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Post by Gerien » Wed Oct 07, 2009 4:12 pm

Nagash wrote:On a side note: judgment and judgement are both correct.
For Gili and our other British-English speaking friends, that would be true. I stand corrected, sir.







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Re: [Under Judgement] Well Crafted Spam vs Thread-Jacking

Post by Kaz » Wed Oct 07, 2009 8:23 pm

Gerien wrote:
Nagash wrote:On a side note: judgment and judgement are both correct.
For Gili and our other British-English speaking friends, that would be true. I stand corrected, sir.
We don't speak British-English, those of us from England speak English :) It's not our fault that the Americans could not handle the correct spelling of a selection of words and had to develop US-English ;)
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Re: [Tribunal Complete] Well Crafted Spam vs Thread-Jacking

Post by Gerien » Wed Oct 07, 2009 9:36 pm

I'm actually waiting for the day that American English starts being called simply American to distinguish it from English proper - because god knows most Americans can barely speak English. :roll:
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Re: [Tribunal Complete] Well Crafted Spam vs Thread-Jacking

Post by Nagash » Thu Oct 08, 2009 9:34 am

At the risk of threadjacking a tribunal thread on threadjacking: there is no such thing as US English. There is just English, and some deranged variations which should indeed be called 'American', or whatever country-wide dialect it is. ;)
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Re: [Tribunal Complete] Well Crafted Spam vs Thread-Jacking

Post by MoP » Thu Oct 08, 2009 9:40 am

Bah! There is American, and there is British, just as there is Dutch and Flemish! ;)
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Re: [Tribunal Complete] Well Crafted Spam vs Thread-Jacking

Post by Nagash » Thu Oct 08, 2009 10:13 am

What about Welsh and Scottish then? English is just English...
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Re: [Tribunal Complete] Well Crafted Spam vs Thread-Jacking

Post by MoP » Thu Oct 08, 2009 10:14 am

Wales and Scotland fall under the rule of, God save her, the Queen and speak therefore British!
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Re: [Tribunal Complete] Well Crafted Spam vs Thread-Jacking

Post by Gerien » Thu Oct 08, 2009 4:51 pm

I didn't think what the Welsh did could be called speech at all.
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Re: [Tribunal Complete] Well Crafted Spam vs Thread-Jacking

Post by Gerien » Thu Oct 08, 2009 7:57 pm

Nagash wrote:At the risk of threadjacking a tribunal thread on threadjacking:
Well, you risked it. :lol:
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Re: [Tribunal Complete] Well Crafted Spam vs Thread-Jacking

Post by Kaz » Thu Oct 08, 2009 8:28 pm

Nagash wrote:What about Welsh and Scottish then? English is just English...
Wales and Scotland have their own celtic based languages.

English is the default for the UK

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Not sure what happened there. I must have either overwritten Nagash's post in error, or something went weird in the split of this from the tribunal. Odd

Have corrected Nagash's previous post... I think ~Kaz
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Re: [Tribunal Complete] Well Crafted Spam vs Thread-Jacking

Post by Nagash » Thu Oct 08, 2009 8:40 pm

Kaz wrote:
Nagash wrote:What about Welsh and Scottish then? English is just English...
Wales and Scotland have their own celtic based languages.

English is the default for the UK

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Not sure what happened there. I must have either overwritten Nagash's post in error, or something went weird in the split of this from the tribunal. Odd

Have corrected Nagash's previous post... I think ~Kaz

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Re: English

Post by Vox » Fri Oct 09, 2009 2:13 am

Ya'll need to quit stereo-typing Americans we all most certainly DO NOT speak the same language.



Here in the southern US we have our own language. Just call Venus if you don't believe me or get a Jeff Foxworthy dictionary. 'Cause i most certainly don't talk the same way i type.


If i typed the way it sounds most wouldn't be able to read it ;p



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Re: English

Post by Shredman » Fri Oct 09, 2009 9:33 am

i sound like a hick lol....

a red neck hick, when we used vent , ppl probably were thinking , this guy is a hillbillly, no way this is the guy from the boards and irc lol ....


truth is , i am as far from a red neck as you can get, i have a thick southern accent tho , when i was in new york ... well i was glad i had my accent 8-)

Northern Girls seem to like southern accents :o


yallllllll know what i mean lol
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Re: English

Post by Nagash » Fri Oct 09, 2009 1:29 pm

That's just a matter of pronunciation though, innit, master Vox?
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Re: English

Post by Captain Ron » Fri Oct 09, 2009 2:30 pm

Funny. I didn't see this thread till after I made my signature.

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Re: English

Post by Kensington » Sat Oct 10, 2009 7:33 am

Down here in Southend and where I work, English has been bastardised into 'Estuary English'.

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Re: English

Post by Immigrant » Sat Oct 17, 2009 10:36 pm

What about... Scottish then?
Depends on where ye are, who you're talking to & how many pints they've had;p There's Scots (which is a jumble of about 5 or 6 dialects, sometimes promoted to an independent language depending on who you ask, that spans the Isles/NI down to the Lothians) and then there's Scottish English peppered with Scoticisms and finally 'Std English' mixed in for effect.

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Re: English

Post by owly » Sat Oct 17, 2009 11:35 pm

In Hawaii They speak what the call pigeon english witch is a mixture of several languages most not english in nature and i doudt any of you woud understand a word of it........

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Re: English

Post by bigSparky » Sun Oct 18, 2009 12:44 am

'Ey brudah! You wan' one kine pakalolo?

I went to a couple of real luaus in Kialua, actually closer to Bellows Field, and I could barely converse with them folk. Not so much of a problem after they broke out the Hawaiian Electric.
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Re: English

Post by owly » Sun Oct 18, 2009 12:49 am

Ah da kind....

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