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[navi]

Is this sentence correct:

1) Correct my mistakes when I speak French.
(the mistakes I make when I speak French)



--
Gratefully,
Navi

Lost in the Twilight Zone of the English language
Obsessed with ambiguity
Interested in strange structures

[Hibou]

Post by navi
1) Correct my mistakes when I speak French.
(the mistakes I make when I speak French)

As an order, it's all right, though it lacks an exclamation mark. As a
request, it needs a 'please'.

(There aren't enough 'please's these days. I especially dislike the
recorded message on lorries that orders, "Stand clear! Vehicle
reversing!" The immediate impulse, I find, is to do the opposite -
checked by concern for my physical integrity. Would it really be so hard
to say, "Please stand clear..."?)

[navi]

Thank you very much, Hibou,

I think from now on we'll mostly be talking to machines, but still,
being polite would not hurt!

Point taken.

Respectfully,
Navi

[Sam Plusnet]

Post by Hibou

Post by navi
1) Correct my mistakes when I speak French.
(the mistakes I make when I speak French)

As an order, it's all right, though it lacks an exclamation mark. As a
request, it needs a 'please'.
(There aren't enough 'please's these days. I especially dislike the
recorded message on lorries that orders, "Stand clear! Vehicle
reversing!" The immediate impulse, I find, is to do the opposite -
checked by concern for my physical integrity. Would it really be so hard
to say, "Please stand clear..."?)

I could warm to a lorry which said:
"I say! Do stand clear."
(Extra points for a decent imitation of Terry Thomas.)

[Hibou]

Post by Hibou
(There aren't enough 'please's these days. I especially dislike the
recorded message on lorries that orders, "Stand clear! Vehicle
reversing!" The immediate impulse, I find, is to do the opposite -
checked by concern for my physical integrity. Would it really be so
hard to say, "Please stand clear..."?)

"I say!  Do stand clear."
(Extra points for a decent imitation of Terry Thomas.)

A job for a banksman, I think, of any sex that can do the voice.

[Sam Plusnet]

Post by Hibou

Post by Hibou
(There aren't enough 'please's these days. I especially dislike the
recorded message on lorries that orders, "Stand clear! Vehicle
reversing!" The immediate impulse, I find, is to do the opposite -
checked by concern for my physical integrity. Would it really be so
hard to say, "Please stand clear..."?)

"I say!  Do stand clear."
(Extra points for a decent imitation of Terry Thomas.)

A job for a banksman, I think, of any sex that can do the voice.

I suspect that's an occupation which has gone the way of the
Sagger-maker's bottom knocker.

[Chris Elvidge]

Post by Sam Plusnet

Post by Hibou

Post by navi
1) Correct my mistakes when I speak French.
(the mistakes I make when I speak French)

As an order, it's all right, though it lacks an exclamation mark. As a
request, it needs a 'please'.
(There aren't enough 'please's these days. I especially dislike the
recorded message on lorries that orders, "Stand clear! Vehicle
reversing!" The immediate impulse, I find, is to do the opposite -
checked by concern for my physical integrity. Would it really be so
hard to say, "Please stand clear..."?)

"I say! Do stand clear."
(Extra points for a decent imitation of Terry Thomas.)

How about: Beep Beep Reversing Beep Beep. "It's up to you if you want to
stand clear."

[Sam Plusnet]

Post by Chris Elvidge

Post by Hibou

Post by navi
1) Correct my mistakes when I speak French.
(the mistakes I make when I speak French)

As an order, it's all right, though it lacks an exclamation mark. As
a request, it needs a 'please'.
(There aren't enough 'please's these days. I especially dislike the
recorded message on lorries that orders, "Stand clear! Vehicle
reversing!" The immediate impulse, I find, is to do the opposite -
checked by concern for my physical integrity. Would it really be so
hard to say, "Please stand clear..."?)

"I say!  Do stand clear."
(Extra points for a decent imitation of Terry Thomas.)

How about: Beep Beep Reversing Beep Beep. "It's up to you if you want to
stand clear."

"I'm beeping-well reversing. Stand out of the beeping way you beepers!"

[J. J. Lodder]

Post by Hibou

Post by navi
1) Correct my mistakes when I speak French.
(the mistakes I make when I speak French)

As an order, it's all right, though it lacks an exclamation mark. As a
request, it needs a 'please'.
(There aren't enough 'please's these days. I especially dislike the
recorded message on lorries that orders, "Stand clear! Vehicle
reversing!" The immediate impulse, I find, is to do the opposite -
checked by concern for my physical integrity. Would it really be so hard
to say, "Please stand clear..."?)

In these parts they don't talk at all.
They just emit an annoying bleep...bleep...
and if you don't understand what that means,
too bad for you,

Jan

[Bertel Lund Hansen]

Post by J. J. Lodder
In these parts they don't talk at all.
They just emit an annoying bleep...bleep...
and if you don't understand what that means,
too bad for you,

Today it's not just lorries. My electric car does it, and I've heard it
from traditional cars too. It's necessary with some sort of sound
warning in electric cars because they are silent at low speeds.

