Wordie: Dale counting sheep: Comments

Comment by sionnach, 3 months ago

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:59:12 +0000

These guys also cracked up at bumfit. It's at around the 5-minute mark on the video.

Comment by trivet, 5 months ago

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:31:52 +0000

Ten-year old girls love special clubs and secret languages. It often starts with Pig Latin and then moves on to sign language or ubbi dubbi. Boys seem more interested in written codes and symbols (in my experience, at least).

Comment by reesetee, 5 months ago

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:36:48 +0000

Could be, gangerh. A friend of mine who counsels deaf children believes that it's fairly common among (hearing) U.S. girls who are about Nicolina's age--something to do with having their own code of communication that adults can't understand. (Can't speak for boys that age, though.)

Comment by gangerh, 5 months ago

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:27:58 +0000

Yes! You're right, r_t! I hadn't seen it - Nicolina and her friends were all learning and using BSL earlier this year! Is this a universal phenomenon?

Comment by sionnach, 5 months ago

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 02:54:45 +0000

That makes me very happy, gangerh. I think the sheep counting words are my favorite discovery since joining Wordie.

Comment by reesetee, 5 months ago

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:56:13 +0000

That's great, gangerh! Girls that age love mysterious counting systems and languages, don't they? (I know several who use ASL as their own "secret" means of communicating.)

Comment by gangerh, 5 months ago

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:23:15 +0000

Having found time to understand this counting system I just shared it with Nicolina, my daughter, aged 10. She loves it, as do I, and she's just spent a whole 5 minutes learning up to jigget. She's now teaching me and insists that I print it off so she can share it with all her friends tomorrow. Ain't it great? Thanks for sharing, sionnach.

Comment by gangerh, 5 months ago

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:46:08 +0000

Why? Is Daffyd a malcountent?

Comment by bilby, 5 months ago

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:54:29 +0000

But wait! Daffyd demands a recount!.

Comment by sionnach, 5 months ago

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 07:38:10 +0000

Based on this Wikipedia link, and others, I have changed the name of this list slightly, and added the 'Rathmell' counting numbers to the existing 'Swaledale' counts.

Comment by sionnach, 5 months ago

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 01:58:35 +0000

more delightful nonsense!!

Comment by sionnach, 5 months ago

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 01:56:47 +0000

music!!

Comment by sionnach, 5 months ago

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 01:51:36 +0000

pictures!!

Comment by bilby, 5 months ago

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:49:02 +0000

llarfs!

Comment by sionnach, 5 months ago

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:40:08 +0000

yanajig, tanajig, tetherajig, metherajig, pastie, yanapest, tanapest, tetherapest, metherapest, crumpet, yanacrump, tanacrump ...

It's forbidden by law to own more than 32 sheep.

Comment by bilby, 5 months ago

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:27:53 +0000

Why only 20? Surely flocks of sheep were bigger than that? Or is 20 just the number of words that have survived?

I seek higher realms, even beyond jigget.

Comment by bilby, 6 months ago

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 13:55:55 +0000

Australia. But with my new-found prowess I should have been in New Zealand:
"In the Te Kuiti’s take on “running of the bulls” the main event of the day is at 2pm “The Running of the sheep”. Where thousands of wooly sheep scurry and make their way through the excited crowd down the main street of Te kuiti in the most wildest idea that has turned into the most recognizable event icon. Then test your sheep counting skills in The Count the Sheep Competition” by guessing the exact number of sheep running to win a huge cash prize." Err, all the thrilling details here .

Comment by gangerh, 6 months ago

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:22:39 +0000

bilby's in the Land of Nod, sionnach.

Comment by sionnach, 6 months ago

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:12:36 +0000

bilby: Are you still in Australia? Or are you in Europe again?

Comment by bilby, 6 months ago

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 13:35:25 +0000

I'm trying so hard to learn all these words but I keep falling asleep ...

Comment by bilby, 6 months ago

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:24:57 +0000

This is officially my favouritest list. In this life and all previous ones.

Comment by sionnach, 6 months ago

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 06:16:23 +0000

How many ways do I love Wordie? Let me count them:

yan, tan, tether .....

I trust that addresses bilby's question.

By the way, this counting scheme was found in the delightful book biting the wax tadpole : confessions of a language fanatic (elizabeth little).

Comment by reesetee, 6 months ago

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 02:10:54 +0000

Yes, and I suppose I must learn them too if I'm to be the Prothonotary of Fattiehead.

Wait...where is Fattiehead again? Oh, Scotland. Never mind. *stops counting in Welsh*

Comment by bilby, 6 months ago

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:44:41 +0000

Do we count from the top of the list down or from the bottom up? I just want to be damn ready cometh the next ovine reckoning at Penrhyndeudraeth.

Comment by chained_bear, 6 months ago

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:03:21 +0000

Oh, no. I have a ton of them. I even have lists of them. This very comment is filled with them.

Comment by sionnach, 6 months ago

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:32:08 +0000

Well, good for them, say I! Maybe they can write a song about the experience* so that sister Bronwen can teach it to the miners' chorus to sing at the Eistedfodd.

But, have you learned *nothing* from your experience here on Wordie, c_b? Surely, by now, the realization must have dawned that there is no such beast as a 'perfectly ordinary' word, in English, or any other language?

*: turn it into Eistedfodder, so to speak.

Comment by chained_bear, 6 months ago

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:03:33 +0000

What if Welsh shepherds sit around reading perfectly ordinary English words and laughing about us? *looks around suspiciously*

Comment by yarb, 6 months ago

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:17:04 +0000

How they ever got past bumfit I can't imagine.

Comment by sionnach, 6 months ago

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:24:59 +0000

I may have to adopt this system myself. If only so that I can guffaw like a buffoon when I reach tetheradick.

Chortle! Chortle! Chortle!