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Mouses or Mice - A question of English

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skunk said:
Almost.
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Yeah... certainly not as badly

I don't know if any other country has ever bastardised a language so heavily. I find it even more amazing when they have alternative pronunciation for a word. At least when they spell the word differently you can understand but how do they explain the way they say "aluminum" or "herbs" or "oregano"?
 
madamimadam said:
Yeah... certainly not as badly

I don't know if any other country has ever bastardised a language so heavily. I find it even more amazing when they have alternative pronunciation for a word. At least when they spell the word differently you can understand but how do they explain the way they say "aluminum" or "herbs" or "oregano"?
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Aluminum is the US spelling.
 
skunk said:
Aluminum is the US spelling.
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hahahah
That is funny... I both didn't notice what spell check was doing and didn't ever notice the alternative spelling

Sounds like I've been smoking "erbs"

Thanks for pointing that out

God damn Americans are stoopid
 
Jaffa Cake said:
Actually, last night I told her we were off out to an evening do next month (one of those previously discussed 'Dinner Dance' things), and her first question was "Will we get any tea there?" :D
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This conjures up an image in the mold of Wallace & Gromit. "What a splendid meal. Now, then, how abou' a luvly coop o' tea, Gromit? And some cheeeese!"

Sorry, I don't mean to sound like a...er...southern supremicist. :D
 
MrSmith said:
This conjures up an image in the mold of Wallace & Gromit. "What a splendid meal. Now, then, how abou' a luvly coop o' tea, Gromit? And some cheeeese!"

Sorry, I don't mean to sound like a...er...southern supremicist. :D
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It's OK. You can't be a supremacist if you can't spell "supremacist".
 
skunk said:
Just your ridiculous, yet offensive, generalisation.
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"Ridiculous, YET offensive"

Why "yet offensive"... did you mean to say "ridiculous and offensive"?

Check any study you like and you will find that, statistically speaking, the US public has a much lower level of intelligence than the rest of the first world nations. It is REALLY scary to think that a nation with so much power is so ridiculously dumb.
 
madamimadam said:
"Ridiculous, YET offensive"

Why "yet offensive"... did you mean to say "ridiculous and offensive"?
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I said what I meant to say. The charge was ridiculous, yet managed to be offensive at the same time. Ridiculous, yet offensive.

Check any study you like and you will find that, statistically speaking, the US public has a much lower level of intelligence than the rest of the first world nations. It is REALLY scary to think that a nation with so much power is so ridiculously dumb.
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Do you have a link to any such study?
 
skunk said:
I said what I meant to say. The charge was ridiculous, yet managed to be offensive at the same time. Ridiculous, yet offensive.

Do you have a link to any such study?
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That still doesn't make any sense, by saying "yet" you are suggesting that it would be terribly unusually for a ridiculous comment to be offensive yet it is very possible for a comment to be both ridiculous and offensive.

As for the latter, unless you have a counter argument, look it up yourself on Google.

MrSmith said:
Skunk is English, I believe, from his location.

(I'm sure if he was American he wouldn't call himself 'skunk' :D)
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That is why the sentence was "you came pretty close" and not "oh you voted for him"

:rolleyes:

Does anyone here actually speak English?
 
madamimadam said:
That is why the sentence was "you came pretty close" and not "oh you voted for him"
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'You' - subject. Defined explicitly. In this case the poster you were replying to. skunk.

'came pretty close' as in 'you came pretty close to voting for him'. Not as in 'you came pretty close to being American'

madamimadam said:
Does anyone here actually speak English?
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Nyet.
 
MrSmith said:
'You' - subject. Defined explicitly. In this case the poster you were replying to. skunk.

'came pretty close' as in 'you came pretty close to voting for him'. Not as in 'you came prety close to being American'
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I assume he meant that Tony Blair is "pretty close" to George Bush.
 
MrSmith said:
'came pretty close' as in 'you came pretty close to voting for him'. Not as in 'you came prety close to being American'
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You know, while the former was the intended meaning, I don't think I would be upset with people thinking the latter.
;)
 
madamimadam said:
You know, while the former was the intended meaning, I don't think I would be upset with people thinking the latter.
;)
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Since I voted for neither Blair nor Bush, your point seems remarkably lame.
 
skunk said:
Since I voted for neither Blair nor Bush, your point seems remarkably lame.
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WOOH
Wait
You didn't vote for the US President
NNNNNNOOOOOOO

Actually, from what I've read, the US public may not have voted for him either.... for their sake, I hope those reports are correct.
 
madamimadam said:
WOOH
Wait
You didn't vote for the US President
NNNNNNOOOOOOO

Actually, from what I've read, the US public may not have voted for him either.... for their sake, I hope those reports are correct.
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You are making less sense by the minute. What is your point, if any?
 
skunk said:
You are making less sense by the minute. What is your point, if any?
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Quite obviously, my point is that it is arbitrary to point out that you did not vote for Bush when you are not even in the USA. This works on top of the fact that the nature of the humour involved in the Blair joke was such that it did not require the kind of comment it received because any opposing comment would obviously be disregarded.

Assuming that that was the part of my message that you were referring to since you didn't actually specifically mention what you were commenting on. Are you sure that it is me that is not making sense?
 
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