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A question for our English members...

Discussion in 'Whatnots' started by Hugo, Nov 13, 2006.

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  1. Barmy Army

    Barmy Army Simple mind, simple pleasures... Adored Veteran

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    Remove all ads!
    I live about 5 minutes drive from you. Small world, eh!
     
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  2. Harbourboy

    Harbourboy Take thy form from off my door! Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!)

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    Which is the single most annoying speech defect of many English. Can you not see the 't'! It's right there!
     
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  3. Shell

    Shell Awww, come and give me a big hug!

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    But incapable of pronouncing 'H' if you're from Yorkshire, like me ;)


    And I agree with Duffin, pride in the monarchy is very important to most of us.
     
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    British English is normally non-rhotic, so before consonants, an "r" is not supposed to be heard. :p I would associate "wa'er" with American dialects rather than a speech problem. :p

    [ November 15, 2006, 22:06: Message edited by: chevalier ]
     
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  5. Harbourboy

    Harbourboy Take thy form from off my door! Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!)

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    Huh? Speak English, man!
     
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  6. chevalier

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    That's the mute r's before consonants and at the end of a cluster of words. :p
     
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    Just abit! Where abouts are you from then? Ever watch Stags play?
     
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  8. Barmy Army

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    Hell no, I'm a Spireite so you wash your mouth out with soap ;)
     
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    Heh so your about 10 minutes away but in a different county :p .
     
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  10. Barmy Army

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    Heh, we're that close we'll have to go out for a drink some time or whatever. You're old enough to drink,right? :p
     
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    18 next May but I've been getting served round here since I was 16. I feel like a kid now :p how old are you?
     
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  12. Barmy Army

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    Bloody 22! Everyone's younger than me these days :lol:
     
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    Haha after a few drink's we'll get the inner child out :beer: . Oh yeh that reminds me getting bladdered's a big part of English culture :thumb: .
     
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    I'm in bloody Bristol, which as far as I can tell is Chav Center of the Univarse.

    Can't think of much more to add beyond what's already been mentioned. HB, I believe the Vegemite ban is real, as far as I am aware, since they have laws against folates being in foods or something.
     
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  15. chevalier

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    And every pub you frequent is the oldest in England. :p :D
     
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    That's actually a chronological fault caused by the sheer amount of inbreeding by the royal family over the years. they're ALL right.
     
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    They don't have much choice these days. Everyone with a big enough title seems to be a great-great-great-great-great-grandson of Queen Victoria.

    Long live the Stuarts, anyway! :p
     
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  18. Master of Nuhn

    Master of Nuhn Wear it like a crown Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!)

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    I sometimes believe that George Mikes was right with his one-line chapter about sex: "Continental people have sexlives. The English have hot-water bottles".
    Perhaps that's why they get all excited and utterly pissed when they see a scarcely dressed woman in the Red Light District of Amsterdam. :p

    And at Clixby: The people I met in Bristol were fun to be with, I would say. But then, that was about 8 years ago. Great city if you like D&B.
     
    Master of Nuhn, Nov 16, 2006
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  19. Caradhras

    Caradhras I may be bad... but I feel gooood! Veteran

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    LMAO :shake:

    Of course I'm French, that's why I find this comment so utterly funny! (and why I've got that outrageous accent!)

    Anyway, If "Guillaume le bâtard" (his original name) wasn't French because he was of Norman (i.e. Viking) ancestry then (following this logic) it would mean that any French king who had an ancestor who wasn't French, wasn't French either... As a consequence (big surprise) there are no French kings left in history!

    Just as English kings wouldn't be that much English but rather French, Germans, Scots (hail the Stuarts!), etc.

    After 1066 the official language of the ruling elite in England was French and that situation lasted for 300 years.

    That's why Modern English is so different from Old English and why my English friends you use so many French words when you speak your beautiful language. :p
     
    Caradhras, Nov 23, 2006
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  20. Cap'n CJ

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    Tea
    Scones

    That is all.
     
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