What makes you angry? Get it off your chest so we can laugh at your impotent rage.
(, Thu 1 May 2008, 23:12)
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*points at America*
Stop raping the English language.
No argument...
Just fucking STOP it alright?
Sorry... correction.. "Stop it already".
(, Wed 7 May 2008, 11:33, 8 replies)
Seriously, you lot have far more oddball slang than we do, and do a lot of strange things to the language- I've seen vodka referred to as "voddies", sandwiches are "sarmies", Christmas is "Crimbo", and so on. What the fuck, people! You invented the language and formalized it with the OED- so why don't you speak it? Someone blagged yer copy, guv?
(, Wed 7 May 2008, 14:32, closed)
Not Sarmies.. ;o)
Odd-ball slang is one thing, but using words in the wrong place is another. Innit.
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Bet she can't speak Cherokee...
(, Wed 7 May 2008, 14:34, closed)
I thought it was with an M. I first encountered that term in Jethro Tull's "Up the Pool".
Still, it's rather confusing but somehow amusing to see the strange permutations of English that come from over there.
(, Wed 7 May 2008, 14:41, closed)
.. that it's a "work in progress" really. the Charvers try to make it turn corners every now and then, but the majority of English speakers attempt to head them off at the pass...
(, Wed 7 May 2008, 15:25, closed)
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