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11/10/2005 10:34:19 PM · #1 |
| I've just accepted to photograph a wedding in March next year! It is my 3rd wedding within a week. One on the saturday, one on the sunday and one on the following friday! I'm gonna have to spend a month glued to my PC to process them all, plus do another wedding the following fortnight! Still, money is money I guess and I have to feed the family! |
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11/10/2005 10:35:33 PM · #2 |
| I don't think that booking all the weddings makes you insane... but using the word "fortnight"...? :) |
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11/10/2005 10:36:05 PM · #3 |
haha, definitely ...fortnight...
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11/10/2005 10:36:10 PM · #4 |
hey, as long as you get paid for the time... I don't get any money for doing it at all. :o)
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11/10/2005 10:37:16 PM · #5 |
Originally posted by alansfreed:
I don't think that booking all the weddings makes you insane... but using the word "fortnight"...? :) |
BAWAAWAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
Rose
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11/10/2005 10:39:54 PM · #6 |
It must be a word not used often on your side of the world, or a different meaning??
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11/10/2005 10:43:17 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by Makka:
It must be a word not used often on your side of the world, or a different meaning?? |
umm, try more like not since the early part of the 20th century. most people in the states only read the word in old books, not speak it in everyday life.
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11/10/2005 10:44:33 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by Makka:
It must be a word not used often on your side of the world, or a different meaning?? |
I've heard the term, but I'd be completely honest in saying that I have no idea just how long that might be. I didn't know that was a phrase that was actually used nowadays -- I would have thought it was something that people used "way back when" :) |
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11/10/2005 10:45:54 PM · #9 |
Originally posted by alansfreed:
Originally posted by Makka:
It must be a word not used often on your side of the world, or a different meaning?? |
I've heard the term, but I'd be completely honest in saying that I have no idea just how long that might be. I didn't know that was a phrase that was actually used nowadays -- I would have thought it was something that people used "way back when" :) |
I believe it's a couple of weeks?
Message edited by author 2005-11-10 22:46:35.
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11/10/2005 10:47:42 PM · #10 |
Yeah, it refers to 2 weeks! Wow, you learn something new everyday! Sheesh, at 35 I'm old fashioned already!! :)
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11/10/2005 10:48:11 PM · #11 |
I was amused by it when I first heard it in England. Then I used it when I came to the states (some 11 years ago) and had to explain myself. Haven't used it since... good to hear/read it again.
It is two weeks (fourteen days)
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11/10/2005 10:51:27 PM · #12 |
| Well, heretofore and henceforth, I shalt commence with the proper usage of the verbage! |
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11/10/2005 10:53:11 PM · #13 |
Didn't Cornwallace have fortnight on tuesday's?
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11/10/2005 10:58:37 PM · #14 |
Originally posted by Makka:
It must be a word not used often on your side of the world, or a different meaning?? |
I'm sorry. I don't know where you are from, but here in the states we don't use fortnight for anything. It is something we only read in things like Sherlock Holmes stories. LOL...
Rose
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11/10/2005 10:59:50 PM · #15 |
I hear it when I watch Wimbledon... so I'm pretty sure it's 2 weeks.
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11/10/2005 11:01:26 PM · #16 |
Originally posted by Rose8699:
I'm sorry. I don't know where you are from, but here in the states we don't use fortnight for anything. It is something we only read in things like Sherlock Holmes stories. LOL...
Rose |
Elementary, my dear Rose! |
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11/10/2005 11:05:17 PM · #17 |
Originally posted by Makka:
Originally posted by Rose8699:
I'm sorry. I don't know where you are from, but here in the states we don't use fortnight for anything. It is something we only read in things like Sherlock Holmes stories. LOL...
Rose |
Elementary, my dear Rose! |
"Yes, and when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however, improbable, must be the truth"
My husbands fav! LOL....
Rose
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11/10/2005 11:15:27 PM · #18 |
Insanity isn't relative. The real question is...do you like wedding cake that much??
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11/10/2005 11:18:08 PM · #19 |
| It is not insane .. it just means you are always up for a good challenge!! |
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11/10/2005 11:19:41 PM · #20 |
| "fortnight" is a perfectly good english word... and for all the Americans who don't know it and dismiss it as a quaint anachronism, fie on you. |
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11/10/2005 11:21:00 PM · #21 |
Originally posted by mycelium:
...fie on you. |
THAT's tellin' us! ;-)
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11/10/2005 11:32:30 PM · #22 |
Im tellin ya fortnight is when Cornwallace had a rummage sale on Tuesday nights
Message edited by author 2005-11-10 23:35:15.
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11/10/2005 11:32:57 PM · #23 |
| Yes, let's have fortnight-long challenges (though I won't be available much in the next fortnight as I'm moving house). |
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11/10/2005 11:38:57 PM · #24 |
Originally posted by jsas:
Im tellin ya fortnight is when Cornwallace had a rummage sale on Tuesday nights |
Cornwallace. Isn't he the General who had a little problem at Yorktown at the end of the US Revolution? |
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11/10/2005 11:41:42 PM · #25 |
you learn something new everyday
"fortnight" is a very common word used all the time down here in Australia and New Zealand..... as in most people get payed fortnightly, weekly or monthly
and my spell checker had no problems with it at all :)
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