Player piano

[Newoldstock]

Here is a book I read many years ago.

A machine will read me a book about a society where machines do all the work.

How strange that the intelectual property of the story has lost its monatary value because it is free.

So if a machine reads a story that has no value..... does it make a sound

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v0Y7mW_5OM

 

[Newoldstock]

I really thought that was funny.

No one else does ?

 

[jbrocks]

ees fanny is shite! Oy loffed me arse oaf. Awl yis it ta weck own me fike Bri'ish awksint....(say it like ya see it NOS, yer in the Dominion, you'll geddit!):laugh:

 

[cpt.slow]

I couldn't stand listening to that for 11 hours I would go mad

 

[Havasu Dave]

Wrapping irony into irony. A Vonnegut fan, and

In the year 9595, I'm kinda wonderin' if Man is gonna be alive.

What was never anticipated, is that as a species are relearning how we learn already.

 

[Newoldstock]

Wrapping irony into irony. A Vonnegut fan, and

In the year 9595, I'm kinda wonderin' if Man is gonna be alive.

What was never anticipated, is that as a species are relearning how we learn already.

Interesting post Dave.

Here is another one for you then if you feel like lisening to another good shrot story..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSwfpVRVWlo

ees fanny is shite! Oy loffed me arse oaf. Awl yis it ta weck own me fike Bri'ish awksint....(say it like ya see it NOS, yer in the Dominion, you'll geddit!):laugh:

I am not an expert by I listen carefuly to how people speak and words used.

I have learned that in many repsects the north east Yanky accent is more true to the roots of modern english pronounciation than what is commonly spoken in the UK.

I also speak yanky...
Maybe a slightly older dialect with some odd French borrow in there.
I have flattened out it out close to standard Northern yank as I can.
But some of the great vowel shift can still be heard in words like " About ".
This did not happen in the USA
To a lesser extent it was supressed ( by American English ) but not completely in Canadian English....

To my ear I can hear a change in US english these days.
Its all in the ear.