Bristolians don't like words that don't end well, they round off rogue vowell-y words with an 'l'. This can be confusing and entertaining such as this exchange I had today regarding the cleaning skills of someone I know as Tanya:
Me: Hi Kath how are you?
Kath: Not good - I've just had words with Tanyal, she's not cleaning the common arials properly.
Shuntaro Tanikawa.
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Another post about an interesting translator: Michael S. Rosenwald at the
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I hope this leads to better reception!
ReplyDeleteWell one needs the common arials spotless. No one likes to have a coffee in a common arial if it's a bit grubby.
ReplyDeleteDoes one pay a license fee for the common arials? I assume they pick up the BBC? No wait, that's AERIALS. Arial is a font! Wait...what?
Next up: Tanyal cleans the common Verdanal but draws the line at Comic Sans. Good girl, Tanyal.
And if Bristolian Tanyal were to wed a Geordie them arials'd be right clean, though but.
ReplyDeleteI don't care if my arials are dirtyl.
ReplyDeleteXl - our reception is now excellent thank you
ReplyDeleteVeggie- grubby arials are depressing nuff said
bb I'd thought you'd be more fastidious
Dinah - Geordie vs Bristolian - who would win?