attend to a personal matter?
cpliu
something personal but don't want to be specific? I don't want to make it
sound too secretive either.
Will "attend to a personal matter" work?
Thanks for the help,
cpliu
John O'Flaherty
wrote:
>What is the best way to tell your boss/colleagues that you need to do
>something personal but don't want to be specific? I don't want to make it
>sound too secretive either.
>
>Will "attend to a personal matter" work?
Yes, just don't say "number 1" or "number 2".
--
john
david56
> What is the best way to tell your boss/colleagues that you need to do
> something personal but don't want to be specific? I don't want to make it
> sound too secretive either.
>
> Will "attend to a personal matter" work?
That's OK. If it's related to your family, you could also say you
have to "deal with a family matter".
--
David
=====
cpliu
>>Will "attend to a personal matter" work?
>
> Yes, just don't say "number 1" or "number 2".
What do you mean? personal matter as something related to rest room?
Thanks,
cpliu
R H Draney
>
>What is the best way to tell your boss/colleagues that you need to do
>something personal but don't want to be specific? I don't want to make it
>sound too secretive either.
>
>Will "attend to a personal matter" work?
I had one who insisted on details every time I tried this...finally I started
giving him enough details that he stopped asking for any: "I'll be in a little
late today; it's taking longer than I expected to get the rectal bleeding to
stop"....r
Stewart Gargis
"cpliu" <chanciusli...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:Xns94DF651689F2Dch...@130.133.1.4...
> What is the best way to tell your boss/colleagues that you need to do
> something personal but don't want to be specific? I don't want to make it
> sound too secretive either.
>
> Will "attend to a personal matter" work?
Yes, unless you have one of those bosses who thinks of you as a "friend," in
which case he may want to know all the details. In that case you could just
lie and say you have to have a prostate exam, or something.
Tony Cooper
Your assumption is that "cpliu" is a male? Or, is this an extension
of the transgender thread?
Arfur Million
> Thank you all for the suggestions.
>
> > Will "attend to a personal matter" work?
> >
> imply business you do other than the work you do at the office or it can
> mean personal issues?
>
> Thanks,
>
> cpliu
Hello cpliu,
It usually means personal issues.
Arfur
John O'Flaherty
wrote:
Yes; just trying to make a joke by specifying how not to be specific,
cpliu!
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Ross Howard
<arfur_...@hotmail.com> wrought:
Ah, "issues". I haven't seen that word for... ooh, must be at least
twenty minutes now.
ObIssuesIssue: How many here have "ISH-yooz" and how many have
"ISS-yooz"? Anyone for Estuary "ISS-yeez" or Yahksha "ISH-yoze"?
--
Ross Howard
Skitt
> "cpliu" wrote:
>> I have another related question. If you say personal business, does
>> it imply business you do other than the work you do at the office or
>> it can mean personal issues?
>
... often requiring the use of tissues ...
--
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www.geocities.com/opus731/
R H Draney
>
>Ah, "issues". I haven't seen that word for... ooh, must be at least
>twenty minutes now.
>
>ObIssuesIssue: How many here have "ISH-yooz" and how many have
>"ISS-yooz"? Anyone for Estuary "ISS-yeez" or Yahksha "ISH-yoze"?
ObDigression: hearing people talk about having "issues" always reminds me of
this exchange on alt.movies.silent:
http://www.google.com/groups?selm=B6288F2F-127002%40192.168.0.6
....r
Stewart Gargis
"Tony Cooper" <tony_co...@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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"Cpliu" is "hombre" in Maltese.
cpliu
English is so hard!!!
Best regards,
cpliu
Jerry Friedman
...
> Ah, "issues". I haven't seen that word for... ooh, must be at least
> twenty minutes now.
It issues from just about everybody's mouths and fingers, doesn't it?
> ObIssuesIssue: How many here have "ISH-yooz" and how many have
> "ISS-yooz"? Anyone for Estuary "ISS-yeez" or Yahksha "ISH-yoze"?
Merkin "ISH-ooz" for me, please.
