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 | | From: | Django Cat | | Subject: | Re: "English English" vs "Angloid" [was: Re: Most Contributors [was Re: ScotsGate Scots Language Portal]] | | Date: | Thu, 02 Dec 2004 00:38:09 +0000 |
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 | On 1 Dec 2004 12:21:09 -0800, "jerry_friedman@yahoo.com"
wrote:
>Django Cat wrote:
>> On Wed, 01 Dec 2004 16:43:12 GMT, Bob Cunningham
>> wrote:
>...
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>> >Lately, in watching "Mash" reruns, I've been impressed by
>> >the esteem the actors hold for "12-year-old Scotch". ("Not
>> >enough 'o's in 'smooth' to describe it.") So one of these
>> >days I'm going to splurge and get a bottle of Johnny Walker
>> >Black Label to see if it's really that good.
>>
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>> If you're going to splurge out, for not much more than the price of
>an
>> anonymous blend like Johnnie Walker you could get a proper drink, a
>> single malt.
>...
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>He's right, Bob. I have a poor sense of smell and can't tell a Merlot
>from a Cabernet, but the first time I tasted a single malt, I could
>tell I liked it better than a blend. (For some reason it was a direct
>comparison.) And the single malt was Glenfiddich, which some
>connoisseurs consider the McDonald's of whisky.
That's not strictly fair, as Glenfiddich is a very acceptable dram;
http://www.glenfiddich.com/. If I was looking for the 'McDonald's of
whisky' I'd be thinking of generic blends such as Bells (by no means
actively unpleasant, and fine in a cocktail).
The reason people turn their noses up at Glenfiddich is that it's the
malt everybody knows, and the one most likely to be behind the bar
where there's only one malt kept. Surprisingly, this is the case in
the Edinburgh Hilton.
> (In fact, somebody
>probably refers to it as "the McDonald".)
>
Well, in Scotland that's just going to make people think you're
referring to someone called Mc or MacDonald.
>Obaue2: Usually we see the British complaining that Americans
>unnecessarily make verbs phrasal--"start off" or "start out" instead of
>just "start"--but I think we Americans use "splurge", as Bob did, not
>"splurge out".
Really? I've never thought of that as an especially pondial thing,
just part of creative language-making. But if you want to see dynamic
phrasal verb creation watch BrTV cookery programmes featuring
professional chefs:-
"So first you sauté off the broccoli while the pac choi is boiling
down... fry up some mushrooms and steam away some carrots while you
deglaze off the sauce..."
DC
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