I have added a post to the Affinity forum thread, the post details my design rules that I have devised and use for designing abstract emoji-compatible characters.

William

Thank you, Joe. I was thinking of a cake at a 21st Birthday Party.

Is celebrating a 21st Birthday as in the Old Days gone now since the age of majority was lowered to 18?

To where has Youth vanished? Those seven years from when most left school to becoming legally an adult. Gradually eroded from both directions.

Those were were days when there were youth clubs when nobody over 21 could join but someone who was a member did not have to leave upon becoming 21. It was an era where often they would have a 21st party at the Youth Club then gradually drift away.

Do they still run or did changing the age of majority basically cause a cultural shift that people who were in the age range of 18 to 21 and legally adult thought differently from how people in the age range of 18 to 21 thought when people in the age range of 18 to 21 were not legally adults.

Are you over 21? Oh oh oh!

William

Hello Albert

I can not usually solve cryptic crossword puzzle either.

Solving them seems to rely on imprecise thinking.

My suggested clue is

ghoti before celebrating at a wedding reception served with chips and peas (8)

I remembered that the word ghoti was coined so as to be pronounced the same as fish.

gh as in cough

o as in women

ti as in action

before is so that fish is before something else

So four letters in total

Eight letters needed.

served with chips and peas is intended to indicate that the eight letter word is something served with chips and peas

So we need something about celebrating at a wedding reception

So eating, drinking, community singing, playing musical chairs, um ... er ...

Is it fishmusicalchairs, no, that is more than eight letters!

Ah!

Reading out telegrams? No

Best man's speech?

First dance?

Oh,

So what could it be?

However, I am unfamiliar with rules and conventions for constructing cryptic crossword clues, so maybe my suggested clue crashes!

William

Thank you for providing the link.

Actually, the message was not from the French king.

William

Who is supposed to have demanded what?

William

This episode, from 1953, has as the celebrity guest Eleanor Roosevelt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ew82Ae_N9g

I have watched a number of episodes of the American What's My Line from that era, and usually when the people of the panel shake hands with the visitors, the males stand, and the females remain seated.

Of the episodes that I have watched, this is the only one where the females of the panel stood to shake hands, and only for Mrs Roosevelt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_Roosevelt

William

With Welsh I am only on the present tense thus far.

Interestingly the word for 'black' is du, which can soft mutate to ddu.

The word for cat in Welsh is cath.

I noticed that in Welsh, cath is grammatically feminine, whereas in French, the French word for cat, namely chat, is grammatically masculine.

Alfred, do you know Gaelic?

There is a Duolingo course for Gaelic.

Here is a link to a page with the list of available courses.

https://www.duolingo.com/courses

They changed the structure recently.

I don't know how it is now, but when I started one could do the first lesson without registering, but one needed to register to continue.

But it is free. One point, there is a profile, which was, maybe still is, default public, but one can easily make it private.

William

I have just listened again several times and I make it that they used the first sixteen notes. I do not know how that relates to bars.

William

The page has the following.

> 404 Page
> This is not the page you are looking for

If one reads it newsreader style then there we go.

But if one reads it in a different style ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihyjXd2C-E8

William