tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36841665.post6306995733321166493..comments2023-12-31T13:47:05.758+00:00Comments on Fat Man on a Keyboard: Chronicles of wasted timeThe Plumphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09244528534476387323noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36841665.post-14288387190951431122009-07-19T18:37:52.406+01:002009-07-19T18:37:52.406+01:00Thanks for the link to the Polari Bible - I spent ...Thanks for the link to the Polari Bible - I spent a happy hour or so looking at it and at lots of other interesting linguistic sites on Polari and then on the old trade language Lingua Franca.Rebeccahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17626228106192215280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36841665.post-74004863872015952612009-07-05T01:15:59.414+01:002009-07-05T01:15:59.414+01:00That is all fair enuff.That is all fair enuff.Willhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08015473239835274353noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36841665.post-64977080101499006882009-07-03T18:31:36.644+01:002009-07-03T18:31:36.644+01:00Oh but there's Dr Lorimer's version of the...Oh but there's Dr Lorimer's version of the NT in Scots [very much North Eastern, Doric, at that]. This is capable of moving even this hardened atheist. It may be the AV effect, the medium making more impact than the message. 'In the beginnin o aa things the Wurd wis there ense, an the Wurd bade wi God, an the Wurd wis God. He wis wi God i the beginnin, an aa things cam tae be throu him, an wiout him no ae thing cam tae be. Aathing at hes come tae be, he wis the life in it, an that life wis the licht o man; an ey the licht shines i the mirk, an the mirk downa slocken it nane.'<br />Perhaps it's genetics: my ancestors were seceders from the established Kirk in Scotland a century before the Disruption of 1845 and this, to me, is their voice.Brigada Flores Magonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17832555450198713371noreply@blogger.com