RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted February 7 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 7 This earworm of which you speak, does it go:- diddly dum diddly dum diddly dum diddly dum diddly dum diddly dum diddlydum diddly dum wooooooooooooo oooooooooooo diddly dum diddly dum wooooooooooooo oooooooooooo… 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium kevinlms Posted February 7 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 7 2 hours ago, J. S. Bach said: You guys above, thanks for the darn earworm!! It's worse now that the Americans have taken over Dr Who! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 3 hours ago, kevinlms said: It's worse now that the Americans have taken over Dr Who! I thought they shot him! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium kevinlms Posted February 7 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 7 3 hours ago, Steamport Southport said: I thought they shot him! Not a Disney+ subscriber, so I guess I'll never know! 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Hroth Posted February 7 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 7 3 minutes ago, kevinlms said: Not a Disney+ subscriber, so I guess I'll never know! Their sticky, greedy fingers get everywhere... 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium kevinlms Posted February 7 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 7 7 minutes ago, Hroth said: Their sticky, greedy fingers get everywhere... No mercy apparently, if they think you have broken their copyright. Many have been caught by public performances and good reviews on social media, which brings forth a 'cease and desist' letter, which apparently has bad results if ignored! Not suggesting that they don't have rights to their owned material, but be aware of what might happen, especially if you've invested money on breaching it! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Hroth Posted February 7 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 7 10 minutes ago, kevinlms said: No mercy apparently, if they think you have broken their copyright. Many have been caught by public performances and good reviews on social media, which brings forth a 'cease and desist' letter, which apparently has bad results if ignored! Not suggesting that they don't have rights to their owned material, but be aware of what might happen, especially if you've invested money on breaching it! An attitude that means that I don't touch any of their product with a bargepole. 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 31 minutes ago, kevinlms said: Not a Disney+ subscriber, so I guess I'll never know! BBC M'lud Last proper Doctor* *Although I reckon McCann could have brilliant.... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithMacdonald Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 8 hours ago, The Johnster said: This earworm of which you speak, does it go:- diddly dum diddly dum diddly dum diddly dum diddly dum diddly dum diddlydum diddly dum wooooooooooooo oooooooooooo diddly dum diddly dum wooooooooooooo oooooooooooo… Yes, about an hour before the next earworm... dum-de-dum de dum de dum, dum de dum de dumpty-dum, dum-de-dum de dum de dum, dum de diddly dum ... Our better National Anthem (according to Sir William of Connelly) 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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MartinRS Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 9 hours ago, The Johnster said: This earworm of which you speak, does it go:- diddly dum diddly dum diddly dum diddly dum diddly dum diddly dum diddlydum diddly dum wooooooooooooo oooooooooooo diddly dum diddly dum wooooooooooooo oooooooooooo… Nah! Nah! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium martin_wynne Posted February 7 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 7 Back to the whacky signs? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-68226224 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted February 7 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 7 Farteg is, after all, in the same county (although the socio-economic distance is measurable in light years). A single F in Welsh is pronounced like V in English. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Welchester Posted February 7 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 7 10 minutes ago, The Johnster said: Farteg is, after all, in the same county (although the socio-economic distance is measurable in light years). A single F in Welsh is pronounced like V in English. Local residents, however, objected to signs in Welsh. 2 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hodgson Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 45 minutes ago, Welchester said: Local residents, however, objected to signs in Welsh. Yes, it created quite a stink ! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Martino Posted February 7 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 7 Not a sign as such, but a genuine post on one of our local Facebook pages today. The Admin said he had to approve it just to see what happens. I’m assuming that autocorrect has had a meltdown, but the mind boggles. 1 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted February 7 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 7 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithMacdonald Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 2 hours ago, martin_wynne said: Back to the whacky signs? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-68226224 Al Beeb says Quote "I am a reasonably fluent Welsh speaker, and we all make mistakes. The language has a lot of mutations and complicated grammar," Mr Davies said on his website. "But you would expect the Welsh government to get the name of a town right. But does the Welsh Government speak Welsh? