A Conversation for Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK
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Surrendermonkey Started conversation Aug 2, 2002
Has anyb'dy seen t'winter gardens under construction below t' Peace Gardens? Gardens fo' nesh buggers! Beautiful tho' but.
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Mat Lindsay (the researcher formerly known as Nylarthotep...now he has a name, all he needs is a face) Posted Aug 14, 2002
You can't be a native if you're leaving the "t" in. A born and bred Sheffield illiterate drops the whole word including the "t," and should know, I've lived here all my life.
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Surrendermonkey Posted Aug 14, 2002
Aye, well, tain' easy to type a glottal stop, is it? I could hardly use " below ' peace gardens".
That's how I'd say it, you're right, but there's no keyboard in the world built for typing Sheffield.
Your tone seems to imply that I'm some kind of nesh southern Sheffield wannabe, when in fact I am the genuine article, all be it a north west valley boy who can spit on Barnsley from his bedroom window (and often do). I am, however, literate.
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Mat Lindsay (the researcher formerly known as Nylarthotep...now he has a name, all he needs is a face) Posted Aug 15, 2002
I just thought you were one of these southern types that tries to do the old "down t' pit" line. I'm a full blooded Sheffield bloke from S6 used to the cop at Wednesday and a pint and a fight in Hilsborough and educated at a run-down comprehensive...To be any more "Sheffield" than that you have to be out of work and violently prejudiced.
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GonzoTheGreat Posted Oct 12, 2002
Me and a couple of others have been wandering about the construction materials, it basicly looks like some sort of laminated uber-plywood.
Oh and speeking as a southener who has been visiting Sheffield[1] for the past 9 years not all of us are nesh ;->
[1] I get my legal alien status soon
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- 1: Surrendermonkey (Aug 2, 2002)
- 2: Mat Lindsay (the researcher formerly known as Nylarthotep...now he has a name, all he needs is a face) (Aug 14, 2002)
- 3: Surrendermonkey (Aug 14, 2002)
- 4: Mat Lindsay (the researcher formerly known as Nylarthotep...now he has a name, all he needs is a face) (Aug 15, 2002)
- 5: GonzoTheGreat (Oct 12, 2002)
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