Ok, just a quick question here. Why is it "maths" and "sport" when everyone in their right mind would say "math" and "sports"? Math, as a subject, is considered an umbrella term for all of the various brands of mathematics. Calling a class Maths makes as much sense as calling it Histories or Sciences.
Meanwhile sports, as a section of news reporting, typically covers more than one different type of sport. I know you Brits don't play any real sports, but I'm sure that you sprinkle in a couple of rugby and haggis hurling results in with your daily soccer scores. (And yes, it is called soccer. Suck it.) Calling a section sport makes as much sense as calling it Current Event or just New.
While we are at it, stop saying biscuit, boot, and lift when you really mean cookie, trunk, and elevator. And don't even get me started on how you completely misuse the words fanny and fag.
Please fix these problems in your fucked up language ASAP or we promise to elect another president who will royally fuck it up worse than you ever could.
Love,
America
P.S. Stop it with the unnecessary "U"s while you are at it. It is very inefficient and makes you look silly.
Quote from: Iason Ouabache on January 23, 2010, 11:53:17 PM
Math, as a subject, is considered an umbrella term for all of the various brands of mathematics.
Go ahead! I triple fucking dare you to be pendantic about this fucking sentence! Bring it on!!!!
:hashishim:
:golfclap:
Quote from: Iason Ouabache on January 23, 2010, 11:53:17 PM
Ok, just a quick question here. Why is it "maths" and "sport" when everyone in their right mind would say "math" and "sports"? Math, as a subject, is considered an umbrella term for all of the various brands of mathematics. Calling a class Maths makes as much sense as calling it Histories or Sciences.
Meanwhile sports, as a section of news reporting, typically covers more than one different type of sport. I know you Brits don't play any real sports, but I'm sure that you sprinkle in a couple of rugby and haggis hurling results in with your daily soccer scores. (And yes, it is called soccer. Suck it.) Calling a section sport makes as much sense as calling it Current Event or just New.
While we are at it, stop saying biscuit, boot, and lift when you really mean cookie, trunk, and elevator. And don't even get me started on how you completely misuse the words fanny and fag.
Please fix these problems in your fucked up language ASAP or we promise to elect another president who will royally fuck it up worse than you ever could.
Love,
America
P.S. Stop it with the unnecessary "U"s while you are at it. It is very inefficient and makes you look silly.
NO U
ALSO S'S WHERE Z'S SHOULD GO.
Quote from: Sparkley Pink Shit on January 24, 2010, 02:52:36 AM
ALSO S'S WHERE Z'S SHOULD GO.
Z WAS USELESS UNTIL GEORGE WASHINGTON SAW ITS POTENTIAL
Quote from: Shrunkenheadspace on January 24, 2010, 02:59:53 AM
Quote from: Sparkley Pink Shit on January 24, 2010, 02:52:36 AM
ALSO S'S WHERE Z'S SHOULD GO.
Z WAS USELESS UNTIL GEORGE WASHINGTON SAW ITS POTENTIAL
WASHINGTON WAS SUCH A BAD ASS THAT HE HAD FUCKING WOODEN MOLARS. THEREFORE WE SPELL WITH Z'S. THE END.
Quote from: Sparkley Pink Shit on January 24, 2010, 03:09:16 AM
Quote from: Shrunkenheadspace on January 24, 2010, 02:59:53 AM
Quote from: Sparkley Pink Shit on January 24, 2010, 02:52:36 AM
ALSO S'S WHERE Z'S SHOULD GO.
Z WAS USELESS UNTIL GEORGE WASHINGTON SAW ITS POTENTIAL
WASHINGTON WAS SUCH A BAD ASS THAT HE HAD FUCKING WOODEN MOLARS. THEREFORE WE SPELL WITH Z'S. THE END.
WASHINGTON WAS SUCH A BADASS THAT WHEN YOU SAY THE END IN THE SAME POST AS HIS NAME IT ACTUALLY HAPPENS.
DUCK AND COVER!
Quote from: Shrunkenheadspace on January 24, 2010, 03:33:39 AM
Quote from: Sparkley Pink Shit on January 24, 2010, 03:09:16 AM
Quote from: Shrunkenheadspace on January 24, 2010, 02:59:53 AM
Quote from: Sparkley Pink Shit on January 24, 2010, 02:52:36 AM
ALSO S'S WHERE Z'S SHOULD GO.
Z WAS USELESS UNTIL GEORGE WASHINGTON SAW ITS POTENTIAL
WASHINGTON WAS SUCH A BAD ASS THAT HE HAD FUCKING WOODEN MOLARS. THEREFORE WE SPELL WITH Z'S. THE END.
WASHINGTON WAS SUCH A BADASS THAT WHEN YOU SAY THE END IN THE SAME POST AS HIS NAME IT ACTUALLY HAPPENS.
DUCK AND COVER!
IT'S LIKE WE JUST DIVIDED BY ZERO. BRITSPAGS YOU LOSE.
No fuck you, it is maths as mathematics ends with a fucking s, (and even if it wasn't is shouldn't be pronounced maath anyway).
And u's are in the right place because that's how the word is pronounced.
Quote from: Sparkley Pink Shit on January 24, 2010, 02:52:36 AM
ALSO S'S WHERE Z'S SHOULD GO.
