18:00 Lois og jeg spiser aftensmad i stuen og ser lidt fjernsyn: Come
Dine With Me fra Manchester.
Lois smutter ind i spisestuen og måler sit blodtryk – vores læge har
bedt hende om, at gøre det to gange om dagen i en uge og vise hende
resultaterne i næste uge. Lois udførte denne øvelse for et par måneder siden,
og hun fandt ud af, at hendes blodtryk var meget lavere herhjemme, end i
klinikken. Men denne gang, resultaterne er de samme, både herhjemme og i
klinikken. Pokkers! Det kan være at lægen vil bede hende om, at tage fremover
blodtrykspiller regelmæssigt – du godeste! Jeg minder hende, at jeg i 6 år har
taget blodtrykspiller og jeg har ikke bemærket nogle bivirkninger. Men hun er
ikke glad for det, og forstår ikke, hvorfor situationen har ændret sig siden
oktober. Uha!
20:00 Vi skyper med Alison, vores ældste datter, der bor i København
sammen med sin mand, Ed, og deres 3 børn, Josie, Rosalind og Isaac. Familien har
planlagt en skiferie og rejser den 29. januar til Lillehammer i Norge sammen
med en anden britisk familie, de kender i København. Alison selv er ikke sikker
på, at hun godt kan lide at stå på ski, men hun skal nok modtage
skiundervisning, mens hun er der. Hun vil låne skitøj af en veninde, fordi det
er meget dyrt at købe – ingen tvivl om det !!!! At købe det ville være et spild
af penge, i betragtning af, at hun ikke er sikker på, at hun godt kan lide at
stå på ski.
Alison, vores datter i København, og hendes
familie planlager en skiferie i Norge (Lillehammer, for at være præcis)
Vi fortæller Alison, om det katte-hotel vi i dag besøgte, som ligger
ikke ret langt fra Bishops Cleeve. Hvis Lois og jeg besøger vores anden datter,
Sarah, i Australien senere på året, vil vi måtte sørge for, at nogen passer på
Alisons kat, Minx, der for tiden bor hos os. Vi fortæller Alison, at dette
katte-hotel og dets personale ser meget godt (og katvenligt ha ha ha!!!) ud,
men det er selvfølgelig ikke helt billigt – det er vi ikke i tvivl om !!! Det
koster £7 om dagen. Uha!
Hvis muligt, vi ville have at Minx bliver boende i vores hus, og at
nogen, som vi kender og stoler på, i 2-3 måneder flytter ind og passer på
hende. Men det er ikke helt sikkert, at vi ville kunne finde sådan en – ingen
tvivl om det!!!!
22:00 Vi går i seng – zzzz!!!!
03:45 Jeg står tidligt op og kigger lidt på internettet.
Jeg er ved at melde mig ind i en ny U3A-gruppe, der hedder ”The Making
of English”, der interesserer sig for at studere historien af det engelske
sprog. Gruppens første møde finder sted i eftermiddag på Everyman-teatret, der
ligger midt i byen. Dagens emne er ”det indo-europæiske sprog” – Europas første
sprog, som man talte for tusendvis af år siden – du godeste! Gruppens leder,
Lynda, har bedt alle de medlemmer, om at udtænke 5 ”quiz-spørgsmål” (og svar) om
dette emne, for at stimulere diskussion. Du godeste! Det er ikke nemt – det er
jeg ikke i tvivl om!
Jeg prøver at udtænke mine 5 quiz-spørgsmål (og 5 svar), men det er
meget svært. Du godeste!
Hidtil har jeg de følgende spørgsmål:
1. Hvilke konsonanter, som
europæiske sprog i dag bruger, eksisterede ikke på det oprindelige indo-europæiske
sprog? Svaret er (jeg tror) : ”f”, ”v”, ”z”, og sandsynligvis også ”b”)
2. Hvor mange vokaler var
der på det indo-europæiske sprog? Svaret er 2 – ”e” og ”o”, men disse vokaler
kunne være enten korte eller lange.
