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Tal
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Re: Vagueness and the Aftermath - A sporadic diary
«
Reply #21420 on:
May 03, 2013, 06:48:41 PM »
Quote from: Redsgirl on May 03, 2013, 06:14:59 PM
Quote from: Tal on May 03, 2013, 05:56:05 PM
Quote from: Rod Paradise on May 03, 2013, 03:17:10 PM
I laugh at the arguments over the correct way to use the language, when it's the evolution of language that keeps it alive, and relevant. I wonder if they'd had the internet back when Shakespear (or whoever really wrote his stuff) was creating, there'd have been threads debating his incorrect use of "seen better days" or "full circle" - they'd have called it "a sorry sight" but that was another phrase they'd have been slagging off.
I'm not suggesting blonde is as important to the language as Shakespear was, but the odd incongruous turn of phrase doesn't really hurt ;-)
How do you
turn
a phrase?
I am of course joking. You use a phraseturner. It is a cross between a calculator, a thesaurus and a lathe.
Language is a fundamentally beautiful thing, to be cherished, devoured and have slathered all over us. It moves with the times like art, music, haircuts and waistlines. We evolve both with and through the way we communicate. We use words we heard the day before as though we have known them all our life (Rangemerging dem pigeons since time, brah, freal). And so we should.
Of course, we have to use these new-found tools properly, else we run the risk of sounding like a Russian spy.
If we meet, buy me a diet coke and I'll talk to you forever about this stuff, including why Shakespeare - and it was Shakespeare - was so utterly and gloriously wonderful.
Moustache. TTFN.
Ohhh Tal!
There I was, preparing a post to answer Tikay on one of my favourite subjects, when I get the
Warning, while you were typing a new reply has been posted
message.
Had a quick look and deleted my reply.
You said just about everything I wanted to say but so much
better
P.S. I think I love you
Sorry to jump what I am sure was your euphemistically stupendous gun.
Ben Jonson (one of my absolute favourite writers, in spite of his drug taking to win the Olympic 100m final, some 350-odd years after his death) said "Language most shews a man: Speak, that I may see thee."
I like to think when I post on Blonde, it might be eloquent, it might be cantankerous, it might be twelve and a half kinds of botty gravy, but that it is unmistakably
Tal
Drink to me only with thine eyes,
And I will pledge with mine;
Or leave a kiss but in the cup
And I'll not look for wine
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Re: Vagueness and the Aftermath - A sporadic diary
«
Reply #21421 on:
May 03, 2013, 06:58:09 PM »
Quote from: Tal on May 03, 2013, 05:56:05 PM
Quote from: Rod Paradise on May 03, 2013, 03:17:10 PM
I laugh at the arguments over the correct way to use the language, when it's the evolution of language that keeps it alive, and relevant. I wonder if they'd had the internet back when Shakespear (or whoever really wrote his stuff) was creating, there'd have been threads debating his incorrect use of "seen better days" or "full circle" - they'd have called it "a sorry sight" but that was another phrase they'd have been slagging off.
I'm not suggesting blonde is as important to the language as Shakespear was, but the odd incongruous turn of phrase doesn't really hurt ;-)
How do you
turn
a phrase?
I am of course joking. You use a phraseturner. It is a cross between a calculator, a thesaurus and a lathe.
Language is a fundamentally beautiful thing, to be cherished, devoured and have slathered all over us. It moves with the times like art, music, haircuts and waistlines. We evolve both with and through the way we communicate. We use words we heard the day before as though we have known them all our life (Rangemerging dem pigeons since time, brah, freal). And so we should.
Of course, we have to use these new-found tools properly, else we run the risk of sounding like a Russian spy.
If we meet, buy me a diet coke and I'll talk to you forever about this stuff, including why Shakespeare - and it was Shakespeare - was so utterly and gloriously wonderful.
Moustache. TTFN.
I feel as if I have been violated.
Tal is a man who I admire muchly, and his writing thrills me. The Post above was a contender for Post of the Year ( it won Post of the Month without opposition, we are not worthy, da de da), and my loins were in a state of girdleness not experienced for many a moon.
And then.......and then it happened. He betrayed me. Badly, so badly it hurt.
Shakespeare? SHAKESPEARE?
Am glad this is not my Diary. Arty bollox, no thank you.
You have been moved down, in my estimation, two grades. Degraded Tal it is.