[Silvano]

Post by Bertel Lund Hansen

Post by J. J. Lodder
In these parts they don't talk at all.
They just emit an annoying bleep...bleep...
and if you don't understand what that means,
too bad for you,

Today it's not just lorries. My electric car does it, and I've heard it
from traditional cars too. It's necessary with some sort of sound
warning in electric cars because they are silent at low speeds.

Also, it was the norm in Japanese cars driving faster than their speed
limit: 100 km/h in 1985.
I heard it when a friend picked me up at the Tokyo airport, and his
explanation was rather surprising, because most cars were driving faster
than his.
"Are you telling me that all of them are forced to hear this annoying
noise?"
"Yes."

[J. J. Lodder]

Post by Silvano

Post by Bertel Lund Hansen

Post by J. J. Lodder
In these parts they don't talk at all.
They just emit an annoying bleep...bleep...
and if you don't understand what that means,
too bad for you,

Today it's not just lorries. My electric car does it, and I've heard it
from traditional cars too. It's necessary with some sort of sound
warning in electric cars because they are silent at low speeds.

Also, it was the norm in Japanese cars driving faster than their speed
limit: 100 km/h in 1985.
I heard it when a friend picked me up at the Tokyo airport, and his
explanation was rather surprising, because most cars were driving faster
than his.
"Are you telling me that all of them are forced to hear this annoying
noise?"
"Yes."

What do they derive their speed from?
Not their speedometer, I hope.
I have an independent GPS unit that may bleep,
but it bleeps at 100 km/h true GPS speed,
while the car itself thinks that it is doing 106 km/h.

That must be the same for most other cars.
If I set the cars cruise control to 106 km/h (so 100 true km/h)
in a 100 km/h zone I find that I am about the fastest of all,

Jan

[Bertel Lund Hansen]

Post by J. J. Lodder
What do they derive their speed from?
Not their speedometer, I hope.
I have an independent GPS unit that may bleep,
but it bleeps at 100 km/h true GPS speed,
while the car itself thinks that it is doing 106 km/h.

I do not have a speed warning in my car.

Post by J. J. Lodder
That must be the same for most other cars.
If I set the cars cruise control to 106 km/h (so 100 true km/h)
in a 100 km/h zone I find that I am about the fastest of all,

I also drive true speed. I add 5 km/h to the speedometer. If I drive at
the permitted max, many other drivers drive as fast.

... in Denmark.
(obligatory note to prevent you from denying what I wrote)

[jerryfriedman]

On Wed, 4 Dec 2024 21:41:08 +0000, J. J. Lodder wrote:
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Post by J. J. Lodder
What do they derive their speed from?
Not their speedometer, I hope.
I have an independent GPS unit that may bleep,
but it bleeps at 100 km/h true GPS speed,
while the car itself thinks that it is doing 106 km/h.
That must be the same for most other cars.
If I set the cars cruise control to 106 km/h (so 100 true km/h)
in a 100 km/h zone I find that I am about the fastest of all,

Around here, if you set your cruise control to 4 mi/h
above the speed limit on a highway, I'll bet you'd find
you were at about the median--the median speed, that
is--maybe a little lower.

--
Jerry Friedman

--

[Snidely]

Post by jerryfriedman
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Post by J. J. Lodder
What do they derive their speed from?
Not their speedometer, I hope.
I have an independent GPS unit that may bleep,
but it bleeps at 100 km/h true GPS speed,
while the car itself thinks that it is doing 106 km/h.
That must be the same for most other cars.
If I set the cars cruise control to 106 km/h (so 100 true km/h)
in a 100 km/h zone I find that I am about the fastest of all,

Around here, if you set your cruise control to 4 mi/h
above the speed limit on a highway, I'll bet you'd find
you were at about the median--the median speed, that
is--maybe a little lower.
--
Jerry Friedman

Slow pokes, eh?

(In SoCal, the curve has quite a broad peak, but 5 over posted is maybe
33rd percentile. I don't have definitive numbers, but you'll
definitely be passed if it's not rush hour.)

/dps

[lar3ryca]

Post by jerryfriedman
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Post by J. J. Lodder
What do they derive their speed from?
Not their speedometer, I hope.
I have an independent GPS unit that may bleep,
but it bleeps at 100 km/h true GPS speed,
while the car itself thinks that it is doing 106 km/h.
That must be the same for most other cars.
If I set the cars cruise control to 106 km/h (so 100 true km/h)
in a 100 km/h zone I find that I am about the fastest of all,

Around here, if you set your cruise control to 4 mi/h
above the speed limit on a highway, I'll bet you'd find
you were at about the median--the median speed, that
is--maybe a little lower.

I was told by a policeman that his department did not issue speeding
tickets unless the vehicle was doing about 8% over the limit.

Regina recently reduced the speed limits in school zones to 30kmh, and
in one news story on TV, a cop said "Just keep your speed under 35 in
the school zones."