3. Hvor mange grammatiske
kasus havde de indo-europæiske substantiver? Svaret er 8 eller muligvis 9 (sanskrit
havde 8, litauisk har 7, latinsk havde 6; russisk har 6; gammel græsk havde
5; tysk, angelsaksisk osv 4)
4. Var der en regel om,
hvilke stavelse havde tryk i indo-europæiske ord? Svaret – nej (ligesom i
nudagens russiske sprog) !!! [gab, gab,
gab !!!!!]
5. Mit bedste
quiz-spørgsmål: Forstil dig, at 6 mennesker samles i en bar – en
indo-europæiske bondemand, Julius Caesar, Geoffrey Chaucer (den middelengelske
digter), Robbie Burns (den skotske digter), Danmarks Dronning (dvs Margrethe),
og en hindu-præst. (nb dette er selvfølgelig blot en hypotetisk situation – ha
ha ha!!!! ) Gruppen går i gang med at prøve at nævne et dyr, som de alle er
enige om, hvad angar dyrets navn. Hvilket dyrs navn bliver de alle enige om?
Svaret er ”mus” (det lyder som ”moose” på moderne engelsk: sådan udtalte
Chaucer og Burns ordet ”mouse”). Ha ha ha (igen) !!!
10:00 Lois skal af sted. Hun beder mig om, at køre hende over til den
lokale Whole Foods- supermarked, fordi hun ikke endnu har prøvet at køre i den
Renault Clio, vi bruger midlertidigt, mens vores Honda Jazz er i gang med at
blive repareret af Apollo Accident Repair Centre. Hun skal i formiddag mødes
med sin kirkes ældre kvindelige medlemmer for at drikke kafe, spise et par stykker
kage og snakke lidt. Jeg sætter hende af ved supermarkedet og kommer hjem.
11:00 Jeff ringer på døren. Han går i gang med at udføre service på vores gaskedel i køkkenet og gaskaminen i stuen.
11:30 Sarah sender mig en e-mail, og hun vedhæfter 12 dokumenter, hun vil have at jeg printer ud. Du godeste! Dokumenterne handler om salget af hendes gamle lejlighed i Cheltenham. Jeg er bange for, at hun vil have, at Lois og jeg gør en masse arbejde i forbindelse med dette salg - du godeste! Det tager mig 40 minutter at printe alle disse dokumenter ud!
12:00 Jeff skal af sted, og jeg betaler ham (£90). Lois ringer til mig. Hun vil have at jeg henter hende ved supermarkedet. Jeg kører derover og vi kommer hjem. Vi spiser frokost.
13:00 Sarah ringer til os. Hun har mange spørgsmål om salget af sin gamle lejlighed, men vi desværre er nødt til at fortælle hende, at vi har intet kendskab til disse sager - uha! Hun vil prøve at spørge Ed, vores svigersøn i København, der arbejder som advokat. Sarah beder Loois om, at scanne hendes fødsel-certifikat ind og sende dem via e-mail til Australien. For tiden har Sarah ikke nogen printer, men hun og Francis har til hensigt at købe én - du godeste! Jeg finder det overraskende, at de ikke endnu har købt en printer, i betragtning af, at hun og Francis begge to arbejder på linje!
14:00 Jeg skal af sted. Jeg tager bussen ind i byen, og går ned til Everyman-teatret. Den nye U3A gruppes første møde begynder kl 14:30. Lynda er gruppens leder, og 6 andre medlemmer dukker op: Margaret, Joy, Barbara, Anthony, Vera og mig. Vi snakker lidt om det indo-europæiske sprog.
Jeg stiller mit femte "quiz-spørgsmål", som alle nyder. Husk at mit spørgsmål er som følger: Forstil dig, at 6 mennesker samles i en bar – en indo-europæiske bondemand, Julius Caesar, Geoffrey Chaucer (den middelengelske digter), Robbie Burns (den skotske digter), Danmarks Dronning (dvs Margrethe), og en hindu-præst. (nb dette er selvfølgelig blot en hypotetisk situation – ha ha ha!!!! ). Disse 6 mennesker går i gang med at prøve at nævne et dyr, som de alle er enige om, hvad angar dyrets navn. Hvilket dyrs navn bliver de alle enige om? Jeg stiller spørgsmålet og mange medlemmer prøver af finde det rigtige svar, men uden succés. Til sidst fortæller jeg dem, at den største fingerpej er tilstedeværelsen af Robbie Burns, den skotske digter. Selvfølgelig skrev Burns en berømt digt ”Til en mus” – og med det samme gætter Vera det rigtige svar, some er ”mus” (det lyder som ”moose” på moderne engelsk: sådan udtalte Chaucer og Burns ordet ”mouse”). Ha ha ha (igen) !!!