No, Z's (pronounced "zed" FYI) are only to be used when talking about zebras.
You Americans are fucking up scrabble forever!
(though I agree about the sports thing)
And another thing, learn how to pronounce Aussie properly. :argh!:
Quote from: Rumckle on January 24, 2010, 08:32:30 PM
No fuck you, it is maths as mathematics ends with a fucking s, (and even if it wasn't is shouldn't be pronounced maath anyway).
And u's are in the right place because that's how the word is pronounced.
Quote from: Sparkley Pink Shit on January 24, 2010, 02:52:36 AM
ALSO S'S WHERE Z'S SHOULD GO.
No, Z's (pronounced "zed" FYI) are only to be used when talking about zebras.
You Americans are fucking up scrabble forever!
(though I agree about the sports thing)
And another thing, learn how to pronounce Aussie properly. :argh!:
NO U
Quote from: Rumckle on January 24, 2010, 08:32:30 PM
No fuck you, it is maths as mathematics ends with a fucking s, (and even if it wasn't is shouldn't be pronounced maath anyway).
And u's are in the right place because that's how the word is pronounced.
Quote from: Sparkley Pink Shit on January 24, 2010, 02:52:36 AM
ALSO S'S WHERE Z'S SHOULD GO.
No, Z's (pronounced "zed" FYI) are only to be used when talking about zebras.
You Americans are fucking up scrabble forever!
(though I agree about the sports thing)
And another thing, learn how to pronounce Aussie properly. :argh!:
Z PRONOUNCED ZEEEEE
GET IT RITE
Quote from: Sparkley Pink Shit on January 24, 2010, 09:21:47 PM
Quote from: Rumckle on January 24, 2010, 08:32:30 PM
No fuck you, it is maths as mathematics ends with a fucking s, (and even if it wasn't is shouldn't be pronounced maath anyway).
And u's are in the right place because that's how the word is pronounced.
Quote from: Sparkley Pink Shit on January 24, 2010, 02:52:36 AM
ALSO S'S WHERE Z'S SHOULD GO.
No, Z's (pronounced "zed" FYI) are only to be used when talking about zebras.
You Americans are fucking up scrabble forever!
(though I agree about the sports thing)
And another thing, learn how to pronounce Aussie properly. :argh!:
Z PRONOUNCED ZEEEEE
GET IT RITE
UM ACTUALLY PRETTY SURE IT'S ZED, ZEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE SOUNDS LIKE SOMETHING A RETARDED GUINEA PIG WOULD SAY
It's English. We invented it. We can do what we want, when we want. . If you want to change it all and add random zed's in there because you think it makes you from the future or something, by all means, be our guest. But then it's not English, it's...i don't know. Make up your own name for it. I don't know why you'd want to speak English anyway. You felt the need to kill us and send us back where we came from, why not abandon the language of the King you didn't want? YOU MAKE NO SENSE!
Oooooooh! This noob can shoot from teh hip. I like it!
even if it is fucking sassenach scum
Quote from: Iason Ouabache on January 23, 2010, 11:53:17 PMRah rah rah rah rah
Up yours.
It's mathematic
s. Count them. More than one. "Sport" section of the news, like the "weather" section or "business" section.
"Football" is reserved for the sport that involves a ball being handled predominantly
with the foot.
It is a "biscuit". You fuckers can learn to use "scone". Anything called "cookie" is bound to be some over-sized American baked monstrosity. "Trunks" are for swimming and elephants. "Lift" is two syllables shorter, and a "faucett" is something from Charlie's Angles,
not a bathroom appliance. Oh yeah, and "bathroom": they tend to be a
room with a
bath (or shower) around here; kick the euphemisms and call it a "toilet" or a "loo" or a "crapper".
As for "fanny" (vulva) and "fag" (cigarette) and "faggot" (meat blobs in gravy), I'll just have to assume you guys are just jealous at being unable to enjoy these simple pleasures. Like getting "pissed".
Stay the fuck away from our "U"s.
so it's "weather" because the long form is weathematter?
and busimatness?
and biscematuit?
No...but neither is it mathematic. It's the buggering about with numbers as a section of it's own that is called mathematics, which is shortened down to maths, because it's still a group of ways to molest numbers. To say "I am doing lots of Math" is the same as saying "I am reading lots of book"
Quote from: BluTakDuck on January 24, 2010, 11:47:33 PM
No...but neither is it mathematic. It's the buggering about with numbers as a section of it's own that is called mathematics, which is shortened down to maths, because it's still a group of ways to molest numbers. To say "I am doing lots of Math" is the same as saying "I am reading lots of book"
You never read lots of book?
damn that tickles me.
cant stop snickering.
It's true, usually I don't. But there was this one time I didn't pay attention and then I accidentally lots of book.
Quote from: BluTakDuck on January 24, 2010, 11:47:33 PM
No...but neither is it mathematic. It's the buggering about with numbers as a section of it's own that is called mathematics, which is shortened down to maths, because it's still a group of ways to molest numbers. To say "I am doing lots of Math" is the same as saying "I am reading lots of book"
Plurals of abstract nouns get weird. Like, if you're at a fancy dinner and they have a bunch of those little cheddar cheese cubes on toothpicks, you don't say "Look at all those cheeses!". But if they have a mix of cheddar cubes, swiss cubes, bleu ... blobs?, pepper jack, gorgonzola - a dozen different kinds of cheese, you
can say "Look at all those cheeses!", referring to the different kinds of cheese. So if someone says they're studying math
s, they better be working on multiple subfields of mathematics. If they're just cramming for a calc test, they're studying math.
