Language Fetish
Fetish – 45 Members
Language Fetish
Fetish – 45 Members
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In the Countryside :-)
*********nwood Woman
163 Posts
Thread creator Group moderator 
10.04.24 13:30
Chit-Chat
Our space for having some smalltalk, to share funny memes, nice clips...or whatever comes into our minds. *g*
Handwerker
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******aas Man
1,558 Posts
11.04.24 06:18
Just a fact I learned this morning:

April 11, 1954 was statistically the most boring day in modern history.

70 years later, let's not repeat that.
Sven
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*****ith Man
1,613 Posts
11.04.24 06:30
I actually looked up the date
In the article there is a remarkable sentence from 18 April 1930
"There is no news"
Handwerker
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******aas Man
1,558 Posts
13.04.24 08:18
....and then, in 1830, this happened:



(sorry, no better way to connect the topic AND to avoid the weather-talk-tendency this was going to sway to)

Kind of my idea of a language fetish.
In the Countryside :-)
*********nwood Woman
163 Posts
Thread creator Group moderator 
13.04.24 11:47
*bravo* *bravo* *bravo*

Yeah *boogie* ...more nice city and village names that are pronounced completely different than they are written! I'm on a mission to discover them all...and to become smart by knowing them all correctly! *cool*
Sven
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*****ith Man
1,613 Posts
17.04.24 08:14
Roadmap of dialects
An interesting map of the dialects on the island
In the Countryside :-)
*********nwood Woman
163 Posts
Thread creator Group moderator 
19.04.24 15:16
*love3* WOW!!!! *love5*
In the Countryside :-)
*********nwood Woman
163 Posts
Thread creator Group moderator 
19.04.24 15:21
Brummie is a cute dialect. *g*

The funny thing is, I do understand them when they are talking concerning content and meaning, BUT I can never tell what they've just been saying directly...cannot reproduce the concrete words they were using in detail. *lach*
Handwerker
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******aas Man
1,558 Posts
20.04.24 08:20
My reaction to Brummie is mostly like Kloppi's...

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