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How do I add a picture avatar???
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J_Daniels
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yeah...
I didn't see any available avatars either. I think it may be related to your number of posts on this site, though I'm not 100% on that.
You should be able to resize your own photo with any photo editing software. Just look for an option that allows you to manipulate the pixel count, and reduce it to 50x50, then you can use it on this site (at least that's what I had to do...).
JCD
p.s. - search for and download irfanview. It's freeware, and I know it will do what you need, because it's what I used
I didn't see any available avatars either. I think it may be related to your number of posts on this site, though I'm not 100% on that.
You should be able to resize your own photo with any photo editing software. Just look for an option that allows you to manipulate the pixel count, and reduce it to 50x50, then you can use it on this site (at least that's what I had to do...).
JCD
p.s. - search for and download irfanview. It's freeware, and I know it will do what you need, because it's what I used
Chip
ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒ&
this weekend
opens at 9, I think, tomorrow and Sunday. Dorton Arena, North entrance. I may have some cawn snakes at a buddies' table, not sure how many I'll bring as of yet. If you want to see cawns, Rich Z will be there though, if he's not too busy at the gun show next door !
opens at 9, I think, tomorrow and Sunday. Dorton Arena, North entrance. I may have some cawn snakes at a buddies' table, not sure how many I'll bring as of yet. If you want to see cawns, Rich Z will be there though, if he's not too busy at the gun show next door
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CowBoyWay
Cocked & Unlocked member
Off topic, meandering ramble about dialects....
Cawnondacawb?..
"Ya'll Sprechen zie English?"
Not all people who speak a language speak it the same way.
A language can be subdivided into any number of dialects which each vary in some way from the parent language.
The term, accent, is often incorrectly used in its place, but an accent refers only to the way words are pronounced, while a dialect has its own grammar, vocabulary, syntax, and common expressions as well as pronunciation rules that make it unique from other dialects of the same language.
All of us have personal ways of using a language, an accent put on a word, a way of phrasing a sentence, new uses for old words, or even making up new words.
When a group of people all share a set of such traits, together they speak a dialect.
Contrary to what your teachers probably tried to tell you, there is no such thing as "correct English."
Any manner of speaking that is following the rules of a dialect is equally "correct." Words like ain't are "real" words in some dialects and perfectly acceptable to use.
However, people are judged by the way they speak, and dialects carry different levels of social prestige with them based on the prejudices within a society.
Generally, the southern dialects of American English carry a lower prestige, at least among northerners who will assume that a person speaking a southern dialect is less intelligent and less educated than they are.
Some educated southerners even feel this way and will "correct" their speech to meet northern standards.
The New York City dialect carries the lowest prestige of all... ("Received Standard", a dialect of British English used by the BBC and the royal family, carries the highest prestige - even among Americans).
For this reason, schools try to rid children of the local dialects they learned from their family and friends in favor of a more prestigious one...
http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/1906/dialects.html
English dialects around the world....
http://dir.yahoo.com/Social_Science...uages/English/Dialects_and_Regional_Variants/
For example...
"Some" may say: Ah'm a gonna havta open up a can a' whoopass on ya.
"We" may say: Now I will have to cause you great physical harm...
Actually there are many other Dialect variations that might be used instead.
Phon-Eee-Shunz, FeeNix.. "local expressions".
"So hot you can fry an egg on the sidewalk"...
it's how we prepare our eggs out here.
"Tubebin"... Floating down the Salt River in the summertime through beautiful Saguro "(Saah-war-oh) "cactus Forests" in a big ol' inner tube.
Don't forget the Beverage Cooler tube though, a person gets mighty thirsty floating along. :~)
"Dah Fort"...Fort McDowell Indian Casino where Chicago "snowbirds" like to hang out.
"Sir Vay Suh, Pour Some More"...Gringo Span-glish for "Gimme another beer."
"Jackalope" ... Is a very unique cross between an antelope and a Jack Rabbit, resulting in a feral population of "Antlered Rabbits".
It looks like a surprisingly large jackrabbit, about the size of a domesticated dog, with a rack of antlers like a deer.
"But its a dry heat"...is a favorite local mantra in the summertime.
The secret is to keep repeating it to oneself and one might eventually get to believe it.
"get along little doggies"...what I say to my dogs when were out walking.
Ya'll come back now, ya'heer
Cawnondacawb?..
"Ya'll Sprechen zie English?"
Not all people who speak a language speak it the same way.
A language can be subdivided into any number of dialects which each vary in some way from the parent language.
The term, accent, is often incorrectly used in its place, but an accent refers only to the way words are pronounced, while a dialect has its own grammar, vocabulary, syntax, and common expressions as well as pronunciation rules that make it unique from other dialects of the same language.
All of us have personal ways of using a language, an accent put on a word, a way of phrasing a sentence, new uses for old words, or even making up new words.
When a group of people all share a set of such traits, together they speak a dialect.
Contrary to what your teachers probably tried to tell you, there is no such thing as "correct English."
Any manner of speaking that is following the rules of a dialect is equally "correct." Words like ain't are "real" words in some dialects and perfectly acceptable to use.
However, people are judged by the way they speak, and dialects carry different levels of social prestige with them based on the prejudices within a society.
Generally, the southern dialects of American English carry a lower prestige, at least among northerners who will assume that a person speaking a southern dialect is less intelligent and less educated than they are.
Some educated southerners even feel this way and will "correct" their speech to meet northern standards.
The New York City dialect carries the lowest prestige of all... ("Received Standard", a dialect of British English used by the BBC and the royal family, carries the highest prestige - even among Americans).
For this reason, schools try to rid children of the local dialects they learned from their family and friends in favor of a more prestigious one...
http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/1906/dialects.html
English dialects around the world....
http://dir.yahoo.com/Social_Science...uages/English/Dialects_and_Regional_Variants/
For example...
"Some" may say: Ah'm a gonna havta open up a can a' whoopass on ya.
"We" may say: Now I will have to cause you great physical harm...
Actually there are many other Dialect variations that might be used instead.
Phon-Eee-Shunz, FeeNix.. "local expressions".
"So hot you can fry an egg on the sidewalk"...
it's how we prepare our eggs out here.
"Tubebin"... Floating down the Salt River in the summertime through beautiful Saguro "(Saah-war-oh) "cactus Forests" in a big ol' inner tube.
Don't forget the Beverage Cooler tube though, a person gets mighty thirsty floating along. :~)
"Dah Fort"...Fort McDowell Indian Casino where Chicago "snowbirds" like to hang out.
"Sir Vay Suh, Pour Some More"...Gringo Span-glish for "Gimme another beer."
"Jackalope" ... Is a very unique cross between an antelope and a Jack Rabbit, resulting in a feral population of "Antlered Rabbits".
It looks like a surprisingly large jackrabbit, about the size of a domesticated dog, with a rack of antlers like a deer.
"But its a dry heat"...is a favorite local mantra in the summertime.
The secret is to keep repeating it to oneself and one might eventually get to believe it.
"get along little doggies"...what I say to my dogs when were out walking.
Ya'll come back now, ya'heer
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