Also, your slang? Fuck it.
Fuck your bloody old manky excuse for the English language. Our slang is much superior. In a way that only someone with access to routine dental care could understand.
And don't give me the old, "Well if it wasn't for us, you wouldn't exist."
Bullshit. Spain started us and France owned more of us than you ninnies could ever have controlled which your retarded failing empire spanning the globe and all, and we still kicked your asses clear across the Atlantic TWICE and then saved it, another twice. You couldn't hold onto our swampy ass East Coast if your paltry lives depended on it. If we still really mattered, that 4 seats that my mother's ancestral family holds in the House of Lords would be mine for the taking, but it doesn't work like that. So fuck you.
I swear the only decent thing about the British Empire is the invention of gin and tonics.
And, why the control of Northern Ireland, REALLY?! It's not like Belfast ever built a ship capable of crossing the Atlantic and not sinking at the first sign of an iceberg or U-boat. All you ever did was persecute that poor island and it's saffron-wearing inhabitants. Fuck you, and fuck Henry VIII for starting it.
Also, pudding is NOT sausage. EVER. Nor should it contain blood. :vom:
Quote from: BluTakDuck on January 24, 2010, 10:31:22 PM
It's English. We invented it. We can do what we want, when we want. . If you want to change it all and add random zed's in there because you think it makes you from the future or something, by all means, be our guest. But then it's not English, it's...i don't know. Make up your own name for it. I don't know why you'd want to speak English anyway. You felt the need to kill us and send us back where we came from, why not abandon the language of the King you didn't want? YOU MAKE NO SENSE!
English was invented because the British Isles could never hold their own identity, so it's a pissing match of Germanic, Gael, French, Latin, and Norse dialects. Pretty much every culture that decided to invade left us a few nouns and verbs and some pissant grammatical rule that doesn't exist anywhere else.
Quote from: Suu on January 25, 2010, 07:44:36 PM
Quote from: BluTakDuck on January 24, 2010, 10:31:22 PM
It's English. We invented it. We can do what we want, when we want. . If you want to change it all and add random zed's in there because you think it makes you from the future or something, by all means, be our guest. But then it's not English, it's...i don't know. Make up your own name for it. I don't know why you'd want to speak English anyway. You felt the need to kill us and send us back where we came from, why not abandon the language of the King you didn't want? YOU MAKE NO SENSE!
English was invented because the British Isles could never hold their own identity, so it's a pissing match of Germanic, Gael, French, Latin, and Norse dialects. Pretty much every culture that decided to invade left us a few nouns and verbs and some pissant grammatical rule that doesn't exist anywhere else.
Most of the rest from places we invaded ourselves.
Quote from: Payne on January 25, 2010, 07:48:50 PM
Quote from: Suu on January 25, 2010, 07:44:36 PM
Quote from: BluTakDuck on January 24, 2010, 10:31:22 PM
It's English. We invented it. We can do what we want, when we want. . If you want to change it all and add random zed's in there because you think it makes you from the future or something, by all means, be our guest. But then it's not English, it's...i don't know. Make up your own name for it. I don't know why you'd want to speak English anyway. You felt the need to kill us and send us back where we came from, why not abandon the language of the King you didn't want? YOU MAKE NO SENSE!
English was invented because the British Isles could never hold their own identity, so it's a pissing match of Germanic, Gael, French, Latin, and Norse dialects. Pretty much every culture that decided to invade left us a few nouns and verbs and some pissant grammatical rule that doesn't exist anywhere else.
Most of the rest from places we invaded ourselves.
No. I don't think there's any Aboriginal or Indian words anywhere....Admit it. The language is shit. It's okay really...I agree with you and I'm a native speaker.
Quote from: Suu on January 25, 2010, 07:50:55 PM
Quote from: Payne on January 25, 2010, 07:48:50 PM
Quote from: Suu on January 25, 2010, 07:44:36 PM
Quote from: BluTakDuck on January 24, 2010, 10:31:22 PM
It's English. We invented it. We can do what we want, when we want. . If you want to change it all and add random zed's in there because you think it makes you from the future or something, by all means, be our guest. But then it's not English, it's...i don't know. Make up your own name for it. I don't know why you'd want to speak English anyway. You felt the need to kill us and send us back where we came from, why not abandon the language of the King you didn't want? YOU MAKE NO SENSE!
English was invented because the British Isles could never hold their own identity, so it's a pissing match of Germanic, Gael, French, Latin, and Norse dialects. Pretty much every culture that decided to invade left us a few nouns and verbs and some pissant grammatical rule that doesn't exist anywhere else.
Most of the rest from places we invaded ourselves.
No. I don't think there's any Aboriginal or Indian words anywhere....Admit it. The language is shit. It's okay really...I agree with you and I'm a native speaker.
