[gruff] aye, quine. [thinks] er, fit like yersel'?
(as you can tell, despite half my dad's family speaking fluent doric - a dialect rather than a language, i'd argue - i'm not very good at it myself. that said, if i'm up speyside way i do find myself using all manner of words and pronunciations i'd never normally adopt, eg "onyway".)
― grimly fiendish (simon), Monday, 1 January 2007 18:23 (seventeen years ago) link
i'd like to devide my 12-point vote heartily between all who've spoken whichever language on this thread (& for being hearteningly articulate so unbelievably early in the day, too!:)
p.s. a personal (repeat) message to fair ailsa: beer is food! (hint: look up that other thread for a longer 'xplanation:)
― tiit (t**t), Monday, 1 January 2007 18:38 (seventeen years ago) link
(Tiit, no, I have NOT forgotten about the CDR I owe you.)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 1 January 2007 18:39 (seventeen years ago) link
j/k
― Tyrone Slothrop (Tyrone Slothrop), Monday, 1 January 2007 18:40 (seventeen years ago) link
It was included to teasingly tickle the Scottish sensibilities, yes. But I wasn't laughing at them at all, I respect those feelings (after all, I should have written "Flanders" instead of "Dutch speaking part of Belgium" myself, but I didn't because I thought that would complicate my answer for people who don't know about the situation over here).
(I guess I just wanted to see if Welsh speaking people would reply and a British civil war would erupt.)
― StanM (StanM), Monday, 1 January 2007 18:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― StanM (StanM), Monday, 1 January 2007 18:43 (seventeen years ago) link
meh! meh!(*gets hand out from offa arse, waves madly*)
― tiit (t**t), Monday, 1 January 2007 18:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tyrone Slothrop (Tyrone Slothrop), Monday, 1 January 2007 18:44 (seventeen years ago) link
I don't know about the rest of Europe, but as someone from Flanders (a part of a country where we speak our own (some would say comedy versions of) Dutch and not connected to the other half except by royalty, taxes and football (if and when successful), I think we think we instinctively feel a bond with other peoples who are in (reasonably) similar situations.
― StanM (StanM), Monday, 1 January 2007 18:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― StanM (StanM), Monday, 1 January 2007 18:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― tiit (t**t), Monday, 1 January 2007 19:05 (seventeen years ago) link
Emsk can speak Welsh. Anyone else?
― suzy artskooldisko (suzy artskooldisko), Monday, 1 January 2007 19:08 (seventeen years ago) link
or is it oes?
goddamn internet.
as you can tell, the answer's not "yes" at all. it's the opposite. still, i find women speaking welsh - or even women with a welsh accent - strangely erotic.
on the subject of scotland and england, here's iain macwhirter's 2007, from the (scottish) sunday herald. sure, it's tongue-in-cheek. but it does deal deftly and cleverly with what might just prove to be a fucking enormous constitutional explosion - and also serves as a primer for the many, many issues involved in the whole union v independence affair, if anyone's interested.
i look forward to discussing this more at substantial length come the run-up to the holyrood elections :)
(marcopollo, sorry for derailing your thread so spectacularly. i'll stop now. still: lang may yir lum reek wi ither fowk's coal, or something.)
― grimly fiendish (simon), Monday, 1 January 2007 20:08 (seventeen years ago) link
i'm from the flanders, like stan, but i'm not cool like him.
― nathalie (stevienixed), Monday, 1 January 2007 20:22 (seventeen years ago) link
Hi Tuomas, I lurk these days. You were also very nice and it was fun to meet you!
― Hanna (Hanna), Monday, 1 January 2007 20:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Monday, 1 January 2007 20:26 (seventeen years ago) link
Nathalie is WAY cooler than me. And she can knit!
― StanM (StanM), Monday, 1 January 2007 20:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― tiit (t**t), Monday, 1 January 2007 20:52 (seventeen years ago) link
Thanks, hope we get to meet again one day. If you ever come to Helsinki and want someone to show you around, just ask me.
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 08:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― OleM (OleM), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 08:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― Erlend Andenæs (epp), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 08:54 (seventeen years ago) link
An P sucks. Sorry, that last record might be bearable, the previous ones were simply horrendous.
― nathalie (stevienixed), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 09:45 (seventeen years ago) link
Heck, if a pretty Scottish boy opens his mouth and starts talking, regardless of "deep voice" qualification, I'm like, SWOON.
Y ¿donde esta las personas de España? O, en más, alguien del pais, er, que hablamente español. Boy didn't that deteriorate rapidly? Or "rapidamente" if you're so inclined. Anyway, if you would've caught any of my forebearers 85 years ago, you would've needed someone who understood both Spanish and English to translate. Though they would've definitely spoken a lot better Spanish than I do. ;)
― Phoenix (is still) Dancing (krushsister), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 13:38 (seventeen years ago) link
Lovelace--- Are you someone I know? What with the Embassy e-mail addy and everything, seems you might be.
― Hanna (Hanna), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 13:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― AleXTC (AleXTC), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 13:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― It's Teatime in Buttercup Land (Maaarghk C), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 13:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― AleXTC (AleXTC), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 14:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Real Dirty Vicar (The Real Dirty Vicar), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 16:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― Michael White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 16:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 16:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― kv_nol (kv_nol), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 16:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 18:25 (seventeen years ago) link
Also that Sebastien guy who posts metaphysical stuff is French or Belgian, isn't he?
― nickn (nickn), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 19:05 (seventeen years ago) link