Any teachers on here

[Rusty]

....insisted we wrote with a fountain pen.

i still favour writing with one to this day!

As I’m tapping this out on the keyboard I’m using a 1985 vintage blue Waterman fountain pen. I used to take exams with it, if I knew the subject well one fill up per exam wasn’t enough so I went back to a ball point. For most subjects one fill up was plenty.

 

It’s not only fora which are being subjected to text language, at work I often see e-mails abbreviated in the same way. Something which really irritates me is the use of ‘@’ when directing narrative to somebody, I’ve asked not to be referred to as ‘@ Chris’ but I think it’s just accepted practice now.

[Phone]

John S,

 

True here also. In fact, I always thought there was dual meaning to the IBM bill. I NEVER thought I received my money's worth from IBM service.

 

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[corydoras]

Newt,

 

CRUD stands for Create, Read, Update and Delete. (Retrieve may occasionally be substituted for Read.) These functions are also descriptive of the "data life cycle".

 

I had to look it up. When I was in business I had IBM equipment (before PC's). One time I paid a handsome sum for IBM Crud.

 

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SO you paid a lot of BREAD for some old CRUD?

[Phone]

Corry,

 

Groan! I'll unscrew the nib me GW Bush Conway Stewart and pen a retort.

 

Wonder what pen Issac used? Probably a froggie bic.

 

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[Vagabond]

As I'm tapping this out on the keyboard I'm using a 1985 vintage blue Waterman fountain pen.

 

 

Had to smile at that.

 

Best to keep the pen cap on though, or you will damage the nib and get ink all over the keyboard

[John S]

Had to smile at that.

 

Best to keep the pen cap on though, or you will damage the nib and get ink all over the keyboard

 

 

I prefer a fountain pen over a biro any day (except when filling in crosswords - the ink spreads too much) ever since I was in junior school. For some reason my writing is neater with a fountain pen than with a ballpoint. Can't really figure that one out

[Phone]

All,

 

I was taught when using English the only person who could place themselves first in either written or spoken sentences is the Queen. Is that true?

 

Nothing, well almost nothing, gets my attention quicker than my daughter. I cannot break her of the habit of saying, "me and my friends.....". Is it fair to say one can be in self-training to become royalty?

 

Also, I notice on AN you often use the word "me" for "my". ("I'll get me flyrod) Is that just internet fishermen talk? Do you say "me" for "my" in the real world?

 

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[chesters1]

All,

 

I was taught when using English the only person who could place themselves first in either written or spoken sentences is the Queen. Is that true?

 

Nothing, well almost nothing, gets my attention quicker than my daughter. I cannot break her of the habit of saying, "me and my friends.....". Is it fair to say one can be in self-training to become royalty?

 

Also, I notice on AN you often use the word "me" for "my". ("I'll get me flyrod) Is that just internet fishermen talk? Do you say "me" for "my" in the real world?

 

Phone

the queens english as it were died out in the 50's when "regional" accents started to come about on the telly ,as the queen is from a line of germans its probably was with a faint german accent anyway

i often write blimey but its no really a written word more a verbal one ,along with yep etc ,blimey is a shortening of a longer word that was short for another exclamation

 

as we are english everything we say is english even the foreign stuff

 

i was watching a latenight soft porn and slashing series about spartacus ,lots of 4 letter words which i believe one or two didnt actually exist then ,its nice to see research is alive and well

ofcourse if you just want to see zena the warriors tits then that can be overlooked

Edited October 14, 2012 by chesters1

[Ken L]

"The Queens English" may be a rather old fashioned term but RP is still one of the means by which the movers and shakers recognise one another.

And of course you have regional accents on TV..............It keeps the plebs happy.

[Phone]

John S,

 

If you were/are left handed you would rather have a Parker Jotter (it was my first recall of a modern ball point). Ball point pens were a gpdsend for us lefties. In order to see what we write, we drag our hand through the line above or first couple letters of a word. Fountain pen ink doesn't dry fast enough to keep from smearing. Nothing sloppier than a lefty with a quill. We "push" a proper pen rather than "pull" it along. Simply no other way.

 

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