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Reply #30 - Aug 7th, 2010 at 2:27pm
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When I think about French as a language I tend to think about our neighbors to the north (Quebec) not the country of France. The French taught in high school is only spoken in Paris. :Smiley I wanted to take Latin but my parents talked me out of it saying I already had a backgound in French from elementry school. Undecided

I wish they had ofered other choices!  Angry

I agree Louise, English is everywhere! Cheesy
  

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Reply #31 - Aug 7th, 2010 at 2:37pm
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English is everywhere, Matt.

And rarely spoken well. *snicker*
  
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Reply #32 - Aug 7th, 2010 at 2:43pm
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Excuse ME!

I speak perfectly good English!  For a Lancastrian that is!

One can speak in Received Pronounciation should one  so desire to do so, but speaking in such a refined manner tends to make one sound like a member of the Royal Family.

By 'eck Lassie, I reet enjoyed tha' last story. !
  

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Reply #33 - Aug 7th, 2010 at 5:54pm
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Louise, you are such a riot!  Cheesy

Actually, I was referring to the fact that Aussies and Brits and Americans all speak English, but most of us can't understand each other!  In fact, if you're American and go from the East Coast to the West Coast, chances are you won't understand each other!  So English is definitely an interesting language to know.  Wink
  
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Reply #34 - Aug 7th, 2010 at 5:55pm
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And I am SO glad I didn't have to learn it as a second language!
  

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Reply #35 - Aug 7th, 2010 at 6:03pm
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And that's not counting the variation below the Mason-Dixon line! Cheesy

I'm showing my southern roots here! Grin
  

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Reply #36 - Aug 7th, 2010 at 6:08pm
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Oh, yeah.  And I didn't mention us Midwesterners either, Matt.  We have our own brand of incomprehensible talk.  Most countries don't have to deal with our particular speech difficulties.  They're just not large enough!  Grin
  
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Reply #37 - Aug 7th, 2010 at 6:29pm
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Look. Just because England is small ( very small) don't mock us!! (only joking!)


We happen to have very very big egos over here!

thats 'ego' with an 's'  not a typo! Wink

Denise.. I've lost the Fertling post.. Its a local word.. other spellings.. furtling, furkling, ... means being idle!
  

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Reply #38 - Aug 7th, 2010 at 6:32pm
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Really?  It's a cool word!  Do you happen to know what it's derived from?  Would dictionary.com list it?
  
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Reply #39 - Aug 8th, 2010 at 5:37pm
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Matt wrote on Aug 7th, 2010 at 2:27pm:
I agree Louise, English is everywhere! Cheesy


Much to the intense distress of the French.  Grin
  
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Reply #40 - Aug 8th, 2010 at 6:06pm
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Dare I say it again? Cheese eating........ No I won't finish.  But I used to know a whole raft of rude jokes against the French. OOOpsss..... Don't take offence please Normandie!  Only joking... honestly!  Grin

Can't find fertling in the dictionary...
but here is some Lanky Twang for you to decipher translate

Yer girt gawmless gawk
Gi' o'er moitherin'
Sithee, th' bobby's watchin'. If tha wain't shurrup, ah'll cleht thi lug-oil

Have fun.  Perhaps the aliens spoke in some similar language!

And people think English is easy! Grin
  

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Reply #41 - Aug 8th, 2010 at 6:47pm
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Lightcudder wrote on Aug 8th, 2010 at 6:06pm:
Don't take offence please Normandie!  Only joking... honestly!  Grin

S'okay! I'm not French.  Cheesy

But around here, in the midst of D-Day landing beaches, WWII cemetaries and ugly towns that are only ugly because they were bombed into oblivion pre-D-Day and in the weeks of fighting afterwards and then quickly re-built to provide instant housing with no regard to aesthetics, you do appreciate that the French lost a lot during WWII. As did other countries, of course, but there's often a sense that France went through the war relatively unscathed because of the early surrender.

Fifty thousand civilians were killed in these parts during the bombing and fighting. The average French person's response to the American, Canadian and British visitors who come here now is that the civilian losses in Normandy were the price they (the French) had to pay for regaining their liberty and honour. Even now, we know French teenagers who talk about "the Allies giving France back to them" with tears in their eyes. 

Not all of France was badly affected by the war - though I'd never downplay the psychological impact of being invaded by another country - but the French in Normandy suffered.

Many of the men still alive who remember the war either as kids or adults tell of how they (or their fathers and uncles) were conscripted to work on German farms (in view of the fact that most German men were fighting the war) and some of the stories they have to tell are spine-tinglingly awful.

They were forbidden to speak French in Germany - or they'd be shot. Many of them had to walk home when France was liberated... Frankfurt to home for one of them was 500 miles. Some of them were so traumatised by things they witnessed and preventing themselves speaking French that even when they got home they found they had developed a mental block and didn't dare speak their own language.

I do tell anti-French jokes, and they do make me smile - and most jokes are based on some reality - but some of France suffered a lot and around here you can't help being aware of that.

  
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Reply #43 - Aug 8th, 2010 at 7:00pm
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No.. but i like their meaning!  Wink

    its pronounced fertlin' in these 'ere parts!  as in;  'Ee by 'eck, lass, tha's fertlin' now. Gerra move on.

means to be idle and wasting time!

and its more dialect than slang.. that's the problem with some old dialects, they get dragged into slang...

At least i'm not Liverpudlian..

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Reply #44 - Aug 8th, 2010 at 8:12pm
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Oh, Normandie!  Thanks for sharing your cool word!  I am an unabashed lover of words, so I'm always on the lookout for a new cool one.  Woo-hoo!  Now, won't my hubby be thrilled when I try 'furkling' out on him tonight?  Cheesy
  
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