--
Jerry Friedman
Dylan Nicholson
Is it actually possible to distinguish between SHoo and SHyoo? I can
sort of do it but it sounds very contrived.
Dylan
Michael West
> Is it actually possible to distinguish between SHoo and SHyoo? I can
> sort of do it but it sounds very contrived.
Sort of do what?
--
Michael West
Dylan Nicholson
> Dylan Nicholson wrote:
> > Is it actually possible to distinguish between SHoo and SHyoo? I can
> > sort of do it but it sounds very contrived.
>
>
> Sort of do what?
Pronounce a word that is 'shoo' without the 'yoo'. It needs a sort of
semi-glottal stop between the sh and the oo. Of course you can
empathize the 'y' to greater or lesser degrees, but it's very hard to
get rid of it completely.
Dylan
Michael West
Not for this ex-Chicagoan, it ain't,
and I'm as empa-pathetic as the next guy.
What do you call what you wear on
your feet? Not "Shyooz", I hope.
And you better have your glottis checked out.
--
Michael West
Stewart Gargis
"Dylan Nicholson" <wizo...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Does "due" present the same problem? Because I've seen the spelling "doo"
in novels when the writer wanted to convey a local dialect. "The pub is
closed doo to a death in the family," or some such. So that pronounciation
is possible at least for some Brits.
Dylan Nicholson
pronounce 'oo' as a much higher/flatter vowel (closer to a non-rhotic
'er', or even like shows without the final diphthong) it's fairly easy
to lose the 'y'.
I honestly couldn't tell you what the typical aussie pronunciation
might be.
Dylan
Dylan Nicholson
_Do_ I have a problem with due? Not unless it's half of doo-doo and
you just stepped in it.
Dylan
Michael West
> "Michael West" <mbw...@remove.bigpond.com> wrote in message
> news:<KFomc.23998$TT.2...@news-server.bigpond.net.au>...
>> Dylan Nicholson wrote:
>>> "Michael West" <mbw...@remove.bigpond.com> wrote in message
>>> news:<ltkmc.22995$TT....@news-server.bigpond.net.au>...
>>>> Dylan Nicholson wrote:
>>>>> Is it actually possible to distinguish between SHoo and SHyoo? I can
>>>>> sort of do it but it sounds very contrived.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Sort of do what?
>>>
>>> Pronounce a word that is 'shoo' without the 'yoo'. It needs a sort of
>>> semi-glottal stop between the sh and the oo. Of course you can
>>> empathize the 'y' to greater or lesser degrees, but it's very hard to
>>> get rid of it completely.
>>
>> Not for this ex-Chicagoan, it ain't,
>> and I'm as empa-pathetic as the next guy.
>> What do you call what you wear on
>> your feet? Not "Shyooz", I hope.
>>
> Er, yep, that's exactly how I pronounce it. I worked out that if you
> pronounce 'oo' as a much higher/flatter vowel (closer to a non-rhotic
> 'er', or even like shows without the final diphthong) it's fairly easy
> to lose the 'y'.
Amazin'. How would you describe your dialect
(in terms of geography, I mean)?
I understand about the various diphthongs one
hears in "shoe" and "you" and similar words, especially
here in Oz, where "you" can come out sounding like
yooy" -- but I've never heard a pronunciation of "shoe"
that sounds anything like "shyoo".
Where I grew up, "due" and "do" were homonyms, but
since moving to Australia, I've pretty much adopted the
BrE-style practice of distinguishing them.
--
Michael West
Dylan Nicholson
> Dylan Nicholson wrote:
> > "Michael West" <mbw...@remove.bigpond.com> wrote in message
> > news:<KFomc.23998$TT.2...@news-server.bigpond.net.au>...
> >> Dylan Nicholson wrote:
> >>> "Michael West" <mbw...@remove.bigpond.com> wrote in message
> >>> news:<ltkmc.22995$TT....@news-server.bigpond.net.au>...
> >>>> Dylan Nicholson wrote:
> >>>>> Is it actually possible to distinguish between SHoo and SHyoo? I can
> >>>>> sort of do it but it sounds very contrived.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Sort of do what?