Plenty of Indian words in English. Juggernaut, Avatar, Raj, Karma and Nirvana to name a few.
from barenaked ladies "crazy alphabet song"
Quote
Okay, when you say zed for the benefit of our American friends
You really mean Z, right?
No, I mean zed, like, like Zed Zed Top
Zed Zed Top?
Yeah, you know the guys with the big long beards
Well, except the guy whose name is Beard, he has a mustache
I always thought that was interesting
...so, Australians and New Zealanders don't have this same linguistic/dialect contention?
I find that somewhat hard to believe, though the two cultures as a whole seem to follow UK politics and celebrities/tabloids more closely.
The English invented the language, and refuse to use it.
"Blagging" is not a word. "Robbing" is a word.
England needs to get it's shit together, or I'm going to write a letter to The Times. Not kidding.
We speak pretty much the same English as the UK, though with less "innit" and "bollocks"
Quote from: Payne on January 25, 2010, 08:01:07 PM
Quote from: Suu on January 25, 2010, 07:50:55 PM
Quote from: Payne on January 25, 2010, 07:48:50 PM
Quote from: Suu on January 25, 2010, 07:44:36 PM
Quote from: BluTakDuck on January 24, 2010, 10:31:22 PM
It's English. We invented it. We can do what we want, when we want. . If you want to change it all and add random zed's in there because you think it makes you from the future or something, by all means, be our guest. But then it's not English, it's...i don't know. Make up your own name for it. I don't know why you'd want to speak English anyway. You felt the need to kill us and send us back where we came from, why not abandon the language of the King you didn't want? YOU MAKE NO SENSE!
English was invented because the British Isles could never hold their own identity, so it's a pissing match of Germanic, Gael, French, Latin, and Norse dialects. Pretty much every culture that decided to invade left us a few nouns and verbs and some pissant grammatical rule that doesn't exist anywhere else.
Most of the rest from places we invaded ourselves.
No. I don't think there's any Aboriginal or Indian words anywhere....Admit it. The language is shit. It's okay really...I agree with you and I'm a native speaker.
Plenty of Indian words in English. Juggernaut, Avatar, Raj, Karma and Nirvana to name a few.
Yeah but a lot of them have traditional Hindu and Buddhist connotations. It's not like we adopted them into the English language to take the place of something. Heaven is still heaven, not Nirvana (I know, spiritually different but you understand what I'm getting at.)
I see you how you guys work...you send in a covert British Anatomy professor who says revising instead of reviewing and vit-a-mins instead of the values-instilled vite-a-mins.
And it's working. I just said that I needed to do some more revising in the morning for the anatomy test tomorrow
fuckers :argh!:
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 26, 2010, 05:48:55 PM
"Blagging" is not a word.
It bloody well is, Guv'na!
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 26, 2010, 05:48:55 PM
England needs to get it's shit together, or I'm going to write a letter to The Times. Not kidding.
Telegraph too.
while subtly disguised as a joke this incisive expose of British political beliefs should help you to send your letters to the correct journal
Quote* The Times: Read by the people who run the country.
* Daily Mirror: Read by the people who think they run the country.
* Guardian: Read by the people who think they ought to run the country.
* Morning Star: Read by the people who think the country ought to be run by another country.
* Daily Mail: Read by the wives of the people who own the country.
* Financial Times: Read by people who own the country.
* Daily Express: Read by the people who think that the country ought to be run as it used to be.
* Daily Telegraph: Read by the people who think it still is.
* The Sun: Their readers don't care who runs the country as long as she has big tits.
Yes its old, yes its a joke, but that doesn't mean it isn't right, dammit.
Quote from: MMIX on January 27, 2010, 11:24:11 AM
Yes its old, yes its a joke, but that doesn't mean it isn't right, dammit.
It is largely right. Although
Daily Express has morphed into a cross between something like a version of
National Enquirer that takes itself seriously (
viz. Diana conspiracy theories) and whole bunch of anti-immigrant rhetoric.
(I would point out that
The Independent is missing from the list, but really, who gives a shit?)
Quote from: Rumckle on January 26, 2010, 05:49:32 PM
We speak pretty much the same English as the UK, though with less "innit" and "bollocks"
Fuck off you twat, i'll kick your 'ead in down the gaff if you suggest for one arse numbing moment that anyone anywhere in albion regularly uses the word bollocks.
But the irish do.
Also, on the topic of Us and Zs, GO AND MAKE FILMS ABOUT YOUR OWN PIDDLEY LITTLE CULTURE. You just can't take it that the French sold those guns to the japanese, so you spend millions of dollars making a film about "the last samurai" (for some fucking reason you think the last samurai was American, idiots) to try and convince the world otherwise.
Braveheart was neither brave nor a scottish peasant, he was a drunken lout with too much money a big sword and a jeep powered by sloviakian cider, think TGRR but in a kilt. The scotish gave as good as they got, and started that war, king Edward was quite nice for the time, Robert the Bruce had claim to the throne though his Engish (and therfore Norman) ancestry.
While we're on it, Richard the Lionheart was both French and a total bastard (not unconected), and prince John was an alright. Robin Hood is a general term for a criminal which has fallen out of use because of the infamous criminal Harry Houdini, who use to (due to a funny speach impediment) take other peoples things and put them in his "blag".
