"Oh Canada" .....

Davie · Post by **Davie** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 2:44 pm

I also just found a copy of "Oh Canada" A budget of stories and pictures by Members of The Canadian Expediitionary Forces
Some great articles, poems and cartoons.

Put one of the cartoons in the Gallery
"As pants the heart"

http://talkingscot.com/gallery/displayi ... p?pos=-996

Davie

Gallery URL added - AndrewP

CatrionaL · Post by **CatrionaL** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 1:32 pm

Ah weel, Davie, we obviously dinnae hiv the same sense a humeur.

Best wishes

Catriona

DavidWW · Post by **DavidWW** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 2:28 pm

Aye weel indeed

Personally I can't see any problem with the cartoon, but then senses of humour do differ greatly on an individual basis, never mind between nations.

Whether this cartoon is really humorous or not I'm unsure, as there is no caption to guide the viewer, but then that's the nature of many cartoons.

I certainly see nothing offensive about it, explicit or implicit.

As to the "meaning" of the cartoon, I see no value in getting involved in, or encouraging a debate

That written, all that I "see" is a puir mannie totally discombobulated by the concept of trous being the male wear in La Belle France, or maybe La Belle Belgique (how does one say that in the Walloon language of Flanders?).

Note, incidentally, that the two Scots appear to be from different regiments, - the headgear is the real clue! Which raises the question of how they came to be together, - friends back in Auld Scotia or Canada who just happened to meet up on local leave in France/Flanders?

One is wearing a tartan kilt, while the other is wearing the plain mid-grey pattern WWI kilt most often used in the trenches on the Western Front. Just possible that they were in the same regiment, when I think on it, with one in normal regimental dress, and t'other in "front line" dress, but Ah hae ma doots based on the headgear, never mind that if they were both "walking out", i.e. away from camp/barracks they'd be expected to be in similar, appropriate dress, even when they were in France/Flanders.

Don't ever imagine that Regimental Serjeant Majors of Scottish Highland or Canadian-Scottish Highland regiments allowed dress standards to be relaxed just because their regiments were on active service on the Western Front

David

Post by **SarahND** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 3:25 pm

DavidWW wrote:That written, all that I "see" is a puir mannie totally discombobulated by the concept of trous being the male wear in La Belle France, or maybe La Belle Belgique (how does one say that in the Walloon language of Flanders?).

Something like "li bea Beldjike" although I left my Walloon grammar back in Minnesota

And the Walloons are not in Flanders, but on the French-speaking side of the linguistic boundary in Belgium.

Regards,
Sarah, who is married to a French (unfortunately not Walloon)-speaking Belgian

DavidWW · Post by **DavidWW** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 9:25 pm

Seems like I've got my geography in a fankle, as the Western Front extended into French speaking Belgium

David

Post by **SarahND** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 9:35 pm

DavidWW wrote:Seems like I've got my geography in a fankle, as the Western Front extended into French speaking Belgium

Good word, "fankle"! Luckily it's in my Scots Dictionary that is with me, instead of keeping company with my Walloon Grammar across the water

I'm glad you got your geography in "it", so I could learn a new expression

Regards,
Sarah