MEG 311 : HE IS THE GORE!

[Dandontdare]

But...gore, more, Moore, score, floor, straw, braw, flaw, maw, poor, tour, four, shore, bore, claw and straw all rhyme with law.

Rubbish - Lore and Law (should) sound completely different, as do floor and flaw.

(shouldn't this be on the pedants' thread?)

Bollocks I say! Right, it's war. Anyone who pronounces law and gore so that they don't rhyme goes into the vats.

Wierdos.

Now WAR, that's a third pronunciation right there....

[Mikey]

Lord (not lawed) above, what have I started (not stahted)? It was an innocent comment!

Listen to Trout, for (not...oh,never mind) he is wise. And can pronounce his r's properly, ye glypes.

M

[Mikey]

And tour doesn't rhyme with four.

M

[Trout]

I know there are people out there waiting for me to say it, so...

"Prog" rhymes with "Rogue".

That's not a Scottish pronunciation, It's just common sense. It's short for "programme".

- Trout

[James Stacey]

I know there are people out there waiting for me to say it, so...

"Prog" rhymes with "Rogue".

That's not a Scottish pronunciation, It's just common sense. It's short for "programme".

- Trout

So prog slog isn't alliterative then ? Lies!

[House of Usher]

the '...Gore' pun doesn't work unless you've got an Englishshire accent. Law rhymes with straw, braw, flaw and maw, but not gore.

I have an Englishshire accent. The pun sounds perfectly alright to me, and so it should to anyone who has any imagination. Just because a word has an 'r' in it doesn't mean you have to pronounce it. It's a regional difference. I don't have a Scottish accent, but I completely get the rhyme below:

"Pansy Potter the strong mans daughter" which only rhymed if you were Scottish.

Gore rhymes with floor and more. Law doesn't.

Except that it does.

Now WAR, that's a third pronunciation right there....

War? Rhymes with 'wore' and 'Waugh.'

[Spaceghost]

It boils down to this - if you're not from Yorkshire, you can't talk properly.

Even outside WEST Yorkshire is pushing it. 

[mogzilla]

good meg, the dredd was enjoyable hokum even liked the [spoiler]evolving zombie[/spoiler] dishing out his own brand of justice some part of me wants to see him again...

numbercruncher both baffles and amazes though one slight niggle if you go around killing your colleagues even if they are already technically dead isnt that still a sin and a probable violation of his contract of employment?

sadimat squad is growing on me but the transparent cannibals were seriously underused...

  anderson i arsom but then boo cook could draw one of those health education pamphlets you get in the drs and it'd be a classic!

articles are good but i still dont rate the movie section.sorry.

[Jim_Campbell]

I'm fighting with the Usher Block on this one...

Cheers

Jim

[watto911]

Law rhymes with gore ONLY if you are Sly Stallone. "I am...... the LORE"

[mogzilla]

judge dorset? i be the lore so i be arrr.

[Mikey]

I have an Englishshire accent. The pun sounds perfectly alright to me, and so it should to anyone who has any imagination. Just because a word has an 'r' in it doesn't mean you have to pronounce it. It's a regional difference. I don't have a Scottish accent, but I completely get the rhyme below...

Before I go on, I'll reiterate that it's a minor, minor niggle of mine and I'm not being an arse for the sake of an argument. I understand it's a pun, or play on words, because I know it's written for a certain type of English accent. But...

...I'm not having that! I, in common with a lot of native English speakers of the world, do pronounce my r's. The hard r also exists in many other European languages. A German friend, when I first met him, thought I was taking the piss out of him when I said 'car' as he thought any native English speaker said 'cah', as that's the version he learned.

Yes, it's a regional difference but I genuinely do have to take a second to read that gore as 'gaw' (incidently, Gaw was my mother's maiden name). I could also say that it wouldn't be too hard for you to imagine adding the r to gore now, would it?   If I have to imagine removing the r, it'd read 'goe'. And by extension, if I follow your logic, I live in the nawth of Ahlind which is composed of the ancient provinces of Ulstah, Lenstah, Munstah and Connaught. Or do you pronounce the 'r' when you read or say those words? You really should, but you imagine no r I bet. How about Larne or Ards?  

But the nail in this one is - how would Dredd himself say it? I bet it wouldn't rhyme with how he says Law. Any more arguments and I'll ask you to say Donaghadee or Sruhanleanantawey.

And I apologise that my innocent observation has derailed this thread!

I know there are people out there waiting for me to say it, so...

"Prog" rhymes with "Rogue".

Oh no - I think you've hit the wood there.

M.

[House of Usher]

I could also say that it wouldn't be too hard for you to imagine adding the r to gore now, would it?   If I have to imagine removing the r, it'd read 'goe'.

It's not a case of adding or removing anything; it's a case of pronouncing or not pronouncing. Coming from my part of England I would pronounce 'gore' as 'gaw,' as you say.

And by extension, if I follow your logic, I live in the nawth of Ahlind which is composed of the ancient provinces of Ulstah, Lenstah, Munstah and Connaught. Or do you pronounce the 'r' when you read or say those words? You really should, but you imagine no r I bet. How about Larne or Ards?  

Well, not entirely. 'Nawth,' yes. 'Ahlind'? no. I've never worked for the BBC and certainly not in the 1950s. Where I'm from that'd be pronounced something like 'Eye-ya-luhnd.' The others 'Ulsturh,' 'Lensturh' and 'Munsturh.' I'm not a bloody cockney!

('urh' as in 'earth,' 'purse,' 'birth,' 'word,' 'Urdd' and 'Urdu')

Connaught I can't imagine pronounced other than 'Con-ort.' Please enlighten me!



Has anyone else got any thoughts on the current Megazine?  

[Mikey]

Conit for me, Canit for others or Canith for others still. It's a bloody minefield!

But yeah, back to the Meg talk!
M.

[Spaceghost]

Well, I read the FLESH: Legend of Shamana floppies from last and this months Megs last night and I thoroughly enjoyed them. I wasn't reading the prog when the story originally ran so it was all new to me.

It was very typically Pat Mills fare with all his favourite ingredients; Earth Mother female characters, EVIL sexist men, EVIL corporation, fuzzy science, comedy and violence.

I was complaining recently about the Parasaurs in the recent FLESH series and their 'super powers' of screaming and farting but Shamana takes the bloody biscuit. Shape-shifting, psycho-camouflage dinosaurs? Mental.

And that scene where the dino goes into the caravan and PUTS ON LIPSTICK AND A NEGLIGEE!!!???!??!?!?!?

Genius.