Originally posted by finn17
Dopey...
I said there was a possibility of a \'great mind\'....
We know you\'re the other one already![]()
Originally posted by Rab
Originally posted by finn17
The English language is infuriating. I say this as an English teacher....
It propagates however, by being open ended...
New word..? Fine... just add it to the English vocabulary...
Other languages are much easier to learn/teach but most of them seemed to have closed their doors some years ago. \'Computer\' is \'computer\' in most languages.....
The biggest problem with English is that words don\'t always mean what they say....There is a lot of emphasis on the non verbal content, inflection, tone etc which is easily missed by the non-native speaker.
eg \"I like your dress\" Can mean the opposite of, \"I like your dress\". It depends upon the context and how you say it.....
The fact that English has Latin grammar rules applied to it doesn\'t help either. How daft is that? Ooh, we\'ve got a language based on Old Saxon (Germanic) with large a Norman (French) vocabulary, but we\'ll use Latin grammar.
Don\'t split infinitives, never end a sentence in a preposition as Churchill said \"This is the type of English, up with which I will not put\".
Still don\'t see the need for gender in language though, I can never remember which object is \"le\" and which is \"la\".
Rab.
All I got were three dodgy beans...Originally posted by Rab
I had a great mind once, but I swapped it for a shiny badge, a cowboy hat and a toy train. Now all I\'ve got is a hamster in a wheel and a head full of fluff.
Rab.
I suppose that\'s better than what the Mohawk Indians used to do back in European Colonial days:Originally posted by finn17
Avon \'Skin so Soft\'...I kid you not....![]()
Originally posted by Rab
Originally posted by ipaintminis
yeah i guess it does tend to suck when your new at the language...or when you just get old...
cuz u git da slizang all up in the hizzle, y\'all just cant brush yer sholdas off.
Aye, yer right enough wee yin. Aw this modern slang\'s fair got ma heid burlin so it hus, a dinnae ken whit the wurlds cumin tae. Tell ye whit though a\'m gled it\'s no sae dreich noo is it wis, peltin doon so it wis.
How\'s that for slang? One of the benefits of being Scottish, making yourself unintelligble to non-scots (and sometimes other Scots too)
Rab.
Originally posted by supervike
we have been using that skin so soft stuff for years, but to ward away mosquitos....never occured to me to use it against bees/wasps/ilk.....
My work takes me to alot of wasp and hornet nests, sometimes while I am strapped to a ladder 25 feet above the ground. I think I will give that a go....
Originally posted by Greymane
always had a thing about hornets after seeing this film as a kid
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and for bonus points which film is it ?
Originally posted by Warworks
what on Earth do you do for a living?
Originally posted by LouisCypher
no piety for those killers! lol
Luca
...some one could market an effective \'idiot away\' product. Now that would be worth re-applying every few hours:flip:Originally posted by Fizl
I now buy this stuff called \'wasp away\'.....