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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| But surely, it would be more polite to discuss the topic and the content of the posts, rather than take it to a personal level of dissecting each word used by the poster?
It would also be more poli... |
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01-05-2011, 02:41 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
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| If only we could be as well learned in the English language as Mr Orton... Life would most definitely be richer and I could preach at the lowly people who make mistakes in their efforts to speak and w... |
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28-04-2011, 11:27 PM |
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Thread: Direct ELL trains to Highbury & Islington
Post: RE: Direct ELL trains to Highbury & Islington
| This may be a ridiculous question, or perhaps the most obvious... Why don't they just scroll the top line also? It's obviously able to be programmed to be animated, as it is on a 'CORRECTION' notifica... |
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04-03-2011, 10:03 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| [quote]5. If I understand 'Thisgirl' correctly, s/he is saying that our choice of language is a purely personal matter, and has no social, cultural, aesthetic or ethical implications. I would challeng... |
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04-03-2011, 04:36 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| [quote]Every word has its own flavour, its own penumbra, its own history, its own baggage, its own connotations. I don't really like the flavour (if you see what I mean) etc. of 'poo'. [/quote]
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04-03-2011, 01:36 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| Well, you were better at it Michael... Until the censors got to you! |
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04-03-2011, 12:47 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| [quote](although some of us are better at writing **** than others)[/quote]
Ha! Touché :laugh: |
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04-03-2011, 12:34 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| I, 4 1, am gld 2 c da langwage chnge. Bout time itz brought up 2 date.
Ok, so I jest... But, having said that, as many have already said, language, dialects and usage is continually changing. Unles... |
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04-03-2011, 11:43 AM |
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Thread: Serial attacker lives in HOP or FH?
Post: RE: Serial attacker lives in HOP or FH?
| News stories from the nationals...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1362558/Night-Stalker-trial-Taxi-driver-Delroy-Grant-rapist-preyed-elderly-women.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011... |
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04-03-2011, 10:45 AM |
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Thread: BT Broadband - Forest Hill Exchange Upgrade
Post: RE: BT Broadband - Forest Hill Exchange Upgrade
| [quote] Hate to say it (and never thought I would) but a contract with Sky might be on the horizon – fast internet speed, Mad Men, Cricket, Rugby, Football…I really hoped it wouldn't come to this
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