Two Questions
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Feb 13th 2008 | 7:35 pm
#32
Member
Joined: Jul 2007
Posts: 354
From: Westport, Ontario
Re: Two Questions
This kept us amused over the breakfast table...
(1) Queen's English? This language wasn't "invented", it has adapted through the influences of the Vikings, Romans, the Saxons - anybody who really wanted to impose their raping, pillaging and linguistics at the point of an axe or a sword.
(2) Have you heard people these days? People in England don't speak "The Queen's English", even she talks in Latin (One is having another Annus Horribilis). I teach in a college in Suffolk - trust me, not only can't anybody under 19 speak English, they can't write it either!
This will be good for future emigration to Canada though, because not one of the victims of our education system will ever be able to meet minimum language requirements - but that's another issue.
(3) I do feel however, that anybody that pretends to speak "our" language, should speak it properly - and learn to spell.
I was listening to Fox News last night - what are "buttockses"? Can somebody really "misremember"?
It is obviously our bounden duty to bring enlightenment to the ignorant and educate anybody that can't manage to spell "colour" properly, let alone pronounce "Slough" (where is "Sluff"?).
Maybe there's a case for completely ignoring the CHC and going back to the tradition of imposing our linguistics at the point of a sword?
It would cut down on processing times... trouble is, the moment the British Army saw temperatures of -25, the summer uniform the Labour (NOT Labor) government had bought them would send them all packing in no time.
My wife says I can't sign this as her, because she likes this forum and doesn't want me to offend anybody in her name (Moi? - See CHC I can do French).
(1) Queen's English? This language wasn't "invented", it has adapted through the influences of the Vikings, Romans, the Saxons - anybody who really wanted to impose their raping, pillaging and linguistics at the point of an axe or a sword.
(2) Have you heard people these days? People in England don't speak "The Queen's English", even she talks in Latin (One is having another Annus Horribilis). I teach in a college in Suffolk - trust me, not only can't anybody under 19 speak English, they can't write it either!
This will be good for future emigration to Canada though, because not one of the victims of our education system will ever be able to meet minimum language requirements - but that's another issue.
(3) I do feel however, that anybody that pretends to speak "our" language, should speak it properly - and learn to spell.
I was listening to Fox News last night - what are "buttockses"? Can somebody really "misremember"?
It is obviously our bounden duty to bring enlightenment to the ignorant and educate anybody that can't manage to spell "colour" properly, let alone pronounce "Slough" (where is "Sluff"?).
Maybe there's a case for completely ignoring the CHC and going back to the tradition of imposing our linguistics at the point of a sword?
It would cut down on processing times... trouble is, the moment the British Army saw temperatures of -25, the summer uniform the Labour (NOT Labor) government had bought them would send them all packing in no time.
My wife says I can't sign this as her, because she likes this forum and doesn't want me to offend anybody in her name (Moi? - See CHC I can do French).
PaulG (Certainly NOT Lorraine)
Feb 14th 2008 | 1:48 am
#33
Born again atheist
Joined: Jul 2005
Posts: 30,259
From: Europe (to be specified).
Re: Two Questions
Originally Posted by hot wasabi peas;
First spork, now this. I thought I lived under a rock.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qItugh-fFgg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qItugh-fFgg
I repeat, "eh"?
Feb 14th 2008 | 1:53 am
#34
Joined: Jul 2005
Posts: 15,883
Re: Two Questions
First spork, now this. I thought I lived under a rock.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qItugh-fFgg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qItugh-fFgg
Feb 14th 2008 | 3:35 am
#36
Joined: Jul 2005
Posts: 15,883
Re: Two Questions
