You Americans keep chuffing the back with every straight seven that comes through. Sticking a two on the six would really John Major up your day and stop you from harvesting shredded wheat whenever an Englishman jumped down the hole with the new documents.

MaudlinMutantMollusk: Slaxl: You Americans keep chuffing the back with every straight seven that comes through. Sticking a two on the six would really John Major up your day and stop you from harvesting shredded wheat whenever an Englishman jumped down the hole with the new documents.

¿que?

Chuffing Norma, am I right mate?

Cor Blimey!

Copying Newt's language-of-the-ghetto approach?

/Ebonics on the "job".

Bally Jerry pranged his kite right in the how's your father. Hairy blighter, dicky-birdied, feathered back on his Sammy, took a waspy, flipped over on his Betty Harper's and caught his can in the Bertie.

/Yez luikin' at a faceful o'heid!
//bloody wankers

Wankers

Perfectly ordinary banter, squiffy.


/Dad, he's speaking English!

Horrorshow, droogies. Got it in me malenky gulliver.

The First Four Katy Perry Albums: Perfectly ordinary banter, squiffy.

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/Dad, he's speaking English!

Sausage squad up the blue end?

We ought to close any school that aims at "getting understood."

Aw, c'mon, let's go easy on our across-the-pond mates. Try using gobsmacked in a sentence today. It's fun and free!

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What did you say to me?
/ohhhh sign your pity on the RUNNY kind.

I hate it when I don't get understood.

...sat on a turtle!

MBooda: Horrorshow, droogies. Got it in me malenky gulliver.

Most of the slang terms in A Clockwork Orange were Russian. (horashaw = good, droog = friend, Moloko = milk and so on)etc)

That's all sixes and sevens

JC

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Bally Jerry pranged his kite right in the how's your father. Hairy blighter, dicky-birdied, feathered back on his Sammy, took a waspy, flipped over on his Betty Harper's and caught his can in the Bertie.

As far as I can make out, this means something like "Damned German farked ((how's your father?)) up his plane. Hirsute rascal {unspecified aerial maneuver}, fiddled with the throttle, {more maneuver}, turned upside down and..." I want to say the last bit is "crashed into the ocean".

/used to be fluent in Pommy
//damned Chavs have bastardised the language beyond comprehensibility

Slaxl: You Americans keep chuffing the back with every straight seven that comes through. Sticking a two on the six would really John Major up your day and stop you from harvesting shredded wheat whenever an Englishman jumped down the hole with the new documents.

Being, BEING understood. Nobody "gets" understood.

Sumbiatch, that is just wack, daddy-o.

Up yerz, stupid colonial twats.

i have no problem with this. Kids SHOULD learn proper English (of the relevant dialect) at school. They can speak jive when they are off grounds.

Same thing with "ebonics". It's crippling many blacks. Conservatives tolerate it because it encourages black separatism and hurts them in the job market, plus it saves money by not having to hire good teachers for brown kids. Liberals tolerate it because they don't want to hurt people feewings by correcting a kid's subject verb agreement. Blacks tolerate it out of separatism. They're all wrong.

Schools should be required to teach proper English. The only way to do that is to correct mistakes. They can end sentences with prepositions at home.

"but but but it's OK to end sentences w. prepositsuns, langwij evolzs LLOOLOoLOo!!!11!one! (or whatever rule you're too dumb to follow)"

That sophomoric attitude is enabling laziness and ignorance. Schools shouldn't be in the business of enabling those traits. Prepositions create a socket, establishing the relationship between the verb on the left and the noun on the right. You have to be AT some place or some time. You are going TO somewhere. You are coming FROM somewhere. There must be a reason FOR whatever you're doing.

But...Shakespeare's full of the stuff.

I'm just a soul whose intentions are good
Oh Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood

Meanwhile, I'm hoping students are keeping phone text standards off non-phone life and CAN WRITE CURSIVE.

#writeslikeacivilwarboss

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It was never the slang that had me finding difficulty in understanding the British. It was just the accents. But Doctor Who and Torchwood have cleaned that up for me.

apeiron242: You have to be AT some place or some time. You are going TO somewhere. You are coming FROM somewhere. There must be a reason FOR whatever you're doing.

completely fabricated

you can split an infinitive as well

GranoblasticMan: GranoblasticMan: I just came in here to ask if anyone would mind if I bummed afag?

bummed afag*

Oh, I see. It's not me, it's you, Fark.

/ So many filters, such little space in my poor little brain

So I tell the swamp donkey to sock it before I give her a trunky in the tradesman's entrance and have her lick me yarbles

Majick Thise: I'm afraid I don't understand your banter, old chap...

done in one.

/Right on his betty-harpers!

I have some family in Scotland, who post Facebook updates that are completely bewildering.

It's almost like trying to understand hieroglyphs, except i'm pretty sure it's supposed to be English.

apeiron242: i have no problem with this. Kids SHOULD learn proper English (of the relevant dialect) at school. They can speak jive when they are off grounds.

Same thing with "ebonics". It's crippling many blacks. Conservatives tolerate it because it encourages black separatism and hurts them in the job market, plus it saves money by not having to hire good teachers for brown kids. Liberals tolerate it because they don't want to hurt people feewings by correcting a kid's subject verb agreement. Blacks tolerate it out of separatism. They're all wrong.

Schools should be required to teach proper English. The only way to do that is to correct mistakes. They can end sentences with prepositions at home.

"but but but it's OK to end sentences w. prepositsuns, langwij evolzs LLOOLOoLOo!!!11!one! (or whatever rule you're too dumb to follow)"

That sophomoric attitude is enabling laziness and ignorance. Schools shouldn't be in the business of enabling those traits. Prepositions create a socket, establishing the relationship between the verb on the left and the noun on the right. You have to be AT some place or some time. You are going TO somewhere. You are coming FROM somewhere. There must be a reason FOR whatever you're doing.

Are you trolling...?