Quote from: Iason Ouabache on January 23, 2010, 11:53:17 PM
While we are at it, stop saying biscuit, boot, and lift when you really mean cookie, trunk, and elevator. And don't even get me started on how you completely misuse the words fanny and fag.
Arse vs. Quim confusion. Common problem since the times in which "Rob Roy" was set, from what I've gathered.
Seperate beef with Quim. Yes, I can see how it is a bastardization of the old english vagina slang "Quinte", (The 5th Element is pussy. Suck it Willis.) as found in Chaucer. It however, has degraded to the point where it sounds silly. Stop that.
:mittens: I love rants about missue of my fucking language. :lulz:
I am Canadian, and I loathe all the extra "U"s in our language. I type them mostly because it was beaten into my brain in school, but I hate them and think they are idiotic and unnecessary.
Also, I say ZEE rather than ZED.
Zed is a name, Zee is a letter. Get used to it.
(the above comments NEVER fail to start an argument in Canuckistan, which is -of course- my hobby)
Quote from: Hoopla on January 27, 2010, 05:00:41 PM
I am Canadian, and I loathe all the extra "U"s in our language. I type them mostly because it was beaten into my brain in school, but I hate them and think they are idiotic and unnecessary.
The truth is, a lot of Americans were illiterate in the early days. So when Engish was being rolled out you could get rid of some of the letters that didn't make sence because they'd changed from the latic/viking/french. Or they didn't fit the accent.
But its been so long now that English 1.2 is out of date too.
TGRR - ironically supports the progressives
Quote from: Aufenthatt on January 27, 2010, 05:09:23 PM
Quote from: Hoopla on January 27, 2010, 05:00:41 PM
I am Canadian, and I loathe all the extra "U"s in our language. I type them mostly because it was beaten into my brain in school, but I hate them and think they are idiotic and unnecessary.
The truth is, a lot of Americans were illiterate in the early days. So when Engish was being rolled out you could get rid of some of the letters that didn't make sence because they'd changed from the latic/viking/french. Or they didn't fit the accent.
But its been so long now that English 1.2 is out of date too.
TGRR - ironically supports the progressives
How did I get mixed up in this?
Quote from: Jean-Lustine d'Hadamard on January 27, 2010, 12:17:34 PM
(I would point out that The Independent is missing from the list, but really, who gives a shit?)
Is Rod Liddle the editor there yet? I cant wait for
Indy editorials praising the BNP, Russian billionaire oligarchs and talking about kicking women Liddle doesn't like "in the cnt", to quote his Millwall forum postings.
Quote from: Aufenthatt on January 27, 2010, 05:09:23 PM
The truth is, a lot of Americans were illiterate in the early days.
And a lot of the British weren't? :lol:
Quote from: Aufenthatt on January 27, 2010, 05:09:23 PM
Quote from: Hoopla on January 27, 2010, 05:00:41 PM
I am Canadian, and I loathe all the extra "U"s in our language. I type them mostly because it was beaten into my brain in school, but I hate them and think they are idiotic and unnecessary.
The truth is, a lot of Americans were illiterate in the early days. So when Engish was being rolled out you could get rid of some of the letters that didn't make sence because they'd changed from the latic/viking/french. Or they didn't fit the accent.
Wha-huh? :lol: Interesting revisionist idea on the great vowel shift, man.
Quote from: Jenne on January 27, 2010, 05:30:49 PM
Quote from: Aufenthatt on January 27, 2010, 05:09:23 PM
Quote from: Hoopla on January 27, 2010, 05:00:41 PM
I am Canadian, and I loathe all the extra "U"s in our language. I type them mostly because it was beaten into my brain in school, but I hate them and think they are idiotic and unnecessary.
The truth is, a lot of Americans were illiterate in the early days. So when Engish was being rolled out you could get rid of some of the letters that didn't make sence because they'd changed from the latic/viking/french. Or they didn't fit the accent.
Wha-huh? :lol: Interesting revisionist idea on the great vowel shift, man.
Also, "Sence"?
:lulz:
Its all true, and you'll obey it as offical history.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 27, 2010, 05:32:37 PM
Quote from: Jenne on January 27, 2010, 05:30:49 PM
Quote from: Aufenthatt on January 27, 2010, 05:09:23 PM
Quote from: Hoopla on January 27, 2010, 05:00:41 PM
I am Canadian, and I loathe all the extra "U"s in our language. I type them mostly because it was beaten into my brain in school, but I hate them and think they are idiotic and unnecessary.
The truth is, a lot of Americans were illiterate in the early days. So when Engish was being rolled out you could get rid of some of the letters that didn't make sence because they'd changed from the latic/viking/french. Or they didn't fit the accent.
Wha-huh? :lol: Interesting revisionist idea on the great vowel shift, man.
Also, "Sence"?
:lulz:
Yes, sence.
http://www.sencebirmingham.co.uk/
wut
Spelling mistake becomes acceptable.
Aufenthatt- learned how to spell in birmingham.
Talking of misuse
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miDv4pT6grM&feature=email
Quote from: BluTakDuck on January 24, 2010, 10:31:22 PM
It's English. We invented it. We can do what we want, when we want. . If you want to change it all and add random zed's in there because you think it makes you from the future or something, by all means, be our guest. But then it's not English, it's...i don't know. Make up your own name for it. I don't know why you'd want to speak English anyway. You felt the need to kill us and send us back where we came from, why not abandon the language of the King you didn't want? YOU MAKE NO SENSE!
