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Welcome to the Brighton & Hove Issues Forum

This is a place online where you can discuss the local issues that matter to you. It is a place where people living in Brighton and Hove come together to exchange ideas, opinions, and information on local affairs. (Photo by etm21 via Flickr).

 

the Brighton & Hove Issues Forum

 

On Brighton & Hove Issues Forum, Ed Bassford wrote this recently :

"It's not down to the drafters of legislation to be creative.  They comply

with Section 6 of the Interpretation Act 1978:-



6. Gender and number.



In any Act, unless the contrary intention appears,-

(a)words importing the masculine gender include the feminine;

(b)words importing the feminine gender include the masculine;

(c)words in the singular include the plural and words in the 

plural include

the singular.



There are two specific pieces of law that disapply this 

provision:-

The Sexual Offences Act 1985 and the Employment Act 1989."

 

Wide range of musical events
Forget stuffy! Forget boring! Simply prepare yourself for a fantastic, wide-ranging programme of events celebrating all kinds of music from the past. And if you like world, jazz or folk, you're likely to find something to tempt you in this year's line up.

Try something new
Early music groups lead the way in exploring links between classical music and other musical styles and in experimenting with new ways to make classical music more accessible. So the Festival really is for everyone. Why not take a look at the programme and pick something completely new to try? 

Pop to the pub for some Early Music Live!
This year also sees some performances taking place in pubs around Brighton, with Brighton Early Music Live, which will feature performances by students and recent graduates in informal settings. 
 
1000 years of music
The 2007 festival takes place between 6th and 28th October and covers music spanning nearly 1000 years. As well as the more informal performances, events will also take place in churches, theatres and dedicated arts venues.

You ask "Just tell me please", so having nothing to do before going to bed- here goes:

 

Since I've joined the B&H E-democracy Forum, I feel every day as if I were becoming a kind of Brighton and Hove citizen! A virtual citizen maybe, but a citizen yet ... Hence I can « sort of » improve my english, don't I ? (is'nt this « sort of » word a very « classical » standard 'bad-english' way of speaking, just tell me, please !)

 

** Yes "sort of " is normal in speech and means "approximately" ("its sort of near London"), or fairly ("it is sort of chilly today"), but your use is not really right here, as you either do improve your English, or you do not. There is no in-between or approximate state.

 

** "Don't I" should be "Can't I" after saying "hence I can".

I met there a number of kind and interesting folks

 

** Folk is a collective noun, and so should here be singular

 

First, Elizabeth R. to whom I had « requested to make contact ». She replied to me soon

 

** Soon means in the near future, so "quickly" would be better, although "she replied to me soon  afterwards" would be correct, while "she soon replied to me" would also sound correct. Why? What is the rule? I can not say. It just sounds odd.

 

I could read many new (for me!) and interesting things, about wireless cities for instance, informations 

 

** "Information" is a collective noun again - and so singular.

 

I am discovering that I can find a real pleasure in writing in english ... and, well, my shyness thereabout 

 

** "shyness about doing so" or "shyness in so doing" would be better

 

 But I remain conscious that I have still a long way to run before I become...an english writer, an acceptable one I mean. 

 

** Actually you write English very well indeed - congratulations! Few Englishmen today write their own language well.

 

The forum is a valuable place but I wonder why there are no pictures of other members, no e-mail adress 

 

 

either, no simple link between reality and virtuality. A strange flavour of secrecy. Tell me why please. Has Britain become such a police-state that you have to take the greatest care day after day to escape this orwelian nightmare ? 

 

** We now live in an Orwellian nightmare it is true, but people are nervous of disseminating their e-mail addresses for fear of spam. Furthermore, the southern English are nervous of "becoming involved" with strangers with whom they might come into contact  again (but are generally more friendly to foreign visitors who are sure to go away), until they know about them and know whether they might become a nuisance. They fear having to be rude in order to end the contact. I suspect that this is due to a long history of high population-density. A friend from a village the Morvan said he was shocked when he first visited Paris and found that people there do not greet strangers in the street. 

 

 

Richard Brown