Speak like a Brit!!!
 

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made my morning...

that is like, sooooo cool...

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

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Read that on the train this morning, the one I really hate is "I could care less".
So that means that you do care then?
No?
Oh. :grind: :upyours:

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Mwuahahaha

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this is one of my pet hates. I get so annoyed that the English language is being destroyed with America words and phrases. People these days don't even realise they are doing it and even on British soaps our own language is ignored.

Do you think the American's are going to start using correct English words instead of their own. I don't think so, so why do we use theirs ?

It even happends when you go abroad and foreigners say they speak English but they don't they speak American.

Any other country than ours wouldn't let it happen.

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What annoys me is the French thinks its cool to steal our language and use it. Like if they say a sentence and drop an english word in, its the coolest thing ever.
Each country should stick to their own or else you wont be able to travel the world and experience new things, as eventually food, language, clothes, trends, traditions, will all be the same.

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i say "like" and "to be fair" a lot :(:(:(

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Prithee, good Sires and Maids, why, marry and i'faith 'tis true!

Odsblood, I woulds't fain ne'er use yon befouled and debased form of speech of ye corruptest nature when ye language of Shakespeare can trip lightly from a body's lips!

On the other hand, look, guys and girls, language evolves. It grows, it changes, new words are added, old words fall into disuse (read the OED for a myriad of examples) and to try to fix it into one form is pointless.

So, yes, some of these Americanisms grate on the ear, but short of passing laws like the French have where they have to create a "Frenchified" word like "L'Ordinateur" instead of "Le Computer" just to avoid using an English <pah! spit!> one, which are, frankly, rather silly, it's just something that you'll have to live with.

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Further to Grahams posting has anyone here ever read Chaucer?If you think Shakespeare is impeneterable it is nothing compared to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.The old english he used has long since disappeared and do we care?Do we heck.Agreed change for the sake of change is bad but as we grow,develop and progress as the human race,our languages are bound to change right along with us.

Incog.:)



Incog.

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I did The Miller's Tale (one of Geoff's), Pygmalion (one of George's) Macbeth (one of Bill's) and Great Expectations (one of Charlie's) for EngLit O level.

Prior to that I was an avid reader - the sum of those tomes put me off books forever.

It did, nevertheless, inspire me that criminality, adultery, murder, subterfuge, chauvanism, lies, deceit and spin had a precedent in literature and centuries of life, and I have not looked back since ;)

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Verily, I sayeth unto thee, fair maiden Coggy, thine linguistics art amongest those which entertain mine person greatly!!

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Prithee, Sire wheras it harkens a proponderance of suckling bovine passage seepeth into this Fine Thread?

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Who consumeth the ample storage of rich pastry produce?
Who consumeth the ample storage of rich pastry produce?
I condend, Sire, that the deed was committed by thyne good self, thy obese individual of questionable paternship, indeed thy obese individual of questionable paternship,
Thy consumeth the ample storage of rich pastry produce.

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language evolves - just go with it :) we have no empire or any reason to be proud let em butcher our language as well maybe we could be the 51st state ..

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:rofl: classic......Just classic

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Now I remember why I hated english literature so much :D

The thing is - as already stated, language moves on, it evolves..
The english language is already a corruption of other languages: both french and german have words that sound the same as the english equivalent. This is just a further corruption.

Accept the fact that it will happen - that is not to say we have to use those particular phrases, just that we must accept that other people will... :angel:

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I don't think it's fair to say that the French steal our language - while there are a lot of 'English' words used over there, it's known as 'Franglais', so it's fairly obvious where they're coming from :)

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What really ****es me off is that they are called 'loanwords'. If they are indeed on loan, I think we should start proceedings to have them returned immediately. It's a disgrace the way they are using them :upyours:

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Ahem! Before you start doing that, I suggest you take a look at the vast number of words that English has "borrowed" from other languages.

http://www.krysstal.com/borrow.html

Imagine if they started demanding them back!

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To be fair there are many times we use French words to sound 'posh'

When a new word has been invented in a foreign language, what are you suppose to do?

For instance, in parts of Europe they says "I'll esss-em-esss you" While here we say "text". SMS meaning 'short message service' the original name for text messaging.

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It's a joke ok :) :angel:

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Aaaah - tres bon, mon ami! :D

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You shouldn't have colonized us. :D Maybe we'd be speaking French or German then. :D

On a side note, Quebec is doing the same to the French language. It just so happens when you go to France and try to speak French the French get so miffed they ask you to speak English.

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What is it about the French language? There was something in the paper the other week that said the Cajun dialect (based on French) is basically being wiped out as well.

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Could it have something to do with it being spoken by the French? ;)

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Zut alors!!!!! :pp

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Fermet le boosh :D

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Sacre bleu!!!!!!! Monsieur Stuartbe est tres cheeky :erm:

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Ta Guelle! :D

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Merci monsieur's - moi Jadore le francies :)

Cant say anymore - Its all swear words :D

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unfortunately my french vocabulary is a little too rude for this forum...

aber mein deutsch ist nicht so schlecht :angel:

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:notopic: Why is it that the only thing we can all remember from our school days of a foreign language, is how to throw insults :D :disturbd:

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But the Quebecans (or whatever they are) speak more correct french than the French.

The French say Bon Weekend and Fair du Shopping, The Quebecans would only ever say Fair du Magasanage (my french spelling is dire).

Interesting that it could so easily have been that the whole of the US adopted French as its native language. The Stripe of states running down the Missisisppi all had it as their primary language.

However the US will all be speaking Spanish by the end of the decade. It's already the principle language in many southern states.