Happy Birthday Buzzy!

[TheCarpe]

Who wants to take bets that Dog went to an online thesaurus for all those

[Dog]

Actually, (and you hurt my feelings there), I looked up a thesaurus to see if I'd left any out, and I did....jollity....


Not that anyone uses jollity these days

[KILAAK INJUNEAR]

SKROTUM DOWG SPAMM MUHSHEEN WIL KNOT SAYV SILLEEEE HOOOMENZ

[TheCarpe]

[quote="StrontiumDog";p="61661"]Actually, (and you hurt my feelings there), I looked up a thesaurus to see if I'd left any out, and I did....jollity....


Not that anyone uses jollity these days
[/quote]

I was thinking Felicity

[Dog]

No...felicity is an old English word and if you read a lot of the old novels like Pride and Prejudice, you'll get it there...

For example, I could have said,
"I am most diverted"
which is Jane Austen speak for
"I'm happy"


I like English. Not really an original language but one made up of lots of different languages such as German, Flemish, Gaelic, Latin, Greek, French, Punjabi, Hindi, Norwegian, Saxon and many many more....It is a living language always changing, unlike French which is more rigid and has more rules and more reluctant to change.

It's why English will be the most widely spoken language in a hundred years or so (along with Mandarin probably!)

/English lesson hath ended

[Buzzy Beetle]

[quote="StrontiumDog";p="61723"]
No...felicity is an old English word and if you read a lot of the old novels like Pride and Prejudice, you'll get it there...

For example, I could have said,
"I am most diverted"
which is Jane Austen speak for
"I'm happy"


I like English. Not really an original language but one made up of lots of different languages such as German, Flemish, Gaelic, Latin, Greek, French, Punjabi, Hindi, Norwegian, Saxon and many many more....It is a living language always changing, unlike French which is more rigid and has more rules and more reluctant to change.

It's why English will be the most widely spoken language in a hundred years or so (along with Mandarin probably!)

/English lesson hath ended

[/quote]

Yep. English certainly is a horrifying monster of a language to learn though... have you SEEN the slang?

[TheCarpe]

[quote="StrontiumDog";p="61723"]
For example, I could have said,
"I am most diverted"[/quote]

That sounds more like something I would say if I ever took a wrong turn on a road trip.

"Do you even know where we are?"

"Umm...I think I have gotten most diverted..."

[Dog]

I always laugh at the kids here in Canada complaining about having to learn French as their second language!
French is easy by comparison...

"So you think French is hard!"

I take it you already know
Of tough and bough and cough and dough.
Others may stumble, but not you,
On hiccough, thorough, though, and through -
Well done!
And now you wish perhaps
To learn of less familiar traps?
Beware of heard, a dreadful word
That looks like beard and sounds like bird,
And dead - it's said like bed, not bead.
Watch out for meat and great and threat
(They rhyme with suite and straight and debt).
A moth is not a moth in mother,
Nor both in bother, broth in brother.
And here is not a match for there
Nor dear and fear for bear and pear.
And then there's dose and rose and lose,
Just look them up - goose and choose
And cork and work and card and ward
And front and font, and word and sword
And do and go, and wart and cart -
Come! Come! I've hardly made a start!
A dreadful language? Man alive!
I mastered it - when I was five!!!

[Tickles]

I loved French, took it all through school. Don't remember a lot of it, but I can read it fine, just the speaking it.

[DeafOfficeWorker]

I took French in high school and college. What was interesting to me is that French curses literally translate to English as odd sounding taunts ala Python and the Holy Grail. I remember one translated as "muzzle of dog" etc.

[Nanite]

Russian, now there's a language worth learning. And kinda necessary when you live in a certain part of Brooklyn.

[YevGenie]

I am Russian! (hail Little Odessa by the Sea, or whatever the placards say on the streets there on Brighton Beach).

English is ridiculous to learn unless you start at an early age. Makes me sad

[IZ NAWT KILAAK SPIE!]

HAPPIE HATCHANG DAE BUZZY!

[LadeeeDuke]

Awww, how did I miss an opportunity to say Happy Birthday to Buzzy? I guess being stuck in the "sick" zone does that to ya.

Anyhow, Happiest of Very Belated Birthdays! I hope it goes well for you this year!