FORUMS FORUMS






RLFANS.COM
Celebrating
25 years service to
the Rugby League
Community!

   WWW.RLFANS.COM • View topic - Questions You Always Wanted To Ask...
::Off-topic discussion.
User avatar
RankPostsTeam
International Chairman37704No
Team
Selected
JoinedServiceReputation
May 25 200223 yearsN/A
OnlineLast PostLast Page
7th Aug 18 19:077th Aug 18 19:06LINK
Milestone Posts
30000
40000
Milestone Years
0510 1520 2530
Location
Zummerzet, where the zoider apples grow
Signature
The older I get, the better I was

Advice is what we seek when we already know the answer - but wish we didn't

I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full-frontal lobotomy
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
kirkstaller wrote: "All DNA shows is that we have a common creator."

cod'ead wrote: "I have just snotted weissbier all over my keyboard & screen"

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin." - Aneurin Bevan

Re: Questions You Always Wanted To Ask... : Thu May 24, 2012 9:19 am  
El Barbudo wrote:
Norman French ... like French, only different.
Most "French" people as we now know them didn't speak "French" as we now know it but spoke their own local language.

Well, they were Norman ... descended from Norsemen who "settled" in the fertile limestone area now known as Normandy.
To communicate with the Lord of the Manor you'd speak French but, out in the fields, English was still the lingua franca ( :) sorry), so a sheep, which is Schaff in German, a word brought here by the Angles (or Saxons, not sure which) out in the field became Mouton by the time it got to the Lord of the Manor's table.
As Dally mentioned, many of their words entered our language.
For many centuries if you wanted to show you were "educated" or sophisticated, you'd drop a few French words into your conversations, hence Shakespeare used French-speaking as a theatrical device to show how a character had ideas above his social station.

EDIT - Forgot to mention, as late as the 1790's, only about 12% of French people spoke what we now call French.


Probably the closest you will now find to "old" French would be the patois spoken by Arcadians and Guernsey folk
User avatar
RankPostsTeam
All Time Great47951No
Team
Selected
JoinedServiceReputation
May 10 200223 yearsN/A
OnlineLast PostLast Page
6th Aug 17 19:0327th Jul 17 17:56LINK
Milestone Posts
40000
50000
Milestone Years
0510 1520 2530
Location
Die Metropole
Signature
"You are working for Satan." Kirkstaller

"Dare to know!" Immanuel Kant

"Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive" Elbert Hubbard

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." Oscar Wilde

The Voluptuous Manifesto – thoughts on all sorts of stuff.

Re: Questions You Always Wanted To Ask... : Thu May 24, 2012 9:30 am  
There was a three-part comic documentary done by Eddie Izzard some years ago, Mongrel Nation, looking at the ethnic origins of the British.

Anyway, one of the segments had him going to Leicester University (IIRC) to learn to speak a little Old English. He then visited rural Holland and went in search of a farmer to ask to buy a cow from – using Old English. And that was an interesting way to show the links between English and Dutch.
User avatar
RankPostsTeam
In The Arms of 13 Angels14522No
Team
Selected
JoinedServiceReputation
Feb 26 200223 yearsN/A
OnlineLast PostLast Page
30th Jan 14 14:039th Jan 14 11:22LINK
Milestone Posts
10000
15000
Milestone Years
0510 1520 2530
Location
Online
Signature
Freedom without Socialism is privilege and injustice.
Socialism without freedom is slavery and brutality.

Re: Questions You Always Wanted To Ask... : Thu May 24, 2012 10:31 am  
cod'ead wrote:
Probably the closest you will now find to "old" French would be the patois spoken by Arcadians and Guernsey folk

I guess that depends on which of the French languages of old, is actually the "Old French" in question.
User avatar
RankPostsTeam
Player Coach11924
JoinedServiceReputation
Jan 15 200718 years192nd
OnlineLast PostLast Page
30th Nov 24 12:132nd Aug 24 21:02LINK
Milestone Posts
10000
15000
Milestone Years
0510 1520 2530
Location
Secret Hill Top Lair. V.2
Signature
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle.

Frederick Douglas

Re: Questions You Always Wanted To Ask... : Thu May 24, 2012 10:50 am  
Why is it that when driving along the motorway, if you happen to glance across at a driver in another vehicle they more often than not can tell your looking at them and will glance back?

This also happens if someone looks at me, I can sense someone looking at me and will look back.

