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Subject: [Leica] IMG: get around Politically Incorrect terminology - speak Yorkshire dialect!
From: douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)
Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2013 09:54:24 +0200
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Thank you George,

you're more than welcome.

Douglas



On 04.07.2013 21:21, George Lottermoser wrote:
> De light full illustrations to compliment an enchanting language lesson.
> Thank you for entertaining and expanding our knowledge of language and 
> culture.
>
> a note off the iPad, George
>
> On Jul 4, 2013, at 12:08 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_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
>>
>>
>>
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