29-03-2004, 11:15
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Speak like a Brit!!!
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29-03-2004, 11:43
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made my morning...
that is like, sooooo cool...
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29-03-2004, 14:04
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Re: Speak like a Brit!!!
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.  
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29-03-2004, 14:36
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Mwuahahaha
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Next time you hear some Avril Lavigne-alike airing her "issues" at the mall (or Tesco's car park), just stop her and say: "Real issues are Iraq or the environment. You haven't got issues, you've got acne
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29-03-2004, 15:16
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Re: Speak like a Brit!!!
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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29-03-2004, 15:20
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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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29-03-2004, 15:37
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29-03-2004, 23:53
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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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30-03-2004, 00:53
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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.
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30-03-2004, 01:08
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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.
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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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30-03-2004, 01:10
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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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30-03-2004, 01:21
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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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30-03-2004, 01:30
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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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30-03-2004, 13:09
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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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30-03-2004, 13:21
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Prithee, Sire wheras it harkens a proponderance of suckling bovine passage seepeth into this Fine Thread?
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classic......Just classic
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