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From: Leticia Cluff <>
Subject: Re: Diana, Princess Of Wales & Continuing Mindless Celebrity Worship
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 15:09:20 -0300
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On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 14:37:30 GMT, The Highlander <>
wrote:

>On Sat, 06 Oct 2007 17:49:24 -0300, Leticia Cluff
><> wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 06 Oct 2007 20:19:58 GMT, The Highlander <>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 17:53:28 -0700, Citizen Jimserac
>>><> wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Oct 5, 12:47 pm, "a.spencer3" <> wrote:
>>>>> "Citizen Jimserac" <> wrote in message
>>>>> What pretentious claptrap, whatever one thinks.
>>>>>
>>>>> Surreyman
>>>>
>>>>Claptrap! What a delightful word! My ideas have been
>>>>assailed with a variety of invective, stern disapproval,
>>>>hysterical opposition, denunciation and utter dismissal
>>>>but never "claptrap" before!!!
>>>>
>>>>Many thanks!
>>>>
>>>>Citizen Jimserac
>>>
>>>Surreyman has recently "discovered" Charles Dickens...
>>
>>
>>Just out of interest, I checked to see whether the word "claptrap" was
>>particularly Dickensian. Among all the useless information available
>>on the net, there's an online concordance of all the novels of
>>Dickens, a total of 4,371,247 words, and sure enough Boz *did* use
>>"claptrap."
>>
>>Once.
>>
>>Tish
>
>Woukd I lie to you? What more could you want - page after page of
>Dickensian characters saying "claptrap"?
>
>I remember when the people of Tristan da Cunha (Coordinates:
>37°6.38?S, 12°17.14?W)were evacuated from their island by the Royal
>Navy in 1961 because of their local volcano erupting and were landed
>at Portsmouth (?) to be welcomed by a reporter from the BBC, who asked
>one man, "How are you?"
>
>To my disbelieving joy, the islander replied, "Werry vell, thank ee!"
>Pure unadulterated Dickensian dialect, straight from the pages of
>Oliver Twist! All the islanders spoke in the same manner - voices from
>the days of Waterloo.
>
>I take an keen interest in your quaint language.
>
>When I visted Nova Scotia, I heard a Gaelic spoken that has not been
>heard in the Highlands since the days of Culloden Moor. Gaelic
>diaclects are still heard in Scotland, the United States, Australia,
>Argentina, esp. Patagonia, (200 Gaelic speaking families) Cape Breton,
>(Nova Scotia) Australia, Moscow, Russia and Astana and Almaty,
>Kazakhstan; all places where Highlanders settled. Indeed, I once
>attended a Gaelic church service at the Scottish Church in Paris.
>
>http://www.gaelic.ru/ (Moscow Gaelic Society.)
>


Just out of interest, How did you know I was in Nova Scotia?

Tish
(not a Gaelic speaker though)

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