First LO's for 2005

Very cute Judy! Your cats look like one I had as a child named Tigger. I've got 4 of my own now but Tigger still has a place in my heart :)

-CC

Judy, It is a beautiful album. Your love for your Tammy shows in your tribute and that is what we all strive for in our work. I was a little puzzled that I could not read what you had written until it dawned on me that you were writing in your first language ! :-) DUH! LOL Thank you for sharing !

Hugs, Sabrina in Kentucky

a good friend is a life long treasure

Thanx for looking CC. I found making the Album after Tammy passed very therapeutic, although it took me a while to get strated. We also had 4, but now 3.

Judy, SA

Hi Sabrina! :))

So nice to talk to you again :)) Yes, some of the journaling (things close to my heart) I do in Afrikaans because I can express myself better that way. Usually in the caption provided by Webshot I loosely translate what I have written. I sometimes struggle a bit to give the comments I really want to give on peoples LO's. So, everybody, please pardon my spelling errors and terrible sentence constructions! LOL!

Keep well Sabrina :)

Judy, SA

Now Judy, Your English is perfect! I forget that it is not your first language! As for me....I speak American, LOL Talk about confusing! To be more specific, I speak American Southern. I think I only realised I had an accent when my deaf friend said you are from the South!! I wondered how she knew and (she reads lips) she said by the way my mouth formed the words! Amazing! She is deaf from birth and has only a mild "deaf accent". But...isn' it grand that we can all talk together here and about our favorite things! I do love this group!!

Hugs, Sabrina in Kentucky

a good friend is a life long treasure

What a bid difference! English and American. I never really thought about it before, because as children we study "English" at school and everyone talks about English speaking countries. I was at a Girl Scout event where we were hosting two girls from England. I remember her telling my daughter "You don't speak English, you speak American." I have a friend who grew up in Chicago. She thought I had a southern accent (Southern Indiana). She has lived here for almost 30 years now, and when she goes home to visit they laugh at her when she talks. I told her she is a real Hoosier now. Sandy

Well growing up bilingual, (French and English) in Quebec, all my friends speak a mixture of both languages. It's nothing specific, it's more like if you can't remember a word in one language you say it in the other. My southern US born DH, who happens to have a BA in French and German, has a really hard time understanding my friend Shirley and I, or even my DS and I ,when we really get going speaking a mixture of french, english and old style joual.

It amazes me how languages change. Very similar to the change in tonality and spelling is the story of the Louisianna Cajuns, decendants of the Acadians that were deported from Canada by the conquering Brittish in 1755 and 1758. Both the French Canadian Joual of Quebec, New Brusnwick and Northern Ontario and the Cajun French of Louisiana are virtually impossible to understand by a person living in France or any other country. And even more interesting, because both joual and cajun continued to evolve independantly of each other, they can't understand much of what the other says either. Of course, since neither joual nor cajun are what children learn to read and write at school I know that my journaling is in "real french baring a few coloquialisms and I'll bet that there are few scrapbooks that hold cajun french journalling.

MC, I was watching TV last night and they had a special on about an Ice Hotel that was in Quebec. Have you heard of it. It looked really neat. I couldn't believe that people actually spent the night in one. It had 32 rooms.

We are also actually bi-lingual in Afrikaans and English, but my mother tongue is Afrikaans. We stayed in Port Elizabeth up untill I was 23, which was colonized by British Setlers and therefor my English was much better then. However we moved to Cape Town seven years ago which the Dutch colonized and most people here speak Afrikaans, and now my English has suffered a bit as a result. I have to think twice about some words sometimes and tend to "think" in Afrikaans now when I speak English where as I thought directly in English in Port Elizabeth. LOL, this probably sound complicated.

M-C, that's very interesting about the development of languages and the Cajun French. I always wondered about that. About Joual I don't know a lot. Our language is a very young one - only 350 years old, and a combo of Dutch, French, a bit of German and a bit of indigenous languages. BUT here is the fascinating part. In Belgium there is another language called Flemish, thats also a combo of Dutch and French. Flemish and Afrikaans is almost identical, although the two nations have NOTHING to do with each other. I can speak Afrikaans to a Flemish person and we can understan each other perfectly! A lot of our local Afrikaans singers go there regularly for concerts and vice versa! Is'nt this ole world a cool, crazy beautiful place!!!

Judy, SA

Isn't it neat? For those of you that are curious, here is the link to their image gallery.

But it is pretty, isn't it!