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Posted: 08 Nov 2004, 23:15
by Mrs. Snowey
PRWY Embassy, on assignment on The Wirral
(and judging by the amount of fireworks
still being let off, t' natives are restless)
Posted: 08 Nov 2004, 23:18
by moonchild
portuguese..... very portuguese...
Posted: 08 Nov 2004, 23:21
by lazarus corporation
moonchild wrote:portuguese..... very portuguese...
very Portugese? Well, I guess it probably makes sense - I've often been told that I'm
very English, so I presume it's like that. But with less inherent reserve & innate-individual-eyebrow-raising-ability and more ... Portugese attributes. Whatever they may be.
Posted: 08 Nov 2004, 23:56
by moonchild
lazarus corporation wrote:moonchild wrote:portuguese..... very portuguese...
very Portugese? Well, I guess it probably makes sense - I've often been told that I'm
very English, so I presume it's like that. But with less inherent reserve & innate-individual-eyebrow-raising-ability and more ... Portugese attributes. Whatever they may be.
i'm very portuguese not in the way i look but in the way i act.
Posted: 08 Nov 2004, 23:57
by lazarus corporation
moonchild wrote:lazarus corporation wrote:moonchild wrote:portuguese..... very portuguese...
very Portugese? Well, I guess it probably makes sense - I've often been told that I'm
very English, so I presume it's like that. But with less inherent reserve & innate-individual-eyebrow-raising-ability and more ... Portugese attributes. Whatever they may be.
i'm very portuguese not in the way i look but in the way i act.
OK, so how does a very Portugese person act?
Posted: 09 Nov 2004, 00:51
by moonchild
lazarus corporation wrote:moonchild wrote:lazarus corporation wrote:
very Portugese? Well, I guess it probably makes sense - I've often been told that I'm very English, so I presume it's like that. But with less inherent reserve & innate-individual-eyebrow-raising-ability and more ... Portugese attributes. Whatever they may be.
i'm very portuguese not in the way i look but in the way i act.
OK, so how does a very Portugese person act?
I'm not here to explain you anything.
Posted: 09 Nov 2004, 00:52
by lazarus corporation
moonchild wrote:lazarus corporation wrote:moonchild wrote:
i'm very portuguese not in the way i look but in the way i act.
OK, so how does a very Portugese person act?
I'm not here to explain you anything.
stubbornness and reticence, then.
Posted: 09 Nov 2004, 00:55
by moonchild
lazarus corporation wrote:moonchild wrote:lazarus corporation wrote:
OK, so how does a very Portugese person act?
I'm not here to explain you anything.
stubbornness and reticence, then.
just without patience.
Posted: 09 Nov 2004, 16:23
by Izzy HaveMercy
lazarus corporation wrote:moonchild wrote:lazarus corporation wrote:
OK, so how does a very Portugese person act?
I'm not here to explain you anything.
stubbornness and reticence, then.
Nope.
yumminess and innocence
Kiddin
IZ.
Posted: 09 Nov 2004, 17:23
by christophe
Izzy HaveMercy wrote:
Kiddin
IZ.
are You sure about that ?
Posted: 09 Nov 2004, 23:13
by moonchild
Izzy HaveMercy wrote:
yumminess and innocence
the 1st one i accept.
But innocence?
Posted: 10 Nov 2004, 22:54
by Karst
JB wrote:Hojyuu-obi wrote:Quiff Boy wrote:and i seem to recall karst is from NI... or is at least living there, even if he isn't actually irish
I think
Karst's originally Dutch (?) ...
Indeed. Though I think he's
still Dutch but just living in Belfast.
Indeed still very much Dutch but larging it in Ulster - no access to Heartland in my new workplace though as the firewall blocks it. So I'll be here a little less then before.
Posted: 10 Nov 2004, 23:00
by Hojyuu-obi
@ Karst
I've been wondering about your avatar: is it Van Kooten & De Bie?
Posted: 11 Nov 2004, 23:39
by pikkrong
Hojyuu-obi wrote:I seem to remember reading in an article somewhere (some article/essay on the decline of German as a World language) that for a long time up untill approx. WWII the German language was the language of choice for intelligentsia, and the bourgoisie in Eastern Europe & Russia. Ironically this was largely due to Jewish people!
Until the beginning of the XX century in Estonia and Latvia German language dominated due to German-speaking nobility whose ancestors (German and Danish crusaders) had invaded these lands in the XIII century.
Posted: 12 Nov 2004, 11:14
by markfiend
pikkrong wrote:Hojyuu-obi wrote:I seem to remember reading in an article somewhere (some article/essay on the decline of German as a World language) that for a long time up untill approx. WWII the German language was the language of choice for intelligentsia, and the bourgoisie in Eastern Europe & Russia. Ironically this was largely due to Jewish people!
Until the beginning of the XX century in Estonia and Latvia German language dominated due to German-speaking nobility whose ancestors (German and Danish crusaders) had invaded these lands in the XIII century.
The Teutonic knights? (Dragging up faded memories of European history)
Posted: 12 Nov 2004, 12:33
by Big Si
James Blast wrote:Glaswegian or Weegie, if you will
Honorary Weegie/Scot, Ulsterman and Czech Republicman. But I tell people I meet everyday "i'm a Yorkshireman from the Borders!"
Posted: 12 Nov 2004, 21:05
by pikkrong
markfiend wrote:pikkrong wrote:Hojyuu-obi wrote:I seem to remember reading in an article somewhere (some article/essay on the decline of German as a World language) that for a long time up untill approx. WWII the German language was the language of choice for intelligentsia, and the bourgoisie in Eastern Europe & Russia. Ironically this was largely due to Jewish people!
Until the beginning of the XX century in Estonia and Latvia German language dominated due to German-speaking nobility whose ancestors (German and Danish crusaders) had invaded these lands in the XIII century.
The Teutonic knights? (Dragging up faded memories of European history)
http://www.balticsww.com/Crusaders.htm
Posted: 17 Nov 2004, 00:41
by Karst
Hojyuu-obi wrote:@ Karst
I've been wondering about your avatar: is it Van Kooten & De Bie?
Yup, as Simplistisch Verbond - quite poignant considering the current situation in my country of birth.
Posted: 17 Nov 2004, 00:51
by 6FeetOver
pikkrong wrote:rian wrote:Lettland
Who you are talking about? Sinny?
Wha? Did I miss summat? I'm confused.
Posted: 17 Nov 2004, 17:01
by rian
SINsister wrote:pikkrong wrote:rian wrote:Lettland
Who you are talking about? Sinny?
Wha? Did I miss summat? I'm confused.
You never understand those baltic people
Posted: 17 Nov 2004, 17:08
by Quiff Boy
even i'm confused now
Posted: 17 Nov 2004, 17:16
by 6FeetOver
rian wrote:You never understand those baltic people
But I *am* a Baltic people...well - half of me is, anyway, hehehe...
Posted: 17 Nov 2004, 17:22
by emilystrange
the other's Midlands, so you're doomed anyway lol
Posted: 17 Nov 2004, 17:28
by rian
Posted: 17 Nov 2004, 17:44
by 6FeetOver
emilystrange wrote:the other's Midlands, so you're doomed anyway lol
Unfortunately, it's not - that's only by marriage (my mom's 2nd husband). I do have a *wee* bit of Brit heritage of some sort, but that's from a great-grandmother on my mom's side...