"f't'b'llas" - the swallowing of vowels is nothing new. I remember when Clive James used to write an erudite and amusing column each week in the Observer. His running June Joke was of Harry Carpenter commentating on "Wmbldn".
Oasis, a foul smelling watering hole in the Desert a few Date Palms and a raised section of well for humans and camels to drink if you dare. Your nose tells you where they are from ten miles out. When may I ask did we turn Railway Stations into train stations?
We have at least six regional accents within a distance of 35 miles which we all understand although being taught the Kings now the Queens English in the correct way at school we all added yet another accent as we tried at elocution lessons to make pronouncements aka BBC News Readers.
I find writing for the Local History comes out quite formal and much as an Engineers report, everything there that would be needed although cut to the quick. On here you are writing with friends much looser prose unless talking to a newby where much more detail must be added.
If I read or hear "Amazzingg, The end of the day, Abbreviations, BTW, FAQ, IMO, IOW. TIC, I will tear out all the hair on my "err" arms. Do not get me started.
I know what you mean about reports Frank. In my line of work it's scientific papers and there's a certain advert on tv at the moment for vacuum cleaners which makes me laugh. The one with the subtitles. It's so close to the truth.
Lounge is another one that gives me the pip. Only pubs and airports have lounges!
The problem here in betwixt and between land is that there is an argument for filum. For example the name Colm is pronounced Collum as in Irish. My argument is....we're speaking English so it's film!
I love all the dialects and I am fascinated by them. Where I work is multinational and even within my small workspace we have 1 Irish, 1 Northern Irish, 1 Scot and 1 French. Our language is a jumble of the whole lot. We hoke about in the roots of the Romance the Gaelic the Gallic the Ulster Scots and find very often that they're all from the same root.
Here we talk about footering about. ie tinkering, Turns out our French friend has a whole different slant on the verb foutre which although it means "to do"...isn't very polite!
Lantana, My Mother was from North Yorkshire Dad from Prudhoe I was born in Durham then acquired the flat Army accent which is a mish mash of it all. You tend to switch accents depending on the company and some of the guesses as to where I came from were hilarious, one lad had me down as Danish? probably in the Viking days.
Giving a lecture it would be from a written script meticulous in the writing, as one person told me real toffee nosed, giving orders they would be short to the point making sure there could be no misunderstanding that might cause problems and when Teaching an informal method that allowed questions. The feed back told me it was mostly the correct way, in later years people came up and told me I had started them off well, very satisfying.
Nato was fun German Dutch French Belgium we all got along fine it was the Americans who had us beaten, I understood the Russian's who followed us everywhere better than the Yanks. I always found it strange how soon mixed races were understanding each other. Look at the world now, travel has changed it completely since I was a lad, my Parents would not understand it at all.
Years ago some hostages were released from somewhere (my memory is fading fast, possibly Iran) and as the chap stepped off the plane he said "There aren't enough words in the American language......."
He He. There's a lovely young man who has invented a thing and placed a survey on the forum. I dutifully filled it in and he thanked me and sent a link for further reading. It outlines all his thinkings and processes and if it works I'll order one for each hand. HOWEVER... I've sent him to this thread as he's poked one of my pet peeves and called his new machine...".LESS LEAVES" How could he?
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"f't'b'llas" - the swallowing of vowels is nothing new. I remember when Clive James used to write an erudite and amusing column each week in the Observer. His running June Joke was of Harry Carpenter commentating on "Wmbldn".
That's how Boris Becker says it. It's cute when he does it but he has an excuse!
Oasis, a foul smelling watering hole in the Desert a few Date Palms and a raised section of well for humans and camels to drink if you dare. Your nose tells you where they are from ten miles out.
When may I ask did we turn Railway Stations into train stations?
We have at least six regional accents within a distance of 35 miles which we all understand although being taught the Kings now the Queens English in the correct way at school we all added yet another accent as we tried at elocution lessons to make pronouncements aka BBC News Readers.
I find writing for the Local History comes out quite formal and much as an Engineers report, everything there that would be needed although cut to the quick. On here you are writing with friends much looser prose unless talking to a newby where much more detail must be added.
If I read or hear "Amazzingg, The end of the day, Abbreviations, BTW, FAQ, IMO, IOW. TIC, I will tear out all the hair on my "err" arms. Do not get me started.
Frank
I know what you mean about reports Frank. In my line of work it's scientific papers and there's a certain advert on tv at the moment for vacuum cleaners which makes me laugh. The one with the subtitles. It's so close to the truth.
Lounge is another one that gives me the pip. Only pubs and airports have lounges!
The problem here in betwixt and between land is that there is an argument for filum. For example the name Colm is pronounced Collum as in Irish. My argument is....we're speaking English so it's film!
I love all the dialects and I am fascinated by them. Where I work is multinational and even within my small workspace we have 1 Irish, 1 Northern Irish, 1 Scot and 1 French. Our language is a jumble of the whole lot. We hoke about in the roots of the Romance the Gaelic the Gallic the Ulster Scots and find very often that they're all from the same root.
Here we talk about footering about. ie tinkering, Turns out our French friend has a whole different slant on the verb foutre which although it means "to do"...isn't very polite!
Lantana, My Mother was from North Yorkshire Dad from Prudhoe I was born in Durham then acquired the flat Army accent which is a mish mash of it all. You tend to switch accents depending on the company and some of the guesses as to where I came from were hilarious, one lad had me down as Danish? probably in the Viking days.
Giving a lecture it would be from a written script meticulous in the writing, as one person told me real toffee nosed, giving orders they would be short to the point making sure there could be no misunderstanding that might cause problems and when Teaching an informal method that allowed questions. The feed back told me it was mostly the correct way, in later years people came up and told me I had started them off well, very satisfying.
Nato was fun German Dutch French Belgium we all got along fine it was the Americans who had us beaten, I understood the Russian's who followed us everywhere better than the Yanks. I always found it strange how soon mixed races were understanding each other. Look at the world now, travel has changed it completely since I was a lad, my Parents would not understand it at all.
Frank
Years ago some hostages were released from somewhere (my memory is fading fast, possibly Iran) and as the chap stepped off the plane he said "There aren't enough words in the American language......."
You're right! There aren't!
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He He. There's a lovely young man who has invented a thing and placed a survey on the forum. I dutifully filled it in and he thanked me and sent a link for further reading. It outlines all his thinkings and processes and if it works I'll order one for each hand. HOWEVER... I've sent him to this thread as he's poked one of my pet peeves and called his new machine...".LESS LEAVES"
How could he?
Hi Ross!