I just don't get itPoor Semiret, he's foreign and has no idea if he "should laugh about the whole 'only playing music when they are out of ice cream' thing or not." There's also a Far Side cartoon that has had him stumped for almost 20 years.
What don't you understand? What have you politely gone along with whilst internally going WTF?
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chthonic, Thu 31 Mar 2005, 11:09)
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Spida...Thats right... when you colonial types kicked up a fuss with that whole demand for self government and in America that protest about taxation, resulting in the seperation from England DID lead to the persistence of archaic English words in America
George Washington did in fact use a "flashlight" to illuminate the parchment on which they scrawled the Declaration of Independence
What happened was yanks objected to always being overshadowed by our shining example, so when Dr. Johnson published his fantastical new dictionary some of them copied it but "Americanised" it - Z's for s's, omitting u's - like in humour etc.
Also... fewer Americans than British? Are you serious
The statue of liberty says something like "Bring me your tired, poor, huddled masses yearning to be free..."
The fact that America saw an influx of immigrants, with hugely varying ethnic origins meant new words and languages were introduced on a massive scale,as well as leading to the formation of patois, pidgin and creole languages.
end rant and history lesson
I don't get why people don't think before they post.
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