Another proper England rant...

[Hitcher]

So that's that then.

[NhuanH]

All of you vociferous faux-erudite cunts need to ride your motorcycles more frequently.

[Disco Stu]

- Proper capitalization is the difference between helping your Uncle Jack off a horse, and helping your uncle jack off a horse...(thanks Disco Stu)

Hey - glad I could have been of assistance.:spudbooge

And only 2 weeks in and I'm already mentioned in a signature... I'm not sure if that's a good thing or not yet!!

[Pixie]

Good ol' homophones (no they aren't what gays use to listen to music)

What about brake and break,not to mention all the "theres"

[Pixie]

Ahhh yes - allegedly they do sound the same in New Zild. But let's not go down that path. Regional pseudo-homophones perhaps??

I must say, 'tis a breath of fresh air to read such a grammatically healthy thread, that is well punctuated and spelled.

Graffiti seen in Sydney.....
" For sale - five New Zealand vowels.In unused condition"

[Pixie]

I think think we should go phonetic.
But the langwij wud still make a cunnamee in frunnamee frendz

chafugga loognat?

[Pixie]

One fine day in the middle of the night
Two dead men got up to fight
Back to back they faced each other
Unsheathed their swords and shot each other.

on a recent movie, set in pre-gunpowder times, a commander was heard to order his archers to "Fire"

In reality the archers would have looked around to see where the fire was, instead of loosing their arrows.

[Pixie]

There were a lot of English speakers in a minority ruling class, surrounded by a very live language (not to mention the later effect of the army stationed there), whereas Celtic languages were crushed into a minority of speakers, by a people who at that time didn´t want to speak the language or even hear it. But also there are a few very basic words that are very similar in both Sanskrit and modern English.

All goes back to primitive indo european.
An example is all the words that came to english from different languages, refering to female things,that start with a K sound - Queen and cow to name two.

[Pixie]

A theory propounded by Sir Walter Scott in Ivanhoe in a conversation between Cerdic the swineherd and Wampa the Fool - concerning a missing pig and the Wampa's comment that wherever it is now, the good Saxon swine will "be Norman" by the morning (having undergone the transition from living "swine" to dead "porc"). Wampa then elaborates on the words used by Saxon workers vs those used by Norman consumers.

"meinherr Calf becomes m'sieu Veau"

And
Chicken poultry
deer venison

as an aside, In french butcher shops they differentiate between beef from a bull and that from a cow.

[Pixie]

Finally ,a few more things that piss me off:

More than one octopus are octopodes

An attractive but simple minded woman may be a bimba,but not a bimbo without surgery.
She could never have silicon tits,nor could she have a computer with silicone chips.

[MSTRS:Me]

Hey - glad I could have been of assistance.:spudbooge

And only 2 weeks in and I'm already mentioned in a signature... I'm not sure if that's a good thing or not yet!!

You are now getting an idea of what you started??
Perhaps you could look upon it as 'Making your mark'? Or is it 'Marking your territory'?

[Disco Stu]

What about brake and break,not to mention all the "theres"

It's almost amusing how they're so protective of their there's...

[Disco Stu]

You are now getting an idea of what you started??
Perhaps you could look upon it as 'Making your mark'? Or is it 'Marking your territory'?

Think of it as a defense mechanism to avoid returning home and sounding like one of these other "West Islanders".

[Posh Tourer :P]

Oh Ixion! One is so disappointed in one.. beer! You could at least play for a little longer before lowering the tone of the neighbourhood.

I´ll try and maintain the tone then - Cerdhu for me please; un chopito.

[dawnrazor]

They say English is the hardest language to learn. No wonder I couldn't pass U.E english at three attempts!

Actually they say Icelandic is the hardest language to learn, being almost impossible for a non scandivnavian to pick it up.