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Postby new.vogue.nightmare » Thu Oct 30, 2003 5:22 am

As dictator of the world i want to make all talking pretty and nice, yes. SO We shall all speak gibberish now and the mean peoples will not stop us!

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Postby Camino » Mon Nov 03, 2003 3:53 am

Most regional dialects died out from lack of use but there are still groups that speak the regional dialect fluently, so your idea that going from one town to another would result in you hearing a completely different dialect is unfounded.
The only reason that American English appears more organised (which I don't see how it is or why you think it's any more organised or British English dis-organised) is because it just took what was coming from Britain, the railways came from Britain and with them came standardised time keeping, speedy travel breaks down dialects and natural boundaries.
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Postby kroner » Mon Nov 03, 2003 4:09 am

and I rather like the queue, the lift, the flat, the torch and all that other fun stuff that we just don't have in the states.
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Postby rklenseth » Mon Nov 03, 2003 4:34 am

Camino wrote:Most regional dialects died out from lack of use but there are still groups that speak the regional dialect fluently, so your idea that going from one town to another would result in you hearing a completely different dialect is unfounded.
The only reason that American English appears more organised (which I don't see how it is or why you think it's any more organised or British English dis-organised) is because it just took what was coming from Britain, the railways came from Britain and with them came standardised time keeping, speedy travel breaks down dialects and natural boundaries.


I'm not talking about today. I'm talking about pre-1900's before railroads and such transportation was widespread in England. Before there was a need for such things that the Industrial Revolution allowed to occur.
Railroads really became widespread in America first because that is were they first developed granted the first successful steam engine was built in Britian but most of travel in Britain at this time was done by boat. America had huge areas of land which is one reason why the railroads popped up in America first creating huge ammounts of travel among Americans which allowed an American standardized version of English to develop first. Plus there was an education factor involved as well. Britain was still having their children work in mine shafts when America was making their children go to school. So children weren't really educated and formed their own dialects or versions of English from what they got from home or their own community.
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Postby west » Mon Nov 03, 2003 9:43 am

takin' ya'll back a bit

Fxck is not an acronym, nor a derivative of pluck.

the earliest known written instance of it is in 1503, according to the OED, who ought to know.

1. intr. To copulate. trans. (Rarely used with female subject.) To copulate with; to have sexual connection with.


and it doesn't have anything to do with plucking or yew. That's just dumb.
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Postby rklenseth » Mon Nov 03, 2003 2:35 pm

It was meant to be a joke. :wink:
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Postby Solfius » Mon Nov 03, 2003 5:06 pm

rklenseth wrote:It was meant to be a joke. :wink:


The whole topic (at least the bit that was on-topic) was a joke :?: :?: :?: :? :? :? :?:

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