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Attacks in Paris

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LyndaW Fri 13-Nov-15 21:38:34

Watching the news and there have been 2 separate incidents in Paris (one explosion near a football ground and one shoot out at a restaurant.). 4 dead so far. So awful. What is happening?

rosequartz Thu 19-Nov-15 15:11:52

Oh! blush Thank you Ana

I thought, as I hadn't seen djen for a while she had refrained because she had been called those names.
And I was wondering why she had been invited to the Australian High Commission confused

All clear now.

POGS Thu 19-Nov-15 15:17:54

rose quartz.

That's because they didn't call Durhamjen names.

Adam Hills is a presenter on the Last Leg who was at one time amusing to watch but like so many when they become 'a celebrity' they think a lot of themselves and opinionated.

His comments were pretty tame and didn't offer much of a solution did they.

granjura Thu 19-Nov-15 15:26:44

Alea- no, there is no loss in translation- I am aware that Great is used in a different sense, but it still makes me shudder every time. Stop it, please.

POGS, yes I have often asked myself- and as said I came to the conclusion it probably was.

I am a Post war baby, and was indeed born in the relative safety of Switzerland, as you well know. It doesn't stop me asking myself, and others, the question.

granjura Thu 19-Nov-15 15:29:01

I suppose I could change my name, as you did- to try and stop your constant attacks.

rosequartz Thu 19-Nov-15 15:31:30

POGS yes, got it now blush
I should have realised

Oh dear, time to go and have a refreshing brew I think

POGS Thu 19-Nov-15 15:33:57

Granjura

Are you talking to me in your post 15.29. .

granjura Thu 19-Nov-15 15:42:05

No Pogs, not at all. Anyhow, I would never change names- as some have done several times (against Forum rules)- but it is tempting.

rosequartz Thu 19-Nov-15 15:52:29

Anyhow, I would never change names- as some have done several times (against Forum rules)- but it is tempting.

You used to be juragran. Now you're granjura
A quote from another thread!

Perhaps it was a typing error granjura, and no I'm not getting at you, I just thought it was funny!
I have been tempted to try to change my name on several occasions myself!

granjura Thu 19-Nov-15 15:58:21

well if that was a deliberate attempt at changing name, rather than a typing error after a long absence- it would have been pretty dumb no! (lol).

Those who have changed names, some again and again- were very careful to change to very different names indeed. Style and content does always prevail and 'out' people anyhow. Leopard and its spots, and all that.

POGS Thu 19-Nov-15 16:00:01

I was confused as I have never changed my user name.

Actually I didn't have a clue if you were a post war baby or not.

rosesarered Thu 19-Nov-15 16:24:13

Whaaaaaaaat? This has become a very, ahem, senior type of thread.grin

TriciaF Thu 19-Nov-15 16:31:34

Pogs - why do you ask about being a "postwar baby"?
I was born in 1936 and remember a lot about WW2. It was such an anxious 6 years, much loved fathers etc out there fighting real evil. Maybe it hardened many of us who experienced it, even if we weren't actually fighting.
I think I sometimes come across as too tough and outspoken as a result.

Alea Thu 19-Nov-15 16:56:09

It was called the Great War because it was so big, involving so many countries and went on for so long, not because anyone thought it was actually 'great' as in wonderful granjura lost in translation

Non mea culpa.

I think you will find that suggestion of a loss in translation was from rosesarered

rosesarered Thu 19-Nov-15 17:00:40

Yes it was.smile

rosesarered Thu 19-Nov-15 17:03:14

Being Swiss, I could not be sure if granjura understood the use of the word great.

Alea Thu 19-Nov-15 17:06:36

Naughty corner for you rosesarered wink

granjura Thu 19-Nov-15 17:23:30

Roses- after 39 years in the UK and with a British Degree in Modern languages and many years as a translator- yes I do, thanks (I know you meant no harm) - and yet, it always struck me as a shocking and unfortunate adjective to use, due to its more modern interpretation. It certainly confused out grandson (who is indeed grand in so many ways), and he did aks when he was about 6 why that war was called 'Great'.

jinglbellsfrocks Thu 19-Nov-15 17:24:19

Oh, so you didn't go off in a huff and then come back with a slightly different name in the hope that no one noticed gj? grin

granjura Thu 19-Nov-15 17:46:06

lol no- that namechange would have been pretty stupid- don't you think jingl wink

merlotgran Thu 19-Nov-15 17:47:57

So if I come back as GranMerlot everyone will assume I'm having an extra large one. grin

Ana Thu 19-Nov-15 18:04:47

Despite your '39 years in the UK and with a British Degree in Modern languages and many years as a translator' there do seem to be certain English words that you have trouble with, granjura...and then want to insist that we don't use them! hmm

The Great War has been known as such for a lot longer than any of us has been alive, and if I want to refer to it as that I shall.

nigglynellie Thu 19-Nov-15 18:10:55

I have no problem with WW1 being referred to as The Great War, any more than the Great Fire or The Great Plague, or The kings Great Matter in the 16th century! it just means gigantic, enormous, vast, all consuming. The alternative meaning of Great, is a relatively new interpretation, as a definition of this word and has nothing to do with the original meaning of 'Great' when it was first applied to WW1 by grandparents(ours!!)

jinglbellsfrocks Thu 19-Nov-15 18:13:56

Well, how did it get changed round then? confused You can't do that with just a typing error.

Sorry to go on about it, but it's weird!

Anya Thu 19-Nov-15 18:18:04

There are those Muslims who wish for a non-violent approach to a global caliphate and who are taking steps to achieve their stated aim. This actually frightens me more than the neoliths of IS - if that isn't an insult to neolithic man.

Anya Thu 19-Nov-15 18:20:45

Oops I've missed out a page and the discussion is now on name changing.

Ignore my last post as it seems irrelevant now.