Introducing myself

TPFKA@W · Post by **TPFKA@W** » Fri Jan 15, 2016 8:16 pm

Darned homonyms.

MajGenl.Meade · Post by **MajGenl.Meade** » Fri Jan 15, 2016 8:19 pm

No way! A homonym would be Julian or Sandy, wouldn't it?

TPFKA@W · Post by **TPFKA@W** » Fri Jan 15, 2016 8:24 pm

Have you a version of this that is spoken in English? Could only pick up about every 3rd word.

oldr_n_wsr · Post by **oldr_n_wsr** » Fri Jan 15, 2016 8:25 pm

You have to read between the lines.

MajGenl.Meade · Post by **MajGenl.Meade** » Fri Jan 15, 2016 8:32 pm

TPFKA@W wrote:Have you a version of this that is spoken in English? Could only pick up about every 3rd word.

You don't vada polari? If you did, you could translate this:

As feely homies, we would zhoosh our riahs, powder our eeks, climb into our bona new drag, don our batts and troll off to some bona bijou bar.

ETA: this might help....

http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/polari.htm

oldr_n_wsr · Post by **oldr_n_wsr** » Fri Jan 15, 2016 8:36 pm

MajGenl.Meade wrote:As feely homies, we would zhoosh our riahs, powder our eeks, climb into our bona new drag, don our batts and troll off to some bona bijou bar.

And you said I'm on a roll!?!?!

No Greater Fool · Post by **No Greater Fool** » Fri Jan 15, 2016 10:10 pm

MajGenl.Meade wrote:
TPFKA@W wrote:I recall you as Peter the great.
That spelling challenge thing again.... Peter the Grate, please!

Because you're not that great?

No Greater Fool · Post by **No Greater Fool** » Fri Jan 15, 2016 10:11 pm

TPFKA@W wrote:Well what stamp did you get that wound you up in OZ? Obviously not "this side up".

I believe that in many cases the stamp read: "Convict'.

MajGenl.Meade · Post by **MajGenl.Meade** » Fri Jan 15, 2016 10:17 pm

No Greater Fool wrote:
MajGenl.Meade wrote:
TPFKA@W wrote:I recall you as Peter the great.
That spelling challenge thing again.... Peter the Grate, please!
Because you're not that great?

Not in any context that I'd care to share... no, it's rather that one grates on people's nerves

Lord Jim · Post by **Lord Jim** » Fri Jan 15, 2016 10:26 pm

no, it's rather that one grates on people's nerves

LOL

Yes, that's perfect....

"Peter The Grate"....

No Greater Fool · Post by **No Greater Fool** » Sat Jan 16, 2016 1:21 am

Lord Jim wrote:
no, it's rather that one grates on people's nerves
LOL

Yes, that's perfect....

"Peter The Grater"....

FTFY to keep in line with his new avatar.

Fafhrd · Post by **Fafhrd** » Sat Jan 16, 2016 2:51 pm

Semantics:

"Englishmen" should mean "persons of either sex who are English". "English men" would be "male persons who are English", and
"English women" would be "Female persons who are English".

I hate to see fine old words go out of use because of changing meanings.

MajGenl.Meade · Post by **MajGenl.Meade** » Sat Jan 16, 2016 3:01 pm

Often one is hanged if one does and if one does not. It would be a relief to use "Englishmen" in the proper sense without feeling a need to satisfy modern sensibilities by appending "(persons)".

At the same time, "she is a true Englishman" would present certain problems.

Bicycle Bill · Post by **Bicycle Bill** » Sat Jan 16, 2016 5:57 pm

Fafhrd wrote:Semantics:

"Englishmen" should mean "persons of either sex who are English". "English men" would be "male persons who are English", and
"English women" would be "Female persons who are English".

I hate to see fine old words go out of use because of changing meanings.

AMEN TO THAT!!!
Although it does give me far more opportunities to use this quotation:

-"BB"-

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