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  • 28/04/2015 at 14:55 #23153
    Avatar photoPatrice
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    We had an early HYW skirmish at a games event in Theix (Brittany) on Sunday 19 April 2015:

    More here: http://www.lead-adventure.de/index.php?topic=78115.msg955736#msg955736

    http://www.argad-bzh.fr/argad/en.html
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    28/04/2015 at 17:57 #23157
    Avatar photoJonathan Gingerich
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    Patrice, Patrice, Patrice,

    Sometimes English has its pitfalls.  The correct word is “dike”.  “Dyke” means, er, something else. 

    28/04/2015 at 21:55 #23165
    Avatar photoPatrice
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    Jonathan Gingerich wrote:

    Patrice, Patrice, Patrice, Sometimes English has its pitfalls. The correct word is “dike”. “Dyke” means, er, something else.

    Thanks Jonathan.

    Dictionaries tell me that both spellings… and meanings… are correct. …and can be understood? …in many ways?

    If I can comfort you: the same AAR in French has for name “La digue, la digue…”

    http://argad.forumculture.net/t1218-la-digue-la-digue-escarmouche-a-ramene-tes-jeux-theix-avril-2015#11212

    …the word “la digue” bears no doubt in French, it means a dike on a river or sea inlet. However, “La digue, la digue” appears in the chorus of a French well-known dirty song.

    Ahem, I thought I would be forgiven because English is not my native language  …but what will the forum admin think of me, now that you made it clear?

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    28/04/2015 at 23:22 #23167
    Avatar photoThaddeus Blanchette
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    The correct word is “dike”. “Dyke” means, er, something else.

    …and here I was sooooo psyched when I clicked on this post!

    Dictionaries tell me that both spellings… and meanings… are correct. …and can be understood? …in many ways?

     

    Well, let’s put it this way: “sticking a finger in a dike” is something a Dutch boy might do to prevent a flood. “Sticking a finger in a dyke” is generally considered to be something that’s not safe for work.

    But if anyone does want to do a dyke-related skirmish, might I suggest these figures here?

    https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/loudnraging/raging-heroes-the-toughest-girls-of-the-galaxy

    We get slapped around, but we have a good time!

    29/04/2015 at 03:34 #23187
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    Thank you Thaddeus (and others) for a good laugh for the day

    29/04/2015 at 07:40 #23190
    Avatar photoPatrice
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    Thaddeus Blanchette wrote:

    considered to be something that’s not safe for work.

    …but King Offa considered that it was safe for him to have one.

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    01/05/2015 at 00:03 #23279
    Avatar photoGuy Farrish
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    My copy of the Concise Oxford Dictionary (admittedly a no doubt rather staid 1975 edition) has this:

    ‘Dyke – see Dike’

    ‘Dike, Dyke, n & v.t. 1. Ditch’

    You’re fine Patrice don’t listen to these ruffianly fellows.

    01/05/2015 at 01:45 #23287
    Avatar photoThaddeus Blanchette
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    Next thing, you’ll be claiming that “gay” means “happy”, Guy. 🙂

    We get slapped around, but we have a good time!

    01/05/2015 at 07:54 #23303
    Avatar photoGeneral Slade
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    http://www.nationaltrail.co.uk/offas-dyke-path

    When referring to a trench or earthwork it is perfectly acceptable spell dyke with a ‘y’. It’s not archaic and is still in common usage.

    01/05/2015 at 09:36 #23316
    Avatar photoGuy Farrish
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    HI Thaddeus,

    There’s another meaning?

    :^)

    01/05/2015 at 11:36 #23329
    Avatar photoThaddeus Blanchette
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    Maybe Offa was just responding to the radfem pressures of his day. “A path of one’s own” and all that.

    We get slapped around, but we have a good time!

    01/05/2015 at 13:59 #23335
    Avatar photoGuy Farrish
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    Probably – a typical phallocentric symptomatic palliation response to the legitimate demands for a fundamental feminist self determination, if you ask me. A ditch doesn’t need a vallum.

     

    01/05/2015 at 16:07 #23350
    Avatar photoThaddeus Blanchette
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    Like a fish doesn’t need a bicycle. Unless she’s Danish.

    We get slapped around, but we have a good time!

    01/05/2015 at 19:40 #23373
    Avatar photoMike
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    anyway……

    01/05/2015 at 23:36 #23391
    Avatar photoGuy Farrish
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    Sorry Michael (and Patrice) did that wander off topic a bit?

    02/05/2015 at 01:22 #23395
    Avatar photoWar Panda
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    Brilliant AAR Patrice…Excellent idea inserting the dirty word in the title …knowing your audience is half the battle

    “The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad,
    For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.”

    02/05/2015 at 02:03 #23400
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    Love the table and figures !!!

    03/05/2015 at 19:27 #23515
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    Dyke is the correct spelling in English. Please ignore confused Brasilians that have been tainted by exposure to obscure dialects 

    http://jannersjaunt.blogspot.dk

    03/05/2015 at 22:13 #23522
    Avatar photoThaddeus Blanchette
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    There’s a reason Dick Van Dyke’s name has been re-appropriated by transformationists as Dyke Von Dick. And it ain’t his Cockney accent, Mahry Pohppins. 😉

    We get slapped around, but we have a good time!

    04/05/2015 at 08:02 #23533
    Avatar photoNot Connard Sage
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    It’s the tire/tyre thing in reverse.

     

    If you buggers have to mangle the English language, at least be consistent 

    Obvious contrarian and passive aggressive old prat, who is taken far too seriously by some and not seriously enough by others.

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