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Does anyone else pronounce "Soldering" as "Saudering"?
Rigby:
--- Quote from: chipwitch on May 02, 2014, 06:56:20 pm ---I've never heard that before, but if you go back just a couple hundred more than you suggest, none of us could understand the language. Whan that Aprill, with his shoures soote.... :o Languages evolve relative to proximity. With the shrinking of the world (air travel, telephone, internet etc) languages are actually beginning to meld.
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I heard someone speak some of whatever you're talking about (or what I believe it to be) and it was nearly perfectly understandable when spoken, but virtually impossible to read. A thick Scottish accent is more different to modern US English than the English of 500-700 years ago.
You might be talking older than that, and if you are then you're 100% correct. I remember reading Beowulf in high school and having a rough time with it even though it was translated.
G7PSK:
--- Quote from: Slow Poke on May 02, 2014, 01:59:26 pm ---
--- Quote from: Fred27 on May 02, 2014, 01:37:38 pm ---I've always pronounced solder as in sold. I think that's standard here in the UK. I think what you're hearing on YouTube is the US pronunciation (as in sod). I find it very odd. Much like most of what Americans have done to our language. ;)
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Like Quebecois, North American English may not be the same as King's English. Nope, sod-er-ing's the way it is in Silicon Valley....
Ummmm, silly-cone or silly-con?
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That's just it Americans do speak the Kings English. King George III English, as after they got all uppity and wouldn't drink tea like civilised people and insisted on coffee that eats the end off the spoon, :-DD their English remained static while this side of the pond ours grew, so they have a more French sound to many words and also use many old word that have been dropped here like faucet which is late middle English and now would only be used in the brewing and hostelry industry here.
Richard Crowley:
I have never heard of soldering refered to as "welding". It must depend on the community.
I agree they are fundamentally different methods and not equivalent. Perhaps communities with only a minor connection to electronics can't tell the difference.
vk6zgo:
Dear old Frederick Forsyth had "The Jackal" weld some gun components to the underside of his car "using a large soldering iron" to hide it from border controls.
Critics were raving about "his attention to detail" at the time,but that killed his credibility for me!
Hideki:
Chinese (mis)translations use "welding" quite often. Probably because their grasp of the english language is close to zero, so they rely on imperfect translation software that keeps on making the same mistakes over and over.
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