General Chat

What are you doing up Miss Supercrutch?

Please wait until all the oldies are dead before you introduce a world-wide language for everybody. We oldies just 'cant' learn anything new.

:-(

You live and learn. I'd only heard of Birmingham backslang before.

http://www.abccopywriting.com/blog/2010/11/08/brummie-slang/

I used to hear it in the old Brummie markets when Mum and I went over when I was a kid.

As long as the USA speaks a sort of English then English is going to be the closest there is to a universal language.

Huia :-D :-D I feel a bit the same. When I was young I dreamed of being multilingual. Enoch Powell, our local MP, could speak about 12 fluently including the only 3 I had any ability with - English, French and Welsh.

And I soon found out on a trip to rural France that I could not even claim French, so bi-lingual at best.

Learning a lot about this backslang. Liverpool, London - and now Brum. I will push its merits as world language. Must be preferred to the question at end of every statement that you get from Neighbours. Or the hopeless spelling of Americans. :-)

In answer to your question Sue, sitting up straight to ease off pain :-( or I could say I am deeply troubled and worrying about which single language to choose :-P

I think EVERYONE IN THE WORLD should speak English alongside their own...but then I have no interest in learning any others so it suits my lazy interests lol.

Only language I ever enjoyed learning was Latin......and I wish I'd taken that to o'level rather than the French I was encouraged to learn instead but hated.

Muffy Amo (I love) your answer. I am sure amamus. Don't want bellum ;-)

Isn't the world language now supposed to be "Panglish"? It's the sort of English that happens when, for instance, a Chinese man, a German and someone from Guadeloupe speak in the only language they all think they know i.e. English.

I gather it's the English spoken in the corridors of Brussels and no-one understands anyone else. No wonder the EU is such a mess!

This topic has reminded me of my latter school days.
The only ever second language I managed to learn was "Pig Latin".
A gang of us at school thought is was really "Cool" ... Welllll.. it used to get right up the "grown ups" noses, innit. ;-)
We all (our group) ended pretty fluent at it.
I have not heard it mentioned or used for well over 50 years now.
I reckon I`ll teach it to my grandkids, so they can have some fun using it at school or even outside of school. :-D :-D

Why can't the world learn to sign.? That way we wouldn't have to get our tongues around some difficult words and you could eaves drop at 20 yards...........I know it should be metres--jl

Janet. Flippin good idea. Juts one problem I can see (no pun intended) - the blind:-(

John. Blind people use deaf/blind signing

Thanks, Paula. Didn't know that :-D Keep learning new things, and I am very old :-(

How does signing work using a telephone. :-S

Supercrutch, A little of the Plain old "Anglo-Saxon" would,nt go amiss. :-D :-D :-D :-D

Nobody would understand Anglo-Saxon surely. Even Chaucerian English would be completely impossible. Even Shakespeare has to be explained and that is only a short time ago. :-)

Deaf people use a machine that is something like a computer with a keyboard and a screen, so that they type their responses, then someone from the phone company reads their response to the person on the other end, then the phone company person types in the other person's response and the deaf person reads it on the screen. I have used these to work with deaf students, it is strange at first talking "through" another person but it soon becomes just another way of communicating

How does signing work using a telephone asks Budgie.......Skype??-j

You've just triggered something there Paula.
Some years back the club I was vice chairman at adopted the Royal School for the Deaf at Derby as our yearly Charity.
We used to interact with the school via our monthly social nights which were aimed at raising funds for the school,we also did many other events, like running raffles ,sponsored walks, treasure hunts etc .and quite a few sponsored Mods from the hilltops of Derbyshire.
We even appeared in a couple of times in the yearly Derby Carnival waving our tins and Buckets.
The Club managed to raise a several thousand pounds over the years, and I believe a great deal of the money went forward to purchasing some of the machines you mentioned.

That's using a mobile with camera function aint it Janet.:-S

Afraid most house land lines dont work that way, well ours doesn't anyway. :-D