COLD DARK ROOM

[Tidgy's Dad]

Brrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That’s cold! I need to go find Ed’s Florida pics to warm up!

Today’s English lesson

Sheep, like deer, is both a singular and a plural noun.

So it is “one sheep” and “two/several/many/a field full of sheep”

This an exception to the usual rule. For most other things you add and S for the plural...

So “one cow” and “many/several/two/a field full of cows”

Probably my fault.
I like to say sheeps and sheepies and have done so here.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Having grown up at the foot of the Yorkshire Dales, snow was just a nuisance. We always had to dig our drive out before school so Dad could drive to work and then join the other kids on our road to dig through the mound left by the snow plough across the end of our road (the main Leeds-Harrogate road got ploughed, but the side roads didn’t)

It looks pretty, but I still can’t get excited by it. Here in Kent, nobody knows how to drive in snow ... they’re dangerous! Fortunately we only get heavy snow about once a decade. The last really heavy lot was in 2010. This was 7 years ago today
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I'm turning my fire up to max!
These pictures are lovely but i'm genuinely feeling cold, now!

 

[Bee62]

Poland one year it was -40°C. I was walking on the frozen Baltic.
Ridiculous.

-40 C is terrible ! Your nose, ears, lips or feet can freeze and you could loose them. That is too cold to live there.

 

[Bee62]

Probably my fault.
I like to say sheeps and sheepies and have done so here.

I thought I`ve read it before .......
Booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ! Bad Englishman you are .....

 

[Gillian M]

Yes, brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr......

That really is: brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, although it snows here each and every year. Just can't get adapted to it, like torts.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Thank you. Your use of the word tire reminds me of another of these inexplicable differences between English in the UK and the US.

We have tyres on our car wheels, the Americans have tires. I have no idea why.

At least it’s the same word for the car part unlike
bumper (UK)/ fender (US)
Bonnet (UK) / hood (US)
Boot (UK) / Trunk (US)

Accelerator (UK) Gas (US)
Gearbox (Uk) Transmission (US)
Petrol (UK) Gasoline (US) and two dozen more.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Good evening, Adam, Wifey and Tidgy.

Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, though it's not that cold here. At least not yet.

Please send donkeys full of hot air!
Good evening, Gillian.
I am cold.

 

[Bee62]

That really is: brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, although it snows here each and every year. Just can't get adapted to it, like torts.

Who say that torts cannot live in snow ?

 

[Gillian M]

Who say that torts cannot live in snow ?

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I did and so did the two Olis!

Sabine, please post something not so brrrrrrrrrrr next time.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Exactly! I am just interested in language and languages... I find the derivation of words fascinating and working out similarities and differences between languages can keep me amused for ages.

Sometimes it’s visible...
Fenster (German), Fenêtre (French), Window (English)

Sometimes it’s audible like the use of B/V ... F/V, V/W, J/Y/H...

I should have studied linguistics at university instead of computing

I love the origins of the word and its roots.
For example 'sincere' from the Latin 'sine cere' which means "without wax."
And then you wonder why and look it up.
Twas the statues fault, you know.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesssssssssssssssssssssssssss!!!
Good evening Adam.

Good evening, Sabine!
Got a corkscrew on you?

 

[JoesMum]

I love the origins of the word and its roots.
For example 'sincere' from the Latin 'sine cere' which means "without wax."
And then you wonder why and look it up.
Twas the statues fault, you know.

Which makes the formal letter sign off of “Yours sincerely” even more interesting!

 

[Gillian M]

Please send donkeys full of hot air!
Good evening, Gillian.
I am cold.

Hi Adam, sorry to know you are cold.

This donkey will be on his way. Please let me know when he gets to Fes. Also inform me if you need more. (More hot air is what I mean, not more donkeys)!

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

-40 C is terrible ! Your nose, ears, lips or feet can freeze and you could loose them. That is too cold to live there.

It's not usually that cold there. I got unlucky that winter.
I once visited a small village by a dried up river in the Algerian Sahara, it hadn't rained for nearly ten years and the wells were running dry, they were pretty much doomed when it started raining the night I arrived.
They blessed me and claimed I was a gift from Allah, bestowed gifts upon me and offered me their daughters and friendship for life.
After two days of rain, the flooding started, the roads got washed away, so did their crops and half the buildings fell down. The river overflowed and the water was full of 9 years of garbage dumped by the next village upstream into the dry river bed.
The people cursed me and said I was the spawn of Satan and could I please leave the village before they did unspeakable things to my toes and my camels.
I left.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

I thought I`ve read it before .......
Booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ! Bad Englishman you are .....

I use Cold Dark Roomish.
And wifeian.
I am something of a polyglot.

 

[Bee62]

I did and so did the two Olis!

Sabine, please post something not so brrrrrrrrrrr next time.

Okay !
Better ????

I would love to be here !
I can feel the warm, soft sand under my naked feet. I can smell the slightly touch of salty water in the air. The seagulls are shouting like everytime and the warmth of the bright sun flood my body deep into my heart and soul.....
I can barely comprehend the beauty I see and the warm, light wind touches my body and plays with my hair.
I am home....

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Which makes the formal letter sign off of “Yours sincerely” even more interesting!

Absolutely!
It means I promise my statues are genuine, good quality marble.
Or if you prefer, "I'm honest".

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Hi Adam, sorry to know you are cold.

This donkey will be on his way. Please let me know when he gets to Fes. Also inform me if you need more. (More hot air is what I mean, not more donkeys)!

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Thank you, Gillian
More donkeys would be good, also.
Then i could eat them and not have to go out shopping in the cold

 

[Gillian M]

It's not usually that cold there. I got unlucky that winter.
I once visited a small village by a dried up river in the Algerian Sahara, it hadn't rained for nearly ten years and the wells were running dry, they were pretty much doomed when it started raining the night I arrived.
They blessed me and claimed I was a gift from Allah, bestowed gifts upon me and offered me their daughters and friendship for life.
After two days of rain, the flooding started, the roads got washed away, so did their crops and half the buildings fell down. The river overflowed and the water was full of 9 years of garbage dumped by the next village upstream into the dry river bed.
The people cursed me and said I was the spawn of Satan and could I please leave the village before they did unspeakable things to my toes and my camels.
I left.

That sounds somewhat funny. (Don't mean "funny" in a hurtful way).

Did you mean what you said here or were you joking?

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Okay !
Better ????

I would love to be here !
I can feel the warm, soft sand under my naked feet. I can smell the slightly touch of salty water in the air. The seagulls are shouting like everytime and the warmth of the bright sun flood my body deep into my heart and soul.....
I can barely comprehend the beauty I see and the warm, light wind touches my body and plays with my hair.
I am home....

OW!
I just got bitten by a sandfly!