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"BBC Worldwide (International Site)AW77 wrote:Here is an interesting BBC article that might be relevant to this thread:
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/201409 ... ammar-nazi
Same for me. So, obviously, it applies only to foreigners.PhilW wrote:"BBC Worldwide (International Site)
We're sorry but this site is not accessible from the UK as it is part of our international service and is not funded by the licence fee"
BBC Worldwide is an entirely commercial enterprise and therefore not funded through the licence fee...AW77 wrote:That's quite strange. While the international programme may not be funded by the licence fee, it will certainly be funded by the taxes you pay. So I think you as tax payers should be entitled to it.
Shall I post the whole article here on the forum or would the moderators advise against that due to copyright difficulties this might ensue?
Old Reith would not have liked that at all...djewesbury wrote: BBC Worldwide is an entirely commercial enterprise and therefore not funded through the licence fee...
Well, the letters BBC originally stood for British Broadcasting Company. It was a private enterprise, running the radio station 2LO from a building on the Strand (Marconi House I think). The Managing Director was John Reith. It wasn't until 1927 that it was nationalised. So Reith would have been fairly comfortable with the current arrangement!AW77 wrote:Old Reith would not have liked that at all...djewesbury wrote: BBC Worldwide is an entirely commercial enterprise and therefore not funded through the licence fee...
I can't tell at this resolution, but is there an additional error in the diagonal arms of the Union Jack?jdaw1 wrote:Re previous post, it’s the Residencial Ponto Grande in Pinhão, a different error having been corrected since Google’s car visited.
As I recall, yes, but it looks to me like that particular error exists in both pictures. I have not found the corrected error to which he refers.PhilW wrote:I can't tell at this resolution, but is there an additional error in the diagonal arms of the Union Jack?jdaw1 wrote:Re previous post, it’s the Residencial Ponto Grande in Pinhão, a different error having been corrected since Google’s car visited.
Not again.PhilW wrote:
Actually, I disagree that this was a crime. Discuss.DRT wrote:Not again.PhilW wrote:
I must not repeat my thes.
I must not repeat my thes.
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PIN number?DRT wrote:Actually, I disagree that this was a crime. Discuss.DRT wrote:Not again.PhilW wrote:
I must not repeat my thes.
I must not repeat my thes.
I must not…
I could, but wouldn't that seem implausible to women reading this thread?jdaw1 wrote:Derek: are you willing to plead to being ugly but not criminal?
I agree with your disagreement. In this case, "TPF" is an adjective describing the equivalent. Even if not abbreviated I would include both thes.DRT wrote:Actually, I disagree that this was a crime. Discuss.DRT wrote:Not again.PhilW wrote:
I must not repeat my thes.
I must not repeat my thes.
I must not…
corridors again, making comments hither and thither.On page 136 of the December 2014 edition its magazine, Decanter wrote:
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Am not seeing the crime; "Graham's" and "Taylor's" are both as per trademark/brand shortened form of Vendor's (port)?DRT wrote:On page 136 of the December 2014 edition its magazine, Decanter wrote:
Quinta de Noval?PhilW wrote:Am not seeing the crime; "Graham's" and "Taylor's" are both as per trademark/brand shortened form of Vendor's (port)?DRT wrote:On page 136 of the December 2014 edition its magazine, Decanter wrote:
Ah; Not an apostrophe crime, but an oops indeed.djewesbury wrote:Quinta de Noval?PhilW wrote:Am not seeing the crime; "Graham's" and "Taylor's" are both as per trademark/brand shortened form of Vendor's (port)?DRT wrote:On page 136 of the December 2014 edition its magazine, Decanter wrote:
Quinta da Noval?
No. Neither.
One would write a “great-great-grandson”. Observe that also the hyphen is repeated. But “greatn-grandson” suggests the likes of “greatgreat-grandson”. The expression “(great-)ngrandson” would have correctly caught the repetition of the hyphen. Perhaps clarity could have been helped by adding a half-width non-breaking space: “(great-)n grandson”.[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=83590#p83590]Here[/url] jdaw1 wrote:Like father, like greatn-grandson.
