What projects could be
undertaken to make:
"Terrace more attractive?

ver.

Ben Ladouceur

Rob Holmberg Juile Powers
_ 1 like Terrace just the § Garbage cleanup Add more to the main
way It Is. definitely! Perhaps some street — something like

“-. > flower baskets, Smithers did.

Gordon Shaben .

They could encourage

_ businesses and land-
owners to flx up some of
the older buildings. To
. restore some of the:
> Original flavor of the area.
"When something gets old,
_. It doesn’t mean It Is no
longer useful

Ginger Tremblay
More places for youth
to go. Youth programs to
get them off the streets;
something for the kids
that doesn’t cost an arm
and a leg.

Lynn Lalone
Clean up the streets
more; plant some flowers.
The people who do “com-
munity hours” could do
this.

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The way
I see it...

by Stephanie Wiebe

My friend and I have a lan-
guage problem. Although we’ve
both immigrated here from
other countries, we both speak
English. She’s from England
and I’m from the United

States. But her English is not

my English, _
She says “‘to-mah-to”’ and I
Say “‘to-may-to”’, I say ‘‘Band-

_ Aid”? and she says “‘plaster’’.

She says “‘jumper’’ and I say
“‘sweater’’, We have a lot of
fun with our respective
languages. But sometimes she
doesn’t make sense,

The other day, I was cutting
into an orange, when she asked
about the “pips”. Now the on-
ly pips that I know, follow
Gladys Knight, the singer. Ah,
seeds! And when she mention-
ed putting “mince’’ in her
spaghetti sauce that night, I
was disgusted at the thought of
chopped currants in a to-may-
to sauce. I gave her a lot of
strange looks before she trans-
lated ‘mince’? into ‘‘ground
beef’’,

It’s funny how words can
change the vision in your mind.
My friend’s “‘swimming
costume’’ sounds like it covers
her entire body, when com-
pared to my skimpy “‘swim-
suit”’. Her “knickers” remind
me of knee-length cotton
undergarments, as opposed to
my “‘panties’’. And her
‘‘mince’’ just sounds
disgusting. (There might be
**pips”’ in it.)

Some of my American-isms
irritate her, like the word —

' Frank Donahue

1th,

The Mutual Group since 1868
Skeena Mall, Terrace
Accessible & Attractive office

~ “looket’’, as in “‘looket that.

book’’, Her British-isms amuse
me, like ‘‘bloody” being a bad
word instead of meaning
*‘covered in blood’’, I try to
avoid using ‘“‘gonna’’, as in-
“I’m gonna call you later’’,
but her ‘‘I’ll ring you up later”
isn't really correct either. It
sounds like she’s going to hang
me, ’

We can both make fun of ~

- Canadian speech. You Cana-

dians are almost as lazy in your
speech habits.as we Americans,
with a bit of that silly British
slang thrown in. And why did
you put a “‘u” in “color’’? I -.
wish you'd all learn to spell.
correctly, ch? I also think that
‘butt’? is more descriptive than
“‘bum’’, but I’m learning to
overlook that one.

Americans say that their chil-
dren are in the “‘first grade’’,
Canadians say ‘‘grade one’’
and the British say ‘‘fust
level?’. Who's right? And what
about “‘schedule’?? Pronounc- .
ing it ‘‘shed-yule’’, instead of
““sked-yule’’ has kept a lot of
Americans on their own side of
the border. Perhaps that’s the
plan.

To make it all worse, didja
know there’s ‘‘watchdogs”’ out
there, monitoring our use of
the English language? People
who publicly complain and cor-
rect Our grammar and syntax?

- Them people oughta be told to

shaddup. It’s hard enough talk-
ing with my foreign friends,
without their bloody
nit-pickin’. Eh? -

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