Six Glasgow Poems (Tom Leonard) - 6. 'Good Style'
Jim Scobbie
helluva hard tay read theez init
stull
if yi canny unnirston thim jiss clear aff then
gawn
get tay fuck ootma road
ahmaz goodiz thi lota yiz so ah um
ah no whit ahm dayn
tellnyi
jiss try enny a yir fly patir wi me
stick thi bootnyi good style
so ah wull
Tom Leonard, 1967.
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David Morning
>6 Good Style
>helluva hard tay read theez init
Very difficult to read these is it not?
>stull
Still
>if yi canny unnirston thim jiss clear aff then
If you can't understand them, then clear off!
>gawn
Go!
>get tay fuck ootma road
Get out of my way!! :-)
>ahmaz goodiz thi lota yiz so ah um
You've met your match.
>ah no whit ahm dayn
I know what I'm doing
>tellnyi
I can assure you!!
>jiss try enny a yir fly patir wi me
Don't try any of your cunning linguistics! ('patter' is the more usual spelling)
>stick thi bootnyi good style
I will get very aggresive!!
>so ah wull
I can assure you.
Doesn't quite sound the same translated does it?
Sounds like 1960s Easterhouse gang talk. What's it's background?
Dave
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Rosa Michaelson
Should that not be rowds? not raods????
cdha...@napier.waterloo.edu
I have no idea if this question has been
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For several weeks now i have heard alot
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would help, since i have no experience with the net.
AA: If anyone knows the cost for a subscribtion to the
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C. Hanson
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to sit in a chair in my apartment and not get up until I
had an idea. I wouldn't get up for a cigarette, I wouldn't
go to the bathroom, I wouldn't do anything. I forced myself
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And after about two hours I had a premise. And I also had to
go to the bathroom badly." -Sidney Sheldon
Mark Slagle
> Should that not be rowds? not raods????
I also was struck by the incongruence of "road", but
I was looking more for something like "rude".
Nice stuff, though. Draws a hell of a picture.
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Steve Yelvington
cdha...@napier.waterloo.edu () writes ... ]
> For several weeks now i have heard alot
> how good some of these newsgroups are for
> finding out info and getting critic on pieces
> of prose. One of the most talked about newsgroups
> seems to be linked to Genie. I have no idea if this is
> similar to Compuserve or not. But damn do i want to get
> on it. I have an account on the system here at Waterloo
> which is connected to internet, so i was wondering if
> there is a way i can get on to Genie from here, any input
> would help, since i have no experience with the net.
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David Morning
>Should that not be rowds? not raods????
Rowed and road are pronounced the same in Glasgow though their meanings are
different. It's the right one for someone from Glasgow.
But you're from St Andrews so you should know this!!!
DEFINITELY NOT raod! :-)
Eric Jorgensen
local time, for 300-2400 baud. 8am-6pm is $18/hour (with no Basic*Service).
If you use 9600 its $18/hour during the 6pm-8am portion, and there is no
Basic*Service (the $4.95/month). I don't know what the prime-time 9600
rate is, but it's phenominal (to me).
(facts are facts... opinions are opinions... refer all flames to
trashcan@yourhouse.)