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Consumer affairs / Worldwide, women earn almost £14,000,000,000,000 but they spend....
« Last post by P-Kasso2 on Today at 03:53:01 PM »

£21,000,000,000,000!!!    Whaaaaat!  How much?  Can anyone tell me if this yawning gap between women's earning power and their spending habits can possibly be true before I stick my neck out and casually mention it to Mrs P-K? 

The actual amount I was told was in trillions of US dollars (ie women worldwide earn $18 trillion - but actually spend $28 trillion). I ask you, just how many lipsticks do women need to buy in a year?

Anyway, back to the question - Is it really true that globally women spend well over a third more than they earn?  Secondly, I'd really like to know what the earn/spend figure is for us 'more sensible' blokes.

Anybody have any ideas?
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Science and nature / If moths like flying into lights so much....
« Last post by P-Kasso2 on Yesterday at 12:02:35 AM »

...why don't moths simply come out in the daytime instead?  Butterflies are perfectly happy to fly during the daytime, aren't they? So not moths? 

Moths seem to be so dotty about flying into lights that I can't understand why moths haven't figured out that flying during the day would give them all the light any moth could ask for to fly into.

Does anybody know why moths have stubbornly decided to be nocturnal? Does anybody know what that reason is?

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Language / Re: Pronunciation of "Weinstein"
« Last post by P-Kasso2 on 21 October, 2017, 10:17:28 PM »
Quote from: Cosmos on 21 October, 2017, 10:04:28 PM
Quote from: P-Kasso2 on 21 October, 2017, 11:47:07 AM



 People have no problem pronouncing Einstein so pronouncing Weinstein should be a doddle. I can't see what the problem is.

Unfortunately Einstein isn't pronounced correctly either . Most English-speaking people pronounce it Ine-stine but it should Ine-shtine .

Sodoes that mean it should be 'Wein-shtine'?  Methinks, Wein-swine might be more appropriate.
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Language / Re: Pronunciation of "Weinstein"
« Last post by Cosmos on 21 October, 2017, 10:04:28 PM »
Quote from: P-Kasso2 on 21 October, 2017, 11:47:07 AM



 People have no problem pronouncing Einstein so pronouncing Weinstein should be a doddle. I can't see what the problem is.

Unfortunately Einstein isn't pronounced correctly either . Most English-speaking people pronounce it Ine-stine but it should Ine-shtine .
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Language / Re: Pronunciation of "Weinstein"
« Last post by P-Kasso2 on 21 October, 2017, 11:47:07 AM »

    

Weinstein - Einstein?  Weinstein may not be an Einstein but they are pronounced the same. People have no problem pronouncing Einstein so pronouncing Weinstein should be a doddle. I can't see what the problem is.
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Food and drink / Re: Calling all cat lovers! Am I poisoning my cat?
« Last post by jacquesdor on 21 October, 2017, 10:17:24 AM »
 Gd_pst
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Language / Re: Pronunciation of "Weinstein"
« Last post by Hiheels on 20 October, 2017, 07:09:08 AM »
...and, oh the irony, that we should get posted versions of the song that have half-dressed women in the 'videos' on a thread about yet another alleged rapist.
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Language / Re: Pronunciation of "Weinstein"
« Last post by Cosmos on 19 October, 2017, 08:08:43 PM »
Quote from: P-Kasso2 on 19 October, 2017, 06:34:53 PM
You are right, Siasl.   I did O Level German at school so ich bin ein bit of an ekspert about ei's and ie's. It was always banged into us that it is indeed the second vowel that determines how 'ei' and 'ie' are pronounced in German.

It's as easy as ein, zwei, drei. The 'ei' is pronounced 'eye' (as in Rogers and Hammerstein and ein, zwei, drei). Whereas 'ie' is pronounced 'ee' (as in Liebfraumilch and 'Ich liebe dich'). 

Shock horror! I've just watched BBC News at 6 - and Fiona Bruce just pronounced it Winesteen. That surprised me because I know from my time with the BBC that the Beeb has a whole department of advisors telling newscasters etc how to pronounce correctly the often weird and wonderful foreign names that crop up in world news - so I am sure the Wine-stine / Wine-steen issue will have been seriously discussed and guideline duly issued to presenters

But I still reckon that 'Weinstein' should be pronounced Wine-stine by everybody except press journalists of course who insist on pronouncing 'Weinstein' an incorrigible sexual predator.

It may be that your knowledge of German isn't helping you with the pronunciation of Yiddish especially American Yiddish names like Seinfeld for example . 

To help you might like to consider this song title which in German would be Bei mir bist du Schön but in Yiddish is Bei mir bist du schejn .

https://youtu.be/Xe2UXccid40

German may help with understanding the original Yiddish version of the song

https://youtu.be/ZUVEq6NC7mM
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Language / Re: Pronunciation of "Weinstein"
« Last post by P-Kasso2 on 19 October, 2017, 06:34:53 PM »
You are right, Siasl.   I did O Level German at school so ich bin ein bit of an ekspert about ei's and ie's. It was always banged into us that it is indeed the second vowel that determines how 'ei' and 'ie' are pronounced in German.

It's as easy as ein, zwei, drei. The 'ei' is pronounced 'eye' (as in Rogers and Hammerstein and ein, zwei, drei). Whereas 'ie' is pronounced 'ee' (as in Liebfraumilch and 'Ich liebe dich'). 

Shock horror! I've just watched BBC News at 6 - and Fiona Bruce just pronounced it Winesteen. That surprised me because I know from my time with the BBC that the Beeb has a whole department of advisors telling newscasters etc how to pronounce correctly the often weird and wonderful foreign names that crop up in world news - so I am sure the Wine-stine / Wine-steen issue will have been seriously discussed and guidelines duly issued to presenters.

But I still reckon that 'Weinstein' should be pronounced Wine-stine by everybody except press journalists of course who insist on pronouncing 'Weinstein' an incorrigible sexual predator.
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Language / Pronunciation of "Weinstein"
« Last post by siasl on 19 October, 2017, 10:20:03 AM »
I hear it a lot pronounced "wine-steen", yet the vowels are in the same pattern. Being of partly Germanic descent, I had originally been taught that with "ei" or "ie", you pronounce it as the terminating vowel, so "Weinstein" should be pronounced "Wine-stine". On the other hand, I seem to recall reading that the Jewish variant on that rule is that you pronounce the leading vowel, so it would be "Ween-steen".

Lastly, I know that folks are free to pronounce/spell their names as they see fit - I also seem to recall someone in a news item having a really weird name but insisting it was pronounced "Smith" (or something similar) - or it might have been the other way around.

This has been bugging me for at least a week
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