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This was, I think, before blueberries became poplular, and I have a vague memory of mashed potatoes with added food colouring being suggested.
I can’t think of any naturally blue food apart from blueberries and bilberries, and even they aren’t very blue on either the outside or the inside.
Thanks, Jack. Well worth watching!
if it gets in there
That doesn’t seem to be an “if”, now!
does it ever get out … ?
A good question, but perhaps not easily answered unless the test subjects are willing to participate in a long-term study.
Wow. (Too) interesting!
I was meaning within the word 'ironically'.
Ooh, there are two in there!
Actually I missed "Multi " from in front of "vitamin" rather than miss off an "s".
Maybe it’s just me, but I would still say “Multivitamin and mineral tablet” rather than “Multivitamin and minerals tablet”.
Did you notice the abbreviated name of a second metal?
Not until you prompted me to look, whereupon I found one in the word “preFer”.
I’ve never seen soya drink that’s only fortified with calcium. There’s always vitamin D, riboflavin (vitamin B2) and vitamin B12, too.
Organic soya drink seems to lack all of the above.
No. Tofu is bean curd, formed by coagulation of soybeans, whereas soya drink isn’t (or shouldn’t be!) curdled.
"I prefer a vitamin and minerals tablet daily", he said ironically.
Very good, William, but why vitamin (singular) and minerals (plural)?
It took me a minute or two before I understood the “unbelievingly” example!
By the way, the way that the forum has displayed the sequence of three links can give the impression that I have put the same link twice by mistake, yet that is not the case, there are three documents.
If you type or paste a URL on its own, it will be displayed in full if short enough or with an ellipsis in place of a string of characters near the end if it’s too long. However, you can provide your own display text if you wish to determine how the link will appear in your posted message; for example, instead of typing
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/localizable_sentences_the_novel_author_note_after_chapter_081.pdfor
[url]http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/localizable_sentences_the_novel_author_note_after_chapter_081.pdf[/url]you can type
[url=http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/localizable_sentences_the_novel_author_note_after_chapter_081.pdf]Author note after chapter 81[/url]The latter will look like this when previewed or posted:
"She stood and looked", or "she is standing and is looking". Not "she stood and is looking". Maybe she looked as if she was standing.
I'm just sat sitting here, not stood standing. I can't stand sitting too long.
William is imagining Angela in the present, not the past.
The phrase “I can imagine Angela standing there” doesn’t tell me anything about whether it’s past, present, or future!
I can imagine Angela stood there
There you go again!
“I can imagine that Angela stood there”
Better now?
More Tom Swifty examples here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Swifty#Examples
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangramme
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangramma
Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera!
Actually, the French one includes a section entitled Exemples de pangrammes dans d'autres langues and the Italian one includes a section entitled Pangrammi in altre lingue, so that’s pretty good coverage right there.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangramme
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangramma
Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera!
The one and only Dale Cook has a tutorial here https://community.serif.com/tutorials/d … s-pageplus
Are such useful tutorials really going to disappear when CommunityPlus closes?? Perhaps they can be preserved for posterity by printing to PDF.
"Do you know what time it is?"
"Yes", she answered laconically.
That sounds like the kind of answer I might give.
Can you amuse us by informing us of the questions and the nonsensical answers please?
Given the above, I suppose I could just say “Yes”! However, I shall indulge you on this occasion. They were just hoary old chestnuts like
Question: What is the capital of France?
Answer: F
There were other things such as simple sums that didn’t add up, but I can’t remember the exact details now.
Didn't know what a Pangram was, or assonance.
I’ve known about pangrams for very many years, but I had to make an educated guess about which of the three choices was most likely to be the description of assonance.
PS Why does one need to register - did I do it previously? I seem to be able to post without it.
You registered, rather painlessly, when you first began using the site, providing little (if anything) more than your preferred username and an email address. When I started getting a few spam signups I enabled a set of questions (e.g. ‘What is the capital of France?’) and a feature that means you have to reply to a verification email, but spambots were able to get through even when I set nonsensical answers to the questions, so I silently disabled registration for short periods while I tried to identify a reliable method of control.
An easy quiz: I scored 5/6. (The ‘Tom Swifty’ question struck me as a poor example, and I didn’t give the expected answer.)
I used the exclamation mark deliberately. Although it was a question it was more a surprised and indignant exclamation in tone. Sort of more like an interrobang type thing of both question and exclamation at the same time.
Nevertheless, it was a question. If you don’t want to dispense with the exclamation mark, why not use both!?
As it happens, there is a programme on BBC 4 tonight at 21.00 about the Bayeux Tapestry, if anyone is interested. Mysteries of the Bayeux Tapestry.
Thanks, Karen. I might try to watch it tonight or (more likely!) on BBC iPlayer at some point in the near future.
Somehow I suspect 'Medieval Knievel is unlikely to feature.
Somehow I suspect you may be right!
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