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[Mark]

Amazing reseach. http://read.thestar.com/?origref=http...

[Darcy]

That link isn't working Mark :(

[Mark]

Darcy wrote: "That link isn't working Mark :("

try this one.

http://read.thestar.com/?origref=http...

[Darcy]

Much better that :)

[Carlos]

The favorite books os famous people:

http://www.businessinsider.com/favori...

What do You think? George R. R. Martin Gone Girl

[Darcy]

Two days ago the peregrines were flying over the centre of the city, today wild turkeys are running amok on the roads. Methinks they've cried fowl and are slowing reclaiming the land...

[Dawn]

We never would have known Marina!!

[Dawn]

As are we all. :)

[Andy]

dinny need google translate for that one! A given :D

[Jane]

Marina wrote: "It's 'speak your language day' on tumblr, so a german speaking friend translated this for me - Ich lese sehr gerne historische Romane, besonders über das antike Rom!"

Ich auch!

[Dawn]

I only speak English so that's not very much fun!

And this just reminds me that I keep putting off learning another language....

[Allison]

I've been learning swear words in Greek and Finnish. That's fun :)

[Dawn]

Swear words in German must sound good. Maybe I should learn those...

[Alicja]

To znaczy że mam pisać po Polsku?

On a side note, I just got my Polish passport renewed today. I've spent so much time in America I don't have an accent when speaking English (American-ish) but I do when I speak Polish. Go figure! I'm sure the family will poke fun when I visit in June.

[Alicja]

Se habla espanol un poquito tambien. Echarle la culpa a la novia.

[Dawn]

Okay, this is what Google translate tells me that says:

He speaks a little Spanish too. Blaming the bride

[Alicja]

Haha! I probably should have said yo hablo there... I get those mixed up. Novia is girlfriend and novio is boyfriend, at least in common usage. Its supposed to say: "I speak a little Spanish too. Blame the girlfriend."

Of course I speak it badly and its mostly what I've put together from computer courses, my girlfriend's tutoring, and randomness of being immersed as her family speeds through the language where I pick up every 20th word.

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

Dawn wrote: "Swear words in German must sound good. Maybe I should learn those..."

You can make almost any German word sound like a swear word if you try hard enough. It's such a guttural language that it sounds obscene most of the time anyway. :p

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Darcy wrote: "Two days ago the peregrines were flying over the centre of the city, today wild turkeys are running amok on the roads. Methinks they've cried fowl and are slowing reclaiming the land..."

Mmm...turkey dinner!!

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Dawn wrote: "Okay, this is what Google translate tells me that says:

He speaks a little Spanish too. Blaming the bride"


Hahaha! Bloody women. Its always our fault.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Stone the bloody crows. When I was feedin' the chooks I ducked up the steps like aflamin' wally. Egged it and came a gutser.

(Australian language, you won't find that in google translate)

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

*sits and waits for the confusion to commence*

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Haha. :D

[Darcy]

I know chooks are chickens. So, it was raining when you were feeding the flock?

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Nope. No rain. But I was feeding the chickens. :)

[Alicja]

Terri wrote: "Hahaha! Bloody women. Its always our fault."

Isn't that what girlfriends/wives are for? :P

Let me try a hand at translating... did you slip down the stairs while feeding the chickens?

[Haydn]

Terri wrote: "Stone the bloody crows. When I was feedin' the chooks I ducked up the steps like aflamin' wally. Egged it and came a gutser.

(Australian language, you won't find that in google translate)"

Dywedwch hynny unwaith eto, os gwelwch yn dda

[Haydn]

Annigonol ydy un iaith / Dyw un iaith byth yn ddigon

LOL

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Alicja got it. :)

[Darcy]

You fell feeding them again?

[Alicja]

Terri wrote: "Alicja got it. :)"

Yay! But I'm only taking half the credit. If Darcy hadn't figured that chooks are chicken I would be completely in the dark.

