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I use the Google Translate app a lot to improve my lingo.
Just discovered that I can talk into it so decided to improve my pronunciation

Started with summat simple.

Sandwich de atun sin mayonesa.

It seemed to struggle my Yorickshire accent

Yorick wrote: Tue Mar 05, 2024 7:30 pm I use the Google Translate app a lot to improve my lingo.
Just discovered that I can talk into it so decided to improve my pronunciation

Started with summat simple.

Sandwich de atun sin mayonesa.

It seemed to struggle my Yorickshire accent

I can't remember which app I was using, but it struggled with my Lancashire accent. I think it would have struggled with any non American accent. The word was "damp". I tried pretty much every variation of vowel sounds: "damp", "demp", "dimp", "domp", "dump", without success until I tried it with my best American accent with two syllables. It liked "dayump" and translated it for me.

Think there's a lot of over reaction to the picture tbh...

A naughty person might have superimposed Savile's face somewhere on that....

Advert on my Friendface (that I don't use because I'm not over 65).

Bit of a poor show from JD sports?

KungFooBob wrote: Tue Mar 12, 2024 1:12 pm
Bit of a poor show from JD sports?

Agreed. For accuracy it should have been on a stolen scoot.

Taipan wrote: Tue Mar 12, 2024 3:21 pm

I've seen it from 85 miles away at Ngarkot in Nepal.

Isn't it something like 1 in 7 die in the attempt?

I've got a DVD from some young chap who shipped his C90 to Thailand and rode it back to the UK... He walked up to Basecamp in his trainers. I guess that's the easiest bit tho' what with it being near the base

Was a great watch, I should dig it out and watch it again.

Edit: it was Ed March.

Horse wrote: Tue Mar 12, 2024 3:31 pm Isn't it something like 1 in 7 die in the attempt?

over 300 bodies up there apparently!

Horse wrote: Tue Mar 12, 2024 3:31 pm Isn't it something like 1 in 7 die in the attempt?

330 dead apparently, 125 of those were sherpas. (That's attempting to get to the summit or on the return).

Taipan wrote: Tue Mar 12, 2024 3:21 pm

It was a while back now but I made a conscious decision in my 30s that I wasn't going to be one of those flags.

Yorick wrote: Tue Mar 12, 2024 3:30 pm I've seen it from 85 miles away at Ngarkot in Nepal.

I saw it from 6 miles away at Kala Patthar, 3 weeks before my 68th birthday. You've probably got time left for a better view.

Yambo wrote: Tue Mar 12, 2024 4:05 pm

Taipan wrote: Tue Mar 12, 2024 3:21 pm

It was a while back now but I made a conscious decision in my 30s that I wasn't going to be one of those flags.

Yorick wrote: Tue Mar 12, 2024 3:30 pm I've seen it from 85 miles away at Ngarkot in Nepal.

I saw it from 6 miles away at Kala Patthar, 3 weeks before my 68th birthday. You've probably got time left for a better view.

We were staying at Restaurant at end of Universe. Name changed since

Count Steer wrote: Tue Mar 12, 2024 3:57 pm

Horse wrote: Tue Mar 12, 2024 3:31 pm Isn't it something like 1 in 7 die in the attempt?

330 dead apparently, 125 of those were sherpas. (That's attempting to get to the summit or on the return).

And they don't decompose ...

And, as well as an open mortuary, it's also a massive rubbish dump.

Count Steer wrote: Tue Mar 12, 2024 3:57 pm

Horse wrote: Tue Mar 12, 2024 3:31 pm Isn't it something like 1 in 7 die in the attempt?

330 dead apparently, 125 of those were sherpas. (That's attempting to get to the summit or on the return).

I think K2 has a higher fatality rate than Everest. The numbers are lower, 96 dead out of 700 or so summits but it is a very dangerous mountain to be on. However, it's no walk in the park just to get to base camp and it was first successfully summited in 1954. It's a serious endeavour to attempt K2 whereas Everest has become a bit of a tourist resort.