moonraker wrote:As for text messages, I'm with you. I put in every apostrophe, comma and full stop! I can't stand txtspk!
Eh? You put in EVRY comma, apostrophe and full stop? Fibber! If you would take a look at all the texts you sent me, you will see at lest five of them are full of words like "yr" "C U L8er"!!
moose and Kitty: Do try reading some of Enid's 'stand alone' novels: If you havent read many of them then you really are missing out on some of Enid's best writing.
Tony: Yes, I'm busily working out what I can write about 'The Hidey Hole'. Lets face it, there isnt much plot to disect! But it WAS Enid's last full-length work of fiction, so it can't be over looked! I'll try...
'Oh voice of Spring of Youth
hearts mad delight,
Sing on, sing on, and when the sun is gone
I'll warm me with your echoes
through the night.'
moonraker wrote:
As for text messages, I'm with you. I put in every apostrophe, comma and full stop! I can't stand txtspk!
Oh, Amen to that too - I agree 100%! And never mind not being able to stand it - sometimes I can't even understand it!! Embarrassingly, my mother gets it all, and abbreviates and substitutes with ease - I ought to buy an English-Text dictionary or something!
Oh, gosh, there's loads, thank you - now I actually know what some things that have been puzzling me for ages mean (And I now also know that, unlike Pip, I am not a good guesser, and my translations have often been pretty randomly bad!)!!
Moonraker - there might not be an emoticon for a grumpy old man but there is a whole programme not to mention several books devoted to you - oops sorry, slip of the tongue - grumpy old men (and women, of which I am one!).
A woman is like a tea bag - you never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water
moonraker wrote:P'raps we should text each other, Kitty. Who needs an online dictionary to communicate!
I was amazed at all those abbreviations - it truly must be like learning another language!!! I should have been a character in an 18th century novel - one of those ones composed entirely of voluminous letters.... Mind you, there's probably someone "translating" Samuel Richardson into text speak as we type!
If Enid was alive today, she would hate this world of text speak, and mobile phones.
I`m sure her earlier work was all done in longhand without a spell checker in sight
Gee - this is a difficult question - no book really jumps out to me as being my least favourite. I prefer reading the novels to short stories - but I still like the short stories. And I do't mind Noddy. Maybe I don't have a least favourite
I was amazed at all those abbreviations - it truly must be like learning another language!!! I should have been a character in an 18th century novel - one of those ones composed entirely of voluminous letters.... Mind you, there's probably someone "translating" Samuel Richardson into text speak as we type!
