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James

Back to school! Ach nein!

ahh back to school tomorrow, with maths exams  

Who needs an education?!?

Old yokels never used to have one! That's why they spoke like me! They didn't have teachers forcing them to talk "proper"

If I got a quid for every time I got told to "talk proper" and "if you don't talk properly I'll send you for speech lessons".

I'm like "I speyak propper meyart, tis tha oo dunt. I speyak Linkisheer ow'd wey n Im's rate proud o it!"

They get soooo wound up  

O aye and like when we go out for a meal, the waitress says "what drink would you like with your meal?"

I say "Gerrus a glass o tap watter meyart please, it's fur nowt n tayasts jus us gud as that theer bottled watter tha's sellin fur a quid!"

She's like WTF?!? and mum is like JAMES   TALK PROPER

I'm like MOTHER! THA FRUM LINKISHEER? TORLK LIKE ME!

Off topic as hell there    
MTA

I don't have to go back to school, which is much worse than college. No subjects you don't wanna do, like minded people... bliss
James

I'm stopping on to 6th form aswell  
MTA

James wrote:
I'm stopping on to 6th form aswell  


Is that your own choice? I didn't do sixth form, purely because my secondary school didn't have one and I don't like the school environment!
Lewis

aye i got school tomorrow screws everything up for me  

i got maths exams near the end of jan
erikl

No school for me tomorrow, but back to work after 2 weeks of holiday.
Griffin

James Wrote:
Quote:

O aye and like when we go out for a meal, the waitress says "what drink would you like with your meal?"

I say "Gerrus a glass o tap watter meyart please, it's fur nowt n tayasts jus us gud as that theer bottled watter tha's sellin fur a quid!"


I can just imagine you doing that too
Andy

back to school for me
johnreid

Educate me, is sixth form like College Prep?
In the US it is a grade system First grade through 12th grade. However in grades 9 through 12 one can choose Academic or Vocational, I chose Academic, went two years to a regular College and then three to a Technical College. I chose Photography and only worked at it for five years or so after graduating, did the scientific and technical, not the taking of pictures.
Your Maths and such are needed if you wish to follow into any Engineering type Vocation ( the only place Steam fits in ) and if you wish to make it as a farmer, you are self employed and the Math is even more important so you know if and how to make a profit and keep the farm.
steamyjim

I went back on Thursday
toxx

... I wish I could turn back time and go back to school. Maybe I'd be able NOT to f... up my life. Go to university. Get a decent job. Well, I really missed that boat, and it ain't coming back.
James

Dunno John

You do 6 or 7 years at primary school, 4 years at secondary, then you can leave and go to college, or stop on and do another 2 years sixth form.

I've got a maths exam at the end of January aswell  

Need to revise cos I'm shit at maths, and need to sort my work experience out aswell  
toxx

... maths exam? Oh, crud, that brings back awful memories. Good luck, Jim! Das machst du doch mit links ...
James

Aye mate I know  

I'm shit at maths  
Reid

I'm going blind with age, but damned if I don't see well:

James, your opening post is comedic genius.  You know, you can weave a routine of real social value.

See, the old dialect is getting forced into oblivion, not only by cultural pollution,
but by active efforts of ignorance to homogenize the language.

It's important,  I think, to save and appreciate all English dialects.

You are so rare, to be a)fully aware of why you are doing this
b) that you had the gumption to do it.   And now, c) you have a mission and a lifestyle interesting enough that the nation should listen,
and learn by your determined example, which at your age fifteen, is probably unparalleled in the country.

In other words, you might well create by plan of action a  national reaction against the "speak propers".  

Just my thoughts.  This opening post was not really about school.
It's was about what moves you: language and thought and intent and execution of plans.

You'll be doing great things.  Already, you have, of course.  This place as just one example of your leadership.

In ten years you should be, could be, anyone, but you will be the most famed "farmer" in the world of language.  Plant your crop.
Feed them the value of saving the old ways, not because they are easy or better, but because nothing centuries-solid should be thrown away by just one generation,
so-lost to all others forever; their having no chance to even hear,
and so cannot possibly understand; not as much as do you, James.
Mamodman123

James wrote:
I'm stopping on to 6th form aswell  


Bad choice

Go to college then they treat you like adults!
James

LOL Thanks Reid!

There is a farmer who talks just like me, Farmer Wink, he's a right legend.

I posted it on here before, he does these DVDs of him on the farm and all money pays for terminally ill kids to go to lapland  

Aye even the kids are like WTF why are you talking like a dick head?

I'm like WTF why ain't tha speeyakin Linkisheer if tha's weeya tha cum frum!
James

Naa me brother went to 6th form, and all me mates are  
Les

Back to school for me as well tomorrow, but as I am the Caretaker and the Lollypop Man, and live on site, I have little choice but to be there!!
James

LOL!

