Good "sun is dipping time of day"

[Globalti]

All that PC crap was dreamed up by a cyclist, by the way.

 

[661-Pete]

They do realise that Dixon of Dock Green wasn't real, don't they?

You don't say!
Actually I remember, I cried my eyes out when I first watched The Blue Lamp (the movie that preceded DoDG) - in it poor old Dixon gets shot dead. They literally resurrected him for the TV series.

 

[Dayvo]

So a friendly 'You're fukkin' nicked, mate!' is likely to disappear, too!?

 

[661-Pete]

Actually, I remember some classic lines from The Blue Lamp now, quoted as best I can remember (can't imagine what the PC brigade would make of them):

INSPECTOR: You know what a murderer is?
LITTLE GIRL: Is it summun' who gets 'ung?
INSPECTOR: Would you like to help us catch one, then?
(later)
LITTLE GIRL: Will you be able to 'ang 'im, now?

 

[John the Monkey]

I read something on Tom Vanderbilt's blog about the difficulty of translating traffic safety messages for drivers for whom English is a second language;

State traffic agencies are tailoring safe driving campaigns to reflect growth in minority groups and even refugee communities where English is not fully understood. In Ohio, officials designing a seat-belt campaign aimed at the state’s large Somali refugee population wanted to adapt the popular “Click it or ticket” slogan but found that “ticket” doesn’t translate.
“They don’t have a government in Somalia, so ‘ticket’ doesn’t mean anything to them,” says Tina O’Grady, administrator of the state’s Traffic Safety Office. “We ended up translating it as ‘Strap it, or lose your livestock,’ which also means your money or income or livelihood.”

(The original piece from USA Today).


I'd be interested to know how many police officers had been saying "Evenin' All" prior to the edict - it seems a bit archaic to me, but what do I know...

 

[rich p]

I think should have an 'H' on the front usually, as in,

" Hevenin' all"

 

[rich p]

On this clip George just says, "Good evenin'"


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Du5yQ9ZZGI4


Right at thge end there's a bit with bloke who played the ghost from Randall and Hopkirk

 

[Noodley]

I think should have an 'H' on the front usually, as in,

" Hevenin' all"

Thanks rich, I had been struggling with knowing what everyone was on about until you gave this obviously correct pronunciation

 

[rich p]

Thanks rich, I had been struggling with knowing what everyone was on about until you gave this obviously correct pronunciation

We haim to please

I got flicking through the other bits on that Yuotube clip and ended up watching "A Taste of Honey" with Rita Tushingham, an old kitchen sink drama from before the dawn of time,
Interestingly(?) Hazel Blears played a street urchin in it.

 

[Davidc]

Refuse to click on that link, because i despise the Daily Mail and everything about it.

I'll look (know thine enemy), but always associate the DM with inaccuracy, right wing political extremism (never forget which paper supported Moseley's British Fascists in the 1930s), general idiocy (just look at their material on cycling and cyclists) and paranoid xenophobia.

 

[NutSack]

Indeed the Mail is somewhat blowing it up their own @rse again...
Its not a case of banning the use of the word evening like they are saying at all, that is just ridiculous, the problem with the word is, for example, when trying to obtain statements where people's perceptions of evening vary wildly from 4pm up to 10pm, and its not just foreign nationals. Its all about accuracy of information and communication not PC nonsense. "What did you have for tea last night?" is another one with the tea/dinner/supper & night/afternoon/evening.
And for the record we don't all go around saying "evenin' all" or "ello, ello, ello" and I don't know of one copper who lives at "999 Letsby Avenue".

 

[Noodley]

And for the record we don't all go around saying "evenin' all".

C'mon, keep up. We have already established that it's "Hevenin' all"

 

[Fnaar]

And for the record we don't all go around saying "evenin' all" or "ello, ello, ello" and I don't know of one copper who lives at "999 Letsby Avenue".

I'm truly disappointed.

On pronunciation issues, a hyper-correction by yer more workin' class copper might give "Evenin' hall" ... which is fine, if your name isn't Hall.