Of all the possible directions this thread could have taken, I wonder what odds I could have got on it ending up talking about the contents of piesOriginally posted by Glorykid
ok the thread has been hi-jacked by pie eating back players!
How many "average" Brits have you met? Paintballers are anything but average... but I do agree with you on that one. I'm not an average anything at all.Originally posted by Baca Loco
1--you and the average Brit share virtually nothing in common, nor did you actually reply to the point, as usual.
Try and refute what I said then
Not just us Euro's. Plenty of 19th Century smiting and civilising in the American West (and in the Phillipines)Originally posted by Baca Loco
4--speaks not to a nationality but a period in Euro history where y'all were busy smiting and civilizin' them backwards folk. Brits were just better at it.
1--I was givin' Brit ballers the benefit of the doubt calling them average.Originally posted by Hotpoint
1--Paintballers are anything but average... but I do agree with you on that one. I'm not an average anything at all.
2--If you always answered every point I made I'd reciprocate. How about we do so from now on?
3--Consider that Chaucer and ourselves are not living concurrently wheras Amerish is not a language that replaced English but both rather evolved from a common point
4--Try and refute what I said then
5--Plenty of 19th Century smiting and civilising in the American West (and in the Phillipines)
Moo-hahahahahah!!!
Well your answer to 2 was immediately overruled by 4Originally posted by Baca Loco
1--I was givin' Brit ballers the benefit of the doubt calling them average.
2--Sure.
3--Sorry, but the world business and economic community don't speak "English." They speak American and that equals replaced.
4--You said what again?
5--The Phillipines? Now that is a magnificnetly desperate stretch from a man hangin to a fraying life line.
Why should Brit-speak or Ameri-speak either one be called English? If you know your history of the English language you would be aware that this language that divides us is basically German mixed in with a smudge of Celtic, a touch of Latin, a dose of Danish and a major blast of French. In some ways America has preserved the king's English, in some ways rationalized it.Originally posted by Hotpoint
Well your answer to 2 was immediately overruled by 4
The Phillipines a stretch... why? Admitedly the US never had much of an Empire, which limits the available examples, but its behavior was pretty bloody where it did. He who is without sin etc. etc.
It doesn't bother me why people learn the language of international trade it's just if it isn't going to be spelled properly, and they're going to use the wrong words for things, they shouldn't call it "English"
French spoken by the French, German by the Germans, Dutch by the Dutch, Spanish by the... well I think my points made
Fortnight - fourteen-nights what wrong with that?
We have "Holy Days" because in the past those were the only days you had off. Why differentiate?
Yep the list of strange anomolies in our language is indeed excessive and I'll agree Amerish is often more logical. It's just that it's not EnglishOriginally posted by Wadidiz
... And the list could go on.
French by the Haitians, Canadiens, Swiss. German by Austrians, Swiss. Italians by Swiss. Swedish by a small percentage of the Finnish population. Portugese by Brazilians. Chinese by Singaporans, Arabic by Egyptians, Tunisians, Moroccans, Spanish by Mexicans, Colombians, Peruvians...I rest my case.Originally posted by Hotpoint
French spoken by the French, German by the Germans, Dutch by the Dutch, Spanish by the... well I think my points made
Your case is not even remotely valid considering the reasons why these countries speak the languages they do is because of colonisation by, or migration from, the original countries where these languages developedOriginally posted by Wadidiz
French by the Haitians, Canadiens, Swiss. German by Austrians, Swiss. Italians by Swiss. Swedish by a small percentage of the Finnish population. Portugese by Brazilians. Chinese by Singaporans, Arabic by Egyptians, Tunisians, Moroccans, Spanish by Mexicans, Colombians, Peruvians...I rest my case.
English by every air traffic controller in the world!Originally posted by Wadidiz
French by the Haitians, Canadiens, Swiss. German by Austrians, Swiss. Italians by Swiss. Swedish by a small percentage of the Finnish population. Portugese by Brazilians. Chinese by Singaporans, Arabic by Egyptians, Tunisians, Moroccans, Spanish by Mexicans, Colombians, Peruvians...I rest my case.
Steve
