Fireworks

[jack]

On saturday we went to a friend's for a firework party, rather than midsummer common. They were quite pretty (the fireworks). It was nostalgic to have a more domestic atmosphere, with mum meeting his parents, and his girlfriend's mother, and us speaking to his sister's friends, who nearly approach normal, yet without that being a gulf to us :)

Today, I discover a colleage went to the Saffron Walden fireworks, which were exciting due to having stuff piled up and set fire to, with none of this safety nonsense. He was quite surprised when I said we'd gone the day after and the village was still there.

Guys seem to have gone completely out of fasion. I guess halloween fills the 'make up' urge, and the political connotations are a bit uncomfortable, and it doesn't work well with large displays, and fireworks get more impressive. And maybe, they appear in pop culture less, not being a anglophilic[1] tradition.

[1] "English speaking". Or was I too clever and should stick with "English speaking"?

Comments

[filecoreinuse.livejournal.com]

Surely an 'English speaker' is an anglophone and thus there could be an argument for describing something which is 'English speaking' as anglophonic.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Doh.

But "anglophonic" would be a great band name :)

[miss-next.livejournal.com]

filecoreinuse is correct. "Anglophilic" means "fond of the English" (normally, the English as a race, not the English language).

But if anyone ever played the anglophone, I think it might be you. :-D

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Jack: I'm blowing an anglophone.
Mole: In public?

[ewx.livejournal.com]

It's almost of a shame that anglophone includes such an obvious loanword. Don't get me wrong, I have no general objection to loanwords, this just like it might a good place to put a special case.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

(the missing word is seems)

[icantcarenemore.livejournal.com]

Guys have gone out of fashion? Damn, I need to go buy new clothes ;)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

*Thank you.* At last :)

[icantcarenemore.livejournal.com]

I'm confused. Were you hoping for a response similar to mine...?

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

I thought there would likely be some pun on 'guy' :)

[icantcarenemore.livejournal.com]

This is more likely to be a case of me being ignorant rather than witty. Is Guy some sort of clothing brand?

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

No, not at all. Um, never mind. Confusion.

[yrieithydd.livejournal.com]

Bonfire Night is done in memory of the failure of the Gunpowder plot when Guy Fawkes was captured with much gunpowder `under' the House of Commons. In memory of this it is traditional to burn an effigy on the bonfire. This effigy is known as a Guy.