Is this telepathy?
Dally 
User avatar
RankPostsTeam
International Chairman14845No
Team
Selected
JoinedServiceReputation
Dec 22 200123 yearsN/A
OnlineLast PostLast Page
23rd Oct 21 15:0122nd Jul 21 09:42LINK
Milestone Posts
10000
15000
Milestone Years
0510 1520 2530

Re: Questions You Always Wanted To Ask... : Thu May 24, 2012 10:55 am  
Mintball wrote:
There was a three-part comic documentary done by Eddie Izzard some years ago, Mongrel Nation, looking at the ethnic origins of the British.

Anyway, one of the segments had him going to Leicester University (IIRC) to learn to speak a little Old English. He then visited rural Holland and went in search of a farmer to ask to buy a cow from – using Old English. And that was an interesting way to show the links between English and Dutch.



... and of corse "Dutch" is basically the word the Germans use for their own language.
Dally 
User avatar
RankPostsTeam
International Chairman14845No
Team
Selected
JoinedServiceReputation
Dec 22 200123 yearsN/A
OnlineLast PostLast Page
23rd Oct 21 15:0122nd Jul 21 09:42LINK
Milestone Posts
10000
15000
Milestone Years
0510 1520 2530

Re: Questions You Always Wanted To Ask... : Thu May 24, 2012 10:57 am  
El Barbudo wrote:
Norman French ... like French, only different.
Most "French" people as we now know them didn't speak "French" as we now know it but spoke their own local language.

Well, they were Norman ... descended from Norsemen who "settled" in the fertile limestone area now known as Normandy.
To communicate with the Lord of the Manor you'd speak French but, out in the fields, English was still the lingua franca ( :) sorry), so a sheep, which is Schaff in German, a word brought here by the Angles (or Saxons, not sure which) out in the field became Mouton by the time it got to the Lord of the Manor's table.
As Dally mentioned, many of their words entered our language.
For many centuries if you wanted to show you were "educated" or sophisticated, you'd drop a few French words into your conversations, hence Shakespeare used French-speaking as a theatrical device to show how a character had ideas above his social station.

EDIT - Forgot to mention, as late as the 1790's, only about 12% of French people spoke what we now call French.


Mrs Dally in her younger day studied the Mediaeval literature of the Languedoc.
User avatar
RankPostsTeam
International Chairman32466No
Team
Selected
JoinedServiceReputation
Feb 26 200223 yearsN/A
OnlineLast PostLast Page
7th Aug 18 19:235th Aug 18 15:14LINK
Milestone Posts
30000
40000
Milestone Years
0510 1520 2530
Location
Leeds
Signature
Someday everything is gonna be different, When I paint my masterpiece
------------------------------------------------------
The Jerry Chicken Blog Page
------------------------------------------------------
BUY MY ART ONLINE AT ARTGALLERY.CO.UK

AT THE RIPPINGHAM GALLERY
....................................................................
ART PROFILE
...................................................................
On Twitter
...................................................................
On Facebook
...................................................................

Re: Questions You Always Wanted To Ask... : Thu May 24, 2012 11:08 am  
BackrowSaint wrote:
Sorry only just noticed you said 6 months, should be fine to add it in gradually over a few fill ups instead of wasting it. You're looking at about 12 months before you don't really want to put it in your car as it will effect performance.


:thumb: Thanks, I'll do that.
User avatar
RankPostsTeam
All Time Great47951No
Team
Selected
JoinedServiceReputation
May 10 200223 yearsN/A
OnlineLast PostLast Page
6th Aug 17 19:0327th Jul 17 17:56LINK
Milestone Posts
40000
50000
Milestone Years
0510 1520 2530
Location
Die Metropole
Signature
"You are working for Satan." Kirkstaller

"Dare to know!" Immanuel Kant

"Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive" Elbert Hubbard

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." Oscar Wilde

The Voluptuous Manifesto – thoughts on all sorts of stuff.

Re: Questions You Always Wanted To Ask... : Thu May 24, 2012 11:54 am  
Dally wrote:
... and of corse "Dutch" is basically the word the Germans use for their own language.


Indeed.

You can see the links really easily in just a few basic words.

So, for instance:

Milk - melk - milch.

Or

Thank you - dank u – danke.
Dally 
User avatar
RankPostsTeam
International Chairman14845No
Team
Selected
JoinedServiceReputation
Dec 22 200123 yearsN/A
OnlineLast PostLast Page
23rd Oct 21 15:0122nd Jul 21 09:42LINK
Milestone Posts
10000
15000
Milestone Years
0510 1520 2530

Re: Questions You Always Wanted To Ask... : Thu May 24, 2012 12:03 pm  
Mintball wrote:
Indeed.

You can see the links really easily in just a few basic words.

So, for instance:

Milk - melk - milch.

Or

Thank you - dank u – danke.