> >>>
> >>> Pronounce a word that is 'shoo' without the 'yoo'. It needs a sort of
> >>> semi-glottal stop between the sh and the oo. Of course you can
> >>> empathize the 'y' to greater or lesser degrees, but it's very hard to
> >>> get rid of it completely.
> >>
> >> Not for this ex-Chicagoan, it ain't,
> >> and I'm as empa-pathetic as the next guy.
> >> What do you call what you wear on
> >> your feet? Not "Shyooz", I hope.
> >>
> > Er, yep, that's exactly how I pronounce it. I worked out that if you
> > pronounce 'oo' as a much higher/flatter vowel (closer to a non-rhotic
> > 'er', or even like shows without the final diphthong) it's fairly easy
> > to lose the 'y'.
>
> Amazin'. How would you describe your dialect
> (in terms of geography, I mean)?
Well living here you should know that geography doesn't make that much
difference to accent, so I'd only call it 'educated urban' I guess.
My dad's a pom, and mum spent some time teaching in the UK, so I guess
they've influenced my accent a little.
>
> I understand about the various diphthongs one
> hears in "shoe" and "you" and similar words, especially
> here in Oz, where "you" can come out sounding like
> yooy" -- but I've never heard a pronunciation of "shoe"
> that sounds anything like "shyoo".
I reckon it's more like yuh-oo with a tiny scoop at the end.
But the 'y' in my 'shoe' is very subtle. At any it's exactly the same
in chew, choose and issue. 'Hughes' is similar, but not quite the
same. 'Whose' of course completely lacks any y- scoop, and I don't
say the 'h'.
>
> Where I grew up, "due" and "do" were homonyms, but
> since moving to Australia, I've pretty much adopted the
> BrE-style practice of distinguishing them.
Bet you still haven't lost your r's though. My wife's been here 4
years now (after growing up in LA) and she's still as rhotic as ever.
Although oddly enough certainly words that she picked up
here...like...well...um...'wanker' she doesn't seem to use the r on.
Dylan
Jonathan Jordan
news:96efe132.04050...@posting.google.com...
<snip>
> > ObIssuesIssue: How many here have "ISH-yooz" and how many have
> > "ISS-yooz"? Anyone for Estuary "ISS-yeez" or Yahksha "ISH-yoze"?
>
> Merkin "ISH-ooz" for me, please.
And for me, so you can forget the "Merkin" bit.
Jonathan
Jonathan Jordan
That's East Anglian, and also, I think, old-fashioned Cockney. In
some flat parts of England they even drop the /j/ in words like "few"
and "beautiful".
In a lot of other British accents, "due" has become more like "Jew".
I have a subtle distinction, but I certainly don't say "d-yoo" like in
old-fashioned RP. I think some people have lost the "due"-"Jew"
distinction altogether.
Jonathan
Evan Kirshenbaum
> ObIssuesIssue: How many here have "ISH-yooz" and how many have
> "ISS-yooz"? Anyone for Estuary "ISS-yeez" or Yahksha "ISH-yoze"?
I've have ISH-yooz /ISjuz/, although in normal speech it often slides
a fair bit toward [ISuz].
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> "Stewart Gargis" <al...@toomuchspam.net> wrote in message
> news:c7drnb$o11$1...@news.netins.net...
>
>>"Dylan Nicholson" <wizo...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>>news:7d428a77.04050...@posting.google.com...
>>
>>closed doo to a death in the family," or some such. So that
>
> pronounciation
>
>>is possible at least for some Brits.
>
>
> That's East Anglian, and also, I think, old-fashioned Cockney. In
> some flat parts of England they even drop the /j/ in words like "few"
> and "beautiful".
>
> In a lot of other British accents, "due" has become more like "Jew".
> I have a subtle distinction, but I certainly don't say "d-yoo" like in
> old-fashioned RP. I think some people have lost the "due"-"Jew"
> distinction altogether.
The 'doo', 'noo' pronunciation was used by all my Leicestershire and
Nottingham relations, so I don't think it's confined to E Anglia.
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Rob Bannister