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Cunning Linguists Languages and their use. What languages do you speak and why? What do words really mean? Can you say things in one language that you can't say in another? Should there be a national language? How many languages should a person know and what are they?

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Old 2004-03-18 14:31
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it's / its we're / where / wear hear / here Another one that really pisses me off is the use of "I" as the object pronoun, usually in an attempt to sound eloquent. e.g.:
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Old 2004-04-01 14:44
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Old 2004-04-03 01:04
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One of the advatages of speaking a non-rhotic variety of English is not having to put up with the whole are/our thing.
 
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