jackthehat

They don't do tenses! - Apparently when speaking to an American one has to write in 'SMS Speak,' and finish every sentence with 'Truly Awesome Dude!' - Oh and don't forget to use Lower Case for everything, Capital Letters confuse them! - Avoid words of more than two syllables!

Actually, I found that prat quite astonishing! - No wonder the US is the the shit that it is! - But 'Deep Doo Doo' is lurking in the UK at the moment too!

weasel decentral

Cypselos

First use 1615, and with a perfectly good Latin origin. I don't want to dishearten you but if you want to try and be a pedant by complaining about words that old you'd better start by castigating that monumental champion of new words Shakespeare for his barefaced and remorseless addiction to the assassination of the English language.


I might have let you have causation = causality.

jackthehat

NO! 'Cause' is English! - America has decided to reinvent the word and call it 'Causation!' - End of story!

My Spell Check does not even recognise the word 'Causation!'

Please, do not let us get on to the 'Split Infinitives' such as "To Boldly Go!"

UKCityGent

The last execution was in 1964 but the dealth penalty (for all crimes) was abolished in 1998 (for murder the death penalty was abolished in 1965).

weasel decentral

I have a shotgun, a couple of rifles and a handgun and so far I have killed thousands of pigeons (clay) and lots of suspicious silhouetted men hiding in the distance (made of paper and wood).

Though when on a night out I like to carry a desert eagle stuffed down the back of my jeans, in case things get a bit tasty

Cypselos

Nothing wrong with a split infinitive. That's a made up rule that originated with the Victorians - oh...

jackthehat

Peter Anthony Allen (Walton Prison) and Gwynne Owen Evans (Strangeways) were the last executions in 1964 (13 August 1964) The Execution of their sentence was carried out at the same time, in order that neither could be described as 'The Last Man to be Hanged!'

The Death Penalty was merely 'Suspended' in 1965! Myra Hyndley and Ian Brady were extremely lucky not to have been hanged! Although many offences incurring The Death Penalty were removed in 1998 , it still exists for 'Regicide' and for 'Acts of Treason in Her Majesty's Dockyards!' - It also still exists in Crown Dependancies.

jackthehat

Well as you would write it in American . . .

i helped my uncle jack off his horse

And in English . . .

I helped my Uncle Jack, off his horse. (Simple Punctuation and Capitalisation)

Quite easy, no drama, and you are through the Sound Barrier! - Just like Concorde! - But the US never had one of those did they?

Cypselos

Not true.

jackthehat

Which part?

jackthehat

And you are proud of owning a Shotgun, a Couple of Rifles, and a Handgun? - Shame on you Sir!

Cypselos

This is awesome stuff, using American jokes to illustrate your point. But next time you use it you can leave out the comma, the capital J does the job.

jackthehat

Be told!
End of Correspondence!

Cypselos

All of it, the dockyards thing since 1971, and everything else on the mainland after we passed the Human Rights Act and signed up to Protocol 13, and since 2002 in Overseas Territories. I'm not sure the regicide was ever officially a crime per se.