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  1. RSS

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    I'm heading to the south of the island until friday, it's practically the Med right Fran?
     
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    If the med is sunny but cold. :)
     
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    I'll take that! I'm working in Sandown but staying in Bembridge because couldn't find anywhere that would have us with all our gear in Sandown.
     
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    I hope you have a visa...don't want furriners taking all our jobs.
     
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    I'm coming by special request of IOW council, I'm practically a VIP. I expect I'll get the business class seats on the ferry :emoticon-0126-nerd:
     
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    The ones on the inside you mean :)
     
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    ChilcoSaint What a disgrace
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    Absolutely none! That was courtesy og Google Translate! As you say though, it's fairly easy to understand in written form, as many of the words come from the same root. Listening is a different thing though!
     
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    Not if they learn their priorities off us.
     
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    Total guesses. Just trying to see how 'instinctive' one can be with the language:
    Bloody freezing here in Norway
    Snow here now
     
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    English is now considered to be closer to the Nordic languages rather than being Germanic. I think the grammar could have told them that. Sandy Toksvig said that Scandinavians regard the British as eccentric cousins who are slightly mad. I can live with that. <laugh>
     
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    Spot on! See It's easy, this translation lark!
     
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    Yes. Wish it was a little easier with Italian sometimes. Those conditional/imperfect/futures/pasts drive me up the wall occasionally. :)
     
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    Can I just rub it in that it is balmy and warm here in Southampton. Don't feel too bad though. North of the Clock Filling Station [there's an old name for a So'ton location], apparently everyone is buried under 3 feet of snow. ;)
     
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    I notice that no-one's tried to translate the Welsh, though :p
     
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    Pratar or talar? Always gone for talar as well, but it's more the 'taught' version. I think pratar is more genuine.
     
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    Oh yes, I completely agree. :rolleyes:
     
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