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  • LeMartinPecheur
    Full Member
    • Apr 2007
    • 4717

    Originally posted by Norfolk Born View Post
    Quite!
    (But I'd still like a photograph )
    It's the 'bodiless' that's getting to you, isn't it?
    I keep hitting the Escape key, but I'm still here!

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    • ferneyhoughgeliebte
      Gone fishin'
      • Sep 2011
      • 30163

      Originally posted by Norfolk Born View Post
      Dear Anna
      As you know, many of us have developed a keen interest in matters Welsh as a result of reading your messages. This 'sulk' of which you speak - is it an item of nightwear, or some form of resting-place - possibly akin to a hammock? (Please feel free to embellish your explanation with photographs if available).
      In a spirit of nothing more than honest socio-cultural scholasticism
      I remain
      etc. etc.
      If the word is Welsh in origin, the pronunciation would be more like the Saesneg "silk" / "silky" wouldn't it?
      [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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      • LeMartinPecheur
        Full Member
        • Apr 2007
        • 4717

        Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
        If the word is Welsh in origin, the pronunciation would be more like the Saesneg "silk" / "silky" wouldn't it?
        Silky, bodiless nightwear (or hammocks)? This is getting a bit torrid!

        High time for fhg to lead off the Ws if scb doesn't feel worthy of the honour?
        I keep hitting the Escape key, but I'm still here!

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        • ferneyhoughgeliebte
          Gone fishin'
          • Sep 2011
          • 30163

          Originally posted by LeMartinPecheur View Post
          Silky, bodiless nightwear (or hammocks)? This is getting a bit torrid!
          Just let me stay with that image for a moment ...

































          ... Okey-dokey:

          Which W sadly requires no movement in one movement and certainly no stone-throwing?
          [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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          • Don Petter

            That was a bit torrid - My screen seems to have steamed up.

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            • Don Petter

              Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
              Which W sadly requires no movement in one movement and certainly no stone-throwing?
              Are we in a (Philip) glasshouse?

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              • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                Gone fishin'
                • Sep 2011
                • 30163

                Originally posted by Don Petter View Post
                Are we in a (Philip) glasshouse?
                Not Philip, but a glasshouse is involved.
                [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                • Don Petter

                  Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                  Not Philip, but a glasshouse is involved.
                  Thank goodness for that! I recently caught, by chance, his Koyaanisqatsi on Private Passions, and have no wish to know more about him.

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                  • subcontrabass
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 2780

                    Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                    Not Philip, but a glasshouse is involved.
                    Wesendonck Lieder ?

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                    • Nick Armstrong
                      Host
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 26540

                      Originally posted by subcontrabass View Post
                      Wesendonck Lieder ?
                      HUH?
                      "...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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                      • Nick Armstrong
                        Host
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 26540

                        Originally posted by Don Petter View Post
                        Thank goodness for that! I recently caught, by chance, his Koyaanisqatsi on Private Passions, and have no wish to know more about him.
                        I'm with you 100%
                        "...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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                        • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                          Gone fishin'
                          • Sep 2011
                          • 30163

                          Originally posted by subcontrabass View Post
                          Wesendonck Lieder ?


                          "Sadly" = "Sorrow"
                          "no movement" = "Keep still"
                          and "In the glass/green/hot house"

                          ... all translations of the titles of three of the five Songs.

                          You're neXt!
                          [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                          • Nick Armstrong
                            Host
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 26540

                            Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post


                            "Sadly" = "Sorrow"
                            "no movement" = "Keep still"
                            and "In the glass/green/hot house"

                            ... all translations of the titles of three of the five Songs.

                            You're neXt!

                            Excellent! A cryptic version of my own Wesendonk "W" a round or two ago... and I didn't spot the connection at all!
                            "...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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                            • subcontrabass
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 2780

                              Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post


                              "Sadly" = "Sorrow"
                              "no movement" = "Keep still"
                              and "In the glass/green/hot house"

                              ... all translations of the titles of three of the five Songs.

                              You're neXt!
                              A modest bereaved X with terrible connections.

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                              • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                                Gone fishin'
                                • Sep 2011
                                • 30163

                                Originally posted by subcontrabass View Post
                                A modest bereaved X with terrible connections.
                                This isn't Tchaikovsky's diary reference to his homosexuality, is it?
                                [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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