I respectfully suggest that you triple-check yours. The word has more than one meaning.
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I respectfully suggest that you triple-check yours. The word has more than one meaning.
So why spell "bastardised" incorrectly then?
I'm not really sure what you mean, are you joking even though you know what '[sic]' means or don't you realise what it means?
I'm sure it's the former, I just want to check.
Indeed it does, but you still misunderstand the usage. "Moot" is indeed sometimes used correctly to indicate that it is pointless to debate a topic further. However, the specific implication is that the issues are so unclear and inconclusive as to render debate pointless since no conclusion can be achieved in any case. Declaring an issue moot and then offering a conclusion is simply self-contradiction.
The common misuse of the word "moot" results from people hearing the overused secondary meaning and misunderstanding it without appreciating the nuance that directly relates it to the main definition. There is no alternate definition of "moot" that is opposite in meaning to the main definition.
I prefer American, and from that the southern variety
there are many types of American English within America
Woohoo! Arabic FTW!
Arabic? Really? I thought it had vowels, but the Eastern European languages were the ones with a bit of a deficiency in those.
English is from England, is it not? Then again Americanese doesn't have a nice ring to it. Americanish? I even go so far as to use gaol and similar proper words.
What gets my goat is when Americans use words like addicting and the phrases "Could care less" and "Got X?".
What gets my goat is when Americans use words like addicting and the phrases "Could care less" and "Got X?".
Hmm.. I though Arabic had very few vowels.. to wikipedia!
Ah.. only 3 vowels in Arabic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_language#Vowels
Brits need to lighten up. I'm actually amused and sort of glad that we can irk you people so much by speaking. I mean, don't get me wrong, I find brits pretty annoying, but you guys take the cake in the up-tight contest.
I would welcome renaming our dialect "American." That way you people couldn't complain that we're "abusing" "your" language.
Then again, you brits are right. Languages should never change and the entire western world should still be speaking Proto-Indo-European, because face it, English is just the bastardization of one of the many dialects of Middle German and that German is the bastardization of a more ancient German and that German is the bastardization of PIE. Latin and all of its derivatives are likewise bastardizations of the same. Silly us! The entire western world simplified PIE! You know Latin and ancient German had noun declensions that English doesn't have at all and PIE had even more! The entire western world is lazy for doing so. Now, let us all sit in our corners and think about what we did and how inferior we were to our ancient tribal ancestors.
O my there certainly are! Southern, West/East Coast, Boston English (crazy people!!)- heck, even North New Jersey and South New Jersey sound and talk different (damn jimmies, they are called sprinkles!!!!).
I prefer British English, or English, as I do believe it's called. You also have cooler words and phrases. And that accent. Mmmmm.
I also love fish and chips. And pubs.