What comes after breakfast and lunch? ... a question I asked on Friday's Perl course; rather than a straightforward answer, I was invited to choose between tea and dinner. And having selected "tea" and asked of what it might consist, I was reminded that tea is a very different meal in different parts of the UK ...

Last night, I'm ashamed to admit I was watching a very old edition of "Family fortunes". The contestants had to name 6 ways of saying "it is cold" as chosen by the studio audience; I came up with "nippy" but overlooked "parky" which I should have known, bearing in mind my more northern roots. But there you go; I was probably far closer to the mark than others I live and work with who - by contrast - would have come up with American or Polish terms far better than I could even hope to do.

Working in a company / living in company where my slant on English is not necessarily everyone else's, I have to ensure that I talk clearly at times and remember that certain words have - err - different levels, especially adjectives representing degrees of quality. Let's have a scale of five levels, should we?

The tops!	Magic, Excellent, Wow
	Great, Cool
	Fine, Good
	OK, Acceptable
Oh Dear!	Rubbish, Poor, Unsatisfactory

There's a lovely smell coming from the kitchen so I'm going to cut off and grab some brekkies. Perhaps I should come back and quantify "lovely" a little later?
(written 2007-06-23 10:28:07)

 

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