-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 El 2015-09-23 a las 09:26 +0100, michael norman escribió:
I'm a southerner, as if you couldn't tell. (Ian Dury : Billericay Dickie)
In the 80's my wife and I lived in Scotland. We had a son. When we returned south for good in 1989 our son was just over two years old and spoke with a broad West of Scotland accent.
We broke the journey in Sheffield and stayed overnight in a pub. On hearing my son speak the landlord remarked "by gum. don't he talk funny"
:-) I'm Spanish, but I have british ancestors. Second and a half generation expat, I think. Well, when I was a kid, an aunt told me that she had been reading a very funny book by someone called James Herriot. I was actually searching for books to read, so I bought one (I think I was visiting England by the time). Soon I bought all I could find, they were really funny. One curious thing was the slang and expressions used by the agricultural folks that appeared on the book. The author found them interesting, and so did I, with time - it took some time for me to understand them. In writing, that is, probably no chance I could understand some one talking like that to me. The author was scottish, and went to work (vet), later to live, in the yorkshire dales (hope I got the place name right). That "by gum" was one of those expressions, what that landlord of yours said instantly reminded me of those books :-) - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" (Minas Tirith)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlYCl2YACgkQja8UbcUWM1xfigEAlyjctGCC4x2IInZzs76UI8Tg i/ycdTZq5tJFJ9ap+rQA/2duxwsgezAtMBh1EfhTdpFUtHoNS9IA3QymUIZV8mYV =XMg6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----