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    in Anything Goes - Other topics not covered elsewhere

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    11 minutes ago, Eisegerwind said:

    What's the  longest Yes instrumental track that we can play on loop and pretend this didn't happen. I'm guessing three times round( if you get the special edition cut).

    :lol:

    1 minute ago, Eisegerwind said:

    Yeah, it's the voice is just another instrument thing, probs 7 mins is enough though.

    Worth sticking around for the last minutes or two pure piano once they've dragged Iggy off to rehab.

    And now I'm out the door.

    Roll call. Who been banned over the years..

    in Anything Goes - Other topics not covered elsewhere

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    On 3/31/2020 at 7:04 PM, DonnyTJS said:

    The Archive Board was still available a few weeks back via the tab at the top of the page. I'll pm TAMB1 about it - might be retrievable; the archive went missing once before when the board changed hands.

    Got a reply: "It uses very old technology which is quite tough to stay on top of to make sure the server keeps supporting with every update." Says he'll try his best.

    Coronavirus

    in Anything Goes - Other topics not covered elsewhere

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    1 hour ago, Orraloon said:

    The great thing about that is that it's a drug that has been around for decades with a well-known history about side effects and stuff. Folk take it a s a prophylactic regularly, so there should be no less issues about "giving it a go". No clinical trials required. Unlike any new vaccine which will have to go through clinical trials even though they will be fast tracked.

     

    Angola has a high incidence of malaria, and we were advised to take it as a prophylactic. From memory, I reckon I jacked it in after a week (escaped malarial infection for the six years I was there, but knew plenty of colleagues who didn't). It's not a pill I'd recommend taking as a preventative, but as you say: 'giving it a go' with those who are already infected should be worth a crack.

    Gallus

    in Anything Goes - Other topics not covered elsewhere

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    8 hours ago, Orraloon said:

    Also widely used in Scandinavia. 

    Most notably Sweden ('Bra').

    Donkey's years ago, Jonny (great poster) and I had a discussion on here about the origin of 'braw'. Turns out its Latinate in origin, developing from 'brave' (in the Latinate sense, most commonly seen now in the borrowed Italian 'bravo'). Its use as a general epithet of admiration came into English around the mid-1500s (Shakespeare uses it a lot: "O brave new world that has such people in't"). That sense of the word has just about died out in modern English but is retained in Scots 'braw'. It made its way to Sweden during the 17th century because of Gustavus Adolphus's military forays into Europe during the Thirty Years War.

    Gallus

    in Anything Goes - Other topics not covered elsewhere

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    10 minutes ago, weekevie04 said:

    It's a great word, although I always thought it was more an endearing adjective than seemingly arrogant/tall poppy syndrome description here. As in he's a bit maverick, gives it a go, not afraid to try but in a good way.

    I like hearing Scots words and if anything noticed more people using them- which is great if natural - but it sounds fake when you've got the Glasgow uni/middle-class BBC Scotland type accents adding in a 'ye ken', 'aye/naw,' etc.

    I didn't realise even when speaking 'English' that  a lot of Scottish people's sentence structure, words and syntax are really different from other English speaking nations - just like other countries, areas, etc are from ours. I almost never say ''haven't'' or ''have not'', I didn't even realise I did this til I spent some time outwith Scotland and don't think I've even got a strong accent - generic soft Dundee , but I'll say ''I've no yet,'' etc. There comes out as 'thur' ; 'send it to us', and often without thinking I think is ''ah hink'' and saying I is not the Angus/Dundee 'Eh' but more a mix of Weegie/Dundee 'Ah'll' and that's me basically speaking English. And many times I've mentioned Italy folk have thought I was meaning LA. 

     

    Many varieties of 'English' would be mutually unintelligible if we didn't have a standard writing system.

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