Hi all
Mary had the cheek, (and I still haven't quite got over it yet), to tell me on Skype that I sounded like a Scotsman. Honestly, I've never been so insulted in my entire life! ;-) But no Mary, you still have quite a way to go before you understand British English. All you understand is the way the Americans have mutilated, violated and wilfully destroyed our language. The rights to English have been usurped by those in power in Washington, New York, Los Angeles or wherever the decisions are taken to mutilate the linguistics. I mean, you can't even spell properly, even simple words like "colour", "Humour" "organise" "surprise", everything like that has been utterly destroyed by the US empire, those who proclaim themselves world leaders and yet, when the horrible clarty stuff hits the fan, it's always them who are left in the clean white suits. ;-) Actually though, in all seriousness, too of our best friends are Americans and they have migrated from Miami Beach Florida where they bought a house and stayed for all of 2 months before deciding after a Christmas spent over here in the UK, that this was the place they wanted to be. So be it. In the early summer their residence visas came through and they now have taken up residence in a really nice house about 5 minutes walk from where we live. They have no real family left in the US and they're kind of like adopted family to us now. Anyway I won't drone on but the point I'm trying to make here is that at least not all Americans believe that we brits are quaint, sad wonky people with an inferiority complex. Now, to employ another Northern expression, it's high time for me to "haddaway". Gordon On 2 Sep 2011, at 08:48, Gordon Keen wrote: It's a North of England expression meaning pleased for or emotionally connected. The opposite would be filling up meaning sad and tearful. Of course you could not be expected to catch all our expressions as Americans do not speak British English but a pirate copy produced with no regard to copyright. ;-) ======================================== The Just-chat E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free To modify your subscription options, please visit for forum's dedicated web pages located at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/just-chat> You can find an archive of all messages posted to the %(list name)s group at either of the following: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/just-chat/index.html> or: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> You may subscribe with your RSS reader at the following URL: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> ---------------------------------------