I wish you were caretaker at our school  
Les

Why's that?
toxx

... believe me, mate. One day, you'll look back and say: "Hell, those were the best days of my life."
Stay in school, mate. You'll pull through, right as rain. I know it!
James

Cos you like steam engines  

There are 2 caretakers at our school. One who we say "I've lost me football, have you found it?" every day, and we get a free ball and he doesn't twig on, and one who looks like Hans Moleman and pushes this barrow and grunts!!

Tom, aye I know mate, but I'm gonna fail maths LOL

I'm aiming for A*/A GCSE  
Les

James wrote:
Cos you like steam engines  

There are 2 caretakers at our school. One who we say "I've lost me football, have you found it?" every day, and we get a free ball and he doesn't twig on, and one who looks like Hans Moleman and pushes this barrow and grunts!!

Tom, aye I know mate, but I'm gonna fail maths LOL

I'm aiming for A*/A GCSE  


Although I like steam, as soon as I mention it my boss, he changes the subject. Problem is that he has no soul.
Griffin

johnreid wrote:
Educate me, is sixth form like College Prep?
In the US it is a grade system First grade through 12th grade. However in grades 9 through 12 one can choose Academic or Vocational, I chose Academic, went two years to a regular College and then three to a Technical College. I chose Photography and only worked at it for five years or so after graduating, did the scientific and technical, not the taking of pictures.
Your Maths and such are needed if you wish to follow into any Engineering type Vocation ( the only place Steam fits in ) and if you wish to make it as a farmer, you are self employed and the Math is even more important so you know if and how to make a profit and keep the farm.

John,

The school system over here is as follows;

At the age of four you go to an infant school for three years, then onto a Junior school for four years.

At the age of eleven, you then go on to High school, this lasts for five years resulting in hopefuly gaining a GCSE level of education at the age of sixteen.  At this tender age one can now legally leave school and try for a job in the big world, or alternatively go to a technical collage and gain an apprentice type qualification.

The other alternative is to go into sixth form education for two years, and gain an "A" Level grade qualification, if successful this will then entitle you to gain a place at University.
Reid

James wrote:
LOL Thanks Reid!

There is a farmer who talks just like me, Farmer Wink, he's a right legend.

I posted it on here before, he does these DVDs of him on the farm and all money pays for terminally ill kids to go to lapland  

Aye even the kids are like WTF why are you talking like a dick head?

I'm like WTF why ain't tha speeyakin Linkisheer if tha's weeya tha cum frum!
Because 99% of children are highly impressionable (you are not one of them). They are sheep and have been told by telly and teacher to "speak proper".

It is in your power, by your force of personality that naturally, people like you, and listen to you, and if you decide to essay in print and in speech, seriously, the reason why you do this,

and make them understand how cool it is to not throw out one's own heritage.  It can never be regained.

Think of lesson plans for the kids.
Think of ways to tell them how they have been made fools by the media, educators and hollowed-out trend setters.

You can and could light up a groundswell of reaction that will also rekindle interest in saving other local dialects.

Pose it this way: it's no longer cool to dis your own past.
You're not an antique if you keep up the language, for all of it was good or better than the flat crap sold today.r

You'd think it won't happen, but in just a couple more generations,
what with America's long-time dominance in movies and videos and such, the amount of American-eese you here,

your kids will sound mor nearly like Yankee-me.  Nothing wrong with that (not).
We speak properly here.  

The media are causing a leveling out of the spoken English language.
Sandman

Jist wate a meenit.

Whit dae ye mean you frae the states speak richt???

Al hiv ye ken that us Scoatish folk speak the richt wye an you yins aw speak like oot o the movies an like that Rog fella.

We dinna unerstawn ye hauf the time, so there.

Am awa tae hiv a wee dram.              
Griffin

Sandman wrote:
Jist wate a meenit.

Whit dae ye mean you frae the states speak richt???

Al hiv ye ken that us Scoatish folk speak the richt wye an you yins aw speak like oot o the movies an like that Rog fella.

We dinna unerstawn ye hauf the time, so there.

Am awa tae hiv a wee dram.              

   
johnreid

JAmes could go to College and eventually be a professor of Lost English Dialects and Steam Propulsion, with a minor in sheep tending.
Reid

The only Scots I've heard in our media was via a charming coming of age movie that came here to the states nearly thirty years ago.

It's a shame that Americanese continues to flatten out more every year.

There are dozens or more of regional dialects here but they are fading away, sure as dust, as people are so mobile today, and most livable communities see influxes of other people from all parts of the nation.

It was only by long isolation that dialects developed, in times when most people saw no more of the world than they could walk in one day.

That time is gone for the good of us all, but so too, the dialects will inexorably fade away.

It will take several generations more, but in 100 years you can bet your pint

no-one would much understand what you say today. They won't be saying dram, for sure.
johnreid

Around here the American dialect is turning to one that the word THE is being replaced by EL.
Sandman

Reid wrote:
The only Scots I've heard in our media was via a charming coming of age movie that came here to the states nearly thirty years ago.

