Nacktschnecken omlet Cube

[Lavenders_Blue]

See - maths professor blasts student's email and don't worry, he doesn't humiliate one student, the name is an amalgam. It's very relevant to this thread.

 

http://m.huffpost.com/uk/entry/5829170?utm_hp_ref=uk-comedy&ir=UK+Comedy

 

I enjoyed that Thx 4 posting

[Alis girls]

Nah - luv yer not picky - bit anal problee but pickee - nah. we 'ave to stick ta gud englesh oddurwise it will go dawn the pan wunt it - eh! AH luv engleesh me an speek it like a laydee. Ahs dead posh no wot I mean - do ya eh eh!

[The Dogmother]

I loved the narrative about the Eglu - although I had to read it to myself to get it to make even the slightest sense.

[gavclojak]

I loved the narrative about the Eglu - although I had to read it to myself to get it to make even the slightest sense.

 

I had to read it out loud to myself, I couldn't make head nor tail of it.

And when did a chicken become an accessory?

[Valkyrie]

 

Ow I muster gone to the same skool as Wigglebotty! That and Morecambe and Wise with plays wot Ernie rote. But my dad tort me an orfil lot to.

 

Yes I hate spelling mistakes and yes I find poor grandma irritating too. But I have a horrible habit of finding all the spelling errors in magazines and print errors in books - then reading it out to OH who would rather not know. Funny thing - my daughter does the same!

 

Country Smallholding gets a huge black mark from me - or rather underlined in red with "SP" in the margin!!! This has been going on for months!

[Ain't Nobody Here]

Just catching up with this thread, very funny . I don't get how people manage to write screeds in such poor English, surely it's harder than writing as you would actually speak .

 

My bugbear at work is the school secretary (who should know better) who constantly uses the word "shall" inappropriately in emails .

 

Her latest offering - “... were borrowed, can these please be brought to the office where the book person shall collect."

[Valkyrie]

ANH! I bet she loved reading the fairy godmother's bit in Cinderella!

 

Hmm seems I missed the lunch part! I thought I felt a bit peckish!

 

Dinner was always around 1pm (or shifts from 12 until 1 when we were at school) and tea around 5pm. It only changed to "lunch" while we were at work and then dinner was in the evening. Even now I want to revert at the weekends but OH seems to want a second meal in the evening too!

[chick wiggle]

Been from oop norf, dinner is most definitely our midday meal and tea is our evening meal, I cannot be alone in this, although I do say lunch when trying to be grown up or posh

[patsylabrador]

I call them breakfast, lunch and tea. I only say dinner if we're going out in the evening. If tea is late then I call it supper. That's not how I was brought up they're just the words I like using.

[Chickabee]

Lunch and dinner other than Sunday's when it's dinner and supper. Also when I was at infants school it was dinner and tea.

[gavclojak]

It's so funny, at primary school many years ago we had a 'lunch break' to eat our 'school dinners'

Was it lunch or dinner? who knows but my goodness I loved them apart from the dreaded tapioca, I thought it was the work of the devil

[Plum]

Mmmmmm butterscotch tart

[chickencam]

I loved the frog spawn for school dinners.

[sadietoo]

Darn sarf. In our part of the world it seems ...Lunch at 12 noon. Supper is eaten at 7.00 pm onwards and is the family evening meal. (Tea is taken at 4.30pm and involves cake! ) Dinner is more formal and probably involves more effort than supper on the part of both chef and diner ( fancier food and dress or possibly a restaurant).

 

My Mum was a Geordie and we had supper in the evening (tea was what I had at 5 and involved sandwiches and cake. Unless it was High Tea which was probably something cooked like cheese on toast!) but dinner was definitely eaten in the middle of the day.....

 

Don't you love the richness and diversity of our language.....so glad I'm a native speaker I'd never cope with learning it as a second language and take my hat off to those that do!

[Cat tails]

Learning a second language is awesome too!

You come across mysterious and exotic words like egregious and bucolic (both have no real translation in Dutch) and silly sayings like: knit-your-own-sandals brigade!

 

Luckily Dutch has it's own unique words like "gezellig" and "leuk"!

[Chickabee]

Blimey, are those words English ?

[Ain't Nobody Here]

I say "knit your own yogurt" .

 

My favourite word in Dutch is 'wildrooster' (cattle grid) - we were childishly amused by that on a cycling holiday in the Netherlands .

[Cat tails]

Hahaha, never realised what "wildrooster" would sound like to an English person! But on that same note, I still have to smile when ever the topic about the "waterpik" re-emerges! Whatever you fancy sticking between your teeth!

[soapdragon]

OH is very proud to be able to say 'elephant's trunk' in Dutch for some odd reason !

[Cat tails]

"Slurf"?

 

Well to each their own fancy...

[Chucky Mama]

I have just received a letter of apology and some money off vouchers from a well known restaurant chain and it has 4 paragraphs but literally no capital letters or full stops Not even in my name, address, or the manager's name . The date is written as 23 september 2014 Quite bizzare but clearly considered 'trendy' in some way I do have £30 worth of vouchers so whilst annoying, I can live with it

[Bramble]

I say "knit your own yogurt" . .

 

I'm feeling SERIOUSLY THICK now, but what does "knit your own yogurt" mean I've never heard that before!

[The Dogmother]

I'd be tempted to mark it and send it to their head office!

[Charlottechicken]

You come across mysterious and exotic words like egregious and bucolic

 

I would love to see those in a sentence, together!

 

The date is written as 23 september 2014 Quite bizzare but clearly considered 'trendy' in some way

 

When I used to work in an office (Government department, so it looks like it's happening everywhere) this drove me up the wall. You can't change the date to 23rd September, the software won't let you. I used to cringe every time I sent a letter out, so horrid!

[Cat tails]

23 september 2014 is the Dutch way of putting down a date. So perfectly normal!