Attacks in Paris

Oh! 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

All clear now.

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.

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.

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

POGS yes, got it now
I should have realised

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

Granjura

Are you talking to me in your post 15.29. .

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

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!

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Yes it was.

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

Naughty corner for you rosesarered

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'.

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?

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

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

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!

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.

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!!)

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

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

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.

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

Ignore my last post as it seems irrelevant now.