Thread: Another Language Virus

Yes, we can!

Originally Posted by Jimbo

Excuse me, I need to boldly go sit down and to at least have a cup of tea and to strenuously, yet ultimately successfully get my blood pressure back to normal.

James.

You are welcome

A foozler and his golf betting money are soon parted!

Originally Posted by Geezer

A foozler and his golf betting money are soon parted!

Are you saying there's no foozler like an old foozler ? .............

The translations for 'foozle' my little book gives , roughly translated back into English: (1) v. to get mixed up into something, to make a mistake (2) n. a fossile, sth./somebody outdated, a conservative person and - my favourite - a 'chalk head' (kalkkipää); I think this means 'an old and largely irrelevant person/fossile, but even in Finnish it's very uncommon. It's probably only used by irrelevant people over 95.

Oh, completely unrelated, a 'bust-out joint': a gambling house of ill reputation.

Damn, now I'm just listing trivia. Oh, the humanity!

But really, if you want hours of cheap entertainment and an (albeit moderate) insight in how language changes, get old dictionaries. Second-hand book stores are your best bet, of course.

One of the many (I was recently told the number was 17240--but by the end of the conversation it was 17242) things that annoys me is the utter laziness of people who write with text shorthand.

I have no problem with it in a text message from phone to phone; and I confess that I OCCASIONALLY skip an apostrophe or a capitalization or a period while texting when I am in a rush. However, in a forum such as this, I consider such writing to be utterly disrespectful to the other members of the forum.

leav if u cant rit good


(clarification: I absolutely in no way mean to suggest any criticism of anyone participating in this forum who is writing in their non-native language.)

Originally Posted by Utopian

One of the many (I was recently told the number was 17240--but by the end of the conversation it was 17242) things that annoys me is the utter laziness of people who write with text shorthand.

I have no problem with it in a text message from phone to phone; and I confess that I OCCASIONALLY skip an apostrophe or a capitalization or a period while texting when I am in a rush. However, in a forum such as this, I consider such writing to be utterly disrespectful to the other members of the forum.

leav if u cant rit good


(clarification: I absolutely in no way mean to suggest any criticism of anyone participating in this forum who is writing in their non-native language.)

And the occasional paragraph break goes a long way to being easier on the eyes and separating the ideas...

Originally Posted by Phrank

And the occasional paragraph break goes a long way to being easier on the eyes and separating the ideas...

+1

I tend to skip posts that are a mile long and jump from one subject to another.

Whenever I hired a new manager I immediately sent him/her to a tech writing school in order to make MY life a little less frustrating.

Originally Posted by rolodave

+1

I tend to skip posts that are a mile long and jump from one subject to another.

Whenever I hired a new manager I immediately sent him/her to a tech writing school in order to make MY life a little less frustrating.

LOL - I started my career as a Technical Writer....

"I can like to speak the language deliciously" is a typical phrase, mockingly used against those South Africans that don't have a great command of the Queen's English in both the written and verbal form.

Originally Posted by rhensley

In England (supposedly the origin of the English language) depending what area your from they speak differently.

Where are we supposed to think it originated from if not England?

And yes, people have all kinds of different accents and dialects in the UK - far more apparently than in the USA. I've yet to come across an explanation for that. Bill Bryson wrote a book called 'Mother Tongue' that compares the numbers of accents in the UK and USA - it's well worth a read.