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Post by Ghost Bear on May 12, 2005 18:00:27 GMT
Actually, NS, I think 'da' means 'good'! 'Iechyd' I think means 'health'. Literally: Health good [to you], or 'Good health.' Apparently it's both a traditional greeting, and the equivalent of 'cheers!' or 'kampai!' when drinking. (Thus the song Iechyd da by the delightfully strange band Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, which they describe as a 'drinking song'.) Of course, I could be talking complete drivel. ;D Give that man a cookie. That's exactly right. Bore means morning, by the way. -GB
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Post by outspaced on May 12, 2005 22:03:00 GMT
I like cookies almost as much as I like being right.
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Post by North Star on May 12, 2005 22:37:18 GMT
Bleh. Of course it's "good". "Bore da" is "good morning" *gets out the BISCUITS* NS.
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Post by Relenoir on May 14, 2005 1:30:07 GMT
Bleh. Of course it's "good". "Bore da" is "good morning" *gets out the BISCUITS* NS. Biscuits? Dogs eat biscuits, people eat cookies!
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Post by outspaced on May 14, 2005 8:59:20 GMT
Bah! Not in God's Own Country, Rel!
Pass the Hobnobs, NS.
;D
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Post by North Star on May 16, 2005 17:08:31 GMT
*grins and passes the Hobnobs* Pass the Jaffa Cakes, Outs NS.
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Post by Dusk Fox on May 31, 2005 3:18:42 GMT
NS, wondering how Oede is pronounced. I'm of the OH-eed school of pronunciation myself, with stress on the first syllable, but I'm American--we always want to pronounce as many letters in the word as possible, even when it's totally incorrect to do so. Being an English Major (soon to be English Teacher, then English Professor), that goes double for me. I am, however, amused at the "weed" pronunciation.
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Post by North Star on Jun 1, 2005 12:01:00 GMT
That's a Classical thing to do to try to sound every vowel - Persephone [Per-seff-oh-nee] for instance. I guess that's why a lot of US words are shorn of their extra vowels. We can't have the US peeps sounding any more stupid than normal! NS.
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Post by Runeheart on Jun 18, 2005 6:51:08 GMT
The thought of giving up is SO non-heroic to me, and I will get Limbdeath just so I can get Oede(OO-eed). But my backpack looks more like herb farm. *I think I would have a lot of trouble getting through customs ( this is a big social issue currently in Aussieland)*.
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Post by Ghost Bear on Jun 19, 2005 16:41:56 GMT
I enjoy escaping from jail, so sometimes I let myself get caught simply for that sequence. It's great fun.
-GB
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Post by North Star on Jun 22, 2005 8:17:41 GMT
I don't know if anyone noticed this, or if it was even delibrate, but I was surfing on TotS and misread a part about JD and that it was talking about Oede. Then I suddenly realised it actually read "jOE DEver". Curious huh?
NS.
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Post by Al on Jun 22, 2005 8:30:17 GMT
Bah! Not in God's Own Country, Rel! Pass the Hobnobs, NS. ;D What part of Scotland are you in? Al
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Post by North Star on Jun 22, 2005 11:23:13 GMT
I live in Gloucestershire, but I used to live Wales for two years.
NS.
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Post by outspaced on Jun 22, 2005 11:24:10 GMT
What's that? I couldn't hear you through all the bagpipe music.
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Post by North Star on Jun 22, 2005 11:26:46 GMT
Heh.
NS.
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