Thread: Another Language Virus

Originally Posted by BobH

Even the English language has it's roots in other languages https://www.englishclub.com/english-...ge-history.htm .

If an English dialect is spoken quickly with a heavy/thick accent I find it near impossible to understand what is being said. That has happened to me in any country I have been in where English is the working language. That includes Canada too.

Bob

We English speakers probably sounded just like Long John Silver not too long ago - '...and them that dies'll be the lucky 'uns'. Of course, you have to say that with one eye almost closed and the other fully open and staring directly at the person being spoken to.

Read Chaucer's " Canterbury Tales" in the original dialect and have a copy of the OED handy to make any sense of the great political wit of the time. Would that he lived among us to comment in modern English about the present mileau!
~Richard

Originally Posted by BobH

Yup, I am sure that is what he meant to say but it just goes to show that even editors make mistakes.

Bob

Indeed. I'm an editor, not a writer!

Originally Posted by Grazor

is it still cool to say "cool"...

Cool is now conveyed by "sick".

Originally Posted by Moonshae

Indeed. I'm an editor, not a writer!

Yes, I guess few of us proof read our own writing. The few news items that I read I have to wonder if there is a proof reader anymore.

Bob

Originally Posted by Moonshae

Cool is now conveyed by "sick".

Around these parts some of the kids, either from 'the 'hood', or acting like it, say , "That's dope."

All of which brings to mind one of the late Gil Scott Heron's last songs. One of the lines in it went, "when being cool went blind."

I was old enough to appreciate how true that was when I first heard it. Gil Scott Heron's life surely exemplified the phrase.