The Off Topic Topic

[Caliga]

I think the best approximation of the local way to pronounce Louisville is LOOAH-vull.

[Admiral Yi]

I think the best approximation of the local way to pronounce Louisville is LOOAH-vull.

I like your transcription better than mine on the 3rd syllable.

With the second syllable we're both trying to describe a brief flat vowel, what linguists call the schwa I believe.

[Neil]

Of course when you look at the article, in this country we wouldn't have bothered with a blood test.  Once the suspect refuses to give a breath sample that'd be the end of the story.

Hey Beeb. What happens in this country if you refuse to do a breathalyzer?

You're charged with a crime.

[Eddie Teach]

I think the best approximation of the local way to pronounce Louisville is LOOAH-vull.

Locals are often wrong. See Missourah and Nevadda.

[MadImmortalMan]

Locals are always right. It's their town after all.

[Eddie Teach]

So you say Paree and Torino then?

[Capetan Mihali]

I say "Nevadda," just comes more natural I guess.  Certainly not "Oklahomer," though, which is pretty common with older people from the Northeast, dunno about OK itself. 

And I say "AppaLATCHya," which I picked from a long-term girlfriend from Raleigh whose parents met in Boone, N.C..  On the other hand, I've had a hard time shaking "OregAWN" thing. 

[CountDeMoney]

People who say "Bawlmer" make my balls cringe and try to jump to their deaths.

[Eddie Teach]

I say "Nevadda," just comes more natural I guess. 

As much time as you've spent in Boston, you should have no problem making an "ah" sound.

[Razgovory]

It looks like a variant on the sign for female.

ding ding

I thought that was a gender, not a religion.

[fhdz]

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My day just got a couple of percentage points better.

[Barrister]

Of course when you look at the article, in this country we wouldn't have bothered with a blood test.  Once the suspect refuses to give a breath sample that'd be the end of the story.

Hey Beeb. What happens in this country if you refuse to do a breathalyzer?

You're charged with a crime.

Yup - the crime of refusing to provide a sample.  Which carries an identical penalty to impaired driving.

[Jacob]

It looks like a variant on the sign for female.

I'm guessing it's gender equality (an e. with both the male and female symbol appendages).

[Capetan Mihali]

Yup - the crime of refusing to provide a sample.  Which carries an identical penalty to impaired driving.

To give a little support to the Beeb position, as much as it pains me ( ), having zealously fought drunk driving charges on utter technicalities -- to be in this situation in the US there has already been [IN THEORY, I note] on an officer's part:

1) reasonable suspicion to pull you over at all, i.e. based on your driving it is reasonable to suspect a crime is being committed [if it's e.g. speeding, then RS should be found over again to reasonably suspect drunk driving];

2) after pulling you over, probable cause is found to arrest you for the offense (i.e. a reasonable police officer thinks you are probably driving drunk), which is ascertained in a variety of standardized ways: FST's (walking a line heel-toe, raising one foot, touching your nose), HGN (seeing how your eyes move involuntarily in light), general behavior and speech, and then the on-site Breathalyzer (which AFAIK can only be entered as evidence that *some* alcohol was consumed, not the reading.)  The "Intoxylizer" at the station gives the definitive BAC, unless you opt for a blood test in most places.  So by the time a sample is being ordered, it is at least in theory well past the phase of arbitrary "just cause I say so" on the part of cops.

Here, when you refuse to blow into the Intox or give blood (you can always, and generally should, refuse the other tests), you generally get a civil penalty from the motor vehicle dept. suspending your license for a year (usually the same as a 1x DD), aside from any criminal issues.  Which is why you should generally not blow if you already have a DD conviction or 4 on your record, but generally should if you don't.

[11B4V]

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