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Subject: [Leica] IMG: get around Politically Incorrect terminology - speak Yorkshire dialect!
From: tedgrant at shaw.ca (tedgrant at shaw.ca)
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2013 16:23:11 -0700
References: <CDFB7A3A.CBFC%mark@rabinergroup.com>

"RIGHT ON MARK!!!!!!!" :-)  AND ON TOPIC! ;-)

I bet if she wanted a LEICA MM?????????? He couldn't get it for her fast 
enough under the right circumstance!!! ;-) ;-) 

cheers,
ted
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2013 4:15 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: get around Politically Incorrect terminology - 
speak Yorkshire dialect!


> And to further lighten it up here in NY they are Guys and Dolls.
> 
> When you meet a gent paying all kinds of rent
> For a flat that could flatten the Taj Mahal.
> Call it sad, call it funny.
> But it's better than even money
> That the guy's only doing it for some doll.
> 
> 
> On 7/4/13 1:08 PM, "Douglas Sharp" <douglas.sharp at gmx.de> wrote:
> 
>> 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_66
>> 81-1-3.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.j
>> pg.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.j
>> pg.html
>> Owd lads sittin in't Markitplace (Elderly friends in
>> the market square)
>> 
>> Cheers
>> Douglas
>> 
>> 
>> 
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> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
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> 
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