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  • hedgehog

    #16
    Originally posted by AmpH View Post
    Most entertaining Caliban, especially for those of us from the north who like to call a spade a spade and a Renault a car

    If a Renault's a car just WHAT does your spade look like?

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    • amateur51

      #17
      Time was when persons were not permitted to post in a language other than English en bloc, as it were. I recall Prof.Simon falling foul of this.

      Any comment from the Keeper of the Keys on this apparent change/suspension of rules?

      Ahem

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      • Nick Armstrong
        Host
        • Nov 2010
        • 26540

        #18
        #8 above, perhaps?



        I think it was under the jackboot of the official BBC tenure of the messageboards, n'est-ce pas?
        "...the isle is full of noises,
        Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
        Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
        Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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        • amateur51

          #19
          Originally posted by Caliban View Post
          #8 above, perhaps?



          I think it was under the jackboot of the official BBC tenure of the messageboards, n'est-ce pas?
          Translation please

          Ahem

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          • amateur51

            #20
            Nant y Mynydd groyw loyw,
            Yn ymdroelli tua'r pant,
            Rhwng y brwyn yn sisial ganu;
            O na bawn i fel y nant!

            Grug y Mynydd yn eu blodau,
            Edrych arnynt hiraeth ddug
            Am gael aros ar y bryniau
            Yn yr awel efo'r grug.

            Adar ma+n y Mynydd uchel
            Godant yn yr awel iach,
            O'r naill drum i'r llall yn 'hedeg;
            O na bawn fel deryn bach!

            Mab y Mynydd ydwyf innau
            Oddi cartref yn gwneud can,
            Ond mae 'nghalon yn y mynydd
            Efo'r grug a'r adar man.

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            • Don Petter

              #21
              Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
              Nant y Mynydd groyw loyw,
              Yn ymdroelli tua'r pant,
              Rhwng y brwyn yn sisial ganu;
              O na bawn i fel y nant!

              Grug y Mynydd yn eu blodau,
              Edrych arnynt hiraeth ddug
              Am gael aros ar y bryniau
              Yn yr awel efo'r grug.

              Adar ma+n y Mynydd uchel
              Godant yn yr awel iach,
              O'r naill drum i'r llall yn 'hedeg;
              O na bawn fel deryn bach!

              Mab y Mynydd ydwyf innau
              Oddi cartref yn gwneud can,
              Ond mae 'nghalon yn y mynydd
              Efo'r grug a'r adar man.

              I had great difficulty holding the PC up to the mirror to read this, and now all I can say is 'Wash your mouth out!'.

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              • french frank
                Administrator/Moderator
                • Feb 2007
                • 30316

                #22
                Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                Time was when persons were not permitted to post in a language other than English en bloc, as it were. I recall Prof.Simon falling foul of this.

                Any comment from the Keeper of the Keys on this apparent change/suspension of rules?

                Ahem
                Caliban is correct: it has never been a rule of this forum that any foreign languages - or even links to websites in foreign languages - are not allowed here. That was a BBC rule.

                Who would have made such a rule?

                Sosban fach yn berwi ar y tan ...
                It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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                • Nick Armstrong
                  Host
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 26540

                  #23
                  Originally posted by Don Petter View Post
                  I had great difficulty holding the PC up to the mirror to read this, and now all I can say is 'Wash your mouth out!'.







                  .



                  .



                  Mountain Brook , clear and bright ,
                  Meandering toward the valley...


                  Hey AmpH is right, Google Translate's rather good!
                  "...the isle is full of noises,
                  Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                  Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                  Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                  • amateur51

                    #24
                    Originally posted by french frank View Post
                    Caliban is correct: it has never been a rule of this forum that any foreign languages - or even links to websites in foreign languages - are not allowed here. That was a BBC rule.

                    Who would have made such a rule?

                    Sosban fach yn berwi ar y tan ...
                    Given the pages of French posted, I'd have thought the answer was obvious pour disencourager les autres

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                    • french frank
                      Administrator/Moderator
                      • Feb 2007
                      • 30316

                      #25
                      Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                      Given the pages of French posted, I'd have thought the answer was obvious pour disencourager les autres
                      The answer to what?
                      It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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                      • amateur51

                        #26
                        Originally posted by french frank View Post
                        The answer to what?
                        The question in the penultimate line quoted.

                        Do keep up!

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                        • MickyD
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 4775

                          #27
                          Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                          Given the pages of French posted, I'd have thought the answer was obvious pour disencourager les autres
                          ou plutôt décourager, am!

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                          • amateur51

                            #28
                            Originally posted by MickyD View Post
                            ou plutôt décourager, am!
                            Twas a multi-lingual pun innit

                            i'm rotten in several languages, me

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                            • french frank
                              Administrator/Moderator
                              • Feb 2007
                              • 30316

                              #29
                              Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                              The question in the penultimate line quoted.

                              Do keep up!
                              That question was purely rhetorical, 'the 'answer' being implied: NO ONE.

                              Anyway, do keep up - there has never been any such rule and therefore it has never been necessary to suspend it or disregard it pour décourager les autres, encourager les autres, avoir le courage de ses opinions, prendre son courage à deux mains, perdre courage, reprendre courage et ainsi de suite ...
                              It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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                              • MickyD
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 4775

                                #30
                                Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                                Twas a multi-lingual pun innit

                                i'm rotten in several languages, me
                                Oh yer, mange tout, mange tout, am!

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