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Capital letter, or not?

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  • Lou TreleavenLou Treleaven
    Let's have a war! Capitals against Lowers! All Capitals behind me now - and chaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrge!
  • Baggy BooksBaggy Books
    ’Ang on, let me get me ’ammer.
  • Mrs BearMrs Bear
    Excuse me - excuse me! You there at the top of this page - did you just refer to me as a Lower? I should call you out for that.
  • Tiny NellTiny Nell
    *places one foot firmly in either camp*
  • Mrs BearMrs Bear
    *plants Lower standard into the battlefield mud* (I do like to lower standards)
  • heatherheather
    Just as well
  • Lou TreleavenLou Treleaven
    They may take our lives, but they'll never take our capital letters!
  • Mrs BearMrs Bear
    Ha! That sounds like a recognition of our strength over your adversity!
  • Lou TreleavenLou Treleaven
    *Sidles off looking embarrassed*
  • Tiny NellTiny Nell
    *wipes up bloodshed*
  • Baggy BooksBaggy Books
    I don't like to apportion blame, TN...
  • Tiny NellTiny Nell
    Well, no. And I don't like to cause them (very often), but sometimes a bit of jousting and thumbs down is just the order of the day.
  • Baggy BooksBaggy Books
    :-q
  • Mrs BearMrs Bear
    Jousting - just the thing for a hot summer's day. The thunder of hooves, the clouds of dust, the clanging of lance on shield, the squeak of unoiled armour - ah, it takes me back.
  • Baggy BooksBaggy Books
    Wasn't 'enry a fan of jousting? No? Ah, 'Enry. That would be 'im.
  • Mrs BearMrs Bear
    I went to bed singing 'I'm 'enery the eighth, I am'. That's just cruel. Darn it, it's in my 'ead again now.
  • Baggy BooksBaggy Books
    Could be worse; ’enry ’Iggins was always one to sit on the fence…
  • Tiny NellTiny Nell
    *practises Cockney accent, hitches skirt and does a knees-up*
  • Baggy BooksBaggy Books
    *tuts*

    Surely you meant 'itches?
  • Mrs BearMrs Bear
    I played Eliza Doolittle at school - I was the only one who could manage the accent.

    'In 'ertford, 'ereford and 'ampshire, 'urricanes 'ardly ever 'appen.'
  • Tiny NellTiny Nell
    Losin' it, I am, guv'nor...
  • Baggy BooksBaggy Books
    I 'ave the solution.

    In Spanish it don't matter:

    "La lluvia en España bellos valles baña"

    So, write your iffy dialogue in a foreign language. You're welcome.
  • Tiny NellTiny Nell
    Ta, luv.
  • Mrs BearMrs Bear
    Does Liverpudlian count as foreign?
  • Baggy BooksBaggy Books
    Depends if you're a beetle... ;)
  • snailmalesnailmale
    Just come to this, have you women no household chores to attend to?
  • heatherheather
    I've been doing just that, sm!

    Everything is smart, gleaming and in full working order.
    All the bills have been paid, accounts balanced, investments checked.
    The fridge is full of healthy food and a pan of soup is simmering on the stove, pea and ham, made from peas I grew myself and the cured loin of the flying pig I caught earlier.
  • Mrs BearMrs Bear
    'ousehold, sm - get into the swing of things, do.
  • Baggy BooksBaggy Books
    Just come to this, have you women no household chores to attend to?
    I'm am mid-way vacuuming the house. I've completed the top floor. I became distracted on this floor. Next, I go downstairs.

    Actually, I wasn't 'vacuuming', I was 'oovering.
  • Tiny NellTiny Nell
    Done all me laundry, I 'ave, 'n' got the guest wing ready for weekend visitors. Watered me garden (back only, hose doesn't reach around the front) 'n' just made a crackin' salad.

    Wot about you, sm? Tapped a few walls and scratched your chin?
  • Mrs BearMrs Bear
    Lawks, Miss Nell, you 'as bin busy! Bein' as you is on the vertically-challenged side, I'm not surprised as 'ow yer 'ose don't go all the way round the 'ouse!
  • LizLiz
    I say, I am finding it somewhat h'difficult to understand what you are all bleeding h'on about.
  • Tiny NellTiny Nell
    Ooh, Miss Lizabeth, you wiv yer fancy ways 'n' all...
  • Baggy BooksBaggy Books
    There's something to be said for speaking proper.
  • Mrs BearMrs Bear
    *wipes nose on sleeve*
    I can speak fluent lah-di-dah.
  • CarolCarol
    No matter what I say my origins are clearly spoken. >-)
  • Baggy BooksBaggy Books
    I can vouch for that. Your recordings are extremely clear and emotive.

    *sits up straight*
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