Saturday, April 02, 2011
Sometimes you wonder....
Sorta tabloidish news item in UK Telegraph:
King's teeth removed from auction.
What? Was the king biting the auction? Bad king! Rabid king! Down boy!
Oh... turns out that an estate auctioneer found some old dental X-rays of the royal family from the '30s and '40s among the property of a deceased nurse. Not the king's teeth, only pictures of the king's teeth. The royal family has quite properly asked the auction not to sell their private medical info.
Here's the part that makes me wonder:
Translating the Telegraph's usual poor editing, I think this means:
You needed to ask experts to find out that bad teeth don't cause stuttering?
If bad teeth caused stuttering then all Brits would stutter.
Hmm. I, I, I, say there, old, old, chap.... they do, do, do, tend to, tend to, tend to, stammer, now now now don't they? Not the same thing as real tonic/clonic stuttering, but it's on, on, on, the ah the ah the same spectrum. ¶ 12:14 PM
King's teeth removed from auction.
What? Was the king biting the auction? Bad king! Rabid king! Down boy!
Oh... turns out that an estate auctioneer found some old dental X-rays of the royal family from the '30s and '40s among the property of a deceased nurse. Not the king's teeth, only pictures of the king's teeth. The royal family has quite properly asked the auction not to sell their private medical info.
Here's the part that makes me wonder:
Experts who have viewed them said that the king's teeth were not the cause for his famous speech impediment that his subject of the hit film The King's Speech.
Translating the Telegraph's usual poor editing, I think this means:
Experts who have viewed them said that the king's teeth were not the cause for his famous speech impediment, which was the subject of the hit film The King's Speech.
You needed to ask experts to find out that bad teeth don't cause stuttering?
If bad teeth caused stuttering then all Brits would stutter.
Hmm. I, I, I, say there, old, old, chap.... they do, do, do, tend to, tend to, tend to, stammer, now now now don't they? Not the same thing as real tonic/clonic stuttering, but it's on, on, on, the ah the ah the same spectrum. ¶ 12:14 PM
