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| 8 AUG 2011 at 10:58am |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
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Status : Offline | Seems to me that CoD is the bull to the internet's china shop.
(That'll test his knowledge of idiomatic English)
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| 10 AUG 2011 at 9:17pm |
Child Of DunwichPrivate Detective
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Caroline (8 AUG 2011 10:57am)
Seems to me that CoD is the bull to the internet's china shop.
(That'll test his knowledge of idiomatic English)
Haha, I've got the metaphor! All those Serbian lessons were not for nothing. Although, china confused me, as I, at first, though of the country, but then I remembered that the word for ceramic plates is the same as China in English. 'Twas back in the great language crisis of 1824 when some words were expelled for English, so now you have a bunch of words that mean the same.
Nature's first green is gold,&&Her hardest hue to hold.&&Her early leaf's a flower;&&But only so an hour.&&Then leaf subsides to leaf.&&So Eden sank to grief,&&So dawn goes down to day.&&Nothing gold can stay.
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| 10 AUG 2011 at 11:00pm |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
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Joined: 28 JAN 2007
Location: AU
Status : Offline | Someone has been keeping something from me: what is this great language crisis you speak of that happened in 1824?
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| 10 AUG 2011 at 11:24pm |
SpikeIntergalactic Janitor
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Joined: 8 JUL 2003
Location: UK
Status : Offline | AHH. the great Language crisis of 1824... When speculators caused US-english to fall by 5%.... Because of this the rest of the world got nervous.... Large chunks of Europe suffered losses.French fell by 3%... German By 2%.... Uk-English Collapsed completely and became Gobble-de-gook... Which is when a large chunk of Upper-Class twits became politicians.......
Spike Milligan (1918 - 2002) "A man can't have everything....Where would he keep it??"
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| 11 AUG 2011 at 1:50am |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
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Status : Offline | ahhh thanks for that belly laugh Spike - that's my daily exercise done for the day.
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| 11 AUG 2011 at 9:28am |
TravellerGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Ah Spike, do come an give us entertaining History lessons and News of The World more often...
* * * Just call me Trav. * * *
“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.” - Robert Bloch
"They are not reciprocally sublated--the one does not sublate the other externally--but each sublates itself in itself and is in its own self the opposite of itself" (Hegel, from The Doctrine of Being)..."
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| 13 AUG 2011 at 11:45am |
Child Of DunwichPrivate Detective
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Spike (10 AUG 2011 11:23pm)
AHH. the great Language crisis of 1824... When speculators caused US-english to fall by 5%.... Because of this the rest of the world got nervous.... Large chunks of Europe suffered losses.French fell by 3%... German By 2%.... Uk-English Collapsed completely and became Gobble-de-gook... Which is when a large chunk of Upper-Class twits became politicians.......
You are absolutely correct! I fear that the consequences of the crisis got forgotten too early, many a dictionary lost it's use in that crisis... So many of them, gone, just like that... But not just the regular dictionaries.. Even, the young, pocket ones... They were just children, innocent children, they had no profanities in them! Why did they have to suffer too? Why, oh, why? [smiley=cry.gif]
Nature's first green is gold,&&Her hardest hue to hold.&&Her early leaf's a flower;&&But only so an hour.&&Then leaf subsides to leaf.&&So Eden sank to grief,&&So dawn goes down to day.&&Nothing gold can stay.
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| 13 AUG 2011 at 5:09pm |
SpikeIntergalactic Janitor
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Joined: 8 JUL 2003
Location: UK
Status : Offline | Can any one explain to me why the word DICTIONARY actually appears in DICTIONARIES ..... If you use a dictionary .... You know what it's for and why your using it....?
Spike Milligan (1918 - 2002) "A man can't have everything....Where would he keep it??"
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| 13 AUG 2011 at 5:21pm |
markornikovJourneyman
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Spike (13 AUG 2011 5:09pm)
Can any one explain to me why the word DICTIONARY actually appears in DICTIONARIES ..... If you use a dictionary .... You know what it's for and why your using it....?
A foreigner might not know what the word means and want to look it up
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| 17 AUG 2011 at 1:53pm |
Child Of DunwichPrivate Detective
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Status : Offline | But how would he know to look for a dictionary then?
Nature's first green is gold,&&Her hardest hue to hold.&&Her early leaf's a flower;&&But only so an hour.&&Then leaf subsides to leaf.&&So Eden sank to grief,&&So dawn goes down to day.&&Nothing gold can stay.
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