Ahhhh… the English language. It’s a wonderful thing isn’t it? NO! ITS BLOODY WELL NOT! Its confusing as all hell! The other ni…
Ahhhh… the English language. It’s a wonderful thing isn’t it? NO! ITS BLOODY WELL NOT! Its confusing as all hell! The other night, I was having a conversation about jelly wrestling. Only, I was speaking with some stateside buddies who, of course, were referring to it as JELL-O wrestling. So I had to explain. Your Jell-o, is our jelly… while our jam is your jelly. You can imagine their sentiments of “ick” when I mentioned jelly wrestling! And I got to thinking, because this isn’t the first time I have had problems with the so-called “English language” Whilst in New Zealand I had cause to wonder why the hell my aunt was going to the DAIRY for milk – and what the hell they were doing selling newspapers and cigarettes! I mean milk COMES from a dairy, but you buy it from the shops. I then found out (much later) that New Zealanders call their local deli/corner shop the dairy. Go figure! Reading my young mans cook book I discovered a whole page dedicated to the different uses of words for different “English” speaking countries. I will concentrate on the Australian vs American. Our biscuit is your cookie, but your biscuit is our scone. / Our capsicum is your bell pepper. / Our pan is your skillet. / Our spring onions are your scallions. / Our Hundreds and Thousands are you nonpareils… WTF? I cant even SAY that! And I simply cant imagine asking my kids if they would like some nonpareils on their icecream! They would probably scream and run away! Oh… and don’t even get me STARTED on polony. Our polony is your bologna. Only in Tasmania, my adopted home state, it is not polony it’s devon. And if you travel to SOUTH Australia its bloody FRITZ!! How many words can their BE for mushed up offal and butcher floor scrapings? It’s confusing as all shit as it is, but when you throw an accent or two into the mix well…. you may as well just throw the bloody towel in RIGHT now! Lets go back to the New Zealanders. Their ‘i’ sound is pronounced more like an ‘e’ for example. I say fish and chips, a NZ’er would say fesh and cheps. You can just imagine it. Me “Gosh those donuts are yummy, I could eat a few more of them” NZ’er “Really? I had sex the other day” Me “Oh… well that’s just grand but…. I thought we were talking about donuts” NZ-er “I WAS talking about donuts you dumbarse. I said I had SEX” Me “Ohhhhh…. so you had some kind of weird sex involving donuts. It all becomes clear now” NZ’er smacks me over the back of the head You see where I am coming from? It’s the whole you say tomato, I say tomato thing. And see that? For you to read that properly, for it to sound right in your head I would have to write TOMARTO. And that’s just bullshit! I have an unusual name and so I usually tell people to remember banana and they will remember my name. Because that is what it rhymes with. But for my stateside buddies… that COMPLETELY goes out the window because you pronounce banana completely different to how Aussies do! So you know what. I give in. I give up. I throw in the towel because it is NOT all English. Starting now, I am only speaking French. You should try it. No one will understand you but you are guaranteed to get laid. French being the language of lurrrve and all ;) / / Maintenant, je dois pas faire cuire quelques francs dans ma poêle, sans nonpareilis merci beaucoup. Amour à tous
5 days ago we had boring blue sky’s, harsh light and crowds of people rushing for our spots, filling the air with bad music from cars, lo…
5 days ago we had boring blue sky’s, harsh light and crowds of people rushing for our spots, filling the air with bad music from cars, loud voices and even louder clothes, this evening we have wonderful light,pouring rain, thunder,lightning..wonderful..so how to survive this change in weather.. 1. Find wine glass. / 2. Open nice bottle of red. / 3. Pour gently a responsible measure into glass. / 4. While allowing the wine to breathe and adjust to the macro climate of / glass and room, find freezer. / 5. Open freezer and remove large tub of Haagen-Dazs Belgium Chocolate / ice cream. / 6. Open lid and indulge in a small spoonfuls while watching the rain on the / window panes. / 7. Leave enough ice cream for tomorrow’s rain and return to freezer. / 8. Take glass of red and retreat to computer. / 9. Open browser and head for Redbubble. / 10. Enjoy art work and wine and forget the rain.