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

Well done Darcy and Alicja. We'll make honorary Aussies out of you yet. :D

[Darcy]

Ah, well it's all down to Mcleod's Daughters and Peter Carey

[Dawn]

and came a gutser had me. I understood the rest in essence but had to google this part! :)

[Dawn]

*sigh* There is no special Canadian English that no one can understand either. Just all normal, ordinary stuff. I really must learn something else but I love my audiobooks too much!

[Darcy]

Okay, so this appeared on my Twitter timeline and I thought it might be of interest.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BnEJWX7IA...

Is the photo of a medieval bookmark that the disk can be pulled down and rotated to denote line and column. It is still kept in manuscript in which it was found: MS Typ277 at Houghton Library at Harvard Uni.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Darcy wrote: "You fell feeding them again?"

Only a little slip really. *blush*
It was my pluggers that were to blame. Single pluggers, not the preferred double pluggers.

:D

(http://www.urbandictionary.com/define...)

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Darcy wrote: "Okay, so this appeared on my Twitter timeline and I thought it might be of interest.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BnEJWX7IA...

Is the photo of a medieval bookmark that the disk can be..."

That is the darnedest thing. Amazing.

[Carlos]

meanwhile in the Navy:

http://www.theverge.com/2014/5/7/5688...

[Alicja]

I got a bit confused when I visited Britain back when I was 20. A trunk is a boot. A cigarette a fag. Everyone was cheering all the time. Where trousers are pants and pants are underwear. And pissed is drunk but not angry (although angry drunks are pissed in both senses of the word). But once I was pissed enough all slurred words were just as incomprehensible. Funny how different the same language can sound.

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

Australia is even worse, Alicja. Our version of English combines both English and American usages. Though English usage of words predominates. And then we create our own, as Terri demonstrated. :D

[Allison]

Dawn wrote: "and came a gutser had me. I understood the rest in essence but had to google this part! :)"

Me too!

[Darcy]

Terri wrote: "Darcy wrote: "You fell feeding them again?"

Only a little slip really. *blush*
It was my pluggers that were to blame. Single pluggers, not the preferred double pluggers.

:D

(http://www.urbandict..."

Double pluggers didn't really take here. I haven't seen them in ages. But there isn't a home without thongs in the whole city I'm sure.

[Darcy]

Carlos wrote: "meanwhile in the Navy:

http://www.theverge.com/2014/5/7/5688..."

I wonder if they'll force install required reading materials. :)

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Alicja wrote: "I got a bit confused when I visited Britain back when I was 20. A trunk is a boot. A cigarette a fag. Everyone was cheering all the time. Where trousers are pants and pants are underwear. And pisse..."

And fanny is NOT a bottom in the UK and Australia. Fanny to us is the front bottom...:]

[Lisa]

Bahahaha, Terri you could get into all sorts of trouble with that one!!

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Darcy wrote: "
Double pluggers didn't really take here. I haven't seen them in ages. But there isn't a home without thongs in the whole city I'm sure"

Single pluggers are good for standing around backyard barbies, getting the mail, walking on hot roads and pavement, wandering around a shopping centre, but if you are planning on moving fast or walking on the sand at thebeach it has to be double pluggers. Nothing worse than running to beat your mates to the car so you get shotgun, or heading down to the beach with your icecream and towel, and your plugs pull out of your rubber thongs!
Frustrating stuff. Once a plug comes out you can put it back in, but it will keep coming out. Your thongs are buggered.
Double pluggers prevent such disasters.

[Alicja]

Terri wrote: "
And fanny is NOT a bottom in the UK and Australia. Fanny to us is the front bottom...:]"

Fanny is no longer used in America unless one is referring to a "fanny pack" as in Gah, those fanny packs are so 80s and should be buried 6 feet under for eternity.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Gosh, I don't want to disagree seeing as we are disagreeing in A Burnable Book thread. :)...however, there are still Americans using fanny. I have had to mention to quite a few American mates and acquaintances (on GR and off) who say fanny, over the years, that we don't mean the same thing in the UK and Britain.

[Dawn]

Yeah, I have to say, it might be old-fashioned but definitely still in use around here.