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| Thread ID: 144078 | 2017-07-03 01:26:00 | Dropping the "ing" | Roscoe (6288) | PC World Chat |
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| 1436844 | 2017-07-03 12:29:00 | Phones sound better when they ring, the ones that just "r" can be confusing. | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1436845 | 2017-07-03 21:03:00 | English is an evolving language. That's not an excuse for using it badly |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1436846 | 2017-07-03 21:56:00 | Evolving or not I don't see the need to add BS made up words and slang to the dictionary just because they get used a lot. Like the Americans adding "sticktoitiveness" because their president didn't know one of the already existing words (tenacity, perseverance, etc) As to the original post, must be outside my circles as none of that sounds like common usage to me. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1436847 | 2017-07-04 01:53:00 | "gotten" pees me off. Ken :) |
kenj (9738) | ||
| 1436848 | 2017-07-04 03:50:00 | "gotten" pees me off. Ken :) It shouldn't really, firstly 'gotten' has an honourable history going back to Middle English, secondly the Americans use that word and 'got' in a subtly different ways that English English does not have. So in that sense American English has a richer meaning: www-personal.umich.edu |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 1436849 | 2017-07-04 07:32:00 | That's not an excuse for using it badlyOf course it is. We use the language as we understand it. Blaming poor use of our language is just being pretentious. | Greg (193) | ||
| 1436850 | 2017-07-05 00:08:00 | It's how English people speak, i.e politely, rudely, or plain out loud swearing, it what we should really contend with; or perhaps the different English UK tones/dialects (Think actor mates Michael Caine and the late Roger Moore - both from London, but their dialects are vastly different). Never mind too much about new urbanized English, adapted, or what ever you call it - mods to English will arise or evolve. We all can't all be prim and proper (unless job professionalism requires it), as we might have learnt at school way back | kahawai chaser (3545) | ||
| 1436851 | 2017-07-05 02:04:00 | Of course it is. We use the language as we understand it. Blaming poor use of our language is just being pretentious. Oh don't you mean: Yeah bro, We use da talk as we like understand dat ****., Blamin' like poor use our way is like bein' pretentious. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1436852 | 2017-07-05 05:23:00 | You forgot 15 "You knows . . . " Per paragraph ;) |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1436853 | 2017-07-05 22:33:00 | Phones sound better when they ring, the ones that just "r" can be confusing. That's a pirate phone, "Argh, argh." |
Whenu (9358) | ||
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