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Toe in the Water

by Beholden

Rated: 13+ · Book · Experience · #2223922

A tentative blog to test the temperature.

Ten years ago I was writing several blogs on various subjects - F1 motor racing, Music, Classic Cars, Great Romances and, most crushingly, a personal journal that included my thoughts on America, memories of England and Africa, opinion, humour, writing and anything else that occurred. It all became too much (I was attempting to update the journal every day) and I collapsed, exhausted and thoroughly disillusioned in the end.

So this blog is indeed a Toe in the Water, a place to document my thoughts in and on WdC but with a determination not to get sucked into the blog whirlpool ever again. Here's hoping.

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Ned

about 4 hours ago
In response to "I Say Tomato"

It is silly as I often comment, because the world is very small these days of the world wide interwebs. And everyone watches everyone else's TV shows. It's a bit embarrassing that "Friends" is loved worldwide, but what are you going to do? There are regional colloquialisms but for the most part, we all understand each other just fine and it's ridiculous for anyone to feel superior or inferior. I don't blame people for speaking the language of their own country, and only English-speakers seem to get so butt-hurt and competitive over language. Chillax, people.

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Beholden

Sep 27, 2024 at 12:47pm
In response to "This is Why"

True indeed, Jayne!

Jayne

Sep 27, 2024 at 12:44pm
In response to "This is Why"

"Thirsty" is also slang for desperation, and it makes me laugh every time.

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Beholden

Sep 27, 2024 at 9:06am
In response to "This is Why"

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Amethyst Angel🍂🧡

Sep 27, 2024 at 8:51am
In response to "This is Why"

The XX beer? I hate seeing those trucks driving by because the double X's is supposed to be the Straight Edge symbol. It's like a subversion. And alcohol is the last thing one should consume when one is "thirsty." Don't let Robert Waltz hear me

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Cubboo!

Sep 8, 2024 at 12:54pm
In response to "Just a Thought"

And I've already been thinking about coming up with an activity! 😃

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AmyJo-"ber" months are here!

Sep 8, 2024 at 12:23pm
In response to "Just a Thought"

Funny how time flies when you are having fun!

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Kåre Enga in Montana

Sep 4, 2024 at 5:33pm
In response to "In My Opinion..."

In the USA political scene there is a tendency to focus on what doesn't matter. I really don't care about hair-don'ts and what a family member three times removed did or didn't do in 1992.

But basic human rights? *crickets*

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Jayne

Aug 30, 2024 at 9:55pm
In response to "A Passing Ponder on Poetry"

I sometimes think this, too. Yet how many times have we read one and realized we were not alone in our struggles or our joy?

That "you" person affects an awful lot of lives

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Amethyst Angel🍂🧡

Aug 30, 2024 at 3:50pm
In response to "A Passing Ponder on Poetry"

Same as pop music, sir… usually written in the first person to an imaginary “you…” in my childhood and my early years of learning to appreciate music, I applied all the “yous” to myself

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September 30, 2024 at 8:23am

#1077480

I Say Tomato

I Say Tomato

I see a lot of silly Anglo-American competition on the internet - people saying how words should be pronounced or spelt in English, quibbling over customs and intentions, and so on. Both sides convinced that somehow they are right, better and clearly superior.

Yet how truly silly this is. The fact is that we talk about our differences so much because we’re basically the same and this makes our differences endlessly fascinating. Any need to use these comparisons to demonstrate superiority is born of insecurity. There is no right or wrong way to say “tomato” and nobody really knows how to pronounce “Marylebone.”

We learn so much from each other. Comparisons between how we speak and what we’ve done with the institutions inherited by both of us from the events of the 18th Century actually enable us to understand ourselves the better. It’s in these discussions that fresh light is shone (or even “shined”) upon things about ourselves that we’ve previously taken for granted. Thanks to our transatlantic contacts and friends, we gain a much deeper understanding of ourselves.

And that has nothing to do with superiority. One man’s English is another man’s dialect.

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