(August 28, 2012 at 10:47 pm)Stimbo Wrote: I'm certainly not offended and I certainly meant no offense. I know I can be difficult to follow sometimes, since there are times when I'm being deadly serious and others when I believe I'm having a laugh and a joke - even and probably especially if nobody else thinks so. Context isn't always adequate to indicate the difference. Blame it on my very strange brain if you like; I certainly do. Please try not to take anything I say too seriously, unless it's clearly meant to be, and certainly not personally.
You presumably aren't aware of this and I wouldn't really expect you to be, but I made a thread some while ago on my natural habitat here in the Black Country of the West Midlands and the way we speak here (called, officially, Black Country Dialect or BCD; much of it is essentially barely changed from Chaucer's day) in video form. Feel free to have a gander if you like, you may find it interesting. Or you may not, of course, you are after all a free agent. I don't personally appear in it because I'm really quite shy but it does give a good example of my speech patterns. Plus there's contributions from other, lesser, members sharing their own distinctive accents etc.
Incidentally, from what part of our septic isle do you hail? I should have guessed, but didn't, you were a fellow angel-islander, given your religious affiliations.
I can't be more specific. I promised my Mum not to be more specific than England. She's paranoid and she thinks there's always a paedophile waiting to track me down. But I recently moved to a far away country because my dad is in the foreign service. My Mum is very particular that I should not disclose this new country I'm in. That explains why I am still awake at this hour.
