"apples and oranges"
"apples and oranges"
#1"apples and oranges"
Posted: 3/16/07 at 6:56pm
I see this a lot on threads when people are asking for help deciding on shows. It makes no sense to me. Doesn't your list of favorite shows include many different sorts? Mine sure does. Doesn't it make more sense to just give the person an answer as to your preference, or why you think they might like or not like a particular show, rather than using the useless phrase "apples and oranges"?
Just asking.
vmlinnie
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/06
#2re: 'apples and oranges'
Posted: 3/16/07 at 7:02pm
Just out of interest, where did you get the Irish translation of 'Happy St. Patrick's Day to You' for your sig?
Lá fhéile Pádraig Shona Dhuit!
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
#2re: 'apples and oranges'
Posted: 3/16/07 at 7:12pmSome Gaelic translation site. The accents wouldn't copy.
vmlinnie
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/06
#3re: 'apples and oranges'
Posted: 3/16/07 at 7:15pm
I'm rather impressed!
Maith thú, agus go n-eirí an t-ádh leat!
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
skingdom
Broadway Star Joined: 6/29/03
vmlinnie
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/06
#6re: 'apples and oranges'
Posted: 3/16/07 at 7:58pm
Poor, Mr. R, poor!
Gread leat a phlaice, no geoghbhaidh me an madra agus beidh se ort ar nos na gaoithe!
And I don't need a novelty t-shirt or a translator to do that.
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
#7re: 'apples and oranges'
Posted: 3/16/07 at 8:21pm
I use the phrase when I want to clearly and succinctly say:
Comparing these two things or trying to decide which is better would be ridiculous as they are two totally different types and it really depends on what your tastes are or what mood you are in.
It's an attempt to be objective.
vmlinnie
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/06
#8re: 'apples and oranges'
Posted: 3/16/07 at 8:29pm
úll agus oráistí
The accents, by the way, are called fadas. A fada, which is always moving up to the right, makes the following differences in pronounciation.
a = ah
á = aw
e = eh
é = ay
i = ih
í = ee
o = oh
ó = Oh (asin slow, go)
u = uh
ú = oo
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#9re: 'apples and oranges'
Posted: 3/16/07 at 8:33pm
To Vinnie
It is the only phrase I knew being American born
Did not mean to offend
#10re: 'apples and oranges'
Posted: 3/16/07 at 8:40pm
geoghbhaidh
Woooaaah.
It was awesome. - theaterkid1015
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