The naming of this government center in the US is very insightful into why Americans should never be allowed to teach English.
What does the naming of this building have to do with American English?
Baal comes from Hebrew not English. It is a biblical name.
Not to mention that baal is also slang for no in Australia and is also pronounced the same as “ball”.
Harry Baals does not equal Hairy Balls in standard normal persons English. Of course if you lived in Australia you could look that up in your Collins Dictionary. I’m not sure if they would have an entry for Hairy Balls in your Colons though. However, Australians being the great wags that they are would soon coin the phrase colonoscopy for looking up such entries.
Bull. Complete bull.
Baal has absolutely nothing to do with the word ‘no’. Nor does ‘ball’.
See, that’s betraying yet another reason why Murkins should not teach English in Taiwan. A ≠ U, except in Murka.
Those poor students: and people wonder why there’s so much bad Chinglish spoken. I blame the teachers.
The name comes from Hebrew. It has nothing to do with English. Many names are pronounced to resemble their origin from another language. There are many words that don’t take standard English pronunciations.
Except Baals is not standard English!
[quote]Bull. Complete bull.
Baal has absolutely nothing to do with the word ‘no’. Nor does ‘ball’.
See, that’s betraying yet another reason why Murkins should not teach English in Taiwan. A ≠ U, except in Murka.
Those poor students: and people wonder why there’s so much bad Chinglish spoken. I blame the teachers.[/quote]
Too right, Hairy. Given your avatar. I shall call you Hairy Hairy from now on.
Wake up my friend. The grandson of the Queen is not called Prince Hairy.
I see what you did there!
How about people from Noo Yawk? To them, Harry Baals does not equal Hairy Balls.
:bravo: :roflmao: and no comments about the TV station giving the story to the Brother who is pegging the “Gaydar” meter… :discodance: 
Now thats fubby…I don’t care who you are!
While this video is quite funny, you make absolutely no sense. Why on earth does this constitute an argument of “Americans should not teach English”?
Because they have no sense of humor.
Because they have no sense of humor.[/quote]
One could also argue that the whole reason that video was produced is because over 10,000 voters do have a sense of humor.
It was a funny news story, but I can understand the city not wanting to name a building after Harry Baals.
Internet votes are notoriously easy to rig, and I’m pretty sure the word got out about this vote, and the city got about 100 times more total votes cast than they thought they would.
Because they have no sense of humor.[/quote]
One could also argue that the whole reason that video was produced is because over 10,000 voters do have a sense of humor.
It was a funny news story, but I can understand the city not wanting to name a building after Harry Baals.
Internet votes are notoriously easy to rig, and I’m pretty sure the word got out about this vote, and the city got about 100 times more total votes cast than they thought they would.[/quote]
See once again. Only TC has a sense of humor, but that’s because he’s been shot at. And Doc McCoy. He hasn’t been shot at but he knows he should be shot at and has accepted that possibility totally.
We should get the brits to name stuff
How about people from Noo Yawk? To them, Harry Baals does not equal Hairy Balls.[/quote]
You can say that again 
You would think if it was a good enough name for the f’n mayor, they would have realized a long time ago, his name sounds like “hairy balls” and would be fully over it by now. his family members were pretty funny talking about it, very merkin.
How about people from Noo Yawk? To them, Harry Baals does not equal Hairy Balls.[/quote]
You can say that again
You would think if it was a good enough name for the f’n mayor, they would have realized a long time ago, his name sounds like “hairy balls” and would be fully over it by now. his family members were pretty funny talking about it, very merkin.[/quote]
New Yorkers can teach English. Tempo Gain and JD Smith are allowed, too.
[quote=“Big Fluffy Matthew”]We should get the brits to name stuff
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I’ve already explained why the English should never teach English.
http://www.forumosa.com/taiwan/viewtopic.php?f=120&t=94142
Bit off topic, but I met an American bloke on the weekend that told me he shaves his ‘baals’. We started calling him Shaved Dave. Perhaps he meant something else… 