Dia Duit.
>To tell you the truth, Cockney IS based on rhyming... virtually
>everything (a fact that keeps me on my knees), but sometimes they seem
>to omit the rhyming part of phrases to make their community even more
>clandestine and the slang comprehensible only for the initiated. I'm
>not an expert either but it's just a Lah-Di-Dah, just great, mate,
>when ya know what's goin' on on the Liza, not usin' my loaf so much.
>Gosh, I gotta the Newington Butts to say I don't know Scottish that
>much, San Toy.
Just as I am not proficent with making up rhymes for Cockney ;) so I'd rather not make a fool outta meself. To be honest, I'm not even good at Scottish. Know a Scotswoman, though. Gonna ask her for some help.
>1) Well, my school rocks and all high school students are so...
>donnish; I find their community quite clubby - alas and alack.
Eh, I'll tell you what: high school students are just... a little bigger children. They might seem 'clubby' to you, but after a year you actually know more than 1/2 of the students ;) and like at least as many of them.
And if you don't like 'donnish' communities (neither do I), then you might at least do sth about it ;) we (me an' me freins) actually spent the three years trying to make our school a little less stiff. The main problem was, quite unsurprisingly, the headmistress. She is to be changed next year, unfortunately her successor is even stronger 'party concrete'.
>Awww! You're to take the IB THAT IB Awww! Could you
>please tell me more about it? Is this very difficult? How about
>biology and chemistry? Well, I assume you're rather a vivid humanist
>but... By the way, what subjects did you choose?
1) As for the IB. I regret it. Only maths and Polish gave me a wee bit of knowledge and insight. The rest is bureauocracy, bureauocracy, bureauocracy. It's better to go to a 'normal' class and take an individual course of study from the subjects you are interested in.
2) Except maths, it's unnecessarily difficult, not because you learn difficult things but beause you have to guess what the examiners want from you :/ kinda dumb. Opportunists are favoured. One can get to top world universities even though he/she is a complete ignoramus.
3) As for maths HL, the programme is brilliant. It's actually normal maths + mathematical analysis - a subject from the first year of any technical university course. 6 hours a week. Yeah. We're absolute freaks and we know that 8)
As for maths SL - those who chose it are not too good at multiplying today ;) It absolutely sucks and is easy as pie.
4) I didn't choose biology or chemistry. Heard that they are rather difficult at HL, dunno about SL. [HL - higher level SL - subsidiary level]
5) I'm actually a 'tight mind' (re-translate it into Polish :) with a nagging notion to become a linguist :) I love Polish and English. Oh yes, and Irish Gaelic. And Norwegian. German is nice as well. Of course I do not know all of these ;) trying to learn them all the time, I hope that I can focus on it after the matex.
>4) All right then, but what if the smell wears off and you're left
>with nothing but a faint recollection of what it used to be?
Oh! But that's the best part of any fragrance! The moment when, after many years, you recollect an odour you had almost forgotten. Like the smells of your childhood.
>5) How you dare?:) What should I say, then? Wrought havoc in what I
>consider an "advanced level of English"
How dare I? Just speaking the truth, my English has deteriorated due to the impending doom of my maturity exam. I'll have to work on it in a month.
>6) No, I haven't watched Trainspotting (yet).
Ye should. And get Marillion's "Misplaced Childhood", listen to the track entitled "Bitter Suite". The vocalist is a Scotsman.
>I'm totally Jonathan Ross'd 'ere, all that Scottish stuff, Rob Roy.
>Kate Mossed, I say. U're 'avin a Jimmy, yeah? Got many pots, wish me
>friar tuck in my Gimnazjum-OJA I got tomorrow.
Friar Tuck then! I'm Senator McClure you'll win.
>
>I'll be traditional - take care!
I'll be Irish - U2.
>Pagina
M.