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brian
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Registered: January 1970
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i guess we're like migrating to the new board...umm...tomorrow or something. so well, hehe, this is the goodbye post for voy...
bye bye voy *grin*
yay...actually, I am doing fine today, cause it's only one more day of school and then i have like...umm...two weeks of holidays. So that's rather cool really. But well...i had to give some report on stupid stuff today in geography...in case somebody's interested, the topic was ores (thank god for dictionaries  ) and umm...i talked for like half an hour or something. and hehe, the people actually listened. The teacher said something about my way of holding that report being very good. Must be cause i am talking like I am talking, huh?
yay...
oh yay...yesterday, no Tuesday, i have bought a gay magazine at the gas station...is it called gas station? That thing you drive to to get the stuff to get your car running...anyway, i bought it there. stupid cashier took ages to type in the code and then even looked at me strangely. bitch *g*. so what, am i not allowed to buy a gay magazine, eh? actually it has some nice guys in there...well..actually they do not look all that nice really, but well...not bad. Acceptable. Kinda. Naked, really.
so yay...umm...i'm gonna go and read some stories on nifty now. no new nice ones in 'authoritarian' though...bummer...hmm...gonna go and read either celebrity/boybands (hehe, i hate their music but some of the writing about them is nice) or adult/youth...although in adult/youth it's hard to find good stories. I really like that 'Green Eyed Monster' one...that is so...hmm...cuuute and i like most of ganymede's stories. Really, in case anyone is interested in a really, really, really good so-called boylove story, then read 'pandora's box' by ganymede. fabulous story (hehe, that does sound gay now)
umd yay...that's it...
bye bye voy,
you're not a boy,
you're not a ford,
only some messageboard,
i like you lots,
i got the hots,
for you,
can you do me too?
*grin*
a nice day to everyone, have fun and enjoy life, and boys and men and dogs or whatever else you enjoy (don't you too think that bestiality is kinda weird?)
Love,
Brian
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cossie
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Location: Exiled in North East Engl...
Registered: July 2003
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... In this quaint li'l ole country of ours, 'gas' is the stuff you cook with if you don't use electricity - you know the stuff I mean? Burns with a blue flame and smells yucky?
The stuff you put in cars is petrol - as anyone but those stupid Americans would know - and you buy it from a 'filling station'.
End of English lesson!
Bestiality? Weird? Only if you do it with animals! If your b/f's a bit of a beast, it can be fun!
Enjoy your two weeks of freedom!
For a' that an' a' that,
It's comin' yet for a' that,
That man tae man, the worrld o'er
Shall brithers be, for a' that.
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I'm one of those stupid Americans who has always wondered why British English uses as many extraneous letters as is does. I realize it's probably a hold-over from Middle English (and maybe even Old English), but it does seem to be rather inefficient (not to mention potentially confusing). For example: why spell it "programme" when "program" does the trick without the potential for a foreigner to add an extra syllable in the pronunciation.
Any elucidation about this would be greatly appreciated.
We do not remember days...we remember moments.
Cesare Pavese
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cossie
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Location: Exiled in North East Engl...
Registered: July 2003
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I'll reply when I suss out how to get my messages posted. AAAaarrrrrrghhhh!
For a' that an' a' that,
It's comin' yet for a' that,
That man tae man, the worrld o'er
Shall brithers be, for a' that.
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Hi Cossie!! You having trouble posting, dude? What's up with that? hehehe
humour...rumour...counselling...programme...Ye Olde Englandeee...
My non-English-speaking-as-a-native-speaker boyfriend just asked me a very good question. Why do you chop a tree DOWN and then chop the wood UP?
And now we enter the weird and wonderful world of cliche expressions...hehehe
"Always forgive your enemies...nothing annoys them quite so much." Oscar Wilde
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brian
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Toe is in the water |
Registered: January 1970
Messages: 60
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well...for me personally, it really sucks with american and british english. Officially i'm supposed to learn British English at school, but then, there is a whole scchool year about th US only and gtexts are in American English. so well...i usually end up mixing both, i think...but as long as people understand me *g* actually, i do prefer American English cause well...you really don't have so many letters to take care of in simple words. But then, I love how scottish people sound...hehe...so cute
love,
brian
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A most probing question indeed! It's somewhat akin to the phrase "going back and forth": doesn't one have to go "forth" before he can come back" (and therefore, shouldn't the expression be "forth and back")?
