Check Your Spelling, Please!

[Llap Goch]

Dave

Please add Irich ( ) to your list. I am only allowed to live in this beautiful country because I make all the idiots and numpties look reasonably normal.

Patrick

 

[Dave Rudy]

Sorry Pat, I keep getting that mixed up.  What about Simou, what is his citizenship?

 

[Llap Goch]

Simou is half German/half English. He lives in Wales and the person who thinks he is the Master is Irish. Its a funny old World. I suppose he is a Citizen of Gwalliaengdeutscheire. A mystical Land full of Festool dealers with half price sales, free Hills Science Canine Scoff and Single Malt in every village drinking fountain.

Ah well it was a nice dream whilst it lasted. ;D

 

[ROb McGilp]

Where's my dictionary and thesaurus?  Dang!  I thought when I received my degree, my learning days were over!  Is it OK if speak a little Texican from time to time?  Like instead of saying "look over there!", we say "Hey ya'll, look out over yonder!" or instead of "you are very successful, we say" You are standing in tall cotton!"  How many of you know what the term "tump" means?  No fellow Texans reply please.

Is it "Tumplestiltskin"?

Regards,

Rob

 

[Tinker]

When I was in the service, i was thrown in with guys from all over the south, the north, the west and, of course, some from my native areas of the east, and all points in between and even a couple of Canadians.  They (we) all spoke "English" but some could barely unerstan wut tha othahs was a sayin'.  i eventually became quite adept at figuring where a guy came from by the way he spoke.  We each had our particular ways to murder "the king's English".  Anyhow, the followig stories has not so much to do with spelling and how we spoke, but maybe how we thought at times.  maybe it has nothin ta do wi' anythin' but it must sa something about how we can still relate somehow.

We were waiting at Ft. Lewis for the next leg of our journey to the orient.  i walked into the barracks in the evening to see four lads from N.J. mopping the floor with one of my Okie buddies. Not a real fight, but definitely a onesided affair.  I jumped right in to the fray only to be reprimanded by my southern pal, "y'all Git outa hea, they ai'nt no damned Yankee gonna faht ma battles fuh me!"  "Cummon, Hersh, Ahm a true Reb from Suthn Nu England"  "Oh, that's ok then.  Cummon and le's have at 'em."  Us Rebs proceeded to prevail and Hersh and i became the closest of friends until we got split up somewhere around Puson. 
A little later, as i had been assigned to an area somewhat further north and slightly east of Seoul, I became very close friends with a Georgia boy and a Korean Sergeant.  the Georgia pal was a very soft talking, typical southern farm boy. (I was a New England farm boy) The Korean was verbally fluent in something like 11 languages and could write fairly accurately in 7.  The three of us would get into some (at times heated) conversations during which we all had problems keeping up with each other.  Kim would tell me, "Doc (I was a medic in those days) , slow down.  I can't understand you.  You all time go yabbityyabittyyab.  Smitty talks real slow and i can understand him ok" 
Tinker

 

[Eli]

I like war stories (just not war) Tink, keep 'em coming. HowardH, would the word 'tump' refer to a tumpline, a loop passed under the load and around the forehead to bear the weight, leaving the hands free? Sherpas carry packs this way.

*another English major*

 

[Michael Kellough]

...would the word 'tump' refer to a tumpline, a loop passed under the load and around the forehead to bear the weight, leaving the hands free? Sherpas carry packs this way.

*another English major*

I'd guess not, Howard said it was a Texas term and people don't carry stuff in Texas.

 

[HowardH]

"tump" in Texican means "to turn over" like "that wheelbarrow just tumped over on me!"   ;D  Houston is pronouned "Yewston", saying someone was old is "She was around when the Dead Sea was only sick.''  Saying that a guy talks big but has nothing to back it up is "he's all hat and no cattle!".  Got loads more...

 

[Eli]

I drove an F-350 Dually from Dallas back to Californy. What an awesome trip. Y'all have a lots of space down yonder.

