100 random things that make me happy: #7

[antesqueluz]

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[angus_honey]

Goerge Bernard Shaw said that the UK and USA were '...nations deoivide by a common language'! And it's as true in the twenty-first century as it was in the twentieth. And it's true to say that each region, even within the small nation of the UK, there are many diverse colloquialisms!

I like language...of course I do...but I don't think I would eulogise it quite as much as you do. Having read your travleogues I do know that you write with a wonderful knack for description, choosing your words so carefully as to give the reader the feeling that they are seeing what you see!

[antesqueluz]

Too true! Even individual states in the US have regions with differing idioms and accents. It's amazing.

Thanks so much for the kind words, dear. I'm a very visually oriented person and for me words are pictures.

[tweedisgood]

Seconded to the nth. As a writer, I am so lucky to be familiar with this wonderful gift I've been given, to have English as my mother tongue; but language in general, in the abstract, is indeed a thing of such power that in our everyday lives, using it all the time, we don't take enough notice of.

[antesqueluz]

I think English must be such a difficult language to learn for non-native speakers...it's so complex and the rules are so inconsistent. But it is a thing of beauty.

[antesqueluz]

I would love to go with you next time, bb. :-)

I love regional dialects and accents. There are so many good Southernisms, but y'all is by far the best. I kinda wish it was accepted English 'cause we need a good plural you, but you're right - it does kinda weird me out when people in other parts of the country use it. It's ours, just like sweet tea. ;-)