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Safe trip back, Carol! Hope you don't get cot in the traffic.
Took me a while to click!!
Ha Ha. No I forgot about tweetter. Besides I don't tweet.Sweet! Have you already shared this on Tweetter?
Impatiences is often what sets a person back, however I can understand it. It is very difficult to slow down when you are a naturally busy person. It was one of the hardest things that I had to learn after my back injury. Now I have to learn how to get more active again.My concern exactly... And she wants to go driving, to boot!
I find that the accent that they use in movies is nothing like our accents here. But have always thought that maybe just because I live here, it may be that I just don't hear it. I would sound slightly British as my Dad is British even though I have been in South Africa all my life, we have always spoken a high class English compared to other English over here. Most whites speak a high class English, The coloureds speak an entirely different kind of English. It is more of a (dare I say it...) Lower class kind of English - and I mean no disrespect to them. It is just the area where they were brought up in and the type of English that is spoken there. it has evolved into an English comprised of slang words, mixed with slang Afrikaans etc. For example they will say Thrice instead of three times...Love to hear you, Carol! You sound British to my untrained ear. My SA friend over here is often asked if she's Australian.
The after affects of the caffeine still perhaps?
Snap!!
Beautiful. So if there are not a lot of graves does everybody get cremated then? And the ashes scattered at the cemetery?Good mornooning, roommates!
Sunny and cold in Denmark. We also moved the clock one hour forward, for what it's worth. Some postcards from Saturday, a walk in the cemetery called Vestre Kirkegård. A lot of people go for walks in the cemeteries, which are pretty much large, beautiful parks with some graves. Many even sunbathe or have a picnic there.
(No postcards from Sunday, as I had to stay home in bed with migraine
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Our platies had hundreds of babies. Too many! I am afraid I had euthanise most of them. Even the clown loaches couldn’t keep up with the live food on offer.
We don’t keep live-bearers any more. It got too stressful!
Good mornooning, roommates!
Sunny and cold in Denmark. We also moved the clock one hour forward, for what it's worth. Some postcards from Saturday, a walk in the cemetery called Vestre Kirkegård. A lot of people go for walks in the cemeteries, which are pretty much large, beautiful parks with some graves. Many even sunbathe or have a picnic there.
(No postcards from Sunday, as I had to stay home in bed with migraine
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Ooh lovely. That’s the photos, not the migraine. I hope the migraine has passed now.
It's nice and quiet in cemeteries, and often lots of wildlife to be seen too.Good mornooning, roommates!
Sunny and cold in Denmark. We also moved the clock one hour forward, for what it's worth. Some postcards from Saturday, a walk in the cemetery called Vestre Kirkegård. A lot of people go for walks in the cemeteries, which are pretty much large, beautiful parks with some graves. Many even sunbathe or have a picnic there.
(No postcards from Sunday, as I had to stay home in bed with migraine
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There's one in my area that deliberately lets an old area become overgrown to encourage wildlife (at least that's their story
)I like looking at at all the old headstones when I go.
We moved forward an hour too. Hope the migraine is better - they are awful when they strike,
Concentrate on your breathing and count backwards from 100, that sometimes works for me.
No good counting sheep - they are too noisy!
Hope you manage to get some sleep.
Thrice is very old English. It just hasn’t made it through in many locations
A lot of the English pronunciation and words used in the USA is also derived from old English. Here in England, the words have gone out of use, developed a mew meaning or a different pronunciation... but the language lives on elsewhere
I find it interesting how language develops
Today I have been developing mine.
A French test... phone a French vineyard and pay for some wine that JoesDad has ordered for us to pick up while we are on holiday this summer. I am pleased to say that I passed!
Then an English call to book a birdwatching trip at the end of the month. We are heading to Dungeness on the Kent Coast for a trip to hear, and hopefully see, bitterns. They make a distinctive booming call.
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Ha. I never knew that Thrice was Old English. I have always cringed when I hear people using it, as it sounds completely wrong to me. Just shows you, how wrong a person can be.Thrice is very old English. It just hasn’t made it through in many locations
A lot of the English pronunciation and words used in the USA is also derived from old English. Here in England, the words have gone out of use, developed a mew meaning or a different pronunciation... but the language lives on elsewhere
I find it interesting how language develops
Today I have been developing mine.
A French test... phone a French vineyard and pay for some wine that JoesDad has ordered for us to pick up while we are on holiday this summer. I am pleased to say that I passed!
Then an English call to book a birdwatching trip at the end of the month. We are heading to Dungeness on the Kent Coast for a trip to hear, and hopefully see, bitterns. They make a distinctive booming call.
Thrice is an old English word sometimes still used today.
Although I don't think Lionel Richie would have sung 'You're once, twice, thrice a lady...'
I think everywhere has a mix of what we call Standard English and colloquialisms or slang - often geographic in origin,
Sometimes I cringe when I hear the way some Welsh people speak and think, 'Now why can't they speak proper like me?'
Let me lay this confusion to rest (sorry, couldn’t help it! [emoji33]) : There are a lot of graves, but also spaces just to walk or sit on a bench. There was also a Muslim section, a cremation burial section (where you bury the urn — there must be a special word for it), and a lawn dotted with random flower pots and candles, which confused me at first, but then Google Translate told me it’s a place for scattering ashes.
AAahhh. Makes Sense.
It's nice and quiet in cemeteries, and often lots of wildlife to be seen too.
There's one in my area that deliberately lets an old area become overgrown to encourage wildlife (at least that's their story
I like looking at at all the old headstones when I go.
We moved forward an hour too. Hope the migraine is better - they are awful when they strike,
Thank you!
I’m better now, but it might kick back in as I’ve volunteered to organize an impromptu play date for daughter after school. [emoji33][emoji23]
Lol, that is so funny. As it is like me. But then I think to myself that I am being snobbish. Oops.!!Thrice is an old English word sometimes still used today.
Although I don't think Lionel Richie would have sung 'You're once, twice, thrice a lady...'
I think everywhere has a mix of what we call Standard English and colloquialisms or slang - often geographic in origin,
Sometimes I cringe when I hear the way some Welsh people speak and think, 'Now why can't they speak proper like me?'
