The General Chat Room

[teamsaint]

if this doesn't end in a torrent of racy puns it will be amazing...........

[eighthobstruction]

I wanted to utilise 'hake' as a means of expressing distaste....but thought it might be too rude....

[Serial_Apologist]

Switched Radio 3 on an hour ago, listened, and thought, well, this is strange pastiche Verdi for Casella to have been composing in 1912/13. Then checked to find I was looking at Friday in RT!

[teamsaint]

the Multiverse strikes back.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Switched Radio 3 on an hour ago, listened, and thought, well, this is strange pastiche Verdi for Casella to have been composing in 1912/13. Then checked to find I was looking at Friday in RT!

Well, they have put the clocks back.

[teamsaint]

I see that board membership numbers are creeping up toward the all important 1500 level.

Be lovely to get those last 17 signed up by Xmas....

[Anna]

In Portuguese, a lawyer is called advogado; in French a lawyer is called avocat; and in Italian, a lawyer is called avvocato.
All three language appear to compare lawyers to avocados, because both the fruit and lawyers have hearts of stone.

[BBMmk2]

In Portuguese, a lawyer is called advogado; in French a lawyer is called avocat; and in Italian, a lawyer is called avvocato.
All three language appear to compare lawyers to avocados, because both the fruit and lawyers have hearts of stone.

I'll mention that to my son, when I see him tomorrow! :)

[Richard Tarleton]

In Portuguese, a lawyer is called advogado; in French a lawyer is called avocat; and in Italian, a lawyer is called avvocato.
All three language appear to compare lawyers to avocados, because both the fruit and lawyers have hearts of stone.

...and in Spanish an abogado (b's and v's being pronounced similarly), and in Catalan an advocat. So that makes 5. The French word is the same for both, but avocado in Spanish is aguacate....ff's usually pretty hot on the Romance languages, perhaps she can shed light on the etymology......

[clive heath]

Don't you just hate all those ads which have

1) multi-people walking from left to right through a constantly changing set of environments

2) cartoon humans or indeed anymans especially British Gas ( doom to Hoskins)

3) Gambon (doom) telling us that HSBC is the "World's" bank when it has refused to honour our cards in Italy and Jaipur, in the latter case even after notification

.....there, there, it'll be alright soon.................

[LeMartinPecheur]

...and in Spanish an abogado (b's and v's being pronounced similarly), and in Catalan an advocat. So that makes 5. The French word is the same for both, but avocado in Spanish is aguacate....ff's usually pretty hot on the Romance languages, perhaps she can shed light on the etymology......

Avocado (the fruit) is said to have come into Spanish from Aztec ahuacatl.

I knew that because I've gone looking for a connection before...it did seem possible Is it too much to hope that the Spanish saw the same link and bent the pronunciation to suit?

[LeMartinPecheur]

Don't you just hate all those ads which have

1) multi-people walking from left to right through a constantly changing set of environments

Not when they're attractive young ladies wearing lingerie, night wear, bikinis walking through a fairyland snowy landscape!

I've promised the missus that if it snows, I'm walking the dog...

[cloughie]

Not when they're attractive young ladies wearing lingerie, night wear, bikinis walking through a fairyland snowy landscape!

I've promised the missus that if it snows, I'm walking the dog...

What are the chances of a White Christmas in Lanson?

[LeMartinPecheur]

What are the chances of a White Christmas in Lanson?

Not high, not high, a tad better than W Cornwall, but what goes into TV adverts can't be altogether untruthful surely? Or what's the Advertising Standards Authority for?

[BBMmk2]

Not round here, I hope!! What does brummie Ian have to say?