Contratrombone64
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yeah, Matt - I loved Wales when I paid my brief visit there ... the Welsh were charming, especially once they figured out I wasn't English but Australian ... (I know my Aussie accent is mild but puhleeeze).
Not many people know that ..........
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Buttercup89
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To blow/make a rasberry, has it's origins in Cockney slang, which is quite singular in that it replaces words with non-correlated words which rhyme. For example "have a chat" becomes "chew the fat", "titfer", short for tit-for-tat means hat, and "raspberry tart" rhymes with fart, which is exactly what a raspberry sounds like... 
JONESEY
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Reminds me of yet another Blackadder quote:
"Huge gangs of tough sinewy men roam the valleys terrorising people with their close-harmony singing"
(I'm allowed to say this, I have Welsh relatives!!!!)
Soubasse
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Ah, the acerbic Edmund! Love it to bits. One can learn much about Europe from Blackadder:
"Don't you worry about my poets Mr. Blackadder, they're just being intellectucal"
"Mrs. Miggins, there's nothing intellectual about walking around Italy in a big shirt trying to get laid."
Or:
"The Teutonic reputation for torture is legendary - their operas last several days"
Thanks for the info on raspberry blowing Buttercup, I didn't know that and I quite like Cockeny Rhyming Slang (I was surprised after many years of hearing people being called "berk" to find out where that one came from!)
"Don't you worry about my poets Mr. Blackadder, they're just being intellectucal"
"Mrs. Miggins, there's nothing intellectual about walking around Italy in a big shirt trying to get laid."
Or:
"The Teutonic reputation for torture is legendary - their operas last several days"
Thanks for the info on raspberry blowing Buttercup, I didn't know that and I quite like Cockeny Rhyming Slang (I was surprised after many years of hearing people being called "berk" to find out where that one came from!)
Dorsetmike
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Re Cockney rhyming slang, can anybody translate this phrase, it's in the later abbrevialted form where the second word was omitted so e.g. apples and pears meaning stairs would be abbreviated to apples, as in "get up them apples"
Nip down to the lolly on the johnny and fetch us a packet of harries, here's an oxford and bring us the kitchen.
Clues if necessary tomorrow
Nip down to the lolly on the johnny and fetch us a packet of harries, here's an oxford and bring us the kitchen.
Clues if necessary tomorrow
Dorsetmike
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Wrong on the quickly, it's a location of sorts, cigarettes and money you have the right idea, just need a bit more sideways thinking maybe.
Bet we have the colonials really baffled, they must think we're sally. (and can you figure sally?)
Bet we have the colonials really baffled, they must think we're sally. (and can you figure sally?)
Dorsetmike
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Inspired by the example of the Assistant Administrator, I looked at my travel-guide to Great Britain not long ago. [It'll be a while before it can happen- I have a car to replace... but I can dream, right?] Anyway, this book said Welsh pronunciation was pretty much phonetic.
What are they... kidding me!?:crazy:
I'm going to skate at the edge of the language rules here- and this may fall more in the realm of 'Urban Legend' than Genuine Useless Knowledge- but my brother told me that in one of the Michael Moorcock stories, there was a fictional Welsh-like place name called Llareggub.:smirk:
teddy
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teddy
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Dorsetmike
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I dunno Teddy, ya can't even spell that right
Machynlleth ........ ll not li
Machynlleth ........ ll not li
Dorsetmike
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Not Michael Moorcock, Dylan Thomas from Under Milk Wood
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_Milk_Wood
Must admit I hadn't looked deper into the spelling of Llareggub, not for the young!!
naDiNawasA
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@Teddy I am in Cardiff, and 3 of the few words that I learned from my Welsh co-workers before are diolch, croeso and shwmai (sp?) One guy said, nobody really speaks Welsh in Wales anymore o.0 They have all the translations in road signs, broadsheets, and other signs as well. It's very interesting.
I am in Cardiff, and 3 of the few words that I learned from my Welsh co-workers before are diolch, croeso and shwmai (sp?) One guy said, nobody really speaks Welsh in Wales anymore o.0 They have all the translations in road signs, broadsheets, and other signs as well. It's very interesting.
teddy
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@Teddy
Go further North and you will find Welsh Wales. My school graded you on ability as well as ability to speak Welsh. Some pupils were taught everything in Welsh. If you get up around Snowdon you will find plenty of people who speak Welsh as a first language. When I go back there I put on my Welsh accent and speak a few words which I find gets me better tables in resteurants, discounts in car parks etc. and always a friendly greeting. I sometimes feel guilty, but not very.
teddy
naDiNawasA
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Don't be, Teddy. It's Wales and you have some Welsh in you after all That is so cool.
That is so cool.