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Redsgirl
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Re: Vagueness and the Aftermath - A sporadic diary
«
Reply #21422 on:
May 03, 2013, 06:59:18 PM »
Quote from: tikay on May 03, 2013, 03:29:16 PM
Quote from: Rod Paradise on May 03, 2013, 03:17:10 PM
I laugh at the arguments over the correct way to use the language, when it's the evolution of language that keeps it alive, and relevant. I wonder if they'd had the internet back when Shakespear (or whoever really wrote his stuff) was creating, there'd have been threads debating his incorrect use of "seen better days" or "full circle" - they'd have called it "a sorry sight" but that was another phrase they'd have been slagging off.
I'm not suggesting blonde is as important to the language as Shakespear was, but the odd incongruous turn of phrase doesn't really hurt ;-)
Fair comment. Ish.
The world relies on the correct use of wordage, as practised by myself, of course, to save it from a lexiconic hell.
More seriously.....I do actually find it extremely interesting how it evolves though.
Have you noticed - I only see it on poker fora, but it may well be have spread to the real world - how the meaning of words change? Nothing wrong with that, but us old-timers find it hard to adapt, don't we?
"Friend" has been completely changed, &, imo, devalued. By my definition, a "Facebook Friend" is nothing like a friend, it is an online acquaintance at best, in most cases. Tick that box, simple, job done, "we are now Friends". Sod that.
"Heroes" & "legends" ditto ditto. By correct definition, both are exceedingly rare, but a DTD Final Table can contain half a dozen of each.
All very discomfiting, or it is to me.
Going back to "most unique", "Unique" is a lovely word, but now bastardised. In my line of work, we use it all day every day, to describe how many different players are on site each day - UPD (Uniques Per Day) - or how much they spend per day - MPU (Margin Per Unique).
What were the uniques like yesterday?
is the first question each morning. And the bigger the number, the better. So in Online Poker business-speak, the more uniques the better.
Yup, 20,000 uniques yesterday.
We are all, it seems, either unique, or a unique.
Tal got another post in before me, but now I have recovered from the swoon his latest effort induced, I'll get back to the question I was going to ask Tikay,
What word would you use 'all day every day' if you made a stand and stopped using unique?
The point being if its used frequently, by eveyone then it must now be the best word for the job.
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Re: Vagueness and the Aftermath - A sporadic diary
«
Reply #21423 on:
May 03, 2013, 06:59:44 PM »
Quote from: Tal on May 03, 2013, 06:48:41 PM
Quote from: Redsgirl on May 03, 2013, 06:14:59 PM
Quote from: Tal on May 03, 2013, 05:56:05 PM
Quote from: Rod Paradise on May 03, 2013, 03:17:10 PM
I laugh at the arguments over the correct way to use the language, when it's the evolution of language that keeps it alive, and relevant. I wonder if they'd had the internet back when Shakespear (or whoever really wrote his stuff) was creating, there'd have been threads debating his incorrect use of "seen better days" or "full circle" - they'd have called it "a sorry sight" but that was another phrase they'd have been slagging off.
I'm not suggesting blonde is as important to the language as Shakespear was, but the odd incongruous turn of phrase doesn't really hurt ;-)
How do you
turn
a phrase?
I am of course joking. You use a phraseturner. It is a cross between a calculator, a thesaurus and a lathe.
Language is a fundamentally beautiful thing, to be cherished, devoured and have slathered all over us. It moves with the times like art, music, haircuts and waistlines. We evolve both with and through the way we communicate. We use words we heard the day before as though we have known them all our life (Rangemerging dem pigeons since time, brah, freal). And so we should.
Of course, we have to use these new-found tools properly, else we run the risk of sounding like a Russian spy.
If we meet, buy me a diet coke and I'll talk to you forever about this stuff, including why Shakespeare - and it was Shakespeare - was so utterly and gloriously wonderful.
Moustache. TTFN.
Ohhh Tal!
There I was, preparing a post to answer Tikay on one of my favourite subjects, when I get the
Warning, while you were typing a new reply has been posted
message.
Had a quick look and deleted my reply.
You said just about everything I wanted to say but so much
better
P.S. I think I love you
Sorry to jump what I am sure was your euphemistically stupendous gun.
Ben Jonson (one of my absolute favourite writers, in spite of his drug taking to win the Olympic 100m final, some 350-odd years after his death) said "Language most shews a man: Speak, that I may see thee."
