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can anyone relate to this, re H grammar

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single1ds · 05/11/2010 15:25

Been spilt up now for 16 months. go through periods of on the verge of divorcing him then periods of missing him.
put my rings on last night and had a few tears :-(
dont think i can get back with him though as have this huge problem with his grammar, it is really doing my head in and i cant just laugh it off or accept it is his accent.
he is from Wales. he keep saying ds to put thins "by" there. and how he is "in" work (i would say at work), the latest is he is "on" training. i would just saying, i am doing training course. it drives me mad. when we were together i mentioned it but he has never adjusted it, it just isnt good english is it? more frustraing ds is starting with it aswell. Am i being unreasonable? Is it just how people from Wales speak or is it it just him? he is very intelligent btw. has a very well paid job etc.

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scurryfunge · 05/11/2010 15:28

Have a jammy dodger.

noddyholder · 05/11/2010 15:29

Fgs are you nuts?

BooBooGlass · 05/11/2010 15:29
Biscuit
Hullygully · 05/11/2010 15:30

I agree. It would be a dealbreaker for me. The Welsh are simply beyond the pale.

single1ds · 05/11/2010 15:35

ok sorry :-(

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Monty27 · 05/11/2010 15:41

Rofl.

Are you Anne Robinson??

Oh come on, you can't be serious??

Sit down and have a cup of tea and a bisgedi Biscuit, that's Welsh for biscuit.

Grin
JiggeryFawkesery · 05/11/2010 15:42

OH you are not being at all unreasonable. The devil is in the details.

I divorced my first husband on the grounds that he would squash peas on the back of his fork to eat them, the lunatic,

I ended another relationship because he said 'haitch', the fucking chav.

My second husband died in mysterious circumstances, but I won't forget his irritating laugh no matter how hard I try.

I lost a good friend to her insistance on her stupid Liverpudlian slang - every noun must be truncated and 'eeee' added on the end: the offeeee, the disheeeee, the compeeeeee, ffs was she raised by Jimmy fucking Corkhill.

I fired an employee on the grounds of their 'character' socks - Homer Simpson has no place in my office, be it on a t-shirt or a sock or in bloody person, which brings me to husband no 3.

It is entirely reasonable to end a relationship with a man who acknowledges his mistakes and misdemeanors with the word 'Doh!'

OP you have done well not to have the ridiculous Welshman shot. And you're not at all racist, oh no.

Sparklerz · 05/11/2010 15:43

There's lovely.

coatgate · 05/11/2010 15:44

Definite grounds for divorce - what on earth made you marry him in the first place? He didn't make you live in Wales did he?

ChocHobNob · 05/11/2010 15:46

My 2 sons are Welsh. They're doomed aren't they?

single1ds · 05/11/2010 15:47

Hi
I know it sounds ridiculous yes, but i am being serious :-( i guess you would have to know him, it didn't used to bother me, perhaps i am being too sensitive but it does get on my nerves. We were together 12 ish years. I am genuine, i think i should have worded my post a bit better. I am def NOT racist, i think it is just HIM getting on my nerves and if someone else was to speak that way i probaby wouldnt notice. It just sounds odd, just wanted to get it off my chest

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scurryfunge · 05/11/2010 15:48

I was made to live in Wales as a child -abusive parents, or what?

scurryfunge · 05/11/2010 15:49

Seriously, if you are focussing on the way he speaks then the relationship is doomed.

single1ds · 05/11/2010 15:51

scurryfunge, i agree, what do you mean though, abusive parents?

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Monty27 · 05/11/2010 15:51

Lol at Sparklerz Grin

scurryfunge · 05/11/2010 15:53

I was continuing the piss take about being Welsh and equating living there with abuse.

JiggeryFawkesery · 05/11/2010 15:53

You sound very high maintenance OP.

It's not like he says 'pacific' for 'specific', now that's grounds for murder.....did I mention husband no 3?

single1ds · 05/11/2010 15:53

i meant i agree about it being doomed :-(
I love Wales and the people i met, i loved him aswell. maybe you notice these things more when you are not around them so often

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single1ds · 05/11/2010 15:54

sorry, i need to lighten up dont i!

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Monty27 · 05/11/2010 15:54
single1ds · 05/11/2010 15:55
Grin
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Monty27 · 05/11/2010 15:59

I'm not even Welsh!

Grin
ChocHobNob · 05/11/2010 16:06

I think you're nit-picking because you don't like the bloke any more.

single1ds · 05/11/2010 16:08

thanks it has put things in perspective and i just need to get over it. you are right x

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Sparklerz · 05/11/2010 16:09

It's not unusual, does he feel sheepish about it?