tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2718170321131838315.post6346976905961055022..comments2024-01-17T12:30:25.176+00:00Comments on The Megalomaniac Bore: LOTRO - Disappointing EnglishXeloushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05678230259156258183noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2