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Re: Sailing boat rescued by the Götheborg

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Post by willyt » Sat, May 06, 2023, 11:27 PM UTC

ytdytvhxgydvhh wrote: post #91

Would one receive a bill in a situation like this? To cover the cost of lost time and/or extra diesel burned? Or is it purely out of the goodness of the hearts of the management of the towing vessel?

Potentially. From the wikipedia article on ‘Marine salvage’:

All vessels have an international duty to give reasonable assistance to other ships in distress in order to save life, but there is no obligation to try to salve the vessel. Any offer of salvage assistance may be refused; but if it is accepted a contract automatically arises to give the successful salvor the right to a reward under the 1989 Convention.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_salvage

Re: Sailing boat rescued by the Götheborg

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Post by jazzyjackson » Sun, May 07, 2023, 2:08 AM UTC

jimmySixDOF wrote: post #67

ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #58

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In Japan, "L" and "R" are often interchangeable. Their pronunciation is somewhere between. That's a cool story.

In Arabic the hard "P" is often swapped with "B" and it's also the case that real pronunciation is somewhere between.

Re: Sailing boat rescued by the Götheborg

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Post by blur13 » Sun, May 07, 2023, 9:06 PM UTC

DavidVoid wrote: post #134

checkyoursudo wrote: post #22

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In Swedish, the v and the w only became distinct pretty recently. There are still people alive today who don't know which to pick if they don't already know how a v-sounding word is spelled. Also, the same person might say "Vilma" one day and "Wilma" the next, just as an example of the confusion (and Wilma is their own daughter...) Also, also, I have had older Swedes be completely unable to hear a difference between…

Differentiating between English J and Y is also difficult for Swedes (at least for me), because in Swedish, a J at the start of a word is typically pronounced with a Y-sound. I have to make a conscious effort to make sure I don't get the words jet and yet mixed up when I say them.

This is so true. I made this mistake until a friend named Justin pointed out that his name was pronounced Justin and not Yustin... I found that to be bit embarrassing so that made the pronunciation rule stick.

Re: Sailing boat rescued by the Götheborg

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Post by checkyoursudo » Mon, May 08, 2023, 4:01 PM UTC

DavidVoid wrote: post #133

dehrmann wrote: post #127

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I used to work for a Swedish company with a system named "foo-ws," as in Foo Web Service. It's pronounced "foo vee ess." Because Swedish. IIRC, www is vee vee vee.

> Because Swedish. IIRC, www is vee vee vee. I can confirm. I mean, the "proper" pronunciation is dubbel-vee-dubbel-vee-dubbel-vee, but we can't be bothered to say all that so we just say vee-vee-vee. I also think "double-v" is a better name for the letter w than "double-u" is.

Long time ago in the US, I heard someone say on a radio show (maybe an advert), "dub-u dot [example] dot com," like the 3 W's were just too much.

I think I have also heard dub-dub-dub dot etc.