route."  

 

As for coupon, I generally say "coo-pon."

[Arcadia]

This ex-Californian says byoo-ti-full, rural, and queue-pon. Koo-pon sounds like a dove trying to speak.
 

 

 

Anything below 70F is sodding cold.

 
View Halloa to my fellow Ohioan, Boton!
 
Ohio is a pretty dull place so we denizens are constantly in search of something for intellectual stimulation, if we incline that way.  If we don't, there's always sodding football . . .

 

 
Hi there, Hikari!
 
Yeah, Ohio is not the most intellectually stimulating place in the world.  I mean, it *can* be, but my part of it seems to be so self-important and self-absorbed, quite frankly.  And I don't like sodding football, so I'm kind of out of luck.  
 
45F and rain here this morning.  Yuck.  Sometimes I think this temp with the rain is actually worse than colder with snow, because it just feels so bitter.  I have the space heater on in the office.

 

If it makes you wimpy folk feel any better, we're having Boton's sodding weather here, too, and I'm miserable. My absolute least favorite kind of day. Right after 100 F in the shade and high humidity, that is.
 

Been watching Japanese comedies at night.  I really want one of those heater tables, whatever they are called.

 
Kotatsu.

 

[Pseudonym]

Koo-pon. 

 

I have no problem with rural but always get tongue tied with prescription. 

 

Penguin is actually Welsh and is made up of two words - pen, meaning head, and gwyn, meaning white. Maybe if he'd known it was two words it would have helped?

 

Something else this is quintessentially British, which I don't think I've encountered anywhere else, is how often we apologise to each other. Earlier I heard four separate people apologise to each other in the space of about thirty seconds. Why? Because they were passing each other in a doorway or corridor.