Talbennyhall’s Weblog

Hello I’m back, have you missed me? We’ve spent the last month in Lesvos, and it was great, but I’m not going to regale you with the delights of the island, more have a little rant about the use of the English language, not by the Greeks I hasten to add, even the one who works in a family taverna on the harbour in Molivos and who went to great lengths to explain to me the various nuances of the English language which makes it a difficult language to learn. I hadn’t a clue what he was talking about!
Whilst we were away we met a very friendly American couple, who in their delightfully quaint and colonial way engaged us numerous conversations (over various meals) and as a consequence will probably, to quote them; ‘write you’ Why after the undoubtably pleasant experience of meeting Daphne and me would they want to go around writing ‘you’ everywhere? another is; ‘How are you?’ answer ‘Good’ At what; being good, singing, brain surgery? What about ‘Have a nice day’ instead of ‘Goodbye’ What’s that all about?
I could take you on a journey of many other strange and mysterious uses of the language, and not just by these colonial types either, but what’s the point as there are more of them than there are of us, so whose language is it anyway? Not moin our kid cuz oi’me from Brummijum. Tarrar a bit.