Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard?

From	Brian Bailey <bbailey@argonet.co.uk>
Subject	Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard?
Newsgroups	comp.sys.acorn.misc
Date	2012-03-22 07:07 +0000
Message-ID	<527452829dbbailey@argonet.co.uk> (permalink)
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In article <f7ff127452.news@mistymornings.net>,
   <workstuff@mail.com> wrote:
> In message <5272d4dbb0bbailey@argonet.co.uk>
>           Brian Bailey <bbailey@argonet.co.uk> wrote:

> > Hi Stan
> > 
> [snip]
> > 
> > I used to work with ex-miners in Derbyshire. Their dialect wasn't
> > particularly extreme, but I recall visiting a friend and trying to
> > talk to his eighty year old father, an ex-coal mine pump-man, and I
> > couldn't understand one word that he said.
> > 
> I've just got a demerit point on my 2 month assessment at my new job
> because I admitted I couldn't understand an 80 year old 'Hallingen' who
> lives near me (despite having experienced a dramatic increase in fluency
> in Norwegian, both written and verbal, in my first two months in work).

> What is rather annoying is that he my company doesn't deliver any
> services to him and he is not in our target user group. So there is no
> need for me to be able to understand such people.

Years ago, my wife and I had a young German engineer staying with us for
six months in order for him to improve his spoken English. He wasn't too
bad, but some of the standard phrases he was provided with by his employer
were total and utter rubbish. His employer sent him out into the Welsh
valleys for a day, no idea what for, but I never expected to see him
again. 8-)

One memorable Sunday morning we were sitting late at breakfast looking out
of the window at a 'dreach' day (is that correct Scots dielect?) and he
said, with complete confidence,

'It is raining, jah?'

'Well, no Max, it's sort of drizzling a bit, maybe mizzling'

Long conversation followed about rain and all its possible variations, a
bit like twenty Eskimo words for types of snow. We didn't get into 'stair
rods' or 'cats and dogs', that would have been just too technical.

One very frustrated German eventually protested,

'What is all this, either it is raining or it not raining!'

He never did understand the various niceties of English weather. 8-)

Cheers, Stan

Regards

Brian

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