Dear all, In October 2001 I mentioned on this list that the Laughing Madcaps group had announced the completion of their great project, HYGIY (have you got it...
Amazing! Get ready to dream the world alive... I'll go sign up now. Ro'i ____________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger -...
wonderful news! just signed up as a leaf. don't quite understand how I can trade if I don't know with whom I'm trading. b&p works for me. Thanks for all the...
S. Stern
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Jun 1, 2004 2:36 pm
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I've never traded anything in my life. Whats B&P please? Cheers Ian J....
Further to my recent posting about Robin at the Hay Festival - he's on tomorrow and tickets were sold out last week1 Is anyone going? I'm going to another...
... That's probably why the ISB site isn't mentioning it. Although the acousticshadow site says 'featuring much new material', so I'm going for it! Phil...
If anyone from Scotland can translate this for me, please do! And what is a Ploooby Laddie anyway? =--===-=- om-===- Nick Plooboy Laddies (as performed by...
Ploughboy, stoor is dust, a groat's a fourpenny bit and the rest I guess is almost English. If you're free August 20-22 Dougie MacLean is coming to the...
... = Ploughboy Laddie. I really don't like all this dialect spelling in old ballads and whatnot, because it makes the Scots sound/look quite silly, like a mad...
Have you read Irvine Welsh? If you did away with dialect spelling - how would you get a sense of how the word is being pronounced? Cockneys? Yorkshiremen? How...
... That's true, Trainspotting is one of my all time fave novels and it does require extreme dialect spelling. And it's immensely funny. And moving. However -...
I just joined and would like to share my favourite ISB: SONGS A very cellular song First girl I loved Chinese white Darling belle ALBUMS Hangman's beautiful...
... Heron's ... Well, Wee Tam and The Big Huge should be up there too! But other than that, no. Welcome Fernando, you'll find us friendly but argumentative,...
By the way, Kip of the Serenes is an extraordinary work. Anybody can tell me how does Heavy Petting compare? Also, what do the titles mean? {I am not from an...
... None at all. There's only two ISB songs anyone here actually dislike, and one of those is okay really! pb __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!?...
... Is anyone hearing Robin on Radio Hay? I seem to be getting only a null webstream now, although Julian Barnes was speaking about 45minutes ago. Cheers, ...
... Watch it Paolo - there are enough differences in grammar, syntax, etc. that wur tung has indeed been described as a language in its own write, not just a...
Paul wrote: "There's only two ISB songs anyone here actually dislike, and one of those is okay really!" Paul: interesting, which are the 2 songs? Fernando ... ...
... interested ... own ... Alick, it's a sair fecht. Thar's nae threapin wi' a soothron gadgie wha kens he's goat the richt o' it. Ye'll nae gar him tae...
I completely agree, Douglas, especially with the assertion that Scots is a language, not a dialect. For many years, English linguists would classify Scots as a...
qwendi@...
Jun 3, 2004 1:31 am
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... Exactly - as anyone can see, those three sentences adhere to the usual grammatical rules of English. So all that's needed is to change the spelling back to...
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