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:):mad::mad::mad::mad: :mad::mad::D:mad::mad: :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad: :D:D:D:D:D Well that was lucky :p

I just had a long, upset message from a very close Belarusian friend, who I met when we were at uni in China. Our friends there were a mix of Belarusian, Russian and Ukrainian - not so many Russians for me, who tended not to be so friendly with the Brits there (with exceptions), but those...

:D;):mad::mad:;) :D:D:D:D:D A pleasant change after some of the recent ones!

Ooft, tricky one, five today :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad: :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad: :mad::mad::o:mad::mad: :o:D:mad::mad::mad: :D:D:D:D:D As others said, with that many letters eliminated, there are only so many words it could be!

:mad:;);):mad::mad: :mad::mad::mad:;):mad: :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad: :mad::D:D:mad::mad: :mad::D:D;):mad: :D:D:D:D:D Phew indeed!

:mad:;):mad:;):mad: :mad:;):mad::mad::mad: :mad::mad:;):mad::mad: :D:D:D:D:D Fortunately the first four yellows were all different letters, so got it after a think.

:mad::mad::D;):D :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad: :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad: :mad::D:D:mad::D :D:D:D:D:D Took a bit of working out, but not the worst word (if a bit of a rubbish way of getting there).

As above, expect quite a few similar results today, along with "surely it's not...wait, is that a word?" thoughts along the way :D:D:mad:;);) :D:D:D:D:mad: :D:D:D:D:mad: :D:D:D:D:D

;):mad::mad::mad::mad: :D:D:D:D:D Well, I'm not sure what that says about me...

Not a great start today. :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad: :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad: :mad::D:D:D:D :D:D:D:D:D

:mad:;):mad::mad:;) :mad:;););):mad: ;):D:mad::mad::mad: :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad: :D:D:D:D:D 5 today, had to burn a word to get rid of some letters, which seemed to work quite effectively!

2/6 today. Enjoying this :)

Was it? My Taiwanese ID card says 英國, which is Britain/UK. As for the topic, British then English - half my family is Scottish, I grew up in England but went to uni in Scotland and stayed up there for 6 years, now in England, but would very much like to be back north.

I do fostering admin things. So, child protection checks, submitting DBSs, chasing GPs to do /return medicals, generally keeping track of where 70 odd assessments are and making sure everything is returned. Since we no longer have any staff, I also do performance statistics, weekly training...

I'm not sure why you'd use reading other people's handwriting as a measure of how difficult a language is to learn? I get handwritten forms sent back to me every day by other (supposed) English speakers at work, and can't decipher them half the time. I certainly wouldn't expect any non-English...

To be fair, he's also (rightly!) using traditional characters, and while I dislike simplified, I do accept that 图书馆 is probably easier to read on a screen if you're unfamiliar than 圖書館 :p Edit : As for hand written, they may be larger, but good luck figuring anything out if you've not grown up...

While the example doesn't really work (in the sense that the alarm would be off, not going off), phrasal verbs are one of the most soul destroying things to get your head around in English. They're not exclusive to English by any means, but the sheer number of them, and the frequency with which...

"May you" is not in itself incorrect grammar, when the "you" is taken to mean "one" (and thus sounding a bit archaic). Using it in a request like that however, it should be could. I'm not proscriptive at all about English and grammar, and am very much of the belief that if you've effectively...

First computer in my room was a 286 when I was 6, so 1993, after my dad had bought a shiny new 486. I then got that when he upgraded to a K6 200, which I got after he...etc. I think the first I built for myself was when I was about 14, an Athlon something. Then I got a part time job in a local...

Just thinking of numbers with Chinese, if we're being logical - January? 1 month. February? 2 month. March? 3 month. Etc Similar days, Monday to Saturday just go day 1 to 6 (funnily enough, Sunday is...er, day sun). Though, don't get me started on large numbers in Chinese, though that's purely...