Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[GreekWay]

$600 PLO at the Venetian?

[tikay]

More Vegas nonsense.

Note how cleverly I weaved "concrete" into this piece......


http://bit.ly/SnaidR

[Karabiner]

Those two chaps bottom right in pastel pale blue look especially hardcore.

So what's the scoop for today's vicarious LV poker?

[Skippy]

Enjoying your reports.

a) Do Sky Poker mind you mentioning Pokerstars in every blog, or is it that they are so enormous now that it seems to futile to pretend that they don't exist?
b) How many poker players do you think the WSOP attracts every year? I know there are lots of people there who never play a single WSOP event, or who never even play a tournament. How does it compare to the convention of jewellers do you reckon? I've got a friend who's going to Vegas in a week, and he's too daft to even understand the rules of poker. My mental image of Vegas is that the entire place turns into pokertown for the duration, but I guess it's just another drop in the bucket over there.

[tikay]

Replies soonest, am currently at McCarron Airport, aircraft spotting, important to get priorities right.

My next scheduled poker, as per the stakers schedule, is Wednesday, the Venetian $600 PLO.

Tomorrow and Tuesday I will be exploring Nevada in a hire car, and going to watch a Baseball game match thingie.

[Tal]

Your third article has set me off on something.

[Tal]

"The IECS will attract 25,000. IECS? Yes, surely you know that one? International Esthetics Cosmetic and Spa Conference, obv. They give a whole new meaning to make-up."

Delicious pun aside (maybe you were born with it ), a question for you:

What would the acronym IECS be if it were an English-based organisation? Would it be the IACS, because we use the ash still.

Old English is a little reminder of our old tongue.

[mulhuzz]

"The IECS will attract 25,000. IECS? Yes, surely you know that one? International Esthetics Cosmetic and Spa Conference, obv. They give a whole new meaning to make-up."

Delicious pun aside (maybe you were born with it ), a question for you:

What would the acronym IECS be if it were an English-based organisation? Would it be the IACS, because we use the ash still.

Old English is a little reminder of our old tongue.

Knew it would be that which set you off!

[Redsgirl]

"The IECS will attract 25,000. IECS? Yes, surely you know that one? International Esthetics Cosmetic and Spa Conference, obv. They give a whole new meaning to make-up."

Delicious pun aside (maybe you were born with it ), a question for you:

What would the acronym IECS be if it were an English-based organisation? Would it be the IACS, because we use the ash still.

Old English is a little reminder of our old tongue.

Knew it would be that which set you off!

I didn't even recognise the word spelled with the E. For some reason I even read it as est etics without the th sound.
 
Strange how the English way just looks like the right way even though it's always almost the most complicated.

[Tal]

The Z in this man's name is pronounced like a G. Why? Because it isn't a Z; it's a Yogh.


How do you pronounce the first word in this shop?

Click to see full-size image.

It's not Ye; it's the. The first letter is a Thorn.

The evolution of our language has meant these letters - and others - are largely obsolete, but we still see them crop up here and there. We are blessed with such a wonderful language, slathered copiously with history, variety and influence. A little bit of French here. A little Anglo-Saxon there. A word no one knows where it came from every once in a while, too (the origin of the word dog is disputed; possibly Dutch).

I suppose, when I see Wikipedia, I am nonplussed that there's no ash (that's the æ symbol even my smartphone keyboard knows about). After all, it's half Hawaiian and half Greek. Nobody seems to mind these days that television is half Latin and half Greek.

The Esthetics thing did make me do one of those paternal stares, though. You know, when they look over their newspaper to give you a disapproving look.

[TightEnd]

is esthetics different to aesthetics?

one is an aesthete, all being well, not an esthete?

[mulhuzz]

Tal: you'll know this, what's the name for a word that is half Greek half Latin?

I can't for the life of me recall...

[Tal]

Tal: you'll know this, what's the name for a word that is half Greek half Latin?

I can't for the life of me recall...

Hybrid

[mulhuzz]

Tal: you'll know this, what's the name for a word that is half Greek half Latin?

I can't for the life of me recall...

Hybrid

Is there not a more fun word? I really feel like there is...

[Tal]

Tal: you'll know this, what's the name for a word that is half Greek half Latin?

I can't for the life of me recall...

Hybrid

Is there not a more fun word? I really feel like there is...

Not that I'm aware of. A neologism? That's just a new word, though.