Cate's Diary

Good morning lovelies! We both had a wonderful night's sleep, after madly doing housework lateish as we think R & a friend might be staying tonight. G has the dreaded lurgy(sore throat etc)! I drugged him so that he slept well. ( A Phenergan)
I'm off to slog around in the mud(golf) & G's off to watch Tassie play 8-ball. He offered to take a couple of the older Vets golfers in. The Men's Open team are battling for a place in the finals. The Tassie Masters are going great & are 2nd. The Tassie women are last.
I think I'll stay home tonight & let G go to his local 8-ball with a mate. He won't have to drive.
You all made me smile & feel good. Thank you!
Poof used to be a derogatory name for a homosexual man here.
Pfft! I'm off to golf xoxo
 
Language is weird. And I secretly find it funny that you felt the need to explain what you drugged your husband with so nobody would think even weirder things :p
 
Language is weird &, yes, I know I am too. It's hilarious that I felt the need to explain that. I just did. I don't mind one little bit that I have amused you LaMa. Sometimes I amuse myself :D
 
Good for you! I amuse myself a lot, which is a good thing when it's october, cold, dark, and windy. Do I now have to explain what I DON'T mean by, hemhem, "amusing myself"? :D
 
I agree with you. Language is weird. And I don't know why, but I've been in a lot of weird situations lately due to language and misunderstandings :D It's a good thing when you get to explain yourself and clear things out, but that's not always the case. :D
 
In Australia, poof was a nasty derogatory word for a male homosexual. Thank goodness you rarely hear it anymore. When you do it's usually from someone very old ( & bigoted).
Language is fascinating as well as weird. There are so many variations & I find most of them amusing. G & I have trouble understanding English accents. It's funny how so many of us can speak the same language, but make it sound so different!
 
If it interests anyone, you can look on YouTube for pretty much any country and add "accent tag" to the end and get videos of people reading off words that are pronounced very differently as well as hear a list of words that are used colloquially to each country like how some people call a certain bug a roly-poly or a pill bug when talking about a woodlouse.

It's just really neat to me to hear how differently people can say the same words. I found through them that I really enjoy Australian accents. Here's an example video:

 
cate said:
In Australia, poof was a nasty derogatory word for a male homosexual. Thank goodness you rarely hear it anymore. When you do it's usually from someone very old ( & bigoted).
Language is fascinating as well as weird. There are so many variations & I find most of them amusing. G & I have trouble understanding English accents. It's funny how so many of us can speak the same language, but make it sound so different!
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I always thought that Canadians don't have accents- but they tell me I do-lol. I know the Canadians from Quebec and the Maritimes certainly do but I always thought we Western Canadians didn't.

Oh by the way - we don't say aboot for about and ruffs for roofs-LMAO. Language is a wonderful and interesting thing. I love the Irish accents and the Aussie accents.
 
I don't think I have an accent either, but really we all do. Most of us in here speak English as our first language, but what a variation! Love it!

We're off to watch the finals of the Australian 8-Ball Championships. The Tassie Masters team have made the Grand Final for the first time ever! It's at 4.30pm. We're going in this morning mainly so I can catch up with R. G saw him on Wednesday & I didn't. He needs a lift into town to catch the bus back to Hobart. I'll get to see him for a couple of hours anyway. Better scoot. G wants me to look up stats! He's not well poor thing. Sore throat, coughing......lots of moaning!
 
My wife is from central NY, and you wouldn't think there's a CNY, but there is. She rarely has it, but when she sees friends or family from there, it comes back. I feel obligated, as a loving husband, to taunt it away as soon as she's back in accent-free Connecticut.
cowboy48 said:
Oh by the way - we don't say aboot for about and ruffs for roofs-LMAO.
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My cousin moved from Massachusetts to Edmonton about 10 years ago. She picked up the local accent, and she says aboot. Which is fun, but when she uses metric for casual conversation, I get all confused ("It was 18 degrees at home!" "So that's.... good?"), plus winter in Edmonton is no joke.
 
Little John said:
My wife is from central NY, and you wouldn't think there's a CNY, but there is. She rarely has it, but when she sees friends or family from there, it comes back. I feel obligated, as a loving husband, to taunt it away as soon as she's back in accent-free Connecticut.

My cousin moved from Massachusetts to Edmonton about 10 years ago. She picked up the local accent, and she says aboot. Which is fun, but when she uses metric for casual conversation, I get all confused ("It was 18 degrees at home!" "So that's.... good?"), plus winter in Edmonton is no joke.
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Funny I live just outside of Edmonton. Yeah we adopted the metric system years ago but people my age still use imperial which makes things even more confusing. I honestly don't know anyone around her that says aboot-haha. She is right about the Winter here - it SUCKS!
 
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