11:30 Sarah sender mig en e-mail, og hun vedhæfter 12 dokumenter, hun vil have at jeg printer ud. Du godeste! Dokumenterne handler om salget af hendes gamle lejlighed i Cheltenham. Jeg er bange for, at hun vil have, at Lois og jeg gør en masse arbejde i forbindelse med dette salg - du godeste! Det tager mig 40 minutter at printe alle disse dokumenter ud!
12:00 Jeff skal af sted, og jeg betaler ham (£90). Lois ringer til mig. Hun vil have at jeg henter hende ved supermarkedet. Jeg kører derover og vi kommer hjem. Vi spiser frokost.
13:00 Sarah ringer til os. Hun har mange spørgsmål om salget af sin gamle lejlighed, men vi desværre er nødt til at fortælle hende, at vi har intet kendskab til disse sager - uha! Hun vil prøve at spørge Ed, vores svigersøn i København, der arbejder som advokat. Sarah beder Loois om, at scanne hendes fødsel-certifikat ind og sende dem via e-mail til Australien. For tiden har Sarah ikke nogen printer, men hun og Francis har til hensigt at købe én - du godeste! Jeg finder det overraskende, at de ikke endnu har købt en printer, i betragtning af, at hun og Francis begge to arbejder på linje!
14:00 Jeg skal af sted. Jeg tager bussen ind i byen, og går ned til Everyman-teatret. Den nye U3A gruppes første møde begynder kl 14:30. Lynda er gruppens leder, og 6 andre medlemmer dukker op: Margaret, Joy, Barbara, Anthony, Vera og mig. Vi snakker lidt om det indo-europæiske sprog.
Jeg stiller mit femte "quiz-spørgsmål", som alle nyder. Husk at mit spørgsmål er som følger: Forstil dig, at 6 mennesker samles i en bar – en indo-europæiske bondemand, Julius Caesar, Geoffrey Chaucer (den middelengelske digter), Robbie Burns (den skotske digter), Danmarks Dronning (dvs Margrethe), og en hindu-præst. (nb dette er selvfølgelig blot en hypotetisk situation – ha ha ha!!!! ). Disse 6 mennesker går i gang med at prøve at nævne et dyr, som de alle er enige om, hvad angar dyrets navn. Hvilket dyrs navn bliver de alle enige om? Jeg stiller spørgsmålet og mange medlemmer prøver af finde det rigtige svar, men uden succés. Til sidst fortæller jeg dem, at den største fingerpej er tilstedeværelsen af Robbie Burns, den skotske digter. Selvfølgelig skrev Burns en berømt digt ”Til en mus” – og med det samme gætter Vera det rigtige svar, some er ”mus” (det lyder som ”moose” på moderne engelsk: sådan udtalte Chaucer og Burns ordet ”mouse”). Ha ha ha (igen) !!!
16:00 Mødet slutter, og jeg kommer hjem med bus. Vi slapper af med en
kop te på sofaen....
English
translation
Thursday,
01.07.2016 at 1630 till Friday, 01.08.2016 at 1629
18:00 Lois and I eat dinner in the living room and watch a little television: Come Dine With Me from Manchester.
Lois slips into the dining room and measures her blood pressure - our doctor has asked her to do it twice a day for a week and show her the results next week. Lois performed this exercise for a couple of months ago, and she found out that her blood pressure was much lower at home than in clinic. But this time, the results are the same, both at home and in the clinic. Damn! It may be that the doctor will ask her to take in the future blood pressure pills regularly - my goodness! I remind her that I have for 6 years taken blood pressure pills and I have not noticed any side effects. But she is not happy about it, and does not understand why the situation has changed since October. Ooh!