6 months ago A fello bubbler ,Andy Mueller(Its his fault I’m addicted to the bubble) enhanced an image of Poyners Creek...
6 months ago A fello bubbler ,Andy Mueller(Its his fault I’m addicted to the bubble) enhanced an image of Poyners Creek which has been pretty successful here. I owed him big time…Glad I was able to return the favor with some redfield plugin fractal magic. Click the picture to have a closer look
PLEASE DO NOT READ ANY FURTHER IF YOU EASILY GET OFFENDED. No Speak English / A Russian woman married a Canadian gentleman…
PLEASE DO NOT READ ANY FURTHER IF YOU EASILY GET OFFENDED. No Speak English / A Russian woman married a Canadian gentleman and they lived happily ever after in Toronto. The poor lady was not proficient in English, but did manage to communicate with her husband. The real problem arose whenever she had to shop for groceries. / / One day, she went to the butcher and wanted to buy chicken legs. She didn’t know how to put forward her request, so, in desperation, clucked like a chicken and lifted up her skirt to show her thighs. Her butcher got the message and gave her the chicken legs. Next day she needed to get chicken breasts, again she didn’t know how to say it, so she clucked like a chicken and unbuttoned her blouse to show the butcher her breasts. The butcher understood again and gave her some chicken breasts. / / On the 3rd day, the poor lady needed to buy sausages. Unable to find a way to communicate this, she brought her husband to the store… / / / What were you thinking? Her husband speaks English
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! Special THANKS to Lisa Weber the host of the Group Colour Me Vibrant Red for featuring my image “AMARYLLIS”...Thanks ever so much friend.
Thank you so very much to the moderators/hosts of the wonderful groups that have featured my photos this week. First of all I placed 7th…
Thank you so very much to the moderators/hosts of the wonderful groups that have featured my photos this week. First of all I placed 7th in an Orchid Challenge in One Single Flower On Show with my image Teresa / I was given Featured Member status in the wonderful group Cottage Style this morning, thanks ever so much for this huge honor to me. / Then having only had one feature as of yesterday, I was honored with receiving 6 all today. Many thanks to these groups for these honors: National Parks of the World with my photo Lower Kananaskis Lake / Rural Canada, Coast to Coast with my image Lashburn, Saskatchewan Elevator / Flowers Only – Selective Coloring with my image Red and White Tulips / Cottage Style with my images Lovely Place To Sit / / amd English Garden Hut / Town Giants with my image Blairmore’s Crowsnest / Endangered Plants with my image Wood Lily (Tiger Lily / Night Photography with my image Eye Opener / Retired and Happy with my image Into the Depths /
I’ve just dranken a large glass of tea. Yes, dranken Yes, large .. yes glass. I used to drink large glasses of tea, “all the ti…
I’ve just dranken a large glass of tea. Yes, dranken Yes, large .. yes glass. I used to drink large glasses of tea, “all the time”, and once they were drunk, they were dranken. This is because I also used to utilize the English language, oh so very often, and with great aplomb. Sadly, those days have fallen by the wayside; but, no more! I shall drink my large glasses of tea, and believe now that they are of great and healthful benefit to me. In prior years, I was told that this is simply not so, that once should cut down for this reason and that. Well, in prior years, before I did cut down and started drinking more water instead, I was a much healthier person. I used to walk everywhere and drink large glasses of tea. Something which is, again, fashionable. Well, maybe not the large glases; no, myriad small cups of tea should be made, in endless repetition, and sipped in a genteel manner. However, I shall make very large glasses of tea, only a few times a day, and suck them down in a very gentile, let’s use it all up now and quickly, manner. And, then, perhaps, I shall walk.
Thank you all at All About Flower’s My First Garden Rose / !http://images-2.redbubble.net/img/art/border:blackwithdetail/product:lami…
Thank you all at All About Flower’s My First Garden Rose /
Dear Journal: / When you have a conversation do you say “period” at the end of a sentence. Or use bracket marks [{(brackets or braces)}], ...
