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endfire79

September 05, 2013, 10:08:14 PM
... do you know the origin of the word 'dreckly'  in Cornwall UK?

Here's what I can get on urban dictionary:
   
An unspecified period of time, leaning towards sometime never. Has been described as Manana without all the rushing about. Derived presumably from directly, but given a Cornish twist.


I've been doing a lot of work travel to and from Cornwall for the last 2 years, and I've come across this in the dialect a lot.  Usually comes up when I ask when is something going to get fixed.  I've caught on pretty fast though - almost started using it myself :)


"I will return before you can say 'antidisestablishmentarianism'."

"A man may fight for many things. His country, his principles, his friends. The glistening tear on the cheek of a golden child. But personally, I'd mud-wrestle my own mother for a ton of cash, an amusing clock and a sack of French porn."

LongBlade

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September 06, 2013, 12:03:31 AM
I imagine it's from the word "directly."

As in, "It'll be fixed directly."

Instantly.

But with clear sarcasm. As in, "In its own sweet time."
All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

GDS_Starfury

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September 06, 2013, 01:02:14 AM
in Yidish dreck is the same as crap.
Jarhead - Yeah. You're probably right.

Gus - I use sweatpants with flannel shorts to soak up my crotch sweat.

Banzai Cat - There is no "partial credit" in grammar. Like anal sex. It's either in, or it's not.

Mirth - We learned long ago that they key isn't to outrun Star, it's to outrun Gus.

Martok - I don't know if it's possible to have an "anti-boner"...but I now have one.

Gus - Celery is vile and has no reason to exist. Like underwear on Star.

MikeGER

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September 06, 2013, 01:14:35 AM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on September 06, 2013, 01:02:14 AM
in Yidish dreck is the same as crap.

in German  'Dreck'  is the word for all kind of unwanted, polluted, dirty kind of soil 
crap would be specified as "Scheißdreck"  ;D

GDS_Starfury

#4
September 06, 2013, 01:29:05 AM
well since tonight is the new year of 5774 the Yiddish precedes the German.  ;)
Jarhead - Yeah. You're probably right.

Gus - I use sweatpants with flannel shorts to soak up my crotch sweat.

Banzai Cat - There is no "partial credit" in grammar. Like anal sex. It's either in, or it's not.

Mirth - We learned long ago that they key isn't to outrun Star, it's to outrun Gus.

Martok - I don't know if it's possible to have an "anti-boner"...but I now have one.

Gus - Celery is vile and has no reason to exist. Like underwear on Star.

MikeGER

#5
September 06, 2013, 02:08:20 AM
Happy New Year!  then :)  ... and don't forget to light some fireworks ...proably in the eastern direction ;) ...from a DDG  ;D

GDS_Starfury

#6
September 06, 2013, 02:34:09 AM
Ha!  I'll let my people know.
Jarhead - Yeah. You're probably right.

Gus - I use sweatpants with flannel shorts to soak up my crotch sweat.

Banzai Cat - There is no "partial credit" in grammar. Like anal sex. It's either in, or it's not.

Mirth - We learned long ago that they key isn't to outrun Star, it's to outrun Gus.

Martok - I don't know if it's possible to have an "anti-boner"...but I now have one.

Gus - Celery is vile and has no reason to exist. Like underwear on Star.

Boggit

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September 06, 2013, 06:52:39 PM
Quote from: endfire79 on September 05, 2013, 10:08:14 PM
... do you know the origin of the word 'dreckly'  in Cornwall UK?

Here's what I can get on urban dictionary:
   
An unspecified period of time, leaning towards sometime never. Has been described as Manana without all the rushing about. Derived presumably from directly, but given a Cornish twist.


I've been doing a lot of work travel to and from Cornwall for the last 2 years, and I've come across this in the dialect a lot.  Usually comes up when I ask when is something going to get fixed.  I've caught on pretty fast though - almost started using it myself :)
I'll try and get in touch with my aunt or uncle, - I have to email them on a folk music thing anyway - they're into Welsh, Breton, and Cornish stuff. They are very "Cornish", lived near Penrhyn, just outside Falmouth for donkey's years - they'll know the Cornish connection, if any. PM me in a few days if I forget to reply on this.
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own. Aldous Huxley

Foul Temptress! (Mirth replying to Gus) ;)

On a good day, our legislature has the prestige of a drunk urinating on a wall at 4am and getting most of it on his shoe. On a good day  ::) Steelgrave

It's kind of silly to investigate whether or not a Clinton is lying. That's sort of like investigating why the sky is blue. Banzai_Cat

endfire79

#8
September 07, 2013, 04:07:41 PM
^ When I go there, I usually stay in Falmouth and work in Helston

They sure like this drink over there:



"I will return before you can say 'antidisestablishmentarianism'."

"A man may fight for many things. His country, his principles, his friends. The glistening tear on the cheek of a golden child. But personally, I'd mud-wrestle my own mother for a ton of cash, an amusing clock and a sack of French porn."
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