Lavenders_Blue Posted September 21, 2014 Share Posted September 21, 2014 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alis girls Posted September 21, 2014 Share Posted September 21, 2014 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted September 21, 2014 Share Posted September 21, 2014 I loved the narrative about the Eglu - although I had to read it to myself to get it to make even the slightest sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gavclojak Posted September 21, 2014 Share Posted September 21, 2014 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted September 21, 2014 Share Posted September 21, 2014 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ain't Nobody Here Posted September 21, 2014 Share Posted September 21, 2014 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." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted September 21, 2014 Share Posted September 21, 2014 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chick wiggle Posted September 22, 2014 Share Posted September 22, 2014 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patsylabrador Posted September 22, 2014 Share Posted September 22, 2014 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickabee Posted September 22, 2014 Author Share Posted September 22, 2014 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gavclojak Posted September 22, 2014 Share Posted September 22, 2014 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plum Posted September 22, 2014 Share Posted September 22, 2014 Mmmmmm butterscotch tart Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickencam Posted September 22, 2014 Share Posted September 22, 2014 I loved the frog spawn for school dinners. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadietoo Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cat tails Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 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"! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickabee Posted September 23, 2014 Author Share Posted September 23, 2014 Blimey, are those words English ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ain't Nobody Here Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 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 . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cat tails Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soapdragon Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 OH is very proud to be able to say 'elephant's trunk' in Dutch for some odd reason ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cat tails Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 "Slurf"? Well to each their own fancy... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chucky Mama Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bramble Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 I'd be tempted to mark it and send it to their head office! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlottechicken Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cat tails Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 23 september 2014 is the Dutch way of putting down a date. So perfectly normal! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
