Room 101

[Audax67]

26-character WiFi keys
Downton Abbey
The collected speeches of John Major

[reohn2]

Nuclear anything.
close overtakers
politrickians

[karlt]

Nuclear anything.

Bugger. That's the sun gone then.

[reohn2]

Nuclear anything.

Bugger. That's the sun gone then.

Sorry,should have said man made Nuclear anything

[Audax67]

Sorry,should have said man made Nuclear anything

Oops. No more MRI or scintigraphy. No more deep-space probes. No more smoke detectors.

[Lawrie9]

Iresponsable dog owners who allow their dogs to foul all over the place. Football teams in black away kit. Musclular, fake tanned cyclists in tight professional team kit that go snorting past. Horrible cheap bikes. All buy-to -let investors. Japanese knotweed.
People selling bought in stuff from China, Peru, Mexico and Africa etc at craft shows. The whole financial sector who have bought the world to its kneees. Stupid colour names such as lunar mist.

[karlt]

The stupid bloody petty hatreds between Scottish, Welsh and English. Not to mention the Cornish.

It's fun when it's a bit of banter, but it's got a nasty sinister underbelly.

[meic]

Still OK to hate the French, Germans and Yanks I hope.

[karlt]

Still OK to hate the French, Germans and Yanks I hope.

Wrth gwrs. Pam lai?

Dw i dim ond gobeithio byddwch chi'n neis imi os bydda i'n ceiso siarad eich iaith chi!

[meic]

Ja, sehr gut,

Kanst du Deutsch Sprechen?

Obtuse? Fi?!!

[karlt]

Ja, sehr gut,

Kanst du Deutsch Sprechen?

Nein.

Possum dicere linguas Angliae, Franciae, Cambriae Romaeque, Sed non Germaniae. Lingua Graeci in scholiam doctus sum, sed dedidici illud.

(Humph - can this game be renamed "Linguistic showing off"?)

[meic]

I have never studied Latin but I think that I understood that!

Though of course a lot of Latin words were stolen from Welsh and German.

[karlt]

I have never studied Latin but I think that I understood that!

Though of course a lot of Latin words were stolen from Welsh and German.

Interestingly, there was once a hypothesis that Celtic and Italic had a common ancestral language more recently than the split with Germanic, Slavic etc.

It's been largely refuted now; the loan words are hard to tell from the native. The following Latin words may be familiar to you:

Fenester - window
Cumulus - cloud
Gladius - sword (slightly less obvious, that one!) - if it helps, borrowings from Latin often take the accusative form, in this case Gladium, and Brythonic -m often gives -f in Welsh

Not to mention the names of the days of the week - (Die) solis, lunae, martis, mercurii, iouis, ueneris, saturnis

In case you've ever wondered, Monday is Dydd Sul whilst the word for the sun is Haul because Old Brythonic S- gave Old Welsh H-. However, in the name of the day the initial S- got preserved (as tends to happen in what's essentially a fossilised form). That's also why we have the Severn whilst you have the Hafren, from Brythonic Abona Sabrina

Indo-european languages, and native British ones in particular, are a consuming hobby of mine. I'll try Cornish when the buggers stop arguing amongst themselves about how to spell it and which century to live in^h^h^h^h^h^h^h speak the language of

[daveg]

Pleased to see that Yorkshire is coming out of this Ok

[R_nger]

- TV "talent" shows (and that includes anything involving celebs...especially if they are dancing/singing/falling over on ice)
- ALL soaps (not of the lathering variety)
- ALL reality TV


I wish I had more choices