Moving to UK

Damn. I was hoping for an outraged denial.

 

Probably more likely to have others wish to associate themselves with
those sentiments.

err, like me.

 

Is that the research that says most of it comes from Turkish, that was
actually suggested about 10 years ago?

 

Why do you underline the names of the papers? Isn't caps or quotation
marks enough?

 

And all the folk in England without computers connected to the internet
who buy Le Monde on mondays don't do so, so they can find out when the
porn is on, on Chanal Plus?

 

News of the World.

Anyway, the reason Bild doesn't seem so bad is a) the Germans don't
have such hangups about nudity, the papers don't have to try as hard,
because general adverts and stuff are not as repressed as here and b)
the rest of the Axel Springer Verlag newspapers are almost as bad as
Bild, whereas other NI papers like The Times tries to be much more
highbrow. Actually, scrap that b) section, Die Welt is no more or less
tabloid than The Times.

 

Hey! Language is "what he does"!

I like the "most powerful tool" bit. So, so true.

 

Des Coughlan wrote:

Des,

http://www.m-w.com , a Yankee dictionary, says this:

Main Entry: fora - plural of FORUM.

 

had a bad day today Des?

You seem to be in a *particularly* bad mood.

 

The batteries have run down on his "Speak and Spell"

 

On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 21:56:09 +0100, Des Coughlan

Doom IV: This Time It's Linguistic.

Not that I've seen.

 

Wonderful stuff. "OK. Zeugma the site from orbit. It's the only way to
be sure. And then bring on the litotes to mop up what's left."[1]

Heh. It's fun prodding people from behind MacSoup's k/file because
they're convinced it ain't working.

 

Do you remember Hoyt? He shared this hilarious inability to admit he was
wrong, which led to ever more convoluted threads as he tried to weasel
his way out of it, and more and more people joining in to tickle him
with their cattle prods.

In a Usenet "career" where I've made more than my fair share of
****-ups, I've learned one thing. If you get it wrong, you simply fess
up, say you goofed, and everyone moves on. If you don't, you're the
focus of hours of amusement from every comedian withn range.

 

Finest foreign coverage in the UK press is to be found, believe it or
not, in the FT.

 

Same reason as he puts an accent on the second e of "beloved" - to pose.

 

Des Coughlan wrote

There was a bloke on the telebox last night who agreed with my idea that
as they are all subsets of Proper English then by default everything
higher up the ladder like Queens English includes, but does not
necessarily use, them as being right and proper but inferior to the real
thing.

 

He's got "the most powerful tool"? Modesty is what he does too then.

 

Translation: "Don't expect me to accept anything that contradicts my
stated point of view (even though I know everyone knows that I know I'm
wrong about fora)"

 

wrote

You as well. Catching innit?

Although I don't think I have caught it, so much as always suffered from
it.

 

The pedagogue is correct.
It's the 200 million Merkans who are wrong.
We should have a committee to control changes to the lingo
as the frogs do.