Linguistic tic's and crutches

[walkinman221]

Originally Posted by jaysay

Ya its just a tad worryinG (I'm sounding the G just for Kate) is that Margaret, seeing they're all blokes talking about it, now if it was the fairer sex that would be a different question altogether

You love it really

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by mobertol

Idem Jay. Miss Bailey from 1st-5th year at Paddock House.

We used to have to repeat this:

It isn't the hunting on the hill that hurts the horse's hoof, it's the hammer, hammer, hammer on the hard high road.

Seems your miss Bailey was a real stickler for proper English

[Eric]

Originally Posted by Michael1954

Prospective employers would disagree with this statement. Employers complain that school leavers, and even some university graduates, cannot spell simple words.

I'll think about that as I munch on my ghoti and chips

[mobertol]

Originally Posted by Eric

I'll think about that as I munch on my ghoti and chips

Very, very subtle Eric!

Hope they were nicely battered and sprinkled with salt and vinegar

"Gee each owe tea eye smells fish." Or should that be "spells"?

[mobertol]

Originally Posted by Eric

Emily Dickinson.

Have had a book about her on my bedside table for about 3 months -can't get on with it.

It's a novel by Paula Kaufmann called "The Sister" and tells her life-story through the eyes of her sister Lavinia.

There's quite a lot of her poetry in it and many references to private letters etc. - i usually enjoy this kind of book but got stuck, I think, because I can't seem to identify with any of the characters or the place (plus I'm struggling as I really need to change my glasses!)

Some of the poetry is quite difficult to understand -the following is a quote from the book which I like though:

For parting, that is night,
And presence, simply dawn-
Itself, the purple on the height
Denominated morn.

Will give it another try perhaps!

[DaveinGermany]

Originally Posted by mobertol

(plus I'm struggling as I really need to change my glasses!)

Get some Pint ones & not those mincin' wine ones !

[mobertol]

Originally Posted by DaveinGermany

Get some Pint ones & not those mincin' wine ones !

Am seriously pondering giving up wine completely in the NY -a sort of resolution as i've cut down a lot lately.

What do you suggest as an altenative to drink by the pint -given i hate beer

[Acrylic-bob]

Originally Posted by mobertol

am seriously pondering giving up wine completely in the ny -a sort of resolution as i've cut down a lot lately.

What do you suggest as an altenative to drink by the pint -given i hate beer:d

g i n !!!

[mobertol]

Originally Posted by Acrylic-bob

g i n !!!

It's something i drink in the summer with lots of ice, squeezed fresh lemon juice and plenty of Scweppes tonic -think it's called a Gin Fizz -should fit nicely into a pint glass

Need an alternative for the colder months though

[Eric]

Originally Posted by mobertol

Have had a book about her on my bedside table for about 3 months -can't get on with it.

It's a novel by Paula Kaufmann called "The Sister" and tells her life-story through the eyes of her sister Lavinia.

There's quite a lot of her poetry in it and many references to private letters etc. - i usually enjoy this kind of book but got stuck, I think, because I can't seem to identify with any of the characters or the place (plus I'm struggling as I really need to change my glasses!)

Some of the poetry is quite difficult to understand -the following is a quote from the book which I like though:

For parting, that is night,
And presence, simply dawn-
Itself, the purple on the height
Denominated morn.

Will give it another try perhaps!

With Dickinson, her poetry is her life. One doesn't need a second-hand opinion.

"I'm nobody. Who are you?
Are you, nobody, too?
Then, there's a pair of us!
Don't tell! They'd advertise you know!

How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell one's name the livelong June,
To an admiring bog!"

To keep on topic, there are some fascinating problems surrounding the editing of her work.

[Acrylic-bob]

Originally Posted by mobertol

it's something i drink in the summer with lots of ice, squeezed fresh lemon juice and plenty of scweppes tonic -think it's called a gin fizz -should fit nicely into a pint glass

need an alternative for the colder months though:d

h o r l i c k s ! ! ! surrepticiously adding shots of whatever warming spirit takes your fancy, RUM perhaps?

[mobertol]

Originally Posted by Eric

With Dickinson, her poetry is her life. One doesn't need a second-hand opinion.

"I'm nobody. Who are you?
Are you, nobody, too?
Then, there's a pair of us!
Don't tell! They'd advertise you know!

How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell one's name the livelong June,
To an admiring bog!"

To keep on topic, there are some fascinating problems surrounding the editing of her work.

In the book I have it says that she wrote a lot of her poetry on the back of recipes etc as she went about her daily tasks -seems she was a keen cook.

It's good to be a nobody!

This one i also like:

"A word is dead when it is said,
Some say,
I say it just begins to live
That day."

[mobertol]

Originally Posted by Acrylic-bob

h o r l i c k s ! ! ! surrepticiously adding shots of whatever warming spirit takes your fancy, RUM perhaps?

Have always been a Cocoa sort of girl, never tried Horlicks -could be an option. Don't really drink spirits like gin. Just the odd brandy for medicinal purposes

Surprised you suggest being surrepticious - being so flamboyant your good-self.

[Acrylic-bob]

The surrepticiousness was for your benefit, I know you are a good Paddock House Girl and thus would not wish to be seen as a dreadful old lush, like us Holy Family Boys.

BTW. Did you ever encounter a creature by the name of Sister Mary Catherine? What a cow!

[mobertol]

Originally Posted by Acrylic-bob

The surrepticiousness was for your benefit, I know you are a good Paddock House Girl and thus would not wish to be seen as a dreadful old lush, like us Holy Family Boys.

BTW. Did you ever encounter a creature by the name of Sister Mary Catherine? What a cow!

Yes, well you were a bad lot, of course

Abso-bloody-lutely! We are in agreement that she was a cow -though it irks me to consider certain sweet bovines as similar to her

She was my First Form teacher at Paddock and was a fiend -always fining us for any stupid reason to get money for St. Joseph's Penny -my dad always used to say it was the Nun's Gin money

She even fined the class darling, Sarah Fowler, for drawing a spider on the board, with "Boo" in a bubble from it's mouth, on April 1st!

There was an on-going batttle with her every day over the wearing of indoor and outdoor shoes!

Hadn't thought of her in years -will probably have nightmares now...