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Aug 14, 2009 01:51PM
My muse has arrived! Hello Ruth, lovely to meet you. I hear you are the poet in residence.
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I disagree NE. Monopoly gets my vote just for pure nostalgia. Christmas and Monopoly, one constant in a changing world.
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Oh. And not a game, but Rock 'Em, Sock "Em Robots. I lost my head over that one as a lad.
Nostalgic and I got to pass GO to boot!
You remember far too much NE! Such detail is worrying in someone so senior! Regression!
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God! you're younger than me! impossible! incredulous actually!
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Debbie, that sounds far more accurate!
Debbie, just penned a poem last night after reading some of Ruth's fine work. Can I put it up somewhere?
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Good luck!
-- the 142 (Deb always undercuts it) Year Old
Yeah, I guessed 38 was 'seen your' as opposed to 'senior' profound grats for help with where to put my musings NE.
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When I was a kid I thought it was called Monotony.
And rightly so.
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Looks like I'm in the minority so, in the 'Preserve Monopoly' club, open to discerning members of infinite good taste in recreational board games.
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More like 'You sunk my battleship?' N'est pas?
Debs, I can never access 'Kitchen Sink Chat' ( current page) for some reason??? Is there a back door or will I just sit outside on the step with my lip quivering??
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Hiya Debs & NE,
Ever done a thread on 'Songs n' Smells'?? (could be put more creatively!)
nothing like a song or a smell to get you back to a time, place and moment. Might be nice to see creative snapshots of people through these recollections and a lot of these songs are a piece of poetry in their own right, Not suggesting replacing 'Salinger with Slipknot'! just an odd line of a song with a gentle meandering round the memory attached, of perhaps people or places that have lickety split..and the same for a smell that invokes an instant memory?
Anyway..just a thought from a recent 'blow in'
It's all words and mots..
Ever done a thread on 'Songs n' Smells'?? (could be put more creatively!)
nothing like a song or a smell to get you back to a time, place and moment. Might be nice to see creative snapshots of people through these recollections and a lot of these songs are a piece of poetry in their own right, Not suggesting replacing 'Salinger with Slipknot'! just an odd line of a song with a gentle meandering round the memory attached, of perhaps people or places that have lickety split..and the same for a smell that invokes an instant memory?
Anyway..just a thought from a recent 'blow in'
It's all words and mots..
The conversation seems to have moved on now, but I've been away for a while and am only now catching up. There was mention a few posts back between differences in spelling and what caused Americans to start dropping all their u's and reversing their r's and their e's (theatre, centre, etc.).As far as I know these deviations are all down to Webster. He saw the u's in "colour" and "neighbour" and many others as unnecessary letters and simply took them out when he published his dictionary. He also removed double consonants that he saw as a waste of time, space, and ink: American travelers might wear jewelery, as opposed to a Canadian traveller who would be more likely to don jewellery.
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Welcome back, Symbol. Hope you can tarry longer this go-round. And now I know why I have a WEBSTER'S Collegiate Dictionary by my side. Appreciation for his spelling common sense!
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or would you prefer
celerry?
Moolah! (isn't this the wrong thread?)OTH, I've never met a currency I didn't like!
Welcome Wages!
Hello everyone,My name is Alison and I am new to this site. I was "chuffed to pieces" to find this group and with the thread you are writing about Webster, I know I have found the right place.
I am originally from England and loved English Language at school. Imagine my confusion when I moved here and half the letters were missing from words. LOL!
Then just when I thought it was safe to tap on the keyboard again, your punctuation is different, too.
Now this wouldn't usually be a problem for your common or garden individual, but when writing books it's a whole different ball game.
I was saved though, by a wonderful book called Comma Sense. I hope and believe I now have a grasp on the American spelling and grammer but will need the odd reassurance here and there. I hope you guys won't mind lending me your ears every now and then and correcting me where necessary.
PS. I can totally understand why Webster took those letters out. To me it makes no sense for them to be there. They're not needed phonetically after all.
Please don't tell any of my fellow countrymen I said that, they would have me hung, draw, and quartered :-)
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U are too funny Debbie and Gabi!Hi Alison!...and Welcome!
Hiya Alison
Fairly recent myself and like it lots here.
Welcome to ya!
Fairly recent myself and like it lots here.
Welcome to ya!
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Actually!! it's only dawning om me now..how atrocious you must think my spelling is...virtual blushing in progress, ah what da hell, you're used to me by now.
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As for punctuation, the biggie is how Americans place periods and commas INSIDE the closing quotation marks, while the Brits remain camped on the outside. Also, the Brits refuse to get periodic with Dr., Mrs., and Mr.
Gabi, I'd never heard of "Snakes and Ladders." Is it a child's board game where you can suddenly fall down by slipping down a snake instead of a chute (or slide)? Ladders are shortcuts UP to the finish and chutes are slides that send you down, that's all I recall (it's been a few centuries since I was deemed "a kid."
Snakes and ladders, Operation and Cleudo are part of the essential compendium of games in our house. Nostalgia in the roll of a dice..
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And I like that gameboard MUCH more than the one I owned with the stupid slides (er, chutes). Nothing like a good snake to get the kiddies into a game!
I guess Milton (or maybe it was Bradley) figured we couldn't handle a (gasp) serpent. Garden of Eden and all that...
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Jesus Gabi!! Norman knew what to do with a brush, amazing painter..no wonder his work went on fire on that train..spontaneous combustion methinks..The 'fruit carrier' has cheered up my morning considerably..mmmmm, sooo, safe in the knowledge that no-one ever lays a hand on my dreams, perchance, I'll dream my sweetest yet..
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