Dear Journal: / When you have a conversation do you say “period” at the end of a sentence. Or use bracket marks [{(brackets or braces)}], question marks?, exclamation marks! And quotation marks ‘ ” quotations marks OMG….just too confusing. I love words like confusable “there or their” and “to,too,two,2, ewe (just kidding u ewe)” and there are some really sneaky ones “weather whether wither.” I have that mad madness of dyslexia fun and funny I can spell dyslexic ten times out of ten, I think because it just looks wrong and dyslexia is very personal (personal personnel). / Children can be cruel but never as cruel as adults who should know better and choose to be cruel, kids’ learn from adults. I did not learn to read until I was twelve all the alphabet just “things” and words blocks of things a scramble, one day I remember it vividly the letters that were (we’re were where) words….were just that WORDS! Imagine that, I read everything that I could read most of the time three and four times I had no choice….wow not bad for an idiot…children are cruel but not as cruel as adults, like cold hearted teachers who could not teach or adults who are so smug with their ability to speak or write but have no ideas and never will. / English is the new Latin, it really is beautiful elegant infused with loan words growing and expanding new words invented and words welcomed to facilitate expedite and just making English in its variations the lingua franca supreme, I adore American-English. My first language was Spanish and Basque with some French and German a hodgepodge milieu a virtual Babel. What am I trying to say (?)…hey this is my journal so I can ruminate and meander with no rhyme or reason or give a hoot about grammar or structure just rant. OK nothing pisses me off more than when native English speakers demand that immigrants speak “English” usually by those that haven’t a clue about English (?) American-English, Canadian-English, and Australian-English it goes on….English within English varies and some words spelled the same may have a different meaning or use. Imagine an immigrant trying to master English and failing miserable a little bit like dyslexia. Daunting is an understatement letters words just don’t seem to make sense at all. And trying to speak English for some it is very difficult some do try and succeed others may never be able to speak English publicly. Reminds me of the time I was in Saudi Arabia of course they speak English publicly….how is your Arabic? Mine sucks. / Just a note I was born in the United States, California to be exact my forbearer’s arrived in the western hemisphere with the Spanish invasion of the Americas. I am still dyslexic and do my best to speak American-English and try not to misuse or slaughter the English language Oy Vey….ha ha! Tolerance patience (patient the Doctor will see you now) and being human not mano-a-mano…OMG another manifesto about mano-a-mano another time, words why they are all confusable in any language.
Seems I no longer understand english, even though it is the only language i know. / Maybe I need new glasses or an interpretor. Maybe …
Seems I no longer understand english, even though it is the only language i know. / Maybe I need new glasses or an interpretor. Maybe I just stop reading then I can’t get it wrong.
Greg I have been emailing invoices for goods to be receipted and invoiced, have you complete all? I need to get most of the back ord…
Greg I have been emailing invoices for goods to be receipted and invoiced, have you complete all? I need to get most of the back orders Down by end of month. If you have completed all then will re-send invoices This is a genuine email from a fellow worker. And compared to some of the gems I’ve received from her, this actually borders on being coherent. Why am I posting this? Because I am sick and tired of the lazy shits of the world, the useless tools who take their part of anything half way and then, when you complain, twist the issue around to put the blame on you. I’m also tired of management who hire incompetents and then tell the decent workers to ‘just fix it up and get on with it.’ This job finishes on Friday and not a fucking minute too soon.
Many thanks to European Everyday Life for featuring “Abbotsbury, Up the Hill(Abb…
Many thanks to European Everyday Life for featuring Abbotsbury, Up the Hill / favorite this
TeamMendel / the song is a bit…..... dodgey.. well the lyrics are anyway. and the chorus is…
TeamMendel / the song is a bit…..... dodgey.. well the lyrics are anyway. and the chorus is all fuzzy. but they wrote the song about ME! thats why it’s called Australia and at the start Louis says “this song goes out to Aussie Beth”. My best friend Sam in the second one in from the right. Enjoy, and let me know what you think. Follow on to their Youtube site and check out their other stuff too. I love my friends, you should too =] Blue
Here a little helper for this great international community at RedBubble…. When you don’t understand something…. use the “*Google …
Here a little helper for this great international community at RedBubble…. When you don’t understand something…. use the Google Translator... It’s really a great tool with so many languages! With a lot of greetings Nuh Sarche Read also: Telepathy or How I promote my work outside in the real world................ or You can see live, who visits your site if you want…
Okay, now that I have your attention, could anyone tell me what form the Latin would take to read just that. I have used William Whi…
Okay, now that I have your attention, could anyone tell me what form the Latin would take to read just that. I have used William Whitaker’s Words, which translate English to Latin, but there are so many forms, I don’t know which one is correct. The Latin I have is: bibo, bibere, bibi, bibitus – suck debatuo, debatuere, – bang spiro, spirare, spiravi, spiratus – blow (For those of you who are wondering … it’s the compression cycle for an internal combustion engine – and I want to add it to this shirt …. Thanks / C
Australians, what is the exact definition of the term “Going walk about”?