It's a shame that Americanese continues to flatten out more every year.

There are dozens or more of regional dialects here but they are fading away, sure as dust, as people are so mobile today, and most livable communities see influxes of other people from all parts of the nation.

It was only by long isolation that dialects developed, in times when most people saw no more of the world than they could walk in one day.

That time is gone for the good of us all, but so too, the dialects will inexorably fade away.

It will take several generations more, but in 100 years you can bet your pint

no-one would much understand what you say today. They won't be saying dram, for sure.


Jeez Reid, you can be profound at times.

I visit the States regularly, and when I do I always speak with a fake Canadian accent just to be understood. You see our dialect is so broad that people 50 miles away would have trouble understanding us and vice versa.

I don't know why, but we seem to preserve our dialects quite well for a small island. I wish you could come for a tour our little island for a while as the accents differ so much in a very little distance.

I agree that a lot of slang words do appear and find their way into our everyday speech, but they too are pronounced in our respective tongues.

I have to say though that some of the states I've been in have had their own wonderful dialect. Tennessee for example.

I could listen to it all night.

Here's to the preservation of our spoken languages. They are of course part of us.
Reid

johnreid wrote:
Around here the American dialect is turning to one that the word THE is being replaced by EL.
Hey, that is temporary.  

Miami-Dade demographics
http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/12/12086.html

people who identify as non-hispanic white native speakers: 20%

This area became Hispanicized when Castro took over Cuba in '59.
It has not ruined life for me here to share the place with others.

The fact too, all the kids born to the immigrants learn unaccented English and use it more so than Spanish.

Only the first generation immigrants retain and often do not/can not learn English.

In a generation's time, if the constant influx of new immigrants were to cease, so would the Spanish disappear from Miami.

As it stands: you must be bilingual for a clerk's job.  NO... I take that back.  Many mom and pop places and even fast food places hire people with zero English.

You go to a Burger King and the order taker says "que?"

And you realize you just have to go with the flow.
The loss will be their language, here, as the new arrivals immerse, and not the other way around.
bessytractor

I am terrible at 6th form.  I argue openly with the teachers very bluntly (but good naturedly, and they know it so I get away with it)

I go back tomorrow (I can say that as its 4 minutes until tomorrow!)

I think A levels were not intended for the likes of me  
Nick

I still have a week off!

I'd much rather be working, but school gets in the way.

Oh well, 4 more months and no school again, plenty of time for extra working hours.
Les

ncseverson wrote:
I still have a week off!

I'd much rather be working, but school gets in the way.

Oh well, 4 more months and no school again, plenty of time for extra working hours.


Just had two weeks off, the kids are now in for six weeks, have another week off, then in for four weeks and then get two more weeks off!!
It's a hard life working in a school!!!  
Wallace

Hmmm, maybe I could move on from green keeping to school groundsman. I like the idea of those holidays.

Here they get about 6 weeks in summer (now). 2 weeks at easter. 2 weeks at mid year. and 2 weeks 3/4 through the year.

I could handle that  

I know Yr 11 and Yr 12 (or 5th and 6th Form) were the best years for me at school. Good fun  
Nick

My last years of high school were fun too, except for the whole school part of them.  
Wallace

 
James

At school now

Meant to be doing English, but I CBA  

Tired, cold, hungery    

The joys of education!
Nick

When I was in school, they had a computer and could watch what all of us were doing. If we went on the internet or were doing something other than school work, our screen would go black. "I'M WATCHING YOU" or whatever other clever phrase they thought of would pop up.

We had a substitute teacher one day, so a few of us went on a typing program and started writing stuff back. They would respond so we kept doing it. We didn't realize they were mad at us and were keeping it all.

The next day our teacher failed all of us on our big assignment and we were banned from the computers for the rest of the class.
toxx

... computers came after my time in school. Cool time I had back then, though. Skipped classes, never brought a book to school, barely reached the necessary hours to complete ... fun, punk, new wave.
Looking back, the stupidest time of my life. And it cannot be repaired.
Aye, but otherwise I'm okay.
School is cool! I know that now, 25 years too late ...
James

Me and my mate skipped a lesson of English last year, it were real funny, cos we were sat in the Tech rooms playing on the PC, and they were searching the school for us

Nearly got an after school detention, BUT I lied out of it, said I smacked me wrist on the door real hard (I'd just had it out of pot), and I didn't want to tell anyone incase they sent me to hospital.

Such a shit excuse, but hey, it worked!
johnreid

When I was in High School they didnt have a computer at school, There was one at the Bank, but it took Punch cards.
James

Had my first GCSE exam today, physics. Good job I got a certificate in assembly to say I excel in physics    

Maths is on the 21st January

Oi oi Lewis, have you had an ISA??
johnreid

Well, at least you arent trying what this Lad tried in order to get out of going to school
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7176333.stm


Quick hide the glue from James!
James

LMFAO!!!!
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