Words of Wisdom - Page 4

[Hundmutter] 29.7.2016 - 05:07
● "BTW Mac, why do you always insist on spelling my username with an 'e' in the middle?"
As Mac hasn't answered for himself: The possibility is that he is like the Briton whose initials are B.W. (see the May 2016 GSD National Magazine pgs 22-23) and thinks in Deutsche (which is not QUITE the same as "double Dutch") and so unconsciously corrects your grammar.
"Hund" is male, "Hunde" is female - and a mother (="mutter") should be female.
Of course, depending on how long ago you first offended him, it COULD be that he subconsciously thinks of you as what a mother pooch is called in English & Yanklish!


[Mackenzie] 29.7.2016 - 15:07
Having our SIS stand down is no great advantage - their operatives used to make the news for absent-mindedly leaving their briefcase full of secret documents and meat pies in a cafeteria and forgetting WHERE they had left it, and so a customer would hand it to the proprietor who would open it to work out how to contact the owner (but would excitedly contact our trash newspaper as well). It is our GCSB you need to avoid if you have evil thoughts about Aotearoa (NZ) and we Kiwi. However, when it comes to the CIA - can you TRUST them when they say they no longer have any interest in you?
 

And do us a favour, please - when you are joking or being ironic, please make it obvious that you are doing so, instead of appearing so damned convincingly depressed! I was active in amateur theatricals for about 7 years, and at the end of one rehearsal the chap who was opposite me stated "Boy you tore strips off me!" - but on-stage we are SUPPOSED to be convincing.

When I coined my username, a dictionary I referred to failed to make the gender difference clear, and I don't speak German. I also thought the 'e' distracted from the pun about "dogs" and "chat" that I was making alongside the fact that I was, at the time, feeling like the Dogmother due to my then job. BUT, having established the username, it seems to me that if somebody calls themselves 'Jon', it would not be suitable for another to continually call him 'John', and I don't believe Mackenzie is that dyslexic. (I'd have to say the same to Brian.)

John is a stand alone name whereas Jon is short for Jonathan.

Mackenzie

[Hundmutter] 29.7.2016 - 05:07
● "BTW Mac, why do you always insist on spelling my username with an 'e' in the middle?"
As Mac hasn't answered for himself: The possibility is that he is like the Briton whose initials are B.W. (see the May 2016 GSD National Magazine pgs 22-23) and thinks in Deutsche (which is not QUITE the same as "double Dutch") and so unconsciously corrects your grammar.
"Hund" is male, "Hunde" is female - and a mother (="mutter") should be female.
Of course, depending on how long ago you first offended him, it COULD be that he subconsciously thinks of you as what a mother pooch is called in English & Yanklish!


[Mackenzie] 29.7.2016 - 15:07
Having our SIS stand down is no great advantage - their operatives used to make the news for absent-mindedly leaving their briefcase full of secret documents and meat pies in a cafeteria and forgetting WHERE they had left it, and so a customer would hand it to the proprietor who would open it to work out how to contact the owner (but would excitedly contact our trash newspaper as well). It is our GCSB you need to avoid if you have evil thoughts about Aotearoa (NZ) and we Kiwi. However, when it comes to the CIA - can you TRUST them when they say they no longer have any interest in you?
 

And do us a favour, please - when you are joking or being ironic, please make it obvious that you are doing so, instead of appearing so damned convincingly depressed! I was active in amateur theatricals for about 7 years, and at the end of one rehearsal the chap who was opposite me stated "Boy you tore strips off me!" - but on-stage we are SUPPOSED to be convincing.

Mackenzie, that does not STOP people making that error, and it must be extremely irritating for anybody called Jonathon who posts as "Jon". (I bet you react if someone replies to YOU using 'Makenzie' or 'MacKenzie' or 'Mc Kenzie' or another of those many combinations).

Hundemutter - it is a common thing for people to spell my name wrong. In fact it happens so often that I just ignore it unless it is legal papers, or, contracts.

Once again your post is just because you want the last word to try to prove a point.
Childish!

No more from me.

Mackenzie

[Hundmutter] & [Mackenzie]:
Oopsy. My ""Hund" is male, "Hunde" is female" was wron...   wro......      wr.........         r.............         slightly inaccurate. Blame a brain-fart and getting muddled between languages that I don't actually speak. "Hunde" is actually plural male = "dogs". "Hündin" (Plural "Hündinen") is what I should have written.

Regardless, [Mackenzie]: Having had the correct root-words drawn to your attention by [Hundmutter], you should do as teachers do, and try to be correct when naming people. I DID have trouble back in the era when Silvester Stallone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoLVWvqEwzs   was filling the screens. See, in my class I had a skinny 8 year old red-headed Rochelle who wanted to be known as Rocky. But I mostly remembered.

Les, I am sure you realise, as I did at the time, that "Hundinmutter" might be rather cumbersome as a 'username', and definitely obscure the 'dog gossip' pun ... besides which my own (1) dog, and most of my charges in work, were males at the time.
(Apols. for lack of diacritical umlaut, can't be arsed to switch keyboards to produce it and can't remember the Function key shortcut).

Pun. [Hundmutter]? Females don't know how to pun, do they?

 

I don't think there is any such Function key, but if you want a lower-case  u  with an umlaut, the key-code is [Alt]129 (using the number pad, not the typewriter keys). When you release the [Alt], up pops the  ü  . (Warning - I think it was typing that straight into the pdb that saw my first attempt vanish forever - this damnable editor is as cantankerous as the Yahoo web-pages! If you want to use [Alt]-codes, type them in your own software then later PASTE them into the pdb.)

A simpler way to find and use the umlaut and other special characters can be found by clicking the last icon in the CKEditor that sort of looks like an upside down horseshoe.