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Firenze
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Or porringers (of which I find the quaich to be an instance).
Coffee (minus dairy), orange juice, toast, butter, marmite are to be had. Soups and sandwiches - mostly, but who is going to miss the bit of soggy green between the bacon and tomato? For dinner, abundance of chicken and beef and pork and, if we're content to wait a bit, mutton. The roots are present - potato, carrot, parsnip, onion (and what is missing won't be missed by the westward nation that doesn't exist).
We must make do with cucumber in our G&T and the mohito is no more but them's the knocks.
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Ariel
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Dishes are an option. There are knives, forks and spoons, but water has to be heated in a pot on the stove and you can't get out of washing up.
And you have to hope that your rubbish is taken away, which must now be at infrequent, odd times, as the rota for doing so at fixed times during a month can't be a rota any more.
Christmas can continue to happen, the customary foods can be served with the exception of pudding, there can even be a decorated tree (without shiny strands) but you can't go to church for a Christmas song service. You have to go just for the mince pies and forego the hot spiced booze.
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LeRoc
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I'm going to need a big quantity of booze, because my adopted country doesn't exist anymore ![[Waterworks]](graemlins/bawling.gif)
(And what *are* the inhabitants of this country going to do in February??)
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Originally posted by Ariel:
There are knives, forks and spoons, but water has to be heated in a pot on the stove and you can't get out of washing up.
You can use a dishwasher even so, can't you?
Although I suppose you do need a new kind of soap to put in the dishwasher together with the dirty things to remove the dirt. You need a new kind of soap for the sink to remove the dirt in the sink too.
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jedijudy
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Today, my fair state does not exist. I guess that's OK, since a great amount of rain has descended from the sky. The ground is sinking, or appears to do so, under the knee deep and rising waters. Which reminds me that the Good Book is missing some stories that recount great rains, trees of knowing, and the Sea where Jesus hung out.
Is the missing character gone for good?
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Schroedinger's cat
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Detergent provides the washing options, I think. But on most concern to me is missing a room for human waste disposing.
I presume in February we might make do with an eap day, or just an extended month.
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Sipech
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Originally posted by Schroedinger's cat:
But on most concern to me is missing a room for human waste disposing.
What's wrong with a bog, WC, powder room (or gents'), khazi or pissoir? Just don't opt for the Americanism of bathroom.
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North East Quine
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Christmas can continue to happen, the customary foods can be served with the exception of pudding, there can even be a decorated tree (without shiny strands) but you can't go to church for a Christmas song service. You have to go just for the mince pies and forego the hot spiced booze.
Rejoice! No more services centred on oranges skewered with toothpicks and decorated with ribbons and sweeties!
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Banner Lady
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But I can have Evensong instead. Even in the far antipodes, in the country of Oz (or Austraya ) I may keep my worship habits. Prayer and praise continues, as do works of mercy and compassion. I can take communion but must stand in the somewhat emptier sanctuary. The eucharist can be given by cup and paten, but not from a tab*le or a*tar. What must we use? And what of sa*vation?
We may not study theo*ogy any more. 0r any o*ogy for that matter. Universities abound but not schoo*s. Where can I go for education? And what subjects remain?
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Ariel
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You could study French, German, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Chinese or Ancient Greek; history, geography, physics, chemistry or mathematics. They might have to be intensive weekend or evening courses.
How cars can move without round things or any of that substance you have to pour into them is anybody's guess. Maybe hoverboards are the shape of the future. Or we go back to riding horses.
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North East Quine
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How cars can move without ...any of that substance you have to pour into them is anybody's guess.
Ship them to America where they can run on gas.
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Schroedinger's cat
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You can have God the Father, Jesus the Son and the Spirit (albeit not so set apart), so what more do you need?
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Sipech
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Originally posted by Schroedinger's cat:
You can have God the Father, Jesus the Son and the Spirit (albeit not so set apart), so what more do you need?
I suppose the god of those sometimes referred to as Mohammedeans is reduced to an expression of anguish and the spaghetti monster is grounded.
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Rev per Minute
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Originally posted by Uncle Pete:
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Originally posted by Rev per Minute:
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Once posted by Rev per Minute:
There are no separatist movements in Great Britain as the four nations of the UK do not exist, nor does the northern province of the western part of the separate land masses to the north-west of Europe.
My mistake - Cymru continues, as it has since the Romans, and so does Eíre.
What is this "*and mass" of which you speak?
Groan... ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
Perhaps I meant the areas of ground above the see which are not as massive as the masses next to them ![[Help]](graemlins/help.gif)
And you, Pete, may be my father's brother but you may not use the description which you have used above...
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Ariel
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Originally posted by Rev per Minute:
Perhaps I meant the areas of ground above the see which are not as massive as the masses next to them
Mm yes. How might one get to them? The country of Eireann is a bit out on its own and the UK is cut off from Europe. Boats can't boat across, aircraft can't aircraft their way, there are no trains, and you can't drive.
Having said that, I suppose you could row, or punt across if the weather was decent. If you had the physique, you might even swim.
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Schroedinger's cat
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I am most concerned about Cymru which, though continuing to exist, has been deprived of the majority of its towns and cities.
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North East Quine
Curious beastie
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Scotia retains Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Inverness, Perth and Dundee. The Dear Green Place is toast, though.
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Jengie jon
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I am just going to go back to inverted typewriter ski11s. It is easy for those of a certain age.
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Ariel
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Originally posted by Schroedinger's cat:
I am most concerned about Cymru which, though continuing to exist, has been deprived of the majority of its towns and cities.