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hodgson Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 3 minutes ago, KeithMacdonald said: Al Beeb says But does the Welsh Government speak Welsh? Yes, far too often. It's compulsory in the schools now. That's why my brother didn't move his family from Scotland to Anglesey when he was posted there - if his daughter was going to be taught another language it would be better for her to learn a useful one, like French, German or Spanish - well, that and the used hypodermics he saw in the school playground. When my father died I had to call the Registar to report his death, and of course the phone was answered in both languages. She didn't actually speak welsh, so if I were a Welsh speaker she would have had to pass me on to somebody who did. Credit where it's due though - I've yet to meet a Welshman who isn't also fluent in English. When I visit the continent, it's embarassing how well they speak English and the English mangle French like Ted Heath or Boris Johnson. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 1 hour ago, Martino said: Not a sign as such, but a genuine post on one of our local Facebook pages today. The Admin said he had to approve it just to see what happens. I’m assuming that autocorrect has had a meltdown, but the mind boggles. Veterinarians? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Martino Posted February 7 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 7 21 minutes ago, Steamport Southport said: Veterinarians? Well, yes probably. But one wonders how the poster spelled Veterinarians to get autocorrect to come up with ventriloquists. …..and don’t folks proofread anything? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hodgson Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 Not vegetarians then. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted February 7 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 7 5 hours ago, Welchester said: Local residents, however, objected to signs in Welsh. I know, but the council wasn’t having any of it, Varteg it was as an anglicised name and Farteg it remains, on the basis that the locals know full well how Farteg is spoken in Welsh and for it to sound like ‘fart egg’ (and I’ve had a few of those in my time) it would be ‘Ffarteg’ for the soft f sound. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartinRS Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 When the sign was changed to Welsh did the locals celebrate with a bottle of Felinfoel? 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post The Johnster Posted February 7 RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted February 7 3 hours ago, Michael Hodgson said: Yes, far too often. It's compulsory in the schools now. That's why my brother didn't move his family from Scotland to Anglesey when he was posted there - if his daughter was going to be taught another language it would be better for her to learn a useful one, like French, German or Spanish - well, that and the used hypodermics he saw in the school playground. When my father died I had to call the Registar to report his death, and of course the phone was answered in both languages. She didn't actually speak welsh, so if I were a Welsh speaker she would have had to pass me on to somebody who did. Credit where it's due though - I've yet to meet a Welshman who isn't also fluent in English. When I visit the continent, it's embarassing how well they speak English and the English mangle French like Ted Heath or Boris Johnson. They’re rare and getting rarer; many in the predominantly Welsh-speaking rural areas don’t even hear English until they attend school. Let me introduce you to Evan Jones, Canton driver in the 70s, born 1918 in the Dyfed hinterland on a remote hill-farm where people thought Tregaron was a mega-city (if I shouted at one end of Tregaron you’d easily hear me at the other end). His father was the farmer and his mother, who died in childbirth bearing him, was milkmaid. His birth was never registered so when he came of school age nobody came looking for him. His life was dreadful, being treated more less as a slave in appalling conditions, his only friend being a lad in a similar situation on the next farm. When the friend died of consumption and malnutrition, and was buried in an unmarked grave, or rather, simply ploughed under, Evan sensibly decided that he’d be next and ran away, aged 12, with the assistance of the milk collection lorry driver. He was taken to Carmarthen, the first place he’d heard English spoken, and decided he was going to run away to sea, so he went to Swansea and stowed away on a tramp steamer, next stop Valparaiso round the Horn. He was told to work for his keep in the stoke-hold, and did, hard; life at sea in those days was tough but his upbringing on the farm was tougher, and he was warm and had enough food for the first time in his life. By the time he got back to Swansea he was 19 years old, small-built after years of childhood deprivation, but tough and wiry, capable of handling himself in a Singapore knife-fight. His shipmates had taught him the usual seafaring languages; Dutch, Norwegian, Spanish, and he spoke a sort of shipboard mixture of them, but was not good in English. He was warned by the captain when he was paid off that another war was in the offing and a tramp steamer was a highly dangerous place to spend it, and given a glowing testimonial reference note. He walked up the road to Danygraig loco, showed them the note, and asked if they were interested in men with stoking experience who could climb into small fireboxes; the GWR gave him his first official identity. 30+ years later when I worked with him, he would quite often stop mid-conversation or reading a paper with ‘what means this word by here?’ or such; he could communicate in English but his vocabulary was not extensive and he never mastered the language to even primary school level. He wasn’t brilliant with Welsh vocab either, a consequence of the closed-off world of a semi-feral child on a remote farm. He was intelligent and inquisitive, and had one of the driest senses of humour I ever encountered, lovely bloke and brilliant company to work with. He’d done stuff when he was at sea and was a raconteur as well. 16 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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