faithman Posted April 9, 2012 Share Posted April 9, 2012 Hi! i'm sure this site will be so funny as it seems Thank you to all for make it possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shafted Posted April 9, 2012 Share Posted April 9, 2012 Hello faithman. Funny, how so? Shafted, the boots that is! View my gallery here http://www.hhplace.o...afteds-gallery/ or view my heeling thread here http://www.hhplace.org/topic/3850-new-pair-of-boots-starts-me-serious-street-heeling/ - Pm me if you want fashion advice or just need someone to talk to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tacchi Alti Posted April 10, 2012 Share Posted April 10, 2012 Hello faithman. Funny, how so? Probably a translation issue - we do insist on English here so must make considerable allowances for people whose native language is not English. It takes courage to contribute in another language, even when you think you know it well. My guess is that 'fun' is the noun so 'funny' is the natural adjective. As for pronunciation... How about this one, which someone sent me several years ago: Hints on pronunciation for foreigners I take it you already know of tough and bough and cough and dough. Others may stumble, but not you, On hiccough, thorough, laugh and through. Well done! And now you wish, perhaps, To learn of less familiar traps. Beware of heard, a dreadful word That looks like beard and sounds like bird. And dead-it's said like bed, not bead. For goodness sake, don't call it deed! Watch out for meat and great and threat. They rhyme with suite and straight and debt. A moth is not a moth in mother, Nor both in bother, broth in brother, And here is not a match for there, Nor dear and fear for pear and bear. And then there's dose and rose and lose Just look them up--and goose and choose. And cork and work and card and ward. And font and front and word and sword. And do and go, then thwart and cart. Come, come I've hardly made a start. A dreadful language? Man alive, I'd mastered it when I was five! 'Come, and trip it as ye go On the light fantastic toe.' John Milton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meganiwish Posted April 10, 2012 Share Posted April 10, 2012 'Divertido' translates as 'funny' or 'entertaining'. Sorry, my answer is so much more prosaic than Tacchi Alti's. But don't forget all our homophones: led/lead (Pb), shoot/chute, horse/hoarse, course/coarse, bawl/ball, groan/grown, moan/mown, new/knew, rain/rein/reign... Okay, enough's as good as a feast. Because of various invasions in the past we've got a language made up of a number of others, so we have words to express a remarkable range of nuances. Lots of pairs of words like 'skill' and 'craft', which meant the same in their original languages but mean something subtly different now. Bienvenidos, faithman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danielp6406 Posted April 11, 2012 Share Posted April 11, 2012 Greetings faithman and welcome to HH-Place :-) You may want to take a few minutes to tell us more about yourself and your interest for high heels ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SleekHeels Posted April 12, 2012 Share Posted April 12, 2012 'Divertido' translates as 'funny' or 'entertaining'. Sorry, my answer is so much more prosaic than Tacchi Alti's. But don't forget all our homophones: led/lead (Pb), shoot/chute, horse/hoarse, course/coarse, bawl/ball, groan/grown, moan/mown, new/knew, rain/rein/reign... Okay, enough's as good as a feast. Oh just one more, every feast needs a dessert... heal/heel ! Welcome faithman... I always imagine Spain is a great place for heels. If you like it, wear it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tacchi Alti Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 Strangely enough he hasn't even logged on since his first post, so all our effusive welcomes have been of no avail. Funny, that... 'Come, and trip it as ye go On the light fantastic toe.' John Milton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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