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08-19-2008, 04:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Fleur du Mal
As opposed to a job interview that's not for a job?
Sorry, couldn't resist ^_^
It's beautiful Barrer you're heading to for that, isn't it? Better get that local pronunciation right before you get there!
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 bah, me and my bad grammer! Yes, I meant a job interview for a job-Thanks Fleur du Mal (not sure if Im allowed to call you just "Fleur" lol)
Gulp, local pronounciation?? They're not gonna understand my accent....
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08-19-2008, 04:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Amethyst
Thanks Fleur du Mal (not sure if Im allowed to call you just "Fleur" lol)
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That's really sweet- like meeting a partner's parents and not sure whether to call them "Mr and Mrs Smith" or "John and Angie".
(I made those names up)
Or bumping into school teacher's years later... do you still call him Mr Fisher or call him Alec now that you are all grown up?
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08-19-2008, 05:16 PM
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Hmm, thats a good one, a professor in my university used to get his prescriptions from my pharmacy on a regular basis and I always called him Prof X...(the X is to protect his identity lol)
Do you have an Aunt or Uncle who arent actually your aunt or uncle? (For example one of your mums friends) when you grow up they insist you call them by their name but you're sooo used to calling them Aunty Jezebel that just Jezebel doesnt sound right  My point is, sometimes you need to be invited to call someone a less formal name
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08-20-2008, 01:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Amethyst
Wow, thats great
Ooh, does this mean theres a burlesque scene in Cumbria??? (Have a job interview for a job in that kinda area.....)
Good Luck 
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Not at the moment there isn't, but hopefully there will be after the launch!
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08-20-2008, 02:04 PM
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Originally Posted by Amethyst
Hmm, thats a good one, a professor in my university used to get his prescriptions from my pharmacy on a regular basis and I always called him Prof X...(the X is to protect his identity lol)
Do you have an Aunt or Uncle who arent actually your aunt or uncle? (For example one of your mums friends) when you grow up they insist you call them by their name but you're sooo used to calling them Aunty Jezebel that just Jezebel doesnt sound right  My point is, sometimes you need to be invited to call someone a less formal name
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I find I always address people of my generation by their first names, however people of my parent's generation and older I tend to use their title and surname!
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08-20-2008, 03:02 PM
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Fortunately as a Lord, almost everyone I meet ranks lower than me in the social hierarchy and so I can just call them 'peasant'.
Unless I'm chatting to the queen of course, and then I just call her Betty.
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08-20-2008, 03:47 PM
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Surely you don't even grace us with acknowledgment, bothering to say 'peasant' to us gives us ideas above our station that we have been noticed by a Lord....
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08-20-2008, 08:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Amethyst
Thanks Fleur du Mal (not sure if Im allowed to call you just "Fleur" lol)
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HA! Bless ya Amethyst, I've never been treated with so much formality! Just Fleur is fine by me - we're on a first name basis here (apart from the Lord, of course ...)
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Originally Posted by Amethyst
Gulp, local pronounciation?? They're not gonna understand my accent....
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Don't worry, I'm slightly teasing here. According to my mate from Whitehaven, Barrow is known as 'Barrer' in the local dialect, even though to everyone else in the country it's clearly 'Barrow' (and I've been there several time and never heard anyone pronounce it that way). Then again, this is the same county that pronounces water as 'watter', so I guess anything goes ...
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