What's everone doing today?

[Hugh]

Good morning today I will get stuck into some work at home. My bed now strip and in the washing machine. Getting light so once I have finished my cup of tea it be off to the forest with Roxy. Then it will be time for some work in the garden. Bye for now back on later

[Michael Rolls]

Have a good day, Hugh
Mike

[GrannyMac]

Going to do some weeding before it gets warm. Or maybe just read my book in the garden...😄 ☀️☀️

[richmond62]

Sitting at one end of a room listening to my wife teaching an online class
in Anglo-Saxon grammar and annoying the heck out of her by pointing out that the students don't
know the difference between Genitive and Dative, either in the suffixation on the nouns and the adjectives,
nor how to explain what the difference means in either English or Bulgarian.

[Michael Rolls]

If I ever knew the difference, I am afraid that I have long forgotten it.
Mike 😒

[Hugh]

Not on your own Mike.

[richmond62]

I've only remembered "All That" because of its high tease-value.   

[Michael Rolls]

😁😁😁

[Michael Rolls]

I've just looked up Dative case to refresh my memory - wish I hadn't
Mike

[klondike]

If I ever knew the difference, I am afraid that I have long forgotten it.
Mike 😒

I did a year of Latin before I dropped it so I know (or at least knew). You aren't missing much of any practical value.

[richmond62]

"You aren't missing much of any practical value."

Oh, I don't know: dropping the odd Latin phrase could give the dusky Muslim maidens yacking in Urdu
a run for their money down at LIDL.

[Scrumpy]

Early morning shop.. 7:15 this morning.. Before it gets too hot.. Packed shopping in car then took a stroll around the park..
I forgot the beetroot.. Not the bottled stuff but the vacuum pack.. It makes a lovely sandwich..
 I was looking forward to it.. It came to my mind whilst trying to get to sleep last night.. Kept me awake..

[Michael Rolls]

I did Latin for five years - and I was absolutely hopeless at it. At the end of the third year we had to choose between Four Arts and Four Science. Arts included history and geography which I wanted to keep, plus French, at which I was reasonable and Latin (ugh). Four Science dropped all four of those so I had no choice.
First Latin period of the new year we all trooped it under the benevolent eye of the Senior Latin master (that's not sarcasm, he was a very nice bloke) who looked at me and 'Oh, no, Rolls, not you!' I apologised for my presence - and I honestly did my best at the wretched language, but it was hopeless. It was the only subject I failed at O level. Somehow nothing about it made any sense to me
Mike

[klondike]

"You aren't missing much of any practical value."
Oh, I don't know: dropping the odd Latin phrase could give the dusky Muslim maidens yacking in Urdu
a run for their money down at LIDL.

Dropping the odd English phrase probably leaves some completely puzzled.

[biglouis]

British people are generally very poor at learning languages. I did not go to a posh enough school to learn latin. I did French and Spanish in school. I dropped Spanish after two years but it has very quickly come back to me now I sell on a Spanish site. I learned German in night school later. I can even do a bit of Arabic.


I was once on a train that was full so I sat in the first class compartment. Two bossy women spent a lot of time and effort trying to explain to me that I was in the wrong place. I dont know how or why they believed I did not have a first class ticket as they were nothing special dress-wise.


However I kept responding in German and they became more and more frustrated. In the end they shut up. When my station came I thanked them (in English) for the entertainment they had given me.