I like to think when I post on Blonde, it might be eloquent, it might be cantankerous, it might be twelve and a half kinds of botty gravy, but that it is unmistakably
Tal
Drink to me only with thine eyes,
And I will pledge with mine;
Or leave a kiss but in the cup
And I'll not look for wine
What does that even mean?
Poetry gets right on my tits.
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http://bit.ly/1pdQZDY
(copyright Anthony James Kendall, 2016).
tikay
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Re: Vagueness and the Aftermath - A sporadic diary
«
Reply #21424 on:
May 03, 2013, 07:01:59 PM »
Quote from: Redsgirl on May 03, 2013, 06:59:18 PM
Quote from: tikay on May 03, 2013, 03:29:16 PM
Quote from: Rod Paradise on May 03, 2013, 03:17:10 PM
I laugh at the arguments over the correct way to use the language, when it's the evolution of language that keeps it alive, and relevant. I wonder if they'd had the internet back when Shakespear (or whoever really wrote his stuff) was creating, there'd have been threads debating his incorrect use of "seen better days" or "full circle" - they'd have called it "a sorry sight" but that was another phrase they'd have been slagging off.
I'm not suggesting blonde is as important to the language as Shakespear was, but the odd incongruous turn of phrase doesn't really hurt ;-)
Fair comment. Ish.
The world relies on the correct use of wordage, as practised by myself, of course, to save it from a lexiconic hell.
More seriously.....I do actually find it extremely interesting how it evolves though.
Have you noticed - I only see it on poker fora, but it may well be have spread to the real world - how the meaning of words change? Nothing wrong with that, but us old-timers find it hard to adapt, don't we?
"Friend" has been completely changed, &, imo, devalued. By my definition, a "Facebook Friend" is nothing like a friend, it is an online acquaintance at best, in most cases. Tick that box, simple, job done, "we are now Friends". Sod that.
"Heroes" & "legends" ditto ditto. By correct definition, both are exceedingly rare, but a DTD Final Table can contain half a dozen of each.
All very discomfiting, or it is to me.
Going back to "most unique", "Unique" is a lovely word, but now bastardised. In my line of work, we use it all day every day, to describe how many different players are on site each day - UPD (Uniques Per Day) - or how much they spend per day - MPU (Margin Per Unique).
What were the uniques like yesterday?
is the first question each morning. And the bigger the number, the better. So in Online Poker business-speak, the more uniques the better.
Yup, 20,000 uniques yesterday.
We are all, it seems, either unique, or a unique.
Tal got another post in before me, but now I have recovered from the swoon his latest effort induced, I'll get back to the question I was going to ask Tikay,
What word would you use 'all day every day' if you made a stand and stopped using unique?
The point being if its used frequently, by eveyone then it must now be the best word for the job.
Individuals.
Individuals are not special as such. Unique is special.
Tal is an individual.
Robbie Williams is unique.
Drift duly got?
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(copyright Anthony James Kendall, 2016).
Tal
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Re: Vagueness and the Aftermath - A sporadic diary
«
Reply #21425 on:
May 03, 2013, 07:07:33 PM »
Quote from: tikay on May 03, 2013, 06:59:44 PM
Quote from: Tal on May 03, 2013, 06:48:41 PM
Quote from: Redsgirl on May 03, 2013, 06:14:59 PM
Quote from: Tal on May 03, 2013, 05:56:05 PM
Quote from: Rod Paradise on May 03, 2013, 03:17:10 PM
I laugh at the arguments over the correct way to use the language, when it's the evolution of language that keeps it alive, and relevant. I wonder if they'd had the internet back when Shakespear (or whoever really wrote his stuff) was creating, there'd have been threads debating his incorrect use of "seen better days" or "full circle" - they'd have called it "a sorry sight" but that was another phrase they'd have been slagging off.
I'm not suggesting blonde is as important to the language as Shakespear was, but the odd incongruous turn of phrase doesn't really hurt ;-)
How do you
turn
a phrase?
I am of course joking. You use a phraseturner. It is a cross between a calculator, a thesaurus and a lathe.
Language is a fundamentally beautiful thing, to be cherished, devoured and have slathered all over us. It moves with the times like art, music, haircuts and waistlines. We evolve both with and through the way we communicate. We use words we heard the day before as though we have known them all our life (Rangemerging dem pigeons since time, brah, freal). And so we should.
Of course, we have to use these new-found tools properly, else we run the risk of sounding like a Russian spy.
If we meet, buy me a diet coke and I'll talk to you forever about this stuff, including why Shakespeare - and it was Shakespeare - was so utterly and gloriously wonderful.
