Even shortly before we left the EU, students were often being actively discouraged from taking it up (would interrupt their studies, would be a distraction, they wouldn't have the linguistic capacity etc. etc.)

The great tragedy of Erasmus in the UK was that, for instance, I would've loved to have done it but never knew anything about it. Then we complained that too many students came here & not enough of us took advantage of it.

Clearly they have different standards to most local papers.

Diwali celebrations evidently (audibly) in full swing. :-)

💙🤍

We're also going to have to put up with Glaswegians patronising Sheffielders for bit, like the bloke on #bbc5live earlier: "… with all due respect to Sheffield Wednesday…"

Get stuffed. (I'm being polite.)

For what it's worth, I don't think the government should be commenting on every repulsive thing said by Conservative backbenchers. (Though their own leader should take a view).

What it *should* be doing is articulating a clear position of its own. It's *that* silence which is the big problem.

A Catholic can be prime minister. We had one, oh, three prime ministers ago.

I don't know where I dredged that up from!

Are you sending these into the local newspaper yet? ;-)

Mixed feelings on that. They're not called 'Lotto Men', either.

& Chloë (though I guess that's really a tréma).

hahahahah

Yeah. Too painful. (Even if everything's already painful.)

Sadly I'd trust my attempts at pronouncing German much more than any attempt at that. :-(

Well, the BBC Radio Sheffield journalists made a heroic fist of it for two seasons & even managed to find it on their keyboards.

She's not the only one. #thearchers

I don't think I've read one of this writter's columns yet, not even hate-read, so for that reason I doubt they're actually clickbait, though they must have some reason for employing her to write them.

(The Guardian used to ignore them completely as well, until – I think – Arsenal or someone complained on behalf on Mesut Özil.)

In this case it's the ö in Röhl… The bbc website has a weird policy of ignoring them (& all other accents) in writing, but #bbcradio4 used to pride itself on getting pronunciations right.

(When Danny Röhl managed Wednesday for two seasons, the local bbc journalists seemed to manage all right.)

This sort of trivial strawmannery is that particular columnist's stock in trade, I think.

Mainly just very glad neither of them will be up against us.

I have never heard of this ever.

#bbcradio4 studiously ignoring the umlaut, I note. (As they also do on the bbc website, in fact.)

What sounds (& feels) like clog dancing this afternoon… :-|

Why wouldn't he?

Addio a Sofia Corradi, «mamma Erasmus»: grazie a lei 16 milioni di giovani europei in viaggio studio
www.corriere.it/scuola/universita/25_ott...

Set myself the challenge of finishing (or at least reducing) my massive pile of half-read books before Christmas.

Of course, I'm just adding to it.

Ate too much saag aloo.

Please, Chansiri, just sell so we don't all have to go through this every week. #swfc