Yes, basically the everyday English words that the peasants used / still use are often Germanic and the long, fancy English fancy words often French (with in many cases exactly the same spelling).
User avatar
RankPostsTeam
Player Coach2359
JoinedServiceReputation
Nov 19 200519 yearsN/A
OnlineLast PostLast Page
11th Feb 21 20:013rd Feb 20 08:37LINK
Milestone Posts
1000
2500
Milestone Years
0510 1520 2530
Location
Marys Place, near the River, in Nebraska, Waitin' on A Sunny Day
Signature
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.

When you rescue a dog, you gain a heart for life.

Handle every situation like a dog. If you can't Eat it or Chew it. Pee on it and Walk Away.


"No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin. " Anuerin Bevan

Re: Questions You Always Wanted To Ask... : Thu May 24, 2012 12:10 pm  
Sandra The Terrorist wrote:
Why is it that when driving along the motorway, if you happen to glance across at a driver in another vehicle they more often than not can tell your looking at them and will glance back?

This also happens if someone looks at me, I can sense someone looking at me and will look back.

Is this telepathy?


And why do they instantly stop picking their nose when they glance? I know they were doing it, they know you know they were doing it, so why not carry on picking while glancing?
PreviousNext

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: Google [Bot] and 112 guests

REPLY

Subject: 
Message:
   
Please note using apple style emoji's can result in posting failures.
Use the FULL EDITOR to better format content or upload images, be notified of replies etc...

Return to The Sin Bin


RLFANS Recent Posts
FORUM
LAST
POST
TOPIC
POSTER
POSTS
14m
Film game
Boss Hog
5915
28m
ALL NEW 49ERS ERA LEEDS UTD THREAD
Trebor1
2641
59m
Mike Cooper podcast
matt_wire
21
Recent
Ground Improvements
vastman
242
Recent
Transfer chatter for 2025 - New Dec 1st tamper date
Irregs#16
8
Recent
NBR Does Smithers have a hangover
Deadcowboys1
11
Recent
Transfer Talk V5
Father Ted
550
FORUM
LAST
VIEW
TOPIC
POSTER
POSTS
1m
Sam Luckley likely to miss the beginning of new season
Huddersfield
1
1m
New signings
WelshGiant
13
1m
ALL NEW 49ERS ERA LEEDS UTD THREAD
Trebor1
2641
2m
Rumours and signings v9
NSW
28912
2m
Mike Cooper podcast
matt_wire
21
2m
Planning for next season
Septimius Se
190
3m
Transfer chatter for 2025 - New Dec 1st tamper date
Irregs#16
8
5m
Co-Captains for 2025
Vic Mackie
19
5m
Friendlies
Deadcowboys1
3
FORUM
NEW
TOPICS
TOPIC
POSTER
POSTS
TODAY
Sam Luckley likely to miss the beginning of new season
Huddersfield
1
TODAY
Frankie Halton sign new deal
Huddersfield
1
TODAY
Transfer chatter for 2025 - New Dec 1st tamper date
Irregs#16
8
TODAY
Trinity shop Sunday opening
phe13
1
TODAY
Tyler Craig
Wanderer
1
TODAY
Matty Ashurst testimonial dinner
Big lads mat
1
TODAY
2025 Squad Numbers
Jake the Peg
27
TODAY
England Women Las Vegas train-on squad
RLFANS News
1
TODAY
Quiz night
H.G.S.A
1
TODAY
Co-Captains for 2025
Vic Mackie
19
TODAY
Cornwall has a new owner
CM Punk
2
TODAY
Callum Shaw
Wanderer
1
TODAY
Squad Numbers
phe13
4
TODAY
Rhinos squad numbers
Rixy
1
TODAY
Squad numbers
Warrior Wing
8
TODAY
Mat Crowther pre season update
Dunkirk Spir
1
TODAY
Mike Cooper podcast
matt_wire
21
TODAY
Shirt reveal coming soon
Trojan Horse
50
TODAY
Opening Championship and League One Fixtures for 2025 Released
RLFANS News
1
NEWS ITEMS
VIEWS
RLFANS Match Centre
Matches on TV
Thu 13th Feb
SL
20:00
Wigan-Leigh
Fri 14th Feb
SL
20:00
Hull KR-Castleford
SL
20:00
Catalans-Hull FC
Sat 15th Feb
SL
15:00
Leeds - Wakefield
SL
17:30
St.Helens-Salford
Sun 16th Feb
SL
15:00
Huddersfield-Warrington
Thu 20th Feb
SL
20:00
Wakefield - Hull KR
Fri 21st Feb
SL
20:00
Warrington-Catalans
SL
20:00
Hull FC-Wigan
Sat 22nd Feb
SL
15:00
Salford-Leeds
SL
20:00
Castleford-St.Helens
Sun 23rd Feb
SL
14:30
Leigh-Huddersfield
Fri 28th Feb
SL
20:00
Huddersfield-Hull FC
SL
20:00
Hull KR-Salford
SL
20:00
Leigh-Catalans
Sat 1st Mar
SL
14:30
Wakefield - St.Helens
SL
21:30
Wigan-Warrington
Sun 2nd Mar
SL
15:00
Leeds-Castleford
Thu 6th Mar
SL
20:00
Hull FC-Leigh
Fri 7th Mar
SL
20:00
Castleford-Salford
This is an inplay table and live positions can change.
Mens Betfred Super League XXVIII ROUND : 1
 PLDFADIFFPTS
Wigan 29 768 338 430 48
Hull KR 29 731 344 387 44
Warrington 29 769 351 418 42
Leigh 29 580 442 138 33
Salford 28 556 561 -5 32
St.Helens 28 618 411 207 30
 
