[stylist] heart thingies, thanks

Ashley Bramlett bookwormahb at earthlink.net
Thu Jan 6 00:01:18 UTC 2011


That's right; jaws can't speak pure english or have accents.  Yes the word 
is pronounced like it has a J but its a g.

Ashley
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Judith Bron" <jbron at optonline.net>
To: "Writer's Division Mailing List" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, January 03, 2011 7:30 PM
Subject: Re: [stylist] heart thingies, thanks


> JC, None of our screen readers speak a pure English, especially with the 
> right accent.  Jaws doesn't come in Northeast, South, Midwest and West. 
> But it does come in British.  Since I write some words in Hebrew and our 
> CH sound sounds nothing like CH when it appears in a Hebrew word, I'll 
> attest to the fact that Mr. Jaws really should become more international. 
> BTW, does Jaws have a version for Chinese and Japanese populations? 
> Judith
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "James H. "Jim" Canaday M.A. N6YR" <n6yr at sunflower.com>
> To: "Writer's Division Mailing List" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Monday, January 03, 2011 7:12 PM
> Subject: Re: [stylist] heart thingies, thanks
>
>
>> interesting about thingy word pronounciation:
>> my jaws and yours too probably pronounces it as a j sound for the g in 
>> thingy.  yet we pronounce it with a hard g.
>> thanks judith.
>> jc
>>
>> At 03:35 PM 1/3/2011, you wrote:
>>>The news about Linda is great!  Cellulitis is a bummer.  My husband had 
>>>it when our youngest son got married.  He enjoyed the wedding with his 
>>>leg up on another chair.  I've been using the word thingy since my kids 
>>>were little, and they're not little any more.  Their kids are, but I 
>>>won't bore you with a grandma email.  The word thingy was just convenient 
>>>when something couldn't be identified or it's use was questionable.  For 
>>>example, my sons always built "thingys" with their legoes.  Welcome home 
>>>Linda, Judith
>>>----- Original Message ----- From: "James H. "Jim" Canaday M.A. N6YR" 
>>><n6yr at sunflower.com>
>>>To: <stylist at nfbnet.org>
>>>Sent: Monday, January 03, 2011 4:09 PM
>>>Subject: [stylist] heart thingies, thanks
>>>
>>>
>>>>Carrey wrote:
>>>>Sending out prayers and good vibes and such to Jim and his wife. *heart 
>>>>thingies*
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Thanks Carrey.  my wife Lynda came home wednesday night and promptly got 
>>>>very sick.  but she stayed home.
>>>>just saturday she could eat solid but soft food.
>>>>she probably is finishing up a cellulitis infection.  today is her first 
>>>>day really feeling much better.
>>>>
>>>>thank you for your prayers and concers.
>>>>
>>>>and I have to add that as a blogger one of my favorite words is 
>>>>"thingy." since as a blogger I can play with language, grammar, 
>>>>spelling, to further communicate my point I oftenspell the plural as t h 
>>>>i n g y s.
>>>>whimsy can be fun in making serious points or pointing out the problems 
>>>>of bad choices by a government.
>>>>jc
>>>>
>>>>
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