General Chat

Kay I fullu understand about certain scouse accents they are way too strong but because im an imbetweeny on the outskirts im not so strong.....*honest* :-D :-D

Answer to Sue Maid...Goodness only knows ??????? One guess.!

Ever lose the will to bleedin' live?

SueMaid... John made it that way.

Mersey :-D.

On paper you are fine my lovely,,,,,,,,but scouse grates on me as does brummie and black country accents,
plus some Scottish I cant stand them....sorry.I would never get on with my ancestors if they paid a visit as I would hold a pillow over my head........ :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D.

I have a friend from=========Dudley West Midlands,,,,,,,he says,,,,,DUD--ly.......in a sing song voice thats as flat as one of me pancakes...... ;-)

I could listen to Sian Phillips or my imaginary wife whispering in my ear all day. Whereas Cilla Black, Kathy Burke and Beryl Reid would not have same effect :-)

SueSprout. I was more thinking of those with little or no work experience.

SueMaid. Things changed for women in 1960's. I had an aunt who was quite senior in 1950's in oil company. But she had to accept that she could not be married and retain that sort of position. And to have a good job as a woman was remarked upon - she was a pathfinder.

When I became a bank clerk in 1964, women were not allowed to serve on the counter in any banks other than Barclays - which was the most liberal and progressive. It was felt that women did not give the right impression - cf Dad's Army with Wilson and Pike on tills.

Why has this thread become a competition between Wales and England :-0

Only good jobs for women was teaching, John. In 1973 at the age of 20 I was managing a office for a large adult education organisation. I was doing payroll and supervising 2 other staff members as well as ordering supplies. Might not be up to your standard but I was doing pretty well.....for a woman.

I can speak a little bit of holiday French, Spanish, and Italian, but I can smell BullS*** a mile away ;-) ;-)

Kay.....is mine ok The rain in spain falls mainly on the plane (posh Scouser) ;-)

I think one area where Welsh scores is in different names for sheep. My father in law used to be a farm valuer and knew so much about sheep.

He once rattled off various words he used to describe them - and I think it was over 100!! Different ages, different sexual conditions etc. English only seems to have ram, ewe, lamb and a couple of others. Unless you know different :-)

Romantic,,, Welsh isnt, same as some accents make me cringe.

Whoa, hold on! the 60's were somewhat more enlightened than you portray John. I sat the IBM exams along with all the male applications for their computer programming vacancies! Whilst I was head of D & S at Sperry Univac.

You had the skills then the doors were opened.

Is that list for 'windows' Sue?

Strange how so many start with a F/V sound. So why does Windows start wth the way it does in English? Ours is a hybrid language of Roman latin, Saxon, Viking, and Norman amongst others :-S

sad innit!!!!!!!

In

Catalan Finestra
Afrikaans Venster
Danish Vindue
Dutch Venster see Afrikaans lolol
Esperanto Fenestro
Galician Venta
Irish Fuinneog
Italian Finestra
Norwegian Vindu
Romanian Fereastra
Spanish Ventana
Swedish Fonster


Can you tell I am bored...lolol

I think Kay has a good point. We need to want to learn a language. And Welsh is not easy. European languages like French, Spanish, Italian and German are much easier to learn if English is your native tongue.

But folk have a lot of fun learning Welsh, and Welsh classes are well attended almost everywhere. I love to see a couple of mothers learning Welsh who have just picked up their children from Welsh school. They sit in Tesco cafe and shout out their new Welsh to their friends and their children. So confident - I tend to whisper mine :-D

I had a brill job in the sixties and I have no qualifications whatsoever on paper although I did go to a grammar school

Brenda. My school in Wolverhampton considered you had only done ok if you went to Oxbridge or Sandhurst. And the bright stream did Greek AND Latin. And we all did Latin and Combined Cadet Force.

Going to a redbrick like Bangor was frowned upon, as was Mons Officer Cadet Course ( a downmarket version of Sandhurst for officer entry). It put enormous pressure on those not very gifted (like me). And I had a great uncle whio went to same school 40 years before me and was one of the most respected scientists in the world by the time I went. So teachers assumed I would also be brilliant at physics.

Well, I liked the Army Cadet Force. And I liked throwing the discus. But other than that, I wore the pointy cap a lot of the time :-(

And the exams you passed determined your job security and the type of life you would lead. Good degree to be a doctor, dentist, vet, teacher, top civil servant. Poor degree to be a soldier or social worker. A levels for middle ranking civil servant. O levels for clerks jobs. No quals meant factory or construction work.

But also in those days (1960's), women were second class in workplace and it was almost impossible for them to get really good jobs outside teaching.

and ---------***-fenster*** is used in german Brenda.


Would I like to learn Welsh,no its a dreadful sounding language to me,,,,it sounds as though a speech impediment is needed to speak it. :-)