[Leica] IMG: get around Politically Incorrect terminology - speak Yorkshire dialect!

[douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)]

Just to lighten things up a bit.

Where I come from, the Fair County of Yorkshire, they 
are all either lads or lasses.

Both lad and lass can be used for all ages, and even 
for animals.

With an appropriate qualifier, e.g. as in a "grand 
lad", it would perfectly describe the subject and the 
feelings conveyed in Nathan's photos of his son after 
his graduation, and express the father's (or viewer's) 
appreciation of the "lad" at the same time. (It can 
also be used together with "lass").

Grand, by the way, is a wonderfully useful universal 
positive qualifier that can mean intelligent, 
attractive, well-proportioned, helpful, 
smartly-dressed, friendly, successful and all sorts of 
other things.

Here are a few "lads and lasses"

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/UK/Whitby/People/20070806-_MG_6439-1.jpg.html
a grand lad, our local Bobby

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/UK/Whitby/People/20070811-_MG_6547-2.jpg.html
here grand lad (lovely), canny lad (clever) or reet lad 
(mischievous) would refer to the dog - funny lass, the 
girl (funny meaning out of the ordinary)

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/UK/Whitby/People/20070811-20070811-_MG_6681-1-3.jpg.html
On the verge of political correctness - a big lass and 
a skinny lad

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/UK/Whitby/Streets/20080828-_MG_8561-4.jpg.html
a sweet little lass

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/UK/Whitby/Whitby_BW/Whitby_2009_film35-2.jpg.html
a cupple of grand (or canny) lasses

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/UK/Whitby/Whitby_BW/Whitby_2009_film182.jpg.html
this lad is a reet misery-guts/a proper mean old bugger 
(nowhere near political incorrectness, mean describes 
the bad mood he's in, old has nothing to do with age, 
and bugger is by no means a swearword in Yorkshire)

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/UK/Whitby/Whitby_BW/Whitby_2009_film106.jpg.html
Owd lads sittin in't Markitplace (Elderly friends in 
the market square)

Cheers
Douglas