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"What have you eaten" Parallel Chat

Annb said:
English is such a mixture of origins, dialects and accents, it becomes a great deal of fun working out where words come from, where they are now, and where they are heading in the future. Even more fun when you add in the puzzles of archaic characters like the thorn (þ) or wynn (ƿ), and the development of punctuation from the point where the Greeks and Romans didn't even use spaces between their words to the point where some people put in apostrophes in the wrong places because they don't understand what they are there for. Next thing will be that the apostrophe is faded out, apparently, but I would be sad to see it go, it is the source of much fun.
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Yes @Annb, some local authorities have started omitting apostrophes from street names. May not matter to most of us, but it could be the thin end of a very big wedge. In the context of the written language, apostrophes have important functions.
 
LivingLightly said:
Yes @Annb, some local authorities have started omitting apostrophes from street names. May not matter to most of us, but it could be the thin end of a very big wedge. In the context of the written language, apostrophes have important functions.
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Apostrophes are my nemesis.
I love them and I make mistakes left and right with them.
Writing in both Dutch and English, I'm worse than I used to be because by now I'm in doubt in both languages. The rules make perfect sense and then I fail to apply the rules and get all confused.

There might be a task for you here, @LivingLightly , I haven't 'made' a picture in a long time after all, time to move on to the next subject to drill into me?

(Sorry @RosemaryJackson , this is exactly what happens when you start us on linguistics, we can't help ourselves. This of course includes @MrsA2 and her typing, it's not about typos (which would be typo's with the apostrophe in Dutch) at all!)
 
LivingLightly said:
You're certainly not alone @Annb
The Guardian (nicknamed affectionately as Grauniad) is well known for its spelling slip-ups and typos.

The Oxford dictionary and the Cambridge dictionary list the corrrect spellings without an extra 'U'. Sorry.
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No problem. I am a fan of Dr Johnson though, and have quite gone off these new-fangled dictionaries with all their weird and wonderful expressions which they consider to be acceptable English.
 
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Antje77 said:
Apostrophes are my nemesis.
I love them and I make mistakes left and right with them.
Writing in both Dutch and English, I'm worse than I used to be because by now I'm in doubt in both languages. The rules make perfect sense and then I fail to apply the rules and get all confused.

There might be a task for you here, @LivingLightly , I haven't 'made' a picture in a long time after all, time to move on to the next subject to drill into me?

(Sorry @RosemaryJackson , this is exactly what happens when you start us on linguistics, we can't help ourselves. This of course includes @MrsA2 and her typing, it's not about typos (which would be typo's with the apostrophe in Dutch) at all!)
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That very much depends on whether you regard "typo" as a word in its own right or as a contraction of "typographical error". I imagine that, these days, it is regarded as a word. Therefore - no apostrophe. Another one of the ways in which this odd language develops.

Breakfast was a repeat of last evening's meal - tofu fried in a coating made of crushed crackers and coconut with split pea "rice" mixed with half an onion, a third of a yellow pepper, some mini red peppers and some garlic. Spices as well, of course.

2nd meal today will be pork belly with some braised leeks.
 
Annb said:
No problem. I am a fan of Dr Johnson though, and have quite gone off these new-fangled dictionaries with all their weird and wonderful expressions which they consider to be acceptable English..
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Final note on this:

Brian Collins, BA in Linguistics & Slavic Languages, University of Washington, on Quora.com (https://www.quora.com/) says regarding humorous v humourous -

“A dumb rule that some authors used to use back in the 19th Century:
  • spell it “our” if it has a French or native Germanic suffix (humourless, humours, colourable)
  • spell it “or” if it has a Latin or Greek suffix (humorous, humorist, colorification)
This rule stopped being applied consistently in the 19th Century, and now all British dictionaries prescribe colourification. However, humour-humor, oddly was fossilised.”

I agree with him that it is a dumb rule, which is why I don't follow it.
 
Annb said:
NOTE: This site disapproves though and is underlining the word.
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You know you can turn off this annoying meddling habit on all your devices, right?
It's the first thing I do whenever I buy a new computer or phone because I find it impossible to read my text back with those lines emphasising random words. It messes with the rhythm of whatever it is you are writing.
I also rather own up to my mistakes, and I very much dislike machines telling me what to do. Which is one of the reasons I do not want an insulin pump. :hilarious:
 
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Antje77 said:
You know you can turn off this annoying meddling habit on all your devices, right?
It's the first thing I do whenever I buy a new computer or phone because I find it impossible to read my text back with those lines amphasising random words. It messes with the rhythm of whatever it is you are writing.
I also rather own up to my mistakes, and I very much dislike machines telling me what to do. Which is one of the reasons I do not want an insulin pump. :hilarious:
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I didn't know that and I don't know how to do it anyway. Must ask Neil.
 
