BRANDED
1:54 Wed Aug 16
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Well. Fuck off then you cunt.
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Lee Trundle
1:53 Wed Aug 16
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I don't have much time for language snobs.
If you can understand what the other person is trying to describe to you, then they've made their point perfectly fine.
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Robson
1:09 Wed Aug 16
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I get quite wound up when people answer "Yes I do" or "No I don't" to the question "Have you got...". In effect they're saying "Yes I do got..." or "No I don't got..." respectively, which doesn't make any sense. Either they should say "Yes I have" or "No I haven't" or they should save their answers for when the question is "Do you have...".
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Loafer
12:06 Wed Aug 16
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No one, other than northerners, should say t'internet or shite...especially as it is usually in a ridiculous northern accent.
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w4hammer
12:06 Wed Aug 16
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OH.
MY.
DAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYZ.
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Fivetide
11:27 Wed Aug 16
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irons, even.
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Fivetide
11:26 Wed Aug 16
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Willtell 9:42 Wed Aug 16
Aha, Otto Jespersen's metanalysis. Nice.
Change happens gradually. Grammar doesn't always 'evolve'; it more frequently simply alters.Individually or as a society it's possible to either let that happen (willingly or reluctantly), or to attempt to arrest the change. Both positions are valid. Adaptation is not inexorable, it's circumstantial.
I once had to write about this and other similar linguistic bobbins at GREAT length. Published somewhere but sadly common licence. (Otherwise I'd have obviously made BILLIONS. Probably.)
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ironsofcanada
10:21 Wed Aug 16
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Willtell 9:42 Wed Aug 16
Exactly. It is a pretty fruitless thing get upset about.
"It is "I would HAVE thought...." which is often shortened to "I would've thought..." which has led to OF being used."
This is the exact process than created a number of standard spellings today
"Apron" was "napron" (from the same root as "nappy") until the 16th century. People heard "a napron" as "an apron" and started writing it that way.
"Thunder" was "thuner" (or ðuner) until some people started saying "wrong."
"Empty" was "emty" etc.
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LeroysBoots
10:05 Wed Aug 16
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blud
woteva
fam
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Willtell
10:04 Wed Aug 16
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Init?
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BRANDED
10:02 Wed Aug 16
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Isit?
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Willtell
9:42 Wed Aug 16
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Language is ever changing. Does it matter as long as we understand it?
My pet hate are the huge number of uneducated people that think that saying "I would of thought..." when that actually means "I would from thought..."
It is "I would HAVE thought...." which is often shortened to "I would've thought..." which has led to OF being used.
Even the French have started with signs saying "Parking" and "Stop" or "Halt". None of which are French. They have even adopted "Bon Weekend" when "weekend" has no meaning in French.
And of course at a restaurant I wished a French friend "Bon appetite". She then asked me what the British say for "have a good meal" I said "Bon Appetite"....
I reckon t'internet changes everything.
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bruuuno
9:37 Wed Aug 16
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Coffee - some coffees, such as the flat white, are meant to be served lukewarm. I'm guessing this what the customer was referring to.
I'd have thought that you of all people would know that
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bigst
8:51 Wed Aug 16
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Trust
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Sven Roeder
8:10 Wed Aug 16
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Thanks for REACHING OUT, Coffee
'Extra hot' = please don't spit in my drink
HAVE A NICE DAY
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Coffee
7:23 Wed Aug 16
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I was in a coffee shop the other day and the person in front of me asked for a coffee "extra hot". What does that mean?
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Aalborg Hammer
6:02 Wed Aug 16
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Sloth rhyming with cloth instead of Slow-th and Leveridge/Lever instead of Leaverage/Leaver - they're murdering our language
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bruuuno
11:51 Tue Aug 15
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Ironzzzzzofcanada
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ironsofcanada
11:18 Tue Aug 15
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Doesn't "eggy" in the sense of someone annoying probably go back to Old Norse, and is the same word as "edge", in Proto- Germanic. They word just went through different sound changes.
I know "egging someone on" comes from that, as edging meant giving something an edge, which moved to "inciting someone"
If so then "eggy" would be something that could incite you. If Old Norse, it would make sense it was more popular up North.
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monto
11:08 Tue Aug 15
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Thought this was going to be a Nordtveit thread.
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