20:00 We skype with Alison, our oldest daughter, who lives in Copenhagen with her husband, Ed, and their three children, Josie, Rosalind and Isaac. The family has planned a ski vacation and travel January 29 to Lillehammer in Norway with another British family, they know in Copenhagen. Alison herself is not sure she likes to ski, but she'll receive skiing lessons while she is there. She will borrow skiwear off a friend, because it is very expensive to buy - no doubt about it !!!! Buying it would be a waste of money, considering that she is not sure she likes to ski.
18:00 Lois and I eat dinner in the living room and watch a little television: Come Dine With Me from Manchester.
Lois slips into the dining room and measures her blood pressure - our doctor has asked her to do it twice a day for a week and show her the results next week. Lois performed this exercise for a couple of months ago, and she found out that her blood pressure was much lower at home than in clinic. But this time, the results are the same, both at home and in the clinic. Damn! It may be that the doctor will ask her to take in the future blood pressure pills regularly - my goodness! I remind her that I have for 6 years taken blood pressure pills and I have not noticed any side effects. But she is not happy about it, and does not understand why the situation has changed since October. Ooh!
20:00 We skype with Alison, our oldest daughter, who lives in Copenhagen with her husband, Ed, and their three children, Josie, Rosalind and Isaac. The family has planned a ski vacation and travel January 29 to Lillehammer in Norway with another British family, they know in Copenhagen. Alison herself is not sure she likes to ski, but she'll receive skiing lessons while she is there. She will borrow skiwear off a friend, because it is very expensive to buy - no doubt about it !!!! Buying it would be a waste of money, considering that she is not sure she likes to ski.
Alison,
our daughter in Copenhagen, and her family are planning a skiing holiday in
Norway
We tell Alison, about the cat hotel which today we visited, located not far
from Bishops Cleeve. If Lois and I visit our other daughter, Sarah, in
Australia later this year, we will have to make sure that somebody is looking
after Alison's cat Minx currently staying with us. We tell Alison that this cat
hotel and its staff look very good (and cat-friendly ha ha ha!!!), but of course it's not exactly
cheap - we do not doubt !!! It costs £ 7 a day. Ooh!
If possible, we would have Minx continuing to live in our house and that
someone we know and trust, for 2-3 months move in and take care of her. But it
is not certain that we would find such a one - no doubt about it !!!!
22:00 We go to bed - zzzz !!!!
03:45 I get up early and take a look on the internet.
I'm about to sign me up into a new U3A group called "The Making of
English", who are interested in studying the history of the English
language. The group's first meeting will take place in the afternoon at
Everyman Theatre, located in the middle of the city. Today's topic is "the
Indo-European language" - Europe's first language that was spoken
thousands of years ago - my goodness! The group's leader, Lynda, has asked all
members to devise 5 "quiz questions" (and answers) on this subject,
to stimulate discussion. My Goodness! It is not easy - I have no doubt!
I try to devise my five quiz questions (and 5
answers), but it is very difficult. My Goodness!
So far I have the following questions:
So far I have the following questions:
1.
What
consonants, which European languages today use, did not exist in the original
Indo-European language? The answer is (I think): "f", "v",
"z", and probably "b")
2. How many vowels were there in the Indo-European language? The answer is 2 - "e" and "o", but these vowels could be either short or long.
3. How many grammatical cases had the Indo-European nouns? The answer is eight or possibly nine (Sanskrit had 8 Lithuanian has 7 Latin had 6; Russian has 6; ancient Greek had five; German, Anglo-Saxon, etc. 4)
4. Was there a rule about which syllable had stress in the Indo-European word? The answer - no (as in today's Russian language) !!! [yawn, yawn, yawn !!!!!]