B: 2 cold sausages
90 minute dog walk
L: burrata (a type of mozzarella cheese) with tomatoes and salad sat watching the boats and activity on a sunny estuary. 6 chips form hubby and son's plate. Drank only soda water!
Later, a single scoop ocecream shared between 3 of us!
D: 3 chicken drumsticks and tender stem broccoli with butter. A third of a chocolate protoen "pudding" with double cream. 1 small glass wine

Trouble is it's 23:30 and I'm very hungry.
 
Annb said:
Final note on this:

Brian Collins, BA in Linguistics & Slavic Languages, University of Washington, on Quora.com (https://www.quora.com/) says regarding humorous v humourous -

“A dumb rule that some authors used to use back in the 19th Century:
  • spell it “our” if it has a French or native Germanic suffix (humourless, humours, colourable)
  • spell it “or” if it has a Latin or Greek suffix (humorous, humorist, colorification)
This rule stopped being applied consistently in the 19th Century, and now all British dictionaries prescribe colourification. However, humour-humor, oddly was fossilised.”

I agree with him that it is a dumb rule, which is why I don't follow it.
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We'll just have to agree to differ on his on this one @Annb.

In linguistics, it's common practice to study the etymology of words to determine their spelling and pronunciation.
The adjectival form humorous and related adverb humorously are derived from Medieval Latin hūmorōsus.

I cannot see why Brian Collins should object to taking this into account. Perhaps he didn't encounter these fun and games to the same extent in studying slavonic languages, They are all reasonably consistent and phonetic.
 
I found a couple of pieces of left-over pork in the fridge and that was breakfast.

Later had one of my new split pea crackers with a tiny bit of cheddar.

Neil bought some minced chicken the other day in the supermarket but neither he nor I realised that it was right on its use-by date. When I took it out of the big fridge yesterday I found it was 3 days past and I'm not at all confident about using it. It will go in the bin and I'll probably just have some ham and maybe a bit more cheese later on.

Oh dear, now the PC is telling me that realised should be spelled with a Z! I know that both versions are acceptable - the Z form being more popular in America (because Mr Noah Webster so decided) and the S version being more popular on the Eastern side of the Atlantic. Even my old friend Dr Johnson used the S form. Again, it goes back to the Greek and Roman words, which used Z. I prefer the S but will accept the Z. I just don't like my PC telling me so. Must talk to Neil about this when he feels better.
 
cdpm said:
Cottage cheese.

And hoping to afford some more
As 1 carton takes nearly 2 days of my food money but only last 1 day.
It all depends on if I have to buy it for 6 dollars or if I can find 1 for 4 dollars.
(Posted here today as I said more than what I ate).
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From what you have told us @cdpm, it sounds as though food prices are generally higher in Canada than here in the UK.
 
I decided to check the chicken before throwing it out and it seemed OK so I made some meatballs with it but didn't have any of them - it was too late by the time they were done. I just had a kind of hash made with the leeks I'd already cooked and some frozen potato. Took insulin to cope and it seems to have been alright.

I should be thinking about breakfast because I have to go out in about 40 minutes to get my legs fixed again for another week but I can't think of anything I want to have, so will probably just make do with another cup of tea and think about eating when I get back around 12.30. My new Libre sensors should arrive today so I can get away from the finger-pricking again. Neil is feeling well enough today to take me to town, so things are looking up.
 
MrsA2 said:
B: 2 cold sausages
90 minute dog walk
L: burrata (a type of mozzarella cheese) with tomatoes and salad sat watching the boats and activity on a sunny estuary. 6 chips form hubby and son's plate. Drank only soda water!
Later, a single scoop ocecream shared between 3 of us!
D: 3 chicken drumsticks and tender stem broccoli with butter. A third of a chocolate protoen "pudding" with double cream. 1 small glass wine

Trouble is it's 23:30 and I'm very hungry.
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Oh that is very restrained, sharing a single scoop of icecream :p Oddly that is the one thing that I really crave and I would never have thought that before starting this low carb way of life. Luckily, the weather has stopped me from having too many.
 
Wednesday
Can't remember breakfast
Very breezy walk
L: 2 drumsticks, ham and coleslaw
D: venison burger with mushrooms and blue cheese. Came with chips, of which I ate too many. I must remember to start asking for veg instead.

Thursday
B: 2 scrambled eggs on ham
A 2 and a half hour hilly walk
L: small grilled fish, salad and chips.
Shared 1 scoop ice cream with hubby and 2 dogs
D: beef curry, swapped the rice for green beans, did eat 2 mini nan
1 white wine
Later 1 Irish whiskey

Every day we've been averaging 15000 or more steps but don't think it's enough to offset all the carbs creeping in.
 
Finally had some food about 14.00 today. A 3 egg omelette with some fried onion sprinkles (bought online from Amazon). Didn't need anything else. BG dropped too low this evening though and had to bring it back up with 3 fruit pastilles. Right now it's 5.7. Should be OK for the night.
 
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