Moustache. TTFN.
Ohhh Tal!
There I was, preparing a post to answer Tikay on one of my favourite subjects, when I get the
Warning, while you were typing a new reply has been posted
message.
Had a quick look and deleted my reply.
You said just about everything I wanted to say but so much
better
P.S. I think I love you
Sorry to jump what I am sure was your euphemistically stupendous gun.
Ben Jonson (one of my absolute favourite writers, in spite of his drug taking to win the Olympic 100m final, some 350-odd years after his death) said "Language most shews a man: Speak, that I may see thee."
I like to think when I post on Blonde, it might be eloquent, it might be cantankerous, it might be twelve and a half kinds of botty gravy, but that it is unmistakably
Tal
Drink to me only with thine eyes,
And I will pledge with mine;
Or leave a kiss but in the cup
And I'll not look for wine
What does that even mean?
Poetry gets right on my tits.
Oh yeah?
YEAH?
Well...well..well tits get right on my...poetry!
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Tal
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Re: Vagueness and the Aftermath - A sporadic diary
«
Reply #21426 on:
May 03, 2013, 07:10:49 PM »
Here's a basic summary of what Song to Celia is about:
http://www.shmoop.com/to-celia/summary.html
Johnny Cash sang it:
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Redsgirl
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Re: Vagueness and the Aftermath - A sporadic diary
«
Reply #21427 on:
May 03, 2013, 07:20:24 PM »
Quote from: tikay on May 03, 2013, 07:01:59 PM
Quote from: Redsgirl on May 03, 2013, 06:59:18 PM
Quote from: tikay on May 03, 2013, 03:29:16 PM
Quote from: Rod Paradise on May 03, 2013, 03:17:10 PM
I laugh at the arguments over the correct way to use the language, when it's the evolution of language that keeps it alive, and relevant. I wonder if they'd had the internet back when Shakespear (or whoever really wrote his stuff) was creating, there'd have been threads debating his incorrect use of "seen better days" or "full circle" - they'd have called it "a sorry sight" but that was another phrase they'd have been slagging off.
I'm not suggesting blonde is as important to the language as Shakespear was, but the odd incongruous turn of phrase doesn't really hurt ;-)
Fair comment. Ish.
The world relies on the correct use of wordage, as practised by myself, of course, to save it from a lexiconic hell.
More seriously.....I do actually find it extremely interesting how it evolves though.
Have you noticed - I only see it on poker fora, but it may well be have spread to the real world - how the meaning of words change? Nothing wrong with that, but us old-timers find it hard to adapt, don't we?
"Friend" has been completely changed, &, imo, devalued. By my definition, a "Facebook Friend" is nothing like a friend, it is an online acquaintance at best, in most cases. Tick that box, simple, job done, "we are now Friends". Sod that.
"Heroes" & "legends" ditto ditto. By correct definition, both are exceedingly rare, but a DTD Final Table can contain half a dozen of each.
All very discomfiting, or it is to me.
Going back to "most unique", "Unique" is a lovely word, but now bastardised. In my line of work, we use it all day every day, to describe how many different players are on site each day - UPD (Uniques Per Day) - or how much they spend per day - MPU (Margin Per Unique).
What were the uniques like yesterday?
is the first question each morning. And the bigger the number, the better. So in Online Poker business-speak, the more uniques the better.
Yup, 20,000 uniques yesterday.
We are all, it seems, either unique, or a unique.
Tal got another post in before me, but now I have recovered from the swoon his latest effort induced, I'll get back to the question I was going to ask Tikay,
What word would you use 'all day every day' if you made a stand and stopped using unique?
The point being if its used frequently, by eveyone then it must now be the best word for the job.
Individuals.
Individuals are not special as such. Unique is special.
Tal is an individual.
Robbie Williams is unique.
Drift duly got?
Drift got.
I must say, you do a great job of pretending to be a miserable old so and so!
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Tal
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Re: Vagueness and the Aftermath - A sporadic diary
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Reply #21428 on:
May 03, 2013, 07:20:51 PM »
When it comes to literature, I'm very much a fiction man. I know that grates on Tikay, so I respectfully yield.
Jacobean plays and poetry are by far my faves. Love it.
I'm proper cultured, me.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to Hall Green dogs.
