A Mark In Time
Mark Knopfler Discussion => Mark Knopfler Discussion Forum => Topic started by: Fieneke2 on October 31, 2008, 10:28:28 PM
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The last weeks have been very stressful for me and it makes me very tired! I tried to relax, but that was hard because when one problem was almost solved the other came, especial at work! :( I don
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Fieneke - I am so sorry that you are not feeling your usual happy self at the moment. I hope we can find some things to make you feel better! ;D I think there are a lot of worrying things happening at the moment for everyone, due to the world economic situation and that makes people feel under stress, plus it can feel a bit gloomy for those of us who are going into winter.
I can't do much about the economy, but I have been listening to a lot of the concerts I downloaded of the KTGC tour and that brings back many happy memories. :) (I hope we will have another one soon - Maarten?) The forum(s) have also been very quiet lately so we need some funny, drooly threads to get us through winter! (Gayle?) Please keep posting, Fieneke, we need your unique sense of humour at the moment! ;D I hope you will feel better very soon! Val
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Val, I think once this hairball election is over with, the Americans at least will feel more inclined to get silly in the threads again...if I never heard another thing political as long as I lived it would be too soon. Plus, of course, as you said, the monetary/economic issue...it's enough to drive people crazy. Levity, levity, levity! Somebody start a joke thread! (Nothing offensive, obviously.)
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if all goes well joe brown will be up tonight val
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Thanks Maarten, I look forward to that! :)
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Quote Val: "Please keep posting, Fieneke, we need your unique sense of humour at the moment! I hope you will feel better very soon! Val"
Thank you dear friend! :-* I received your mail and will respond it asap!
Today I have been busy with a biography of Mark and because I want to add video's, I was forced to watch many, many Youtube video's! :P .........That was a good medicin already and I hope to finish and post it this week at my site!
Jacki, you are right! I hope you feel well again too after your surgery! :-*
Fieneke
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I wrote a little parody of Industrial Disease a while back and sent it to some of the editors, does anyone still have it in their inbox? Seems it would be appropriate for this thread.
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I'd love to read that dusty!
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Hi Fieneke
Hope this week goes better for you. I spent sometime this weekend looking for grammatical mistakes in MK liner notes. I finally found the 'its' problem in KTGC, but along the way it forced me to read MK's little songs a bit closer and a couple of songs where I had focused on the music now make more sense ;D
Best wishes :)
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jsd, did you find the other typo though?
I've been reading the lyrics too and found it very interesting to be concentrating on them without listening to the music. I'm off to read all the sleeve notes from the beginning!'
(edited to correct the spelling of beginning, thanks jsd. I have no excuse, only lazyness)
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I found the "its" mistake in "Behind with the Rent" and another mistake in "Punish the Monkey" - second verse, second line "Are you going to to pretend", but it's really I typo, I think.
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Yes, third stanza, first line of Behind with the Rent "This crumpet's past it's sell-by-date" should be - its.
Now, how did I miss the 'to to' in Punish the Monkey? But I think those are probably the mistakes the person on Guy's forum was talking about, unless there is a third?
I know next time if I see anything I'll be posting it right away and I'm sure I won't be the only one. I'll also have to rib Guy about misspelling the name of Canada's capital city. ;)
'beginning' Rollergirl - I am so much better at seeing other people's mistakes :P
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I'm afraid Guy made another mistake on 2nd November replying to Al "it's design......." I'll let him off though, because he's so good to us! ;)
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Quote jsd: "Hope this week goes better for you"
Thank you jsd, that is very nice of you! :-*
Quote Val: "I'll let him off though, because he's so good to us!"
I agree with that Val! Guy is a sweetheart or do I have to say a darling? Sometimes I am not sure which word I should choose! ;D
I read about the "its or it's" word! My spelling sometimes gives me the its and sometimes the it's word! I don't know why, but I thought it might depend on which place in the sentence it stands, or which subject it has to do with! My grammar in English isn't so good, but I thought when you mean to say "it is" that you have to write "it's" ! ;D
Please correct me if necessary! ;)
Fieneke
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You are correct, Fieneke! ;D
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Fieneke, you're right. When you are contracting "it is," then it's "it's."
The confusion, I think, comes because many people know sometimes you use an apostrophe to denote possessives, such as "Fieneke's last post." But that doesn't work in the case of "its" because that is already possessive, as in "the cat licked its paw."
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Inappropriate use of apostrophes gets on my tit's.
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ROFL!!! ;D :o ;D
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Inappropriate use of apostrophes gets on my tit's. ;)
:o ::) ;D
Thank you ladies! :-*
You know having another language, I and many other people from abroad try to do our best and want to use the right words and the " or ' etc! ;D........We might sometimes use wrong words or spelling, but then I know you all will understand, or even ask to explain or correct us. That is what friends are for and that is why I feel safe to post here, at MKnews, the forum of my USA friends and of course at my own forum at Audiocandy! ;)
I remember the time when I joined internet almost 8 years ago and started to read at a forum of an USA TV program I liked to watch! I had English lessons for a few years at school, but that was about 24 years ago!! After reading I tried to write a bit at their forum and often needed my dictionary for ALL the difficult words and the right spelling! It took much time, but because friends of that site encouraged me and helped me when something wasn
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Fieneke - You have absolutely no need to worry about your English at all! You write and understand English so well that I honestly forget that English is not your first language! I feel exactly the same about all the other people on this forum for whom English is not their first language too. You all put me to shame because I have been learning German for a few years now and know how difficult it is to speak and understand a foreign language and I have great admiration for you all. I actually think that a lot of English speakers are worse at spelling and grammar! ::)
I'm glad to hear the fun is returning, Fieneke. :D
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I absolutely admire everyone who can speak, read or write in more than one language.
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I absolutely admire everyone who can speak, read or write in more than one language.
Ah thanks knopfling 8),
I'm Irish but I speak fluent English ;) ;) ;)
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Forums are a great way to learn English, that's so true. Although back in the 80s, when I was learning English, there was no internet. Guess how I learnt English? At school yes but my best teacher was MK. I spent hours with a dictionary trying to understand the words of DS songs... Thanks Mr K!
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Waterline Man -- I admire you!
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Thank you for your compiment Val and Knopfling! ;)
Waterline Man, just a question. Do you speak English in Ireland or is it different and a kind of dialect? ???
I ask this because in my country we have many dialects too! I live in the beautiful province Drenthe and we speak the Drents dialect. When we talk it sometimes is difficult for other people to understand exactly what we say..........Uuuhhh I think Ingrid can confirm that! ;D Of course it is hard for us to understand the dialect of the people in the Southern or Western part of our country! And imagine the people of the province Friesland have their own language. When they talk, it is even more difficult then the English language! ;D .............Of course when we have a conversation with people who don't understand the Drents dialect, we speak normal Dutch! ;)
Fieneke
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The dominant language here is English,but we also have "gaeilge" which is our own language but this is only spoken in some of the "gaeltacht" areas of the country which there are about 5 or 6? The Irish language is taught in the schools & forms part of the curriculume & people send their kids off to the gaeltacht areas during the summer for a few weeks to learn it.All the road signs here would have the Irish & English version on them, something similar to the Welsh dialect. .
You would probably have to go to rural Ireland to hear it spoken though as it wouldnt be common practice to hear it in the cities.