On the contrary, I was quite happy with your phrasing until you came along with this turgid, toadying annotation! 20 lashes, and no Nacional for a week!jdaw1 wrote:One would write a “great-great-grandson”. Observe that also the hyphen is repeated. But “greatn-grandson” suggests the likes of “greatgreat-grandson”. The expression “(great-)ngrandson” would have correctly caught the repetition of the hyphen. Perhaps clarity could have been helped by adding a half-width non-breaking space: “(great-)n grandson”.[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=83590#p83590]Here[/url] jdaw1 wrote:Like father, like greatn-grandson.
It is hoped that this prompt and full confession will lessen my punishment.
Is the annoyance because the original expression was correct, or is the annoyance because you have been shown what you should have seen unaided?djewesbury wrote:On the contrary, I was quite happy with your phrasing until you came along with this turgid, toadying annotation! 20 lashes, and no Nacional for a week!
Accuracy over marketing-speak please! Hence “(great-)ngrandson” much improved over the original poor syntax; A magnum of old, partially oxidated Nacional to JDAW, a large swanky bottle of amazing, inspiring, fantastic pink port to DJ.djewesbury wrote:On the contrary, I was quite happy with your phrasing until you came along with this turgid, toadying annotation! 20 lashes, and no Nacional for a week!jdaw1 wrote:One would write a “great-great-grandson”. Observe that also the hyphen is repeated. But “greatn-grandson” suggests the likes of “greatgreat-grandson”. The expression “(great-)ngrandson” would have correctly caught the repetition of the hyphen. Perhaps clarity could have been helped by adding a half-width non-breaking space: “(great-)n grandson”.[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=83590#p83590]Here[/url] jdaw1 wrote:Like father, like greatn-grandson.
It is hoped that this prompt and full confession will lessen my punishment.
Especially wise given the stray apostrophe in your last but one post. But thanks for backing me up. Down with algebra as a spoken language.LGTrotter wrote:I know that this post will lay me open to all kinds of just rebukes of my use of the written word, but I can't help agreeing with Daniel that mathematical notation does not add to the clarity or elegance of the above.
I shall try to keep my beak out of these contretemps in future, in the hope of avoiding the lash of public censure.
Ah yes, I would plead guilty but request the court to take into account 793 previous offences and auto correction.djewesbury wrote:Especially wise given the stray apostrophe in your last but one post. But thanks for backing me up. Down with algebra as a spoken language.LGTrotter wrote:I know that this post will lay me open to all kinds of just rebukes of my use of the written word, but I can't help agreeing with Daniel that mathematical notation does not add to the clarity or elegance of the above.
I shall try to keep my beak out of these contretemps in future, in the hope of avoiding the lash of public censure.
Let this simply be remembered as the high point of PortForumming.LGTrotter wrote:I can't help agreeing with Daniel
Thank you for pointing this out to me I have amended my original post to reflect my views more accurately.djewesbury wrote:Let this simply be remembered as the high point of PortForumming.LGTrotter wrote:I can't help agreeing with Daniel
There is no emoticon to do justice to the feelings I have now.LGTrotter wrote:Thank you for pointing this out to me I have amended my original post to reflect my views more accurately.djewesbury wrote:Let this simply be remembered as the high point of PortForumming.LGTrotter wrote:I can't help agreeing with Daniel
Blind mathematicians will be knocking on your door soon. U=a2-ddjewesbury wrote:Down with algebra as a spoken language.
"No! Not -d! No Doctor! That means.."PhilW wrote:Blind mathematicians will be knocking on your door soon. U=a2-ddjewesbury wrote:Down with algebra as a spoken language.
357686312646216567629137djewesbury wrote:It's not big, and it's not clever.
I rest my case. No further questions your honour.PhilW wrote:357686312646216567629137djewesbury wrote:It's not big, and it's not clever.
The ones who are still here are sound asleep Phil. Or worse, like that unfortunate old gentleman in The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club.PhilW wrote:It's big (fairly) and clever (fairly) - in case anyone is interested, it is the largest prime from which you can remove any number of leading digits and the remainder is also prime. Perhaps slight off-topic now.
Do you really want to see a Mathamatist in lycra and spandex?DRT wrote:I agree with Daniel and Owen, purely on the basis that the Mathamatists didn't show their working out.