BDOTGNZA work programme for 2008

[Hitcher]

Having made some progress on the arse and apostrophe front, the BDOTGNZA have decided to add some other items to their "Hit List" for 2007.

At the entry-level, work is still required enforcing basic standards, such as the convention of starting sentences with a capital letter, ending them with a full stop, and putting a space between the two.

The BDOTGNZA also wish it noted that a sentence should contain a subject and a minimum of one verb.

A new addition is the expression "eh". This is not spelt "aye" or "ay", amongst the more common "alternatives".

Final recommendations are still pending from the BDOTGNZA's hyphen steering committee. Watch this space!

Other suggestions for the "Hit List" are welcome.

Merry Christmas from the Brave Defenders.

[Ixion]

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The BDOTGNZA also wish it noted that a sentence should contain a subject and a minimum of one verb.

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Yeah, right.

[Squeak the Rat]

Ditto.



Actually I'm glad you have decided to target aye. That's what a pirate says FFS. As in "Aye me 'earty roger the yard arm oooo-aaaarrr."

[McJim]

I beg permission to continue to use "aye" as it is my way of expressing an affirmative sentiment. In this form it is not pronounced "eh" but rather like "I". for further clarification on this point please view older episodes of Star Trek and listen to the engineer.

[xwhatsit]

It should be noted that `aye' is a perfectly cromulent word. It's not the same thing as `eh', but it does parse.

Ta.

[terbang]

Anyways. Please stamp out Anyways.

[bugjuice]

fuk'n ay man..

[jrandom]

Today, during luncheon, a couple of my esteemed colleagues and I espied a '98 Falcon sedan parked in Newmarket. The personalised plate read 'IWI AU'.

Much ROFLing commenced.

I wonder if the phonetics were intentional?

[Hitcher]

Anyways. Please stamp out Anyways.

Oh indeed yes. And anyhoo. And gotten.

[terbang]

It should be noted that `aye' is a perfectly cromulent word. It's not the same thing as `eh', but it does parse.

Ta.

Aye she's a canny wee hinney you know.

[ManDownUnder]

uh huh. High horse... time to let someone else have a turn...

[Hitcher]

Today, during luncheon, a couple of my esteemed colleagues and I espied a '98 Falcon sedan parked in Newmarket. The personalised plate read 'IWI AU'.

Much ROFLing commenced.

I wonder if the phonetics were intentional?

That is an extremely clever plate. One suspects it was a happy accident.

[Squeak the Rat]

Scotty was a pirate?

[Hitcher]

I beg permission to continue to use "aye" as it is my way of expressing an affirmative sentiment. In this form it is not pronounced "eh" but rather like "I". for further clarification on this point please view older episodes of Star Trek and listen to the engineer.

The BDOTGNZA grants exceptions for the legitimate use of Scots. And Erse.

[xwhatsit]

Oh indeed yes. And anyhoo. And gotten.

When I first started learning English again, my teacher told me a few people get uptight about `gotten'. She told me (well she's Scottish, so she may not know English the best ) that `gotten' is just an old form of the past participle of `get', which the English began to use less of around the same time that the US started to use their own language. In America it's still appropriate to use `gotten', but in England it's not so common, but it is still used in certain dialects, and in Northern communities, especially lower-class ones.

I wouldn't call it the Queen's English, but it's still English of a sort... unlike most Americanisms.