Cardiff, Swansea, Carmarthen, Aberystwyth, Newport and the Brecon Beacons can be visited and indeed by train or car. You might have to catch the ferry to Eireann or Mann from some other departure point, though.
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jedijudy
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It's strange that some of the spectrum shades have disappeared. The ones near indigo are my very favorites, and the one with which buttercups are tinted (between orange and green) are gone! This is sad. What can we do? Are there to be great gaping spaces in rainbows?
My home and car are now without tint. You might not think it's devastating, but how am I to know which is my house?
Those missing characters are sneaky, and are trying to escape into this post.
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Drifting Star
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In fact Cymru does keep every one of its cities - Bangor, Cardiff, Newport, St Davids, St Asaph and Swansea remain open for business.
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Schroedinger's cat
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First posted by Drifting Star:
In fact Cymru does keep every one of its cities - Bangor, Cardiff, Newport, St Davids, St Asaph and Swansea remain open for business.
That may prove fortunate as there are very few shrunken towns remaining.
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Cottontail
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Originally posted by Drifting Star:
In fact Cymru does keep every one of its cities - Bangor, Cardiff, Newport, St Davids, St Asaph and Swansea remain open for business.
But the famous station on Ynys Môn, with its extensive fifty-eight character name, has ceased to be. On ten-and-one counts, indeed.
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LeRoc
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But I think that the Ll continues? It's a different character.
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Ariel
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No. You just typed that with two of the ordinary ones, no? There's no dedicated key for that combo on the keyboard.
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Drifting Star
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An interesting point. A Cymraeg keyboard with a separate key for [that double lettered character] might render it in the correct manner. An ordinary keyboard trying to type in Cymraeg, however, cannot function.
[ 31. January 2016, 18:11: Message edited by: Drifting Star ]
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Leorning Cniht
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Originally posted by LeRoc:
But I think that the Ll continues? It's a different character.
Whether or not it continues, you can't write the name of the bishop and son of Powys's king whose church is commemorated towards the end of the name of excessive size.
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Ariel
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Originally posted by Drifting Star:
A Cymraeg keyboard with a separate key for [that double *ettered character]
For what?
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LeRoc
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For the ỻ.
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Banner Lady
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It must, I am certain, even up society as we know it, for there can be no tit*es conferred and no meda*s given. My awards are safe, and I guess so is the crown, for we may continue to have a queen. I can go to the doctor, but not a *awyer or a so*icitor. I guess that means more money in the bank for the average person. And that horrid word 'norma*' has gone for good.
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Ariel
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Originally posted by LeRoc:
For the ỻ.
Whatever that is doesn't show on my screen. It's just a square.
Ife wi return to norma at some point soon, I'm sure.
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LeRoc
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I guess you don't have the Cymraeg font on your computer.
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BroJames
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Originally posted by Banner Lady:
I can go to the doctor, but not a *awyer or a so*icitor.
Courts remain, advocates, barristers attorneys, judges and magistrates. So may be not so much extra money in the pocket after all.
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ArachnidinElmet
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oh no, disaster! Does this mean we have nothing but consonants? And then just 20 of them. Future message may have to be made from emoticons. ![[Eek!]](eek.gif) ![[Ultra confused]](graemlins/confused2.gif) ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Ann
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This reminds me of a book I read a few years ago.
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The Intrepid Mrs S
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Or 'The Thirteen Clocks and the Wonderful O', by the equally wonderful James Thurber ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
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Hedgehog
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Originally posted by ArachnidinElmet:
oh no, disaster! Does this mean we have nothing but consonants? And then just 20 of them. Future message may have to be made from emoticons.
I don't think you can use that third emoticon...
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LeRoc
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Hedgehog: I don't think you can use that third emoticon...
Ooh good one! I hadn't spotted that.
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Drifting Star
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Originally posted by Ariel:
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Originally posted by Drifting Star:
A Cymraeg keyboard with a separate key for [that double *ettered character]
For what?
Where the deficient character is used twice in succession, as it often is in Cymraeg, the two characters represent a separate character.
See this connecty thing.
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ArachnidinElmet
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Originally posted by Hedgehog:
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Originally posted by ArachnidinElmet:
oh no, disaster! Does this mean we have nothing but consonants? And then just 20 of them. Future message may have to be made from emoticons.
I don't think you can use that third emoticon...
Dagnamit, you're right.
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Originally posted by Hedgehog:
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Originally posted by ArachnidinElmet:
oh no, disaster! Does this mean we have nothing but consonants? And then just 20 of them. Future message may have to be made from emoticons.
I don't think you can use that third emoticon...
And I count just 19 consonants because I think you have to drop the one near the end with the appearance of two V's stuck together.
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Ariel
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Originally posted by ArachnidinElmet:
oh no, disaster! Does this mean we have nothing but consonants? And then just 20 of them.
Where did the "nothing but consonants" come from? We're missing just one.
In any case, it won't be much different to txtspk, which continues to be in fashion, so I'm sure we can work round it if it happens.
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LeRoc
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Ariel:Where did the "nothing but consonants" come from? We're missing just one.
What is the name of the things we use to write with but which are not consonants?
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Ariel
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The point of this thread was to focus on one missing consonant. I'm asking how the Arachnid got from that to the idea of "there won't be anything but consonants".
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LeRoc
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There won't be any vo…
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Darnit. I don't *ike it. I appreciate the humour there.
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Schroedinger's cat
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If you wisp, you can tawk as normaw. Awthough you wiww sound very babyish.
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