I must ponder this further!
We do not remember days...we remember moments.
Cesare Pavese
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richie ryan
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Location: US, Minnesota
Registered: February 2002
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Hmmm, good question.
So try this on for size. Why is it that we drive on a parkway, and park on a driveway?
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tim
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Location: UK, West of London in Ber...
Registered: February 2002
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What IS a parkway? Not British for sure!
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tim
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Location: UK, West of London in Ber...
Registered: February 2002
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Your messages appear, but you can't see them. If CTRL / Refresh doesn't work, then the problem is at your ISP's server which is misconfigured. Raise a help desk call there. They are more than welcome to post a TEST THREAD which I can delete later
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Registered: March 2012
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Parkways are sorta like motorways. They usually have limited access but not as controlled as a freeway.
Richard
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Steve
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Location: London, England
Registered: November 2006
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As that great Irishman George Bernard Shaw said: The Americans and the British are one people divided by a common language.
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cossie
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Location: Exiled in North East Engl...
Registered: July 2003
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OK, OK! I'm probably not going to see this, but it's a reply to Ron's first posting on this thread. Ron, you were ill-advised enough to catch me on one of my hobby-horses (good Brit expression, that!), so for that you get a clever-bugger reply!
British English is a naturally-evolving language, with a particular richness derived from the variety of invaders who have made these islands their home. Of course, not all the invaders settled in the same parts of the country, so until the 1500s there were several forms of 'English', and speakers of one form would have problems understanding speakers of another.
Slowly, because of the influence of the capital, the form spoken there (East Midlands English) became predominant, but it was only with the advent of radio and television in the last century that the different English dialects, each with its own vocabulary, suffered a real and probably terminal decline.
Of course, these dialects were concerned with everyday life, not with the the expression of intellectual concepts. The intelligentsia spoke in English, but wrote in Latin. It was only in relatively recent years (say from around 1500) that English came into its own as a medium for expression of ideas. As soon as this happened, writers began to invent new words to express their arguments - most of these words being ultimately derived from Greek or Latin, so educated readers would have no trouble understanding the intended meaning. A huge proportion of the longer English words - and quite a few short ones - are creations of this kind. The process still continues in the naming on new products and inventions. Of course, not all invented words caught on. That is precisely the strength of the langusge - it evolves according to the public whim. We have no Webster telling us how to spell, and no equivalent of the French academy to impose legal contraints on the way British English develops. And it DOES develop - just one example is the dairy product which arrived on British shelves in the 1960s as yoghourt, which by the 1970s had become yoghurt and is now yogurt.
So the way we spell simply reflects the history of the words we use. 'Programme' is a French word, but ultimately derives from Greek, 'gramma', which is also the root of the word 'grammar'. We do use the spelling 'program', but only in relation to computing. Webster didn't go all the way, either. You colonials still use the spelling 'knife' - why not 'nife'? We don't pronounce the 'k' in British English, either, but we did at one time, and the French still do in their word 'canif'.
American simplification is also much influenced by American intonation. We wouldn't use the spelling 'humor' because we don't pronounce it like that - our last syllable is more like '-er' than '-or'.
The point, surely, is not that American is better, or easier than British English; they are simply different. And the biggest difference is that no-one has dictated the spelling of British English - it just sort of happened that way!
Professor Cossie.
For a' that an' a' that,
It's comin' yet for a' that,
That man tae man, the worrld o'er
Shall brithers be, for a' that.
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Guest
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Registered: March 2012
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No Message Body
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cossie
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On fire! |
Location: Exiled in North East Engl...
Registered: July 2003
Messages: 1699
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.... that my reputation for erudition is second only to my reputation for inebriation!
For a' that an' a' that,
It's comin' yet for a' that,
That man tae man, the worrld o'er
Shall brithers be, for a' that.
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"Park on a driveway and drive on a parkway" is yet another of those imponderable questions that has haunted me since I first heard it many years ago (although in this case it is at least partially explainable: park here being the noun meaning a country-like place within an urban community, rather than the verb meaning to leave one's vehicle in a specially-designated place, like a driveway!).
We do not remember days...we remember moments.
Cesare Pavese
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