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    Quote Originally Posted by Mikkel View Post
    The what?
    .....
    Epistemological now that's a cool word, so cool I had to Google it.

    http://www.thefreedictionary.com/epistemological

    Quote Originally Posted by SARGE View Post
    ass!!.........
    A perfect retort excellent, I have absolutely no comeback.



    Spell check please.
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    The price of biking is eternal vigilance. Switch off for a second and the bastard will bite you.
    You can't save the fallen, direct the lost or motivate the lazy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SARGE View Post
    yea..i was wondering where you were Chuckles
    stop, my ribs.. my ribs...
    Quote Originally Posted by Mully
    The price of biking is eternal vigilance. Switch off for a second and the bastard will bite you.
    You can't save the fallen, direct the lost or motivate the lazy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by vifferman View Post
    Sounds fare.
    But only if cockroaches are your usual dinner, and they squeak, sing or otherwise punctuate your meal.
    He could also have meant it as in 'tickets please'

    It's only fair to be fair - or is that whiter than white? I feel a wee touch of paronomasia coming on.
    Yes, I am pedantic about spelling and grammar so get used to it!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mikkel View Post
    I already told you once.
    I'm sorry but I'm not allowed to argue unless you've paid.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Winston001 View Post
    I'm sorry but I'm not allowed to argue unless you've paid.
    But I must have paid you since you are already arguing... and don't come tell me that you argue in your spare time.
    It is preferential to refrain from the utilisation of grandiose verbiage in the circumstance that your intellectualisation can be expressed using comparatively simplistic lexicological entities. (...such as the word fuck.)

    Remember your humanity, and forget the rest. - Joseph Rotblat

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mikkel View Post
    But I must have paid you since you are already arguing... and don't come tell me that you argue in your spare time.
    Oi you...follow the script or get out.
    Do you realise how many holes there could be if people would just take the time to take the dirt out of them?

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    Quote Originally Posted by MSTRS View Post
    Oi you...follow the script or get out.
    What a nazi!

    There, back on topic

    It is preferential to refrain from the utilisation of grandiose verbiage in the circumstance that your intellectualisation can be expressed using comparatively simplistic lexicological entities. (...such as the word fuck.)

    Remember your humanity, and forget the rest. - Joseph Rotblat

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    Quote Originally Posted by SARGE View Post
    ass!!.........
    Thank you, Father Jack. But in NewZild an ass is a four-legged animal and an arse is an arse.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mikkel View Post
    But I must have paid you since you are already arguing... and don't come tell me that you argue in your spare time.
    huuuummmmm.......doot de do......twiddles thumbs......whistles tunelessly.......eyes ceiling...........checks watch........dum de do.......

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    Quote Originally Posted by Badjelly View Post
    Thank you, Father Jack. But in NewZild an ass is a four-legged animal and an arse is an arse.
    heres the thing that really chaps my ASS..you guys cant spell.. seriously

    using the NZ rules..

    a car smash should be called a WREQUE


    a thing that burns should be a FYRE

    an exclamation should be a WOUGH!!

    the sign showing you how to get in should read ENTRE

    dont even get me started on AL-U-MIN-UM or the æ in ENCYCLPæDIA..(where the FUCK is the æ key?????)
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    English is a bastard language - you a merry cans just say it funny


    The Maori's twist it to suit them brown selves - rather funny being there are no Maori's left, the rest are of Maori decent which does not make them Maori.


    The rest are just lazy or too dumb to know!


    Pickup any current novel, magazine and it does not take long to find plenty of spelling and grammatical errors.

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    this is still interesting
    Quote Originally Posted by Mully
    The price of biking is eternal vigilance. Switch off for a second and the bastard will bite you.
    You can't save the fallen, direct the lost or motivate the lazy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by HEADACHE View Post

    Pickup any current novel, magazine and it does not take long to find plenty of spelling and grammatical errors.
    The daily newspapers are full of examples of the failure in our education system. Anyone would think that the janitor does their proofreading, but no...done by those with a degree in English. Probably purchased over the net from the University of Nigeria.
    Do you realise how many holes there could be if people would just take the time to take the dirt out of them?

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    Quote Originally Posted by SARGE View Post
    heres the thing that really chaps my ASS..you guys cant spell.. seriously

    using the NZ rules..

    a car smash should be called a WREQUE


    a thing that burns should be a FYRE

    an exclamation should be a WOUGH!!

    the sign showing you how to get in should read ENTRE

    dont even get me started on AL-U-MIN-UM or the æ in ENCYCLPæDIA..(where the FUCK is the æ key?????)
    Read Bill Bryson's "Mother Tongue" which is a very enlightening history of the English language. He points out that some American usages are more correct to the original word than what we consider to be the Queens English. For example, herb, pronounced erb by our American cousins comes from l'erb and we have loaded an "h" onto it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SARGE View Post
    heres the thing that really chaps my ASS..you guys cant spell.. seriously

    using the NZ rules..

    a car smash should be called a WREQUE


    a thing that burns should be a FYRE

    an exclamation should be a WOUGH!!

    the sign showing you how to get in should read ENTRE

    dont even get me started on AL-U-MIN-UM or the æ in ENCYCLPæDIA..(where the FUCK is the æ key?????)
    This is a whole other can of worms.

    Your spelling of "fire" as "fyre" is closer to the Old English original.

    As for 'Merican English - it is accepted as being closer to Old English (particularly in places like West Virgina). This is from http://www.englishclub.com/english-language-history.htm

    From around 1600, the English colonization of North America resulted in the creation of a distinct American variety of English. Some English pronunciations and words "froze" when they reached America. In some ways, American English is more like the English of Shakespeare than modern British English is. Some expressions that the British call "Americanisms" are in fact original British expressions that were preserved in the colonies while lost for a time in Britain (for example trash for rubbish, loan as a verb instead of lend, and fall for autumn; another example, frame-up, was re-imported into Britain through Hollywood gangster movies).
    Edit - That bastid Winston beat me to it...

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