"English as mother tongue" members
Posted by: Edouard S. on 17 November 2004
A thread having been started to compliment the writing skills of members whose mother tongue is not English, I think it only appropriate to start one about the writing skills of the English native speakers on this forum.
As long as we are in self-congratulation mode, might as well go all the way !
Seriously, though, I know that I am constantly impressed with the quality of the writing on this forum. That alone makes my time spent on it worthwhile.
I am relatively new here, so I definitely do not know about all the members, much less remember all the names of the ones whose writing skills have delighted me, as there are so many of them, so why don't we start a list ?
My first entries :
Steven Toy
Tom Alves
Adam Meredith (hey, it never hurts to suck-up !)
Edouard S.
[This message was edited by Edouard S. on Wed 17 November 2004 at 19:35.]
As long as we are in self-congratulation mode, might as well go all the way !
Seriously, though, I know that I am constantly impressed with the quality of the writing on this forum. That alone makes my time spent on it worthwhile.
I am relatively new here, so I definitely do not know about all the members, much less remember all the names of the ones whose writing skills have delighted me, as there are so many of them, so why don't we start a list ?
My first entries :
Steven Toy
Tom Alves
Adam Meredith (hey, it never hurts to suck-up !)
Edouard S.
[This message was edited by Edouard S. on Wed 17 November 2004 at 19:35.]
quote:
Originally posted by JonR:
I still have my Aiwa tape deck...
I used to religiously tape any organ music on R3 on my sub-£100 Aiwa tape deck. Though I'm really an agnostic (going on New Heathen) at heart. (I don't want anyone getting the wrong idea!)
I would always refuse to stand up for the ubiquitous prayer at cathedral organ recitals. A bit of a radical in my time, eh?
Though I always dropped a few coppers into the collection plate just in case it went to the organist. I was never quite sure of their financial footing and I'd read some Dickens in my youth!
It was always fascinating to catch the odd snatch of conversation between the regular stalwarts. Though there were never crowds on the scale of half-decent rock concerts.
I particularly liked the: "He missed a note there, you know!" This, from a very elderly gentleman with a hearing aid. Clutching the score to Bach's "Contraction and Fudge" (in A minor) to his waistcoated and be-watched bosom.
Nime
Or, Tom, to take things even further downmarket, Alan Partridge's favoured hi-fi brand, Alba; or Hinari, or even Saisho (psuedo-Far Eastern brand stocked exclusively by Dixons)
Kevin
Kevin
quote:
Originally posted by Kevin-W:
Or, Tom, to take things even further downmarket, Alan Partridge's favoured hi-fi brand, Alba; or Hinari, or even Saisho (psuedo-Far Eastern brand stocked exclusively by Dixons)
Kevin
Yes, but those may be too obscure for most people to get it. Why not just settle on Sanyo or, maybe better yet, Roadstar ?
Edouard S.