Catalans 27 475 427 48 30
Leeds 27 530 488 42 28
Huddersfield 27 468 658 -190 20
Castleford 27 425 735 -310 15
Hull FC 27 328 894 -566 6
LondonB 27 317 916 -599 6
This is an inplay table and live positions can change.
Betfred Championship 2024 ROUND : 1
 PLDFADIFFPTS
Wakefield 27 1032 275 757 52
Toulouse 26 765 388 377 37
Bradford 28 723 420 303 36
York 29 695 501 194 32
Widnes 27 561 502 59 29
Featherstone 27 634 525 109 28
 
Sheffield 26 626 526 100 28
Doncaster 26 498 619 -121 25
Halifax 26 509 650 -141 22
Batley 26 422 591 -169 22
Swinton 28 484 676 -192 20
Barrow 25 442 720 -278 19
Whitehaven 25 437 826 -389 18
Dewsbury 27 348 879 -531 4
Hunslet 1 6 10 -4 0
RLFANS Recent Posts
FORUM
LAST
POST
TOPIC
POSTER
POSTS
14m
Film game
Boss Hog
5915
28m
ALL NEW 49ERS ERA LEEDS UTD THREAD
Trebor1
2641
59m
Mike Cooper podcast
matt_wire
21
Recent
Ground Improvements
vastman
242
Recent
Transfer chatter for 2025 - New Dec 1st tamper date
Irregs#16
8
Recent
NBR Does Smithers have a hangover
Deadcowboys1
11
Recent
Transfer Talk V5
Father Ted
550
FORUM
LAST
VIEW
TOPIC
POSTER
POSTS
1m
Sam Luckley likely to miss the beginning of new season
Huddersfield
1
1m
New signings
WelshGiant
13
1m
ALL NEW 49ERS ERA LEEDS UTD THREAD
Trebor1
2641
2m
Rumours and signings v9
NSW
28912
2m
Mike Cooper podcast
matt_wire
21
2m
Planning for next season
Septimius Se
190
3m
Transfer chatter for 2025 - New Dec 1st tamper date
Irregs#16
8
5m
Co-Captains for 2025
Vic Mackie
19
5m
Friendlies
Deadcowboys1
3
FORUM
NEW
TOPICS
TOPIC
POSTER
POSTS
TODAY
Sam Luckley likely to miss the beginning of new season
Huddersfield
1
TODAY
Frankie Halton sign new deal
Huddersfield
1
TODAY
Transfer chatter for 2025 - New Dec 1st tamper date
Irregs#16
8
TODAY
Trinity shop Sunday opening
phe13
1
TODAY
Tyler Craig
Wanderer
1
TODAY
Matty Ashurst testimonial dinner
Big lads mat
1
TODAY
2025 Squad Numbers
Jake the Peg
27
TODAY
England Women Las Vegas train-on squad
RLFANS News
1
TODAY
Quiz night
H.G.S.A
1
TODAY
Co-Captains for 2025
Vic Mackie
19
TODAY
Cornwall has a new owner
CM Punk
2
TODAY
Callum Shaw
Wanderer
1
TODAY
Squad Numbers
phe13
4
TODAY
Rhinos squad numbers
Rixy
1
TODAY
Squad numbers
Warrior Wing
8
TODAY
Mat Crowther pre season update
Dunkirk Spir
1
TODAY
Mike Cooper podcast
matt_wire
21
TODAY
Shirt reveal coming soon
Trojan Horse
50
TODAY
Opening Championship and League One Fixtures for 2025 Released
RLFANS News
1
NEWS ITEMS
VIEWS


Visit the RLFANS.COM SHOP
for more merchandise!