5. My best quiz question: Imagine that six people gather in a bar - an Indo-European peasant, Julius Caesar, Geoffrey Chaucer (the Middle English poet), Robbie Burns (Scottish poet), Queen of Denmark (ie Margrethe) and a Hindu priest. (nb this is of course just a hypothetical situation - ha ha ha !!!!) The group begin to try to name an animal that they all agree on, as relates to the animal's name. Which animal name, do they all agree on? The answer is "mus" (sounds like ‘moose’ : in such a way pronounced Chaucer and Burns the word "mouse"). Ha ha ha (again) !!!
2. How many vowels were there in the Indo-European language? The answer is 2 - "e" and "o", but these vowels could be either short or long.
3. How many grammatical cases had the Indo-European nouns? The answer is eight or possibly nine (Sanskrit had 8 Lithuanian has 7 Latin had 6; Russian has 6; ancient Greek had five; German, Anglo-Saxon, etc. 4)
4. Was there a rule about which syllable had stress in the Indo-European word? The answer - no (as in today's Russian language) !!! [yawn, yawn, yawn !!!!!]
5. My best quiz question: Imagine that six people gather in a bar - an Indo-European peasant, Julius Caesar, Geoffrey Chaucer (the Middle English poet), Robbie Burns (Scottish poet), Queen of Denmark (ie Margrethe) and a Hindu priest. (nb this is of course just a hypothetical situation - ha ha ha !!!!) The group begin to try to name an animal that they all agree on, as relates to the animal's name. Which animal name, do they all agree on? The answer is "mus" (sounds like ‘moose’ : in such a way pronounced Chaucer and Burns the word "mouse"). Ha ha ha (again) !!!
10:00 Lois has to be off. She asks me to
drive her over to the local Whole Foods- supermarket because she had not yet
tried to drive in the Renault Clio, that we use temporarily while our Honda
Jazz is in the process of being repaired by Apollo Accident Repair Centre . She
has to this morning meet up with her church's older female members to drink
coffee, eat a few pieces of cake and talk a little. I put her off at the
supermarket and come home.
11:00 Jeff rings at the door. He begins to
service our gas boiler in the kitchen and gas fire in the living room.
11:30 Sarah sends me an email and she
appends 12 documents she wants me print out. My Goodness! Documents about the
sale of her old apartment in Cheltenham. I am afraid that she will have that
Lois and I do a lot of work in connection with this sale - my goodness !!! It
takes me 40 minutes just to print these documents out.
12:00 Jeff must go, and I pay him (£ 90). Lois
calls me. She wants me to pick her up at the supermarket. I drive over there
and we come home. We eat lunch.
13:00 Sarah calls us. She has many questions about the sale of her old apartment, but we unfortunately have to tell her that we have no knowledge of these matters - oh! She will try to ask Ed, our son-in Copenhagen, who works as a lawyer. Sarah asks Lois to scan her birth certificate in and send it via e-mail to Australia. Currently, Sarah has no printer, but she and Francis intend to buy one - my goodness! I find it surprising that they have not yet purchased a printer, considering she and Francis both work on line!
14:00 I have to go. I take the bus into the city, and go down to the Everyman Theatre. The new U3A-group's first meeting will begin at 14:30. Lynda is the group's leader, and six other members turn up: Margaret, Joy, Barbara, Anthony, Vera and me. We talk a bit about the Indo-European languages.
I ask my fifth "quiz question" that
everyone enjoys. Remember that my question is as follows: Imagine that six
people gather in a bar - an Indo-European peasant, Julius Caesar, Geoffrey
Chaucer (the Middle English poet), Robbie Burns (Scottish poet), Queen of
Denmark (ie Margrethe) and a Hindu priest. (nb this is of course just a
hypothetical situation - ha ha ha !!!!). These six people begin to try to name
an animal that they all agree on as regards the animal's name. Which animal
name do they all agree on? I ask the question, and many members try to find the
right answer, but without success. Finally I tell them that the biggest clue is
the presence of Robbie Burns, the Scottish poet. Of course, Burns wrote a
famous poem "To a Mouse" - and immediately Vera guesses the right
answer, which is "mouse" (it sounds like "moose" in modern
English, this is how Chaucer and Burns pronounced the word "mouse").
Ha ha ha (again) !!!
16:00 The meeting ends and I get home by bus. We
relax with a cup of tea on the couch ....
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