LEARN HISTORY!
Quote from: Hoopla on January 27, 2010, 06:37:23 PM
Quote from: BluTakDuck on January 24, 2010, 10:31:22 PM
It's English. We invented it. We can do what we want, when we want. . If you want to change it all and add random zed's in there because you think it makes you from the future or something, by all means, be our guest. But then it's not English, it's...i don't know. Make up your own name for it. I don't know why you'd want to speak English anyway. You felt the need to kill us and send us back where we came from, why not abandon the language of the King you didn't want? YOU MAKE NO SENSE!
LEARN HISTORY!
Quite. It's not like America won the revolution, right? No, the English dumped all their religious nuts on us, then "lost" at Yorktown. To the French.
Yeah, right.
Quote from: Suu on January 25, 2010, 07:39:30 PM
Also, your slang? Fuck it.
Fuck your bloody old manky excuse for the English language. Our slang is much superior. In a way that only someone with access to routine dental care could understand.
And don't give me the old, "Well if it wasn't for us, you wouldn't exist."
Bullshit. Spain started us and France owned more of us than you ninnies could ever have controlled which your retarded failing empire spanning the globe and all, and we still kicked your asses clear across the Atlantic TWICE and then saved it, another twice. You couldn't hold onto our swampy ass East Coast if your paltry lives depended on it. If we still really mattered, that 4 seats that my mother's ancestral family holds in the House of Lords would be mine for the taking, but it doesn't work like that. So fuck you.
I swear the only decent thing about the British Empire is the invention of gin and tonics.
And, why the control of Northern Ireland, REALLY?! It's not like Belfast ever built a ship capable of crossing the Atlantic and not sinking at the first sign of an iceberg or U-boat. All you ever did was persecute that poor island and it's saffron-wearing inhabitants. Fuck you, and fuck Henry VIII for starting it.
Also, pudding is NOT sausage. EVER. Nor should it contain blood. :vom:
I think its pretty debatable whether the US "saved" anyone in WWI, though I won't dispute WWII.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 27, 2010, 06:39:18 PM
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Quote from: BluTakDuck on January 24, 2010, 10:31:22 PM
It's English. We invented it. We can do what we want, when we want. . If you want to change it all and add random zed's in there because you think it makes you from the future or something, by all means, be our guest. But then it's not English, it's...i don't know. Make up your own name for it. I don't know why you'd want to speak English anyway. You felt the need to kill us and send us back where we came from, why not abandon the language of the King you didn't want? YOU MAKE NO SENSE!
LEARN HISTORY!
Quite. It's not like America won the revolution, right? No, the English dumped all their religious nuts on us, then "lost" at Yorktown. To the French.
Yeah, right.
This is the only version of history that makes sense.
Quote from: Hoopla on January 27, 2010, 06:41:14 PM
I think its pretty debatable whether the US "saved" anyone in WWI, though I won't dispute WWII.
WWI was a family fight that we should have stayed out of.
And we helped in WWII, but we billed our friends for it. :lulz:
As a double threadjack, they're re-running "Band of Brothers" on HBO, and I am completely floored by what those guys went through, even if some parts took some license.
Quote from: LMNO on January 27, 2010, 06:44:56 PM
As a double threadjack, they're re-running "Band of Brothers" on HBO, and I am completely floored by what those guys went through, even if some parts took some license.
And while they were doing that, the Nazis took over back home. :lulz:
Well, they're all dead now, and no one remembers how to fight anymore.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 27, 2010, 06:42:43 PM
Quote from: Hoopla on January 27, 2010, 06:41:14 PM
I think its pretty debatable whether the US "saved" anyone in WWI, though I won't dispute WWII.
WWI was a family fight that we should have stayed out of.
And we helped in WWII, but we billed our friends for it. :lulz:
To start with America sold goods to Germany as well.
And at the start of WW1 the British soldiers all wore German made uniforms, which is slightly better than German maid uniforms, which is what I wrote the first time I tried to convey this information.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 27, 2010, 06:46:26 PM
Quote from: LMNO on January 27, 2010, 06:44:56 PM
As a double threadjack, they're re-running "Band of Brothers" on HBO, and I am completely floored by what those guys went through, even if some parts took some license.
And while they were doing that, the Nazis took over back home. :lulz:
Or should I say Dr VON Scott???
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2138/2250692693_521c8773e1_o.jpg)
Quote from: LMNO on January 27, 2010, 06:47:20 PM
Well, they're all dead now, and no one remembers how to fight anymore.
My uncle Bill is still alive (barely). He sits at home under a pile of blankets and snarls a lot. I think he keeps a trench knife under those blankets.
Quote from: Aufenthatt on January 27, 2010, 06:47:59 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 27, 2010, 06:42:43 PM
Quote from: Hoopla on January 27, 2010, 06:41:14 PM
I think its pretty debatable whether the US "saved" anyone in WWI, though I won't dispute WWII.
WWI was a family fight that we should have stayed out of.
And we helped in WWII, but we billed our friends for it. :lulz:
To start with America sold goods to Germany as well.
And at the start of WW1 the British soldiers all wore German made uniforms, which is slightly better than German maid uniforms, which is what I wrote the first time I tried to convey this information.
Yes, yes, fuck off. Seriously.
Quote from: Cain on January 27, 2010, 05:19:55 PM
Quote from: Jean-Lustine d'Hadamard on January 27, 2010, 12:17:34 PM
(I would point out that The Independent is missing from the list, but really, who gives a shit?)
Is Rod Liddle the editor there yet?
:lulz: Aww, it's gonna be something
special, eh?
just to go back a little. I still say bollocks. I actually said it when i read that no-one anywhere says it.
And to be fair, the english language has a lot of bits of random european words mixed in. But it's alright because we owned it all when the language was invented.
And to those who would bring up the argument...YES OF COURSE YOU HELPED IN WWII. YOUR COUNTRY IS 50 TIMES THE FUCKING SIZE. Not to mention that you only helped because you didn't want to have to learn a whole new language if you had lost. You weren't that bothered if we'd have been speaking German. It was the nagging fear that you'd have to learn German if "The Allies" had lost.
I should like to point out that English was never "invented".
THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE IS FOR THE AMERICANSPAGS.
THE REST OF YOU CAN SPAG OFF!
:argh!:
Quote from: Nast on January 28, 2010, 01:47:50 AM
I should like to point out that English was never "invented".
Of course it was. It was invented by The Queen. Hence the phrase "the queens english"
Go back to Russia :argh!: :argh!: :argh!:
Quote from: BluTakDuck on January 28, 2010, 01:17:50 AM
just to go back a little. I still say bollocks. I actually said it when i read that no-one anywhere says it.
From what I've observed, both Irish and British English speakers have slightly different usage of "bollocks". In Irish English it's used as an insult and a verb, for example, in
Father Ted Bishop Brennan once called some one "Ya little bollocks"; and Chief O'Brien (of
Star Trek) once referred to something broken as being "bollocksed" (got cut from UK broadcasts) --- although in both cases "bollix" might be the correct spelling. In British English "bollocks" strictly means "testicles" (cf. "the dog's bollocks", "stark-bollock-naked") although it is a commonly used interjection, with "bollocking" meaning "severe reprimand".
"Bollocks" is a great word, and once of these days I'll get the Office American to pronounce it correctly.
Quote from: Jean-Lustine d'Hadamard on January 27, 2010, 09:56:55 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 27, 2010, 05:19:55 PM
Quote from: Jean-Lustine d'Hadamard on January 27, 2010, 12:17:34 PM
(I would point out that The Independent is missing from the list, but really, who gives a shit?)
Is Rod Liddle the editor there yet?
:lulz: Aww, it's gonna be something special, eh?
I can hardly wait. Xenophobic, tabloid style racism and soft apologism for the BNP is a really under-achieving market in the UK currently. Its not like there aren't already several other papers devoted to bringing across the exact same viewpoint. Rod Liddle, while a disagreeable man, will clearly be bringing a fresh view and perspective to the debate...
:horrormirth:
Quote from: BluTakDuck on January 28, 2010, 01:17:50 AM
just to go back a little. I still say bollocks. I actually said it when i read that no-one anywhere says it.
And to be fair, the english language has a lot of bits of random european words mixed in. But it's alright because we owned it all when the language was invented.
And to those who would bring up the argument...YES OF COURSE YOU HELPED IN WWII. YOUR COUNTRY IS 50 TIMES THE FUCKING SIZE. Not to mention that you only helped because you didn't want to have to learn a whole new language if you had lost. You weren't that bothered if we'd have been speaking German. It was the nagging fear that you'd have to learn German if "The Allies" had lost.
I thought about your comment a bit, and the most appropriate response is "fuck you".
:?
Roger, isn't that essentially correct, though? apart from whatever he's trying to say with the 50 time the size thing?
Quote from: Iptuous on January 28, 2010, 04:39:58 PM
:?
Roger, isn't that essentially correct, though? apart from whatever he's trying to say with the 50 time the size thing?
No, it's fucking ridiculous. Germany had precisely ZERO chance of invading America, and everyone at the time knew it...same goes for Japan. They simply didn't have the population to pull it off.
So it's kind of insulting, you know? It's intentionally dishonest. America does plenty of things that you could say horrible shit about and be correct, so naturally a fucked up hippie like BluTakDuck has to extend that to the ONE good thing we ever did, foreign policy-wise.
So fuck him. In his ear.
TGRR,
Has no time for fashionable psuedo-intellectualism.
ah. perhaps i mistook what he was saying. I figured he meant we would have to 'learn German' because we would be dealing with a German 'superpower' if they had succeded in taking over Europe...
but i guess that doesn't make sense, anyways...
You are taking offense at the notion that we 'didn't care' about them being invaded by Germany?
Although i think that is patently false, i figure that we did do what we did for our own self interest. In the end, though, it doesn't change the fact that what we did do in our self interest was save their asses by laying ours on the line.
so yeah.
i can understand the ear fucking...
Quote from: Iptuous on January 28, 2010, 05:33:11 PM
ah. perhaps i mistook what he was saying. I figured he meant we would have to 'learn German' because we would be dealing with a German 'superpower' if they had succeded in taking over Europe...
but i guess that doesn't make sense, anyways...
You are taking offense at the notion that we 'didn't care' about them being invaded by Germany?
Although i think that is patently false, i figure that we did do what we did for our own self interest. In the end, though, it doesn't change the fact that what we did do in our self interest was save their asses by laying ours on the line.
so yeah.
i can understand the ear fucking...
If we were acting strictly in our own self-interest, we would simply have supplied Russia and England via lend-lease and concentrated on kicking Japan's ass. We'd have made more money.
Hell, our strictest self-interest would have had us supplying Germany, so the Nazis and Soviets could wear themselves down to a nub for our profit, over about a 10 year period.
Revisionism works both ways, you know? You have one pack of retards saying the holocaust never happened (even though it is the most documented event in human history), and now it's in fashion to reduce the few GOOD things to a grey mediocrity, just to show how jaded and tragically hip we all are.
Both are lies.
Quote from: BluTakDuck on January 28, 2010, 01:17:50 AM
just to go back a little. I still say bollocks. I actually said it when i read that no-one anywhere says it.
And to be fair, the english language has a lot of bits of random european words mixed in. But it's alright because we owned it all when the language was invented.
And to those who would bring up the argument...YES OF COURSE YOU HELPED IN WWII. YOUR COUNTRY IS 50 TIMES THE FUCKING SIZE. Not to mention that you only helped because you didn't want to have to learn a whole new language if you had lost. You weren't that bothered if we'd have been speaking German. It was the nagging fear that you'd have to learn German if "The Allies" had lost.
hey if you're so awesome. answer me this.
what colour are your carrots?
ANSWER THE QUESTION. WHAT. FUCKIGN. COLOUR.
who made them like that?
and who owns the fucking IKEA?
who hosts the fucking Pirate Bay right now?
who invented the Python programming language?
oh and your petty language? sprung from one of our fucking provinces (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Frisian_languages) HA!
I think the rejoinder "WHAT FUCKNG COLOR ARE YOUR CARROTS?" is the single best thing I've heard today.
Quote from: LMNO on January 28, 2010, 11:26:43 PM
I think the rejoinder "WHAT FUCKNG COLOR ARE YOUR CARROTS?" is the single best thing I've heard today.
Yeah, I choked on my coffee, earlier.
And I don't even get it.
THE QUEEN CAN KISS MY ASS
Or do what I like to call a drive by!
You walk by and fart :D
Quote from: NotPublished on January 29, 2010, 02:29:24 AM
Or do what I like to call a drive by!
You walk by and fart :D
that maneuver is referred to by professionals as "crop-dusting".
unless it lasts particularly long, in which case it is known as "sky-writing".
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 29, 2010, 01:21:07 AM
Quote from: LMNO on January 28, 2010, 11:26:43 PM
I think the rejoinder "WHAT FUCKNG COLOR ARE YOUR CARROTS?" is the single best thing I've heard today.
Yeah, I choked on my coffee, earlier.
And I don't even get it.
Biologically, carrot roots can be any colour between white, yellow, orange, brown, purple and red. During the Dutch Golden Age in the 17th century, we dominated the global carrot market with cultivated orange carrots as a tribute to the House of Orange.
But it's also pretty funny without the explanation.
I did not mean that you would speaking german because the nazis would have invaded america. I was reversing the traditional insult that americans use that we would be speaking german if it wasn't for the US getting involved.
I am not saying that we don't use furniture from other countries, or import food, or watch "foreign" tv shows. I wasn't implying that anyone is better than anyone for anything. I was just saying... English is from England. If you don't like it, change it. There are hundreds of dialectic differences depending on where you are in the UK, so why not make up whatever language you want?
I honestly don't know why you're getting in such a piss about spelling and grammar, via WWII and cultural differences.
Quote from: BluTakDuck on January 30, 2010, 11:00:19 PMI honestly don't know why you're getting in such a piss about spelling and grammar, via WWII and cultural differences.
discordianism
BTD has a point, the language is so popular because it stands up to rough treatment so well.
Quote from: Triple Zero on January 29, 2010, 11:49:13 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 29, 2010, 01:21:07 AM
Quote from: LMNO on January 28, 2010, 11:26:43 PM
I think the rejoinder "WHAT FUCKNG COLOR ARE YOUR CARROTS?" is the single best thing I've heard today.
Yeah, I choked on my coffee, earlier.
And I don't even get it.
Biologically, carrot roots can be any colour between white, yellow, orange, brown, purple and red. During the Dutch Golden Age in the 17th century, we dominated the global carrot market with cultivated orange carrots as a tribute to the House of Orange.
But it's also pretty funny without the explanation.
I did not know this.
Cool.
I like purple carrots. Damn Dutch.
Quote from: Shrunkenheadspace on January 31, 2010, 06:30:25 AM
Quote from: BluTakDuck on January 30, 2010, 11:00:19 PMI honestly don't know why you're getting in such a piss about spelling and grammar, via WWII and cultural differences.
discordianism
Apologies. I forgot that bit.
Everyone knows the Soviet Union really won the war anyway.
Bump. And it's "Anarchy" not "Anarchism"!