Northeners up, up north speak weird.
Southeners are unpolite.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 14 Sep 2011, 11:50, 4 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

ARE WE FUCK

(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 11:51, Reply)

Impolite!!! Stupid!

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 11:51, Reply)

You should set some rules
about your In- Un- De-... then you could complain when we have it wrong. At the moment it's just guessing and "my father and teacher told me it was like that"; which is not useful when your father or theacher didn't speak any English.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 14 Sep 2011, 11:58, Reply)

unuseful!

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 11:59, Reply)

Disuseful, you mean.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 12:03, Reply)

Imuseful, ain't it?

( Kroney, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 12:06, Reply)

Sorry, it's usually due to which language the root word came from.
There's no real rule to it other than that.
( Kroney, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 12:00, Reply)

Like in the rest of your language
You're missing rules every where. And an Academy of the Language to tell you what's acceptable and what isn't. Barbarians!
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 14 Sep 2011, 12:02, Reply)

It's a bastard, mongrel language, to be sure.
That's why I think it's important to follow the grammar and spelling we have got. Save making the whole mess any worse than it already is.
( Kroney, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 12:06, Reply)

She's just being lazy
If she could bother her arse to learn Latin, Ancient Greek, German, Norse, Old-English, etc. she wouldn't have any problems knowing which word or prefix to use.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 12:08, Reply)

Even like that
I think you probably will find thousand of exceptions and I'd end up even more confused.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 14 Sep 2011, 12:10, Reply)

Just remember: the exception proves the rule
Or something.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 12:11, Reply)

Yes, I know.
I've learnt a lot about English watching QI. It seems that a lot of the rules you learn at school have more exceptions than not, which means they are not rules anymore. The "magic E" is the only one that I can remember that still applies.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 14 Sep 2011, 12:13, Reply)

I love magic E's.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 12:17, Reply)

They no longer teach "magic E" in primary schools.
It is all split-vowel digraphs now.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 12:19, Reply)

I've been thinking about home schooling my kid for the first 5-6 years
but I'll have to pay someone to do the English, because otherwise he's going to learn nothing.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 14 Sep 2011, 12:22, Reply)

I agree
But you don't have any grammar rules for those "negative words"; so I can't follow any. I have to guess. Usually I check, but I thought unpolite was right. I was wrong, clearly oxforddictionaries.com/noresults?dictionaryVersion=region-uk&isWritersAndEditors=true&noresults=true&page=1&pageSize=20&q=unpolite&searchUri=All&sort=alpha&type=dictionarysearch
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 14 Sep 2011, 12:12, Reply)

+HAT

( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Wed 14 Sep 2011, 11:58, Reply)

They speak weird?
how dare you, you forrin devil!
(PsychoChomp, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 11:54, Reply)

Weird but nice
I love accents, although I have problems to understand them, they sound lovely and different.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 14 Sep 2011, 11:58, Reply)

Is that for Spain or Britain?
What are the north/south prejudices in Spain?
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 11:55, Reply)

That's a good point, actually...
I know the Northern French look down on the Southern French because they speak funny.

I also have two German colleagues, from opposite ends of the country, who once admitted they find it easier to converse in English because their German accents are so different.
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 11:57, Reply)

For you,
ze idle chat chat is ofer.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 12:00, Reply)

Ah wuz just pissing bah your window...

(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 12:02, Reply)

There certainly is "Good Moaning" on here most days

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 12:06, Reply)

Thot's billucks.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 12:14, Reply)

In my experience all French people look down on all others.
But isn't France as a unified country a relatively new thing? I think it consists of 5 or 6 regions each with their own language and customs. The French language only became standard about a couple of hundred years ago.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 12:03, Reply)

From what I know
All French people are very happy with each other, apart from Parisians. Everybody hates them and they hate everybody.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 14 Sep 2011, 12:05, Reply)

True, they hate Parisians more than we hate Londoners

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 12:09, Reply)

Everybody hates Parisians
don't we?
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 14 Sep 2011, 12:14, Reply)

You're thinking of 'Pakistanis'.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 12:17, Reply)

Oi, facking easy.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 12:15, Reply)

I meant all the other Londoners
Not you Stunnso
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 12:27, Reply)

Yeah, modern French is basically Parisian.
They, not unlike the UK have about 7 other languages/dialects floating around.
( Kroney, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 12:09, Reply)

In Spain is the other way round
Southeners speak funny, are lazy and only want to party and nap. Northeners work hard, are too serious and sometimes rude.

Having family in both sides, I can tell you that's not true, although Northeners are a bit more shy and harsh; but very nice people when they know you.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 14 Sep 2011, 12:00, Reply)