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@wordsworth60 wrote:

@anc wrote:

@wordsworth60 wrote:

@terry wrote:

We seem to speak the same language, but I could do with a translator.

And yet some say we’re both from Mars . . . . . . .

No we aren’t, we’re in ‘no-where land’! :lol:

Have to say though, that my two have been highly educated, one has finished uni, the other is in her second year, and when they text me, or bung something on f/b, it takes me a little while to work out what the hell they are saying! :lol:

(dons po-face)

In theory, it would be quite possible to be from Mars and in ‘no-where land’.

Check out the book “men are from mars, women are from venus” anc

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So, I should stop eating Milky Ways then?! I am sure they help me when I am in here! :lol:

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Oh dear, oh dear, I have to spell it out ………….

……………..sns is sugarnspice 4 kenty who can’t work it out! ffs – nevermind, quite obviously, quite a few couldn’t help her out either, or couldn’t be arsed?! :o

oooooooo wordsy, I was hoping you were going to play the sax!!! :lol:

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jeez it was warm in here, now it isn’t – another perv to join the boards, just bliddy great! NOT! 8)

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@wordsworth60 wrote:

@terry wrote:

We seem to speak the same language, but I could do with a translator.

And yet some say we’re both from Mars . . . . . . .

No we aren’t, we’re in ‘no-where land’! :lol:

Have to say though, that my two have been highly educated, one has finished uni, the other is in her second year, and when they text me, or bung something on f/b, it takes me a little while to work out what the hell they are saying! :lol:

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@kent f OBE wrote:

@anc wrote:

erm, excuse me, but, I am at liberty to ignore silly remarks and wryly comment back, and peeps don’t ‘get it’ :roll: ! That annoys me, so there you go, that is back to thread!

Have ya got bongo’s wordsy?! :lol: :lol: :lol: 8)

I’m not sure if that was directed at me Anc but I was referring to Terry’s other thread abtou staying on topic :lol:

Lorraine Kelly……..I can’t stand the way everything she comes across is absolutely wonderful and everyone she interviews is absolutely wonderful

oh ffs, nooooooooooooo I typed in sns!! :roll: I agree about Lorraine Kelly btw!

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@wordsworth60 wrote:

@terry wrote:

@wordsworth60 wrote:

Is Norris from Coronation Street a national, ethnic or racial identity?

He is a character on a soap opera.. . . .

Ain’t we all . . . . . .?

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Yeah, but the trouble with me is, is that I am exactly the same in real life – not a bit like Norris, I might add! :lol:

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@wordsworth60 wrote:

@sceptical guy wrote:

Right, wordy, vengeance for Capt Scott lol

This is partly thwarted by your recognition that William Wallace didn’t get to Derby (I think twas York, though that is memory – I have a long memory lol).

The Jacobites got there because they wanted the Young Pretendeer on the British throne. They were aiming for London, not Scottish independence. In fact, the clan mentality of the Scots Jacobites had no conception of Scottish nationhood, which is why Scotland was so often wracked with civil war (the Camplells are cumming hah ha ha ha).

This was doomed, as Flora MacDonald was awaitin’, but in the part of Cumbria in which I grew up, the legnend is that there is a litter of Bonnie Prince Charlie’s descendants. He may have been a cad, but the lasses went for him.

It was probably because he was a cad. I wikipedia’d Flora to remind myself (so much forgotten . . . . ) For a fleeting moment I thought I recognised her picture – was I Flora MacDonald’s fancy?

Is this butter v. margarine?! 8) :lol:

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@sceptical guy wrote:

There are lots of complaints about poor grammar, and I never take them seriously; why is this you may ask? Well coz I can write some pretty bad grandma mesel.

Is this to do with humble originis? you may well ask – the answer is a simple yes, I was dragged up poor.

In fact there are two grammars, two languages; it’s why furriners can speak much more correct English than the home-grown.

There is the formal, correct English of the written word. This is BBC English RP (Received pronunciation). It is a very very odd style, full of odd rules about prepositions and prohibitions. Most people can’t speak it, and it’s not meant to be spoken; it’s meant to be written. Furriners find it very hard to learn, but they are horrified when they come here because having mastered the rules they suddenly find that nobody obeys them outside the elite. It’s mainly derived from the rules of Latin, which is why public school kids who learn latin are good at it, but it’s not simply derived from Latin.

Public school kids are taught to rule the rest of us slobs, which is why some of us slobs when we get an education try to ape public school manners and snobbishness. English grandma and spelling are an excellent way in which to establish this superiority.

The second English is the English everybody else speaks. It’s not derived fomr Latin, but is a real hodge-podge of thingummyjigs and you-know-what-I-means. It’s a very virile and changing language, is always spoken so that when it appears on the written page it appears distinctly odd. It can only be really understood in face-to-face chat, because it’s bound up with inflections of voice, with personal stresses and eye contact. People who speak it are taught by the elite that they are inferior becasue they have no grandma (grammar for the formal amongst us).

The rules of verse were all drawn up according to the Latin rules of grandma in the 16th century, and are awful. Only the worst poets obey them. The best poets louse em up.

I have no problem with lousing up the grandma. I’s muggin da Queen’s English,as one guy said.

I’ve never heard of ‘grammer’ known as ‘grandma’! :oops: :lol:

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If you don’t ‘get’ the above, you don’t have a brain-cell worth knowing sns!! :roll:

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erm, excuse me, but, I am at liberty to ignore silly remarks and wryly comment back, and peeps don’t ‘get it’ :roll: ! That annoys me, so there you go, that is back to thread!

Have ya got bongo’s wordsy?! :lol: :lol: :lol: 8)

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