language

[manfredvijars]

Ahhhh, ewes are orl idjuts ...

[Ron]

Marty said 'can I have free of them'

Two of the Grandkids were getting in that habit of using 'f' for 'th' so I wrote these few words and got them to practice:
Thumping, thudding through Thursday throngs thundered Thirty Three Thousand thirsty thongs!
It worked!!
Ron

[Ron]

Yeah that would drive me crazy too Marty!

The thing is though that the English language evolves through 'common usage' so lets hope that it's not a sign of worse things to come!

Ron

[Heather]

Mal, I'll lay odds one of them is "wader" instead of "water" .

Good on ya Ron - what the kids need are more grandads like you ..... get em working on Betty Botter bought some butter Ron! and Peter Piper picked some pickled peppers. Now that takes me back.

Faif's farver worked in paffology - love it!


Heather

[Bob Pacey]

Bugger getting them to talk proper I can not even get them to stop swearing .


Bob

[manfredvijars]

"Preceve" vb, to receive something before you get it
(just like a joke on the internet)

[Neville Briggs]

Then why is it proper English to say, for example " leftenant " when the word for the army officer is " lieutenant ", made up of two words we use in English
lieu (leoo) meaning in place of and tenant meaning one who holds ( a lease usually ) . The lieutenant held the command in place of the captain if the captain became a casualty. Levtenant was wrong, it became leftenant, which was still wrong and now is accepted as right. Only the Yanks have got it right, Lootenant Colombo.

The reason I put this example is to demonstrate that opposing the evolution of language is like Canute ordering the waves back. Today's " wrong " pronunciation will become tomorrows correctness. As painful as that is to some ( me included ), it will happen.

[keats]

Old war references are becoming irrelevant in modern literature. If I have to suffer through one more War anicdote (just spent three days hearing about the war from an army cook) then I may consider shooting myself! There are times and places for such poetry and many, many venues are simply not interested in those old tales. Sadly they become a dime a dozen unless told in a very unique fashion.

Neil

[manfredvijars]

Well get used to it Keats, because we're going to be inundated, if not already ramping up, from next year ...

[Heather]

Last night on The Voice, one girl (in her words) was doing a preformance.