 

[HowardH]

yepper.  We measure distances in time units.  Saying something is 30 miles away could mean 20 minutes or 2 hours, depending on where you at at!

 

[Jesse Cloud]

yepper.  We measure distances in time units.  Saying something is 30 miles away could mean 20 minutes or 2 hours, depending on where you at at!

Reminds me of the old one about the Texas rancher who was hosting his old Army buddy from NY.  They were headed to the ranchhouse and he bragged "Ya know, we could drive all day and still be on my property."  The New Yorker agreed, "Yeah, I used to have a car like that, too."

Jess, an ex-pat Texan

 

[Tinker]

Friend o'mine was drivin' his Model A dump truck along his local highway (a one way dirt road back in the mid fifties) when an obviously furiner stopped him for directions to Joe Smith's horse farm.  He looked at the carload of strangers for a few moments, spit a wad of tobaco (discusting habit as far as I was always concerned) waved his thumb tawrds the back of his truck and hollered out, "Back that a way 'bout three axe handles and a plow share," hit the gas and with a lurch, he was on his way.
Tinker

 

[Rocker]

Uh oh; the Texans are starting to get a bit uppity. Time to remind them that the state of Western Australia is 3.72 times the size of Texas ;D Oh, and the state of Queensland is 2.5 times the size of Texas.

David

 

[Llap Goch]

A Welshman walking through a field sees a man drinking water from a pool with his hand.

The Welshman shouts,

"Paid a yfed y dwr mae'r gwartheg yn cachi yn y dwr!"

(Don't drink the water, it's full of cow sh*t!)

The man shouts back, "I'm English you Welsh oik, Speak English, I don't understand a word of your quaint and melodic tongue.".

The Welshman shouts back,

"Use both hands, you'll get more in!"  ;D

 

[Dave Ronyak]

I know the feeling

I get annoyed when people leave a l off
'Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch'

which everyone knows is Welsh for

'St Mary's church in the hollow of the white hazel near a rapid whirlpool and the church of St Tysilio of the red cave'.

Standards, Sir, are dropping. That scoundrel Ririmarqueverte was educated in Wales so should know better than to plead forgiveness! ;D

Llap Goch

Llap,

What a wonderful reply!  I never dreamed I would obtain such an enhanced education and high level of amusement from a woodworking forum!  And I loved the couple of days I once spent in Wales in 1995.

As for Matthew, ... poor feller is tryin' so hard to straighten out us knarly knotted warped winding sticks!... I assume he's tryin' to carry on the work of former US  newscaster Edwin Neuman [deceased, I think] who often chided those who used improper English and cautioned them against the long term negative effects on the language and the society who did not follow the rules and preserve proper English.

I, too, have found many of those to whom English is not their primary language do very well, arguable better than those who should know better.  Of course, I have also had German friends who are frequent travelers to USA thank me for my "hospitalization." 

Dave R.

Dave R.

 

[Matthew Schenker]

Everyone,
I like this discussion.  It has all the right ingredients -- good humor, but with enough attention to make a difference (I hope).

Let me add that members ought to practice good spelling in the Gallery as well!  Remember, you can add descriptions to your photos, and people can do a search in the Gallery just like they can in the main forum.

By the way, as you are typing the software underlines in red any spelling mistakes you make.  So it's pretty easy to catch errors!

Thanks,
Matthew

 

[Tinker]

My software shows red when i make spelling mistooks in my microsoft "home' program, bu here, I cn mak ell kins mistooks n it dont sho a thin.
Tinker

 

[Matthew Schenker]

My software shows red when i make spelling mistooks in my microsoft "home' program, bu here, I cn mak ell kins mistooks n it dont sho a thin.
Tinker

It should happen automatically.  You don't see any words underlined in red in your posts when you misspell words?

Does anyone else have the same experience?

When I quoted your message, the misspellings were underlined.

Matthew