Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/07/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Its a reet gradely post is that! >________________________________ > From: Douglas Sharp <douglas.sharp at gmx.de> >To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >Sent: Thursday, 4 July 2013, 18:08 >Subject: [Leica] IMG: get around Politically Incorrect terminology - speak >Yorkshire dialect! > > >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 > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > >