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# because we are english, and we invented the words.
so we KNOW what the words mean...

its just those others who change things...

like hood instead of bonnet....

or chips instead of crisps....

or....

(carry on ad infinitum........)
(I helped save b3ta! TBL I posted this on, Mon 17 Oct 2005, 12:21, archived)
# you are incorrect, sir.
One, you're assumign that american adendums to english words holdfor all english speakers. Pants has held it's original meaning in all english speaking communities, bar the UK.

Two, English is a modern language, and anglosaxon derivative, SAE, with letter sadded like DNA from all the cross-pollenation of invasions and counterinvasions to France. The French oocupation of parts off England added new letters to the anglosaxon form (Q, K), and much of the word forms in english are derivative from european words. Oddly, in Irish, many peoplassuming words ar eanglicised whn in fact the opposite holds; Carr, meaning 'Car' in the modern sense originally meant 'Cart', and english took the meaning on board along with many older celtic words, as the anglo saxon settlers took celtic land. The origins of enlgish are as much a give and take with surrounding language forms as anything, assuming primacy based on speaker-count is a fallacy
(I helped save b3ta! WhoElse I'm what Willis was talking about, Mon 17 Oct 2005, 12:29, archived)
# I don't care
next.....
(I helped save b3ta! TBL I posted this on, Mon 17 Oct 2005, 12:31, archived)
# hmmmmmm
10 Print statement
20 if Counterpoint /= WhatIWantToHear goto 10

:)
(I helped save b3ta! WhoElse I'm what Willis was talking about, Mon 17 Oct 2005, 12:34, archived)
# did you type all of that very quickly?
the spelling and grammar is awful!
confused would we?
(I helped save b3ta! Aphex The Mink Snackless, Mon 17 Oct 2005, 12:37, archived)
# yup
failing at multitasking bigtime

mean to edit, but you know, it's the web, on a messageboard, floating into some archived past. would you go back and fix it?
(I helped save b3ta! WhoElse I'm what Willis was talking about, Mon 17 Oct 2005, 12:40, archived)
# prolly
/anal
(I helped save b3ta! Aphex The Mink Snackless, Mon 17 Oct 2005, 12:43, archived)
# "woooaaaahhhhh.....
look at the brain on myron"
(I helped save b3ta! Zank Frappa Who let the lefties in?, Mon 17 Oct 2005, 12:43, archived)
# WTFAYBOA?
(I helped save b3ta! Black Moon Not cracked, I'm all up to be., Mon 17 Oct 2005, 12:47, archived)
# can you honestly say
that every word in the english language was "inventented" by the english?

It's a wildly simplistic and inaccurate understanding of language. Most languages are just rarified amalgamations of the languages that surround and precede them. It would be arrogant to think otherwise - a cultural imperialism.
(I helped save b3ta! WhoElse I'm what Willis was talking about, Mon 17 Oct 2005, 12:52, archived)
# The
English didn't invent all the words they use, no-one's claiming that, but all of the influences you're talking about come from before the language was taken to America, rendering that huge post a bit pointless really.
(I helped save b3ta! NomDePlume fo shizzle my nizzle old bean, Mon 17 Oct 2005, 13:10, archived)
# why does everyone assume I mean america?
English was transported to other countries too! convicts and settlers in australia, empire building in india, and children speaking english in irish schools under english rule were beaten - it took hold all over
(I helped save b3ta! WhoElse I'm what Willis was talking about, Mon 17 Oct 2005, 13:17, archived)
# meh.
like, whatever dude.
(I helped save b3ta! the RAND corporation a.k.a. Kevin Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Mon 17 Oct 2005, 12:50, archived)
# yup
but i liek to argue! :)
(I helped save b3ta! WhoElse I'm what Willis was talking about, Mon 17 Oct 2005, 12:53, archived)