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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 2007-11-08, 10:35
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Default What pearts of our modern language make you angry?

aside from the lol's and omgzzz's , mine is people thinking that everything can be placed in between two unrelated nouns, and that it is assumed that as soon as your trusty TV presenter says them, you are instantly given the picture. Hey, Getways on! "From Kangaroos to long ass trucks, Australia has everything" Do you know what your are actually saying Mr. Getaway? Why dont we line up a truck and a kangaroo, look in the middle of it and see what we see, whats that Getaway? You see a cactus and red sand? And thats all thats in Australia is it? Well thanks alot, the tourists will be repelled for ever now, knowing that we are a bunch of desert dwelling drongos. Seriously, what do they expect? Unless the values are numerical (from 3 to 6), or have a logical continuation (from solid to gas), this type of talking is utterly pointless, confusing and stupid. It was invented by a retard tourist promoter for a country that had nothing. "From trees to ice, Greenland has it all!" WOW! your a fucking genius! Whats to stop bombs and carnage coming into these illusive scale when a place is hyped up? It could be inadvertently repelling tourists because they know that in between the scale of sandy beaches and 5 story shopping bonanzas, lies guns and and single shoulder, bag holding retards.
From now on i am not going near any of these places with something to something else as their main selling point. And if i do, i will be sure to bring, in my suitcase, from cane toads and rabbits to complete environmental disaster. See how many nice options you can get out of that!
From Foxes to Squirrels: oh soo dogs, monkeys and koalas, but not cats, wombats, octopi and platipi?

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Old 2007-11-08, 20:35
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People have made the word "Big Brother" worthless.

RIP Orwell, RIP.
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Old 2007-11-15, 00:33
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Default Re: What pearts of our modern language make you angry?

Honestly? The pearts that are misspelled.
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Old 2007-11-15, 22:00
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Default Re: What pearts of our modern language make you angry?

People who say 'two times' and 'three times' instead of twice and thrice.

Actually had a teacher at school tell one of my kids that there was no such word as 'thrice'...
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Old 2007-11-16, 13:18
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Originally Posted by jackketch
People who say 'two times' and 'three times' instead of twice and thrice.

Actually had a teacher at school tell one of my kids that there was no such word as 'thrice'...


Teachers can be idiots.

I remember having a supply teacher in maths. He goes 'Ok you have to do these trig...on..ometric... is that even a word?'.

I loled.

BTT: I hate chavs who say 'is' instead of 'am' and 'are'. Like 'I is cool innit'. I don't hate the 'innit' because I'm guilty of that :(.
 
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