Australians, what is the exact definition of the term “Going walk about”?
One of my creative passions is singing, in fact I sing better than I do write! [the spelling mistakes aren’t as noticeable!] / One aCapell…
One of my creative passions is singing, in fact I sing better than I do write! [the spelling mistakes aren’t as noticeable!] / One aCapella choir I was in sang medieval music – church and madrigal stuff – and from this I have been privileged to have learned the first song ever written down. / “Sumer is icumen in” / The story goes a monk devised how to write music. He wanted to write a church piece but was told he couldn’t as that would devalue the music as sacred – only for church to hand down. So said monk went a wandering and came across peasants in the fields working – bringing in the hay. They were singing and the monk decided he couldn’t get into trouble writing a song they all knew anyway so he wrote it. / [But of course he got into trouble for not writing an honorable song as the first!] So: / As the men swung their scythes they sang in time: / / “Sing cuckoo oh-oh sing cuckoo” ......... over and over Over that the maids were singing a bright tune of the heralding of spring. / [for all you Nth Hemisphere people on here you shall like this!] ~ Bear in mind it is Old English – pronunciation & translation to come after Sumer is icumen in / Lhudde sing cuc-cu / Grow-eth sed and blow-eth med / And springth the w[o]de-nu / Sing cuc-cu / A-we bleteth after lomb lhouth / After calve cu / Bulluc sterteth buckeverteth / Murie sing cuc-cu / Cuc-cu, cuc-cu / Wel sing-es the cuc-cu / Ne swik thu naver nu / [Pronunciation:] Soo-mer iz u-coo-men i-i-in / Lou-deh sing coo-cuu / Grow-eth sed und blow-eth med / Und springth the whoa-de-nuu / Sing coo-cuu / Ah-way blair-teth after loo-omb loth / After cal-ve-coo / Bullock stair-teth book-eh-vair-teth / Moor-ee sing coo-cuu / Coo-cuu, coo-cuu / Well sing-ez the coo-cuu / Nair zwik the nah-vair-nuu / Translation - / Sumer is coming, loudly sing cuckoo / The seed grows and meadow blossoms / And wood now springs into leaf / Sing cuckoo / Ewe bleats after the lamb and cow / Lows after the calf / Bullock mounts and the buck breaks wind / [the bull mounts the cows and the deer buck sends out his musk sent to attract a doe] / Merrily sings the cuckoo / Cuckoo, cuckoo / Well sings the cuckoo. / Don’t stop now ! / [not stop you never now]_ / I was also fortunate to learn the first drinking song written down [I don’t think by the monk!] it’s a translation from German I think Tis women makes us love / tis love that makes us sad / tis sadness makes us drink / and drinking makes us mad! the whole issue of men and love and drink in one stanza! lol ~ these songs are around the late 1600s from memory / – but don’t quote me on that! lol Enjoy! ~ adg :o)
—-if you ever see something in english you want to know more about go to http://translate.google.com / when i am in a rush i got there, or…
—-if you ever see something in english you want to know more about go to http://translate.google.com / when i am in a rush i got there, or if i have a question i go there. it is easy and quick —-—-si jamais vous voyez quelque chose en anglais, vous voulez en savoir plus sur allez à http://translate.google.com / quand je suis dans un rush i got there, ou si j’ai une question que je vous y rendre. il est facile et rapide i thought i would post this for others that speak not just english as “english ” is world wide, we must not forget to learn others languages not just our own , and learning is half the fun!—-if you ever see something in english you want to know more about go to http://translate.google.com / even more » / Help / Google Enter a search phrase in your own language to find information in other languages. / Translate and search / Translation tools / Get translation with a single click and make your webpage instantly available in other languages. / Get translation tools now / Languages available for translation / Albanian / Arabic / Bulgarian / Catalan / Chinese / Croatian / Czech / Danish / Dutch / English / Estonian / Filipino / Finnish / French / Galician / German / Greek / Hebrew / Hindi / Hungarian / Indonesian / Italian / Japanese / Korean / Latvian / Lithuanian / Maltese / Norwegian / Polish / Portuguese / Romanian / Russian / Serbian / Slovak / Slovenian / Spanish / Swedish / Thai / Turkish / Ukrainian / Vietnamese / / Add Translate to iGoogle Google Home – About Google Translate / ©2009 Google
