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New Fri 30 Nov 12 20:10 
 The Language Debate... - Manatee
Couldn't resist. Support for all right thinking people, from the Daily Mash.

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New Fri 30 Nov 12 20:27 
 The Language Debate... - Armel Coussine
Tee hee. Spot on m8 lol...
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New Fri 30 Nov 12 20:37 
 The Language Debate... - Runfer D'Hills
I like the T shirts
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New Fri 30 Nov 12 21:12 
 The Language Debate... - Westpig
>> Tee hee. Spot on m8 lol...

Did you get a granddaughter to help you with this.
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New Sat 1 Dec 12 01:03 
 The Language Debate... - Armel Coussine
>> get a granddaughter to help you

Of course not Wp. I learned that stuff here and from Private Eye.

The 16 year old is in New York with her class going round art galleries. She says the accommodation is dire but New York is great. She had been given a free bagel and an impatient geezer behind her in a queue had paid for her water just to get her out of the way.

I know how she feels. I once went to a Jack-in-theBox drive-through food place in the far West of the US, and the microphone, and workers behind it, couldn't decipher my diffident murmur. It was only when I heard the black driver of the car behind bawling his order into the mike that I realised I would have to go round again. And so it proved.
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New Fri 30 Nov 12 20:45 
 The Language Debate... - John H
Linguist Donna Sheridan will have topped herself hundreds of times reading posts by Zero and FoR on here.
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New Sat 1 Dec 12 08:34 
 The Language Debate... - Duncan
>> Linguist Donna Sheridan will have topped herself hundreds of times reading posts by Zero and
>> FoR on here.
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"Linguist Donna Sheridan said: “There can never be one truly definitive set of spellings or definitions.

The swear filter has removed a whole sentence!

The gist of what she said was "If I see one more person write 'loose' when they mean 'lose', I am going to jolly well top myself"
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New Sat 1 Dec 12 10:06 
 The Language Debate... - L'escargot
>> The gist of what she said was "If I see one more person write 'loose'
>> when they mean 'lose', I am going to jolly well top myself"
>>

As far as I'm concerned they can spell it every which way but loose!
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New Sat 1 Dec 12 11:55 
 The Language Debate... - Cliff Pope
I loved the Ivory Horse.
Out of the mixed up metaphors comes forth brilliance.

And "anaemics" ranks with Craig Brown's "Leading Ineffectuals" in 1966 And All That.
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New Sat 1 Dec 12 15:40 
 The Language Debate... - Dutchie
Language does evolve and change.Going home to see family in the N.L. some of the words they use I haven't got a clue what they mean.Never heard of the word Allochtoon meaning foreigner and they use lots of English /American expressions.
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New Sun 2 Dec 12 15:03 
 The Language Debate... - Mike Hannon
>>Going home to see family in the N.L. some of the words they use I haven't got a clue what they mean.<<

Indeed. My pal from Delft, known as the Flying Dutchman because of his regular Limoges-NL commute, says his native language sounds more like a throat complaint!
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New Sun 2 Dec 12 15:37 
 The Language Debate... - Dutchie
Nice town Delft famous for the pottery and is it Frans Hals the painter? It takes me a day or so to get used to the gutteral sound and I swear again as a trooper.>:)Limoges Holland a decent run.
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