Moving to Andalusia

Racist

 

WTF is this walking shite, or is it related to shite old Brit bikes
failing?

 

Are they like the Cheeky Girls?

 

Hog wrote

About 55m, nowhere near enough probably but I don't give a shit because
I am an Englishman and the sea is in me veins and if necessary I shall
build a ships and rather than go down to the sea in it I shall wait for
the sea to come to me. That bloke up the road with the cutty sark in
his back garden is laughing now though I betcha.

 

Same grammatical patterns != related language (Gaelic is very firmly in
the Indo-European group).

Most languages have similar grammar construction (English is actually
more anomalous than most - most Indo-European languages parse more like
Gaelic).

Breton is (like Gaelic) a descendant of Old Celtic (P-Celt strain).
Gaelic is the other strain (Q-Celt).

And don't let the similarity in letters confuse - just cos it looks
like a K (or an X) doesn't mean that it's pronounced like we do.

Phil

 

And me makes three..

Phil

 

Are you going to take two of every type of motorcycle on board?

 

@mid.individual.net:

Says the man whose jap custom twin blows up at the first whiff of some dodgy
petrol.

 

Who's Rusty?

 

Are these new types of virus?

 

No - it's an old type of viral DNA.. the end result of which is a
horrendous disability called Gingeness.

Phil

 

Ace ha escrito:

The Spanish gentleman re-reads his very own writing and notices that
the beverages served by a few Chinese gentlemen made him be verbose.

Yep, but lexical similarities are not due to the fact of that sort of
political union in the late middle ages, I guess...

Just for fun, a guy from Sardinia worked for my company recently in
Barcelona, he managed to follow Catalan spoken meetings by averaging
his Spanish and Sardinian... and I do follow Occitanian by averaging my
Catalan and French Someone say you can understand Dutch by
averaging English and Krautspeak

 

Not really relevant to the language discussion, but IMO, nice.

See the gaelic/Basque influence here. I rather like this guy and his music.

Hevia - Busindre Reel

 

Pete Fisher ha escrito:

Not in that part of La Cerdanya (no matter whether the French or the
Spanish part)

For the Pyreneeisti, Llivia is a Spanish village surounded by French
territory

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llívia
The Treaty of the Pyrenees (1659) ceded the comarques of Roussillon,
Conflent, Capcir, Vallespir, and northern Cerdanya ("Cerdagne") to the
French crown. Llívia did not become part of the French kingdom as the
treaty stipulated that only villages were to be ceded to France, and
Llívia was considered a city and not a village due to its status as
the ancient capital of Cerdanya.

Heh. South of Andorra there is Berga, small population but deserving
the rank of city because of their support to the Spanish king side in
the 1714 war. Local Catalan nationalists claim to be "just a f*cking
village"

 

I can certainly read Dutch (to an extent) because of my familiarity
with older forms of English..

Phil

 

Phil Launchbury ha escrito:

 

tallbloke wrote:

Good point.

Nice one, good luck & take care.

 

Too late. By the time you hit the <Post> button your fate was sealed[1].

Phil.

[1] But not that way. I'm not Canadian.

 

I do love that area, particularly the Massif de Carlit (Canigou a bit
further towards Perpignan is also beautiful). We have been to the French
side many times. It always strikes me how complete and sudden the change
from French to Spanish culture is as you cross the bridge in Bourg
Madame.

We were driving round looking for an ancient (Roman?) bridge that SWMBO
had spotted on the map when we found ourselves in Llívia. When we tried
to turn round, the tiny road we came in on was no entry. Had to go all
the way round over an N road on a flyover and back to Bourg Madame via
Puigcerda.

<WUN> Tricky coves cities </WUN>. My home town was granted city status
not that long ago. Not exactly Wells it is and certainly no cathedral.

Very strong Catalan atmosphere in the Cerdagne even on the French side.
Sardanne dancing in the village squares on Saturday night etc.

The Pyrenees rock. We will almost certainly go there for a few days this
summer so that SWMBO can walk a bit more of the GR10 while I try to
persuade the Truite Fario to take a fly. Probably more the Basque end
though. We camped at Laruns last year and Lescun the year before that.
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