Dust rains in our dinner

[Penners]

What is that smiley meant to be, Schoolmarm. Looking up the url I find http://www.flatto.de/sml/scheisshaufen.gif and if my German serves me well...

So it's officially true then. You really can find anything on the web. Even a picture of a pile of s***.

 

[FamilyWiggs]

Joce - your "sweetie" reply was one of the best ever on this forum. Like others I was overawed!

 

[biffvernon]

Where's it gone?

 

[Penners]

Still on the previous page:-

No sweetie because that second "wot" referred to the Anglo-Saxon verb "witte" which means to know, to learn, to be aware. Other forms of the verb can be found in the spellings "wate" "woot" "wote", and we inherit the modern version of the word in "wit". And the prepositions "of" or "about" are interchangeable in the above context.

And I would now like the prize for pedantry, and I reserve the ryght to change my spellynge bi my wytte. (as I see fit)

 

[JoceAndChris]

Far too much praise. Penners, you must carry on being the forum's guiding light. Schoolmarm's initial response was probably more appropriate for the rough Anglo-Saxon vernacular.

 

[Penners]

Phwoah - I love it when you talk rough Anglo-Saxon.

 

[Schoolmarm]

Far too much praise. Penners, you must carry on being the forum's guiding light. Schoolmarm's initial response was probably more appropriate for the rough Anglo-Saxon vernacular.

It was in response to the condescending "sweetie" that you used for a genuine and lovely guy. One of our craftsmen on the forum.

 

[Schoolmarm]

Joce - your "sweetie" reply was one of the best ever on this forum. Like others I was overawed!

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Now I hope that reply was sarcasm and not genuine.

 

[biffvernon]

This is where the German smileys come from: http://www.flatto.de/sml/

 

[Gareth Hughes]

This is where the German smileys come from: http://www.flatto.de/sml/

Oh no! they could be dangerously useful

 

[DaveBrigg]

Schoolmarm. Looking up the url I find http://www.flatto.de/sml/scheisshaufen.gif and if my German serves me well...

wraetlicu wyrd, þaet se wyrm forswealg wera gied sumes, in þystro, giest ne wæs
wihte þy gleawra þe he þam wordum swealg.

 

[JoceAndChris]

Moððe word fræt— * me þæt þuhte
wraetlicu wyrd * þa ic þaet wundor gefraegn,
þaet se wyrm forswealg * wera gied sumes,
þeof in þystro, * þrymfaestne cwide
and þæs strangan stapol. * Stælgiest ne wæs
wihte þy gleawra * þe he þam wordum swealg.

seems a more descriptive version of this fascinating riddle:

A moth ate songs—wolfed words!
That seemed a weird dish—that a worm
Should swallow, dumb thief in the dark,
The songs of a man, his chants of glory,
Their place of strength. That thief-guest
Was no wiser for having swallowed words.

Thanks Dave.
xxx

 

[Penners]

German smileys

Oxymoron?

 

[Schoolmarm]

German smileys

Oxymoron?

Indeed.

 

[middi]

I am struggling in trying to understand what the heck are you all talking about, so frustrated that at one stage I started to swear in Italian. :wink:

 

[piper]

Moððe word fræt— * me þæt þuhte
wraetlicu wyrd * þa ic þaet wundor gefraegn,
þaet se wyrm forswealg * wera gied sumes,
þeof in þystro, * þrymfaestne cwide
and þæs strangan stapol. * Stælgiest ne wæs
wihte þy gleawra * þe he þam wordum swealg.

Now then, let's keep this Forum open and understandable to all (OK, technical architectural and building terminology is acceptable; that's what the Forum is supposed to be about - in theory anyway).

If you're not careful I'll start showing off too, and put Ancient Greek quotes up here, if I can type the letters. Congratulations for managing to write those Ango-Saxon letters anyway, it's hard enough to get accents on French words. :wink:

 

[biffvernon]

I am struggling in trying to understand what the heck are you all talking about, so frustrated that at one stage I started to swear in Italian. :wink:

It all started when Schoolmarm deposited a

but being well brought up she tidied it away.

 

[JoceAndChris]

Sorry. Anglo saxon banned from henceforth.

 

[Gervase]

αποποθουρομαι then.
Very appropriate it is too, in a crowded railway carriage.