? seems pretty standard to me... perhaps in a certain context it would sound quaint. i'm after doin' the messages... now that's dialectical.
"Have you been to the shops yet?" "I'm just now going." One person's standard is another's weird dialect.
Oh dear. I guess this is a case of American = weird dialect. I hear nothing wrong whatsoever with "I'm just now going." I don't hear it so much that I am not sure what an alternative phrasing would be. On the other hand, I'm not sure what to do with "I'm after doin' the messages." Huh? Vermont, maybe? Oh no, Canada, probably. You know Canadians, always messing with poor Swedes... (and voila, we're back to football!)
scotland. it means "i'm off to the shops". i know of only one other example of shopping and conveying information being commonly expressed using the same word - dutch boodschappen. oh, another: in french some people say faire les commissions for shopping, and faire une commission means to pass a message. note that in all cases this refers particularly to grocery shopping.
Try changing the adverbial of time from "just now" to another like "next week" or "tomorrow". How does that sound to you? Which parts of Scotland would that be? I'm going to need a source for that one, please. Otherwise... Scotland: "I'm away to do/get my messages." = "I am going to do my grocery shopping now." Ireland: "I'm after doing..." = "I have done..." Oh... and football. (There you go, jocasta! Got us back on the ball smoothly, no)
Well, it sounds ridiculous. And yet, "I'm just now going" does not. There's no accounting for idiomatic usage, I suppose. (nodding sagely) Yes indeed, the proper respects must be paid to football. And just at the moment, the way Team Sweden is playing, and the way FIFA and the Swedish FA are acting, I feel like "oh... and football" is just about as much respect as the whole mess deserves. Adverbials are more important, on the whole.
yes, that's done all over. but the title says this thread is supposed to be about sewing. and i don't see a lot of that being discussed either. so let's bring it all together: which one of you girls is going to knit me a scarf?
Oh good heavens, no no no. One uses a thread to sew (or sometimes to sow, if it's discord), not knit. And though I'm good at poking things with sticks (science!), I'm not a knit-wit.
Today in dogs: A new hire for Linköping FC can't wait for spring and green grass. But wait, what's that she's holding (in the third picture in the slideshow)? Is that a chihuahua? Have chihuahuas come to Linkers at last?? When I first saw the picture I thought, oh dear, someone's sold the poor child (only 16) a brown rat, under false pretences. The dog's name is Otto and the sidebar claims his breed is miniature pinscher. I am dubious. But what do I know from dogs.
How can I have missed that Hedvig Lindahl (the player, the trainer, the leader) has a blog?? Like, an actual, old-timey web page. For starters, I recommend the The Leader, in which we read about "leading from the front from right here in the back."
this whole section got along just fine for years with almost no modding until certain elements found it as a place to wag their little willies. and it doesn't help to quote posts that obviously need deletion. it just prolongs them.
Haha, this thread is now showing me ads for yarn! (hope it doesn't start showing ads for willie wagging)
I have just seen somewhere that one of the WWC venues is called "Tim Hortons Field". I trust someone who goes there will give us a review of what the stadium snacks are like. Although they couldn't possibly live up to my imagination.
Tim Horton was a famous Canadian hockey player in the middle of the 20th century. He played for the Toronto Maple Leafs (Laughs) for 20 years and won five Stanley Cups with them, and they haven't won one since. More to the topic though he opened a coffee shop and an astute policeman named Ron Joyce became his partner and when Horton died he bought him out for a million dollars. There are now 4,000 in Canada and 1,000 in the States. Tim Hos and double-double are part of the Canadian vernacular. Joyce is now a billionaire and lives near Hamilton so makes sense his company bought the naming rights. Not far away in town there is also Ron Joyce Stadium. I'm not sure who has the concessions contract but it would be unlikely if it wasn't Tim Horton's. Which would mean coffee shop with lunch items. Hamilton was a blue-collar steel town and has always had a good local sports scene and is hometown of Melissa Tancredi.
A proud Grandpa has told womensoccer.de that Conny Pohlers gave birth to a healthy little boy named Theo this morning.
The spit-take-and-spluttering that followed my first reading of this astonishing and improbable news would probably have been... amusing to some. So. Many. Questions.
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In Sweden, every day has a name. And according to my desk calendar, today is Conny day. And Konstantin also. She should have named the tyke Konstantin. Course in Sweden she could have just named the tyke Conny and people would only think "Oh how quaint and old fashioned. Wait... mamma, what did you say your name is? Err... really?"