man i want some scorpions in the mail to
GET OVER HERE!
If "I" is okay then I don't see why "U" shouldn't be.
I and A are actually considered words though o.o
How do you pronounce lieutenant?
Goddammit, why couldn't you say that when my Bond Villain Death Machine was still working?Originally Posted by Jessweeee♪
Leftenant. Yes, it is crazy, but that's Brits and Canadians for you.How do you pronounce lieutenant?
That... that makes no Goddamned sense.Leftenant. Yes, it is crazy, but that's Brits and Canadians for you.How do you pronounce lieutenant?
YOU make no goddamned sense
English is the ugliest language and the English are the ugliest people. Go figure.
Color and Colour are both correct spellings for the word, in different Dialects of English.
Also if you are calling the original British English the one true English then why are you not using Old English, because that would be the first instance of an English language. You may consider the Victorian to be the starting point, but you are really more than a few centuries late for that mark.
The only thing Old English has in common with anything spoken today is that it was called English. It would be completely unintelligible to a modern english speaker. The suggestion of going back to Old or even Elizabethan English, is a raving reductio ad absurdum. Let it go. Reductio ad absurdum is not logic, it's the opposite of logic
I never said I wanted to use Old English.
Also most people might think Shakespeare would be how Elizabethan English (Early Modern English) was commonly used, but remember that the majority of his work is poetry, not prose. Much Ado About Nothing is an example of a work that consists largely of prose so one should keep that in mind when reading his works. (To tell if the specific passage is poetry or prose look at capitalization. Prose will follow standard conventions, poetry will always have the first letter of the line capitalized in addition to standard conventions.)
It is reductio ad absurdum to go back to how a language was in the past. By that same logic is would be reductio ad absurdum to resist the evolution of a language. Like it or not, you use British English, I use Standard American English.
to be fair rubahs was correct that USA was around before Queen Victoria.
So they have no need to speak the Queen's english
a better argument is why they don't speak the spoken english of the year 1776
The very thesis of the entire rant is that bad grammar is not evolution any more than growing giant poisonous spikes on your junk is evolution.
Also, did anybody read anything but the joke about British English? Any of it at all? Because you all seem to think that's not only the main point of what I'm saying, but all that I'm saying. There's some pretty funny stuff in there. I made fun of trailer trash and everything.
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