#eveneloquentdegensgottadegen
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Re: Vagueness and the Aftermath - A sporadic diary
«
Reply #21429 on:
May 03, 2013, 07:33:27 PM »
Quote from: tikay on May 03, 2013, 07:01:59 PM
Quote from: Redsgirl on May 03, 2013, 06:59:18 PM
Quote from: tikay on May 03, 2013, 03:29:16 PM
Quote from: Rod Paradise on May 03, 2013, 03:17:10 PM
I laugh at the arguments over the correct way to use the language, when it's the evolution of language that keeps it alive, and relevant. I wonder if they'd had the internet back when Shakespear (or whoever really wrote his stuff) was creating, there'd have been threads debating his incorrect use of "seen better days" or "full circle" - they'd have called it "a sorry sight" but that was another phrase they'd have been slagging off.
I'm not suggesting blonde is as important to the language as Shakespear was, but the odd incongruous turn of phrase doesn't really hurt ;-)
Fair comment. Ish.
The world relies on the correct use of wordage, as practised by myself, of course, to save it from a lexiconic hell.
More seriously.....I do actually find it extremely interesting how it evolves though.
Have you noticed - I only see it on poker fora, but it may well be have spread to the real world - how the meaning of words change? Nothing wrong with that, but us old-timers find it hard to adapt, don't we?
"Friend" has been completely changed, &, imo, devalued. By my definition, a "Facebook Friend" is nothing like a friend, it is an online acquaintance at best, in most cases. Tick that box, simple, job done, "we are now Friends". Sod that.
"Heroes" & "legends" ditto ditto. By correct definition, both are exceedingly rare, but a DTD Final Table can contain half a dozen of each.
All very discomfiting, or it is to me.
Going back to "most unique", "Unique" is a lovely word, but now bastardised. In my line of work, we use it all day every day, to describe how many different players are on site each day - UPD (Uniques Per Day) - or how much they spend per day - MPU (Margin Per Unique).
What were the uniques like yesterday?
is the first question each morning. And the bigger the number, the better. So in Online Poker business-speak, the more uniques the better.
Yup, 20,000 uniques yesterday.
We are all, it seems, either unique, or a unique.
Tal got another post in before me, but now I have recovered from the swoon his latest effort induced, I'll get back to the question I was going to ask Tikay,
What word would you use 'all day every day' if you made a stand and stopped using unique?
The point being if its used frequently, by eveyone then it must now be the best word for the job.
Individuals.
Individuals are not special as such. Unique is special.
Tal is an individual.
Robbie Williams is unique.
Drift duly got?
I'm with the cantankerous sod on this one. Unique has been abused in this context, and individual is a better description of the visitors - rather than unique.
Then he goes and ruins it by comparing the peerless Tal unfavourably to the egomaniac that is Robbie Williams
Anyway, amongst his vast works Shakespeare was responsible for the introduction of many words into the English language. A list of some are here:
http://www.shakespeare-online.com/biography/wordsinvented.html
academe accused addiction advertising amazement
arouse assassination backing bandit bedroom
beached besmirch birthplace blanket bloodstained
barefaced blushing bet bump buzzer
caked cater champion circumstantial cold-blooded
compromise courtship countless critic dauntless
dawn deafening discontent dishearten drugged
dwindle epileptic equivocal elbow excitement
exposure eyeball fashionable fixture flawed
frugal generous gloomy gossip green-eyed
gust hint hobnob hurried impede
impartial invulnerable jaded label lackluster
laughable lonely lower luggage lustrous
madcap majestic marketable metamorphize mimic
monumental moonbeam mountaineer negotiate noiseless
obscene obsequiously ode olympian outbreak
panders pedant premeditated puking radiance
rant remorseless savagery scuffle secure
skim milk submerge summit swagger torture
tranquil undress unreal varied vaulting
worthless zany gnarled grovel
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Re: Vagueness and the Aftermath - A sporadic diary
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Reply #21430 on:
May 03, 2013, 07:35:56 PM »
Quote from: tikay on May 03, 2013, 12:12:04 PM
Wow. Fantastic, I'm so jealous.
Both you & Tom ought to take note of this (below) too - it's wonderful.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22277084
Meant to respond to this earlier, the headline of "Attenborough to launch Tweet Of The Day on Radio 4" had me dreading another octogenarian grumpy codger moaning about the internet..... but the actual show could be good.
However even birds are changing their language in these modern times. I'd read about it but last week when picking up my girlfriend from Hamilton (near the Asda car park) I was amazed by a starling whose call was that of a car alarm. I now wonder if there was a bird (maybe a Pied WagTal) telling it off for its modern speech patterns.......