I’ve have just created a calendar featuring some of my work generated over the last few months. I’ve tried to sort out which work would b…
I’ve have just created a calendar featuring some of my work generated over the last few months. I’ve tried to sort out which work would be most suited to each month. For example, my Anne Frank illustration is the image for April, because of Holocaust Remembrance…my Poppy Girl is the image for November, World War Remembrance day (UK)... Let me know what you think :) Jem /
January Features I am pleased and honoured to report that the following shots have been featured by Red Bubble groups this month …...
January Features I am pleased and honoured to report that the following shots have been featured by Red Bubble groups this month … Longham Lakes was featured by the Rivers, Lakes & Dams group 1 day ago Autumn Garden was featured by the Kent – Garden Of England group 6 days ago Pink Azalea was featured by the Rhododendrons and Azaleas group 8 days ago / / Swanage M7 was featured by the Powered by Steam group 10 days ago England’s Finest? was featured by the Stream Crossings group 15 days ago This shot also reached my Top 10 most viewed shots with over 100 views within about a week of being posted. Is There Anybody There? was featured by the Dorset, England group 21 days ago Many thanks to the moderators of these groups for choosing to feature my work. January Sales Just a couple of greeting card sales to report this month … The Corn Market ... and … Packbridge over Bybrook Many thanks to Dave Smith (Trainman) for buying these. Thanks for looking folks, Howard
A HUGE thank you to the hosts, Cherri, Susanne & Kristy and all the members of the Paws n Claws group...
A HUGE thank you to the hosts, Cherri, Susanne & Kristy and all the members of the Paws n Claws group. / George has won the Best Toy challenge, and we couldn’t be more thrilled. Also for making me featured member !!! Wow, this is all amazing ! But then so is this group and all the people associated with it. I apologise I have been a little distracted of late. George is ok (ish) at the moment. We had a long conversation with his vet last evening and the outcome is that they want to do more tests!! George is having good days and bad days, but what is giving us hope, is that there are more good days lately. / That must be due to the prayers and good wishes of the groups hosts and members – even the vet can’t account for the change in the better !! Again, my thanks to all who voted and everyone involved in Paws n Claws. Sheila
To all those Red Bubblers living and shooting photography in the Vancouver GVA area, please feel free to join the new Vancouver Group! ...
To all those Red Bubblers living and shooting photography in the Vancouver GVA area, please feel free to join the new Vancouver Group! We are excited to have a place for the amazing photographers of Vancouver to share their work on Red Bubble. This is the first Vancouver group on RB, so please, join up and start sharing some of your wonderful photography. I know it’s out there! Click here for the new Vancouver Group page Thanks very much / John
not been able to get on of late, have borrowed a computer for a while but can only get on as and when. Continuing to write in the lull a…
not been able to get on of late, have borrowed a computer for a while but can only get on as and when. Continuing to write in the lull and making headway with preparing my anthology for book production which I hope will come together soon. I’m at the point of going through spell checker, and if anyone can advise regards form, punctuation or grammar I’d be most grateful. I’m not as highly educated as some here as you may already have guessed and having been writing for little more than 12 months now, I still have much to learn. If you spot anything and wish tooffer your support please bubble me and i will get back as soon as computer loan allows!! lol. Take care all. Hugs. Anna-Marie.
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