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Re: Vagueness and the Aftermath - A sporadic diary
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Reply #21431 on:
May 03, 2013, 07:43:19 PM »
Quote from: Rod Paradise on May 03, 2013, 07:35:56 PM
Quote from: tikay on May 03, 2013, 12:12:04 PM
Wow. Fantastic, I'm so jealous.
Both you & Tom ought to take note of this (below) too - it's wonderful.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22277084
Meant to respond to this earlier, the headline of "Attenborough to launch Tweet Of The Day on Radio 4" had me dreading another octogenarian grumpy codger moaning about the internet..... but the actual show could be good.
However even birds are changing their language in these modern times. I'd read about it but last week when picking up my girlfriend from Hamilton (near the Asda car park) I was amazed by a starling whose call was that of a car alarm. I now wonder if there was a bird (maybe a Pied WagTal) telling it off for its modern speech patterns.......
Blatant 'I have a girlfriend' brag post.
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Re: Vagueness and the Aftermath - A sporadic diary
«
Reply #21432 on:
May 03, 2013, 07:45:59 PM »
Quote from: Rod Paradise on May 03, 2013, 07:35:56 PM
Quote from: tikay on May 03, 2013, 12:12:04 PM
Wow. Fantastic, I'm so jealous.
Both you & Tom ought to take note of this (below) too - it's wonderful.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22277084
Meant to respond to this earlier, the headline of "Attenborough to launch Tweet Of The Day on Radio 4" had me dreading another octogenarian grumpy codger moaning about the internet..... but the actual show could be good.
However even birds are changing their language in these modern times. I'd read about it but last week when picking up my girlfriend from Hamilton (near the Asda car park) I was amazed by a starling whose call was that of a car alarm. I now wonder if there was a bird (maybe a Pied WagTal) telling it off for its modern speech patterns.......
VERY good. Pied wagTAL.
Err, "like". (Internet speak again).
By the bye, that post you wrote about your avian visiters this afternoon was wonderful. I don't get to see (or perhaps recognize) such an array of species, but even now, if I see a heron, a buzzard, a kestrel, a cormorant, a red kite, it absolutely thrills me to bits & makes my day.
I have a resifdent blackbird in my garden, & he starts singing in the moirning, then spends all day ground hopping at low level, chasing away territorial invaders, fetching twigs & stuff. A perfect pleasure.
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Quote from: Rod Paradise on May 03, 2013, 07:35:56 PM
Quote from: tikay on May 03, 2013, 12:12:04 PM
Wow. Fantastic, I'm so jealous.
Both you & Tom ought to take note of this (below) too - it's wonderful.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22277084
Meant to respond to this earlier, the headline of "Attenborough to launch
Tweet Of The Day
on Radio 4" had me dreading another octogenarian grumpy codger moaning about the internet..... but the actual show could be good.
However even birds are changing their language in these modern times. I'd read about it but last week when picking up my girlfriend from Hamilton (near the Asda car park) I was amazed by a starling whose call was that of a car alarm. I now wonder if there was a bird (maybe a Pied WagTal) telling it off for its modern speech patterns.......
I can't decide if that is the cleverest title ever, or the daftest, most misleading.
Brilliant idea though. I never knew the UK was home to so many bird species. I doubt I could name a dozen without the aid of Mr Google.
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Re: Vagueness and the Aftermath - A sporadic diary
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May 03, 2013, 07:50:47 PM »
Quote from: RED-DOG on May 03, 2013, 07:43:19 PM
Quote from: Rod Paradise on May 03, 2013, 07:35:56 PM
Quote from: tikay on May 03, 2013, 12:12:04 PM
Wow. Fantastic, I'm so jealous.
Both you & Tom ought to take note of this (below) too - it's wonderful.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22277084
Meant to respond to this earlier, the headline of "Attenborough to launch Tweet Of The Day on Radio 4" had me dreading another octogenarian grumpy codger moaning about the internet..... but the actual show could be good.
However even birds are changing their language in these modern times. I'd read about it but last week when picking up my girlfriend from Hamilton (near the Asda car park) I was amazed by a starling whose call was that of a car alarm. I now wonder if there was a bird (maybe a Pied WagTal) telling it off for its modern speech patterns.......
Blatant 'I have a girlfriend' brag post.
Nah, did that a while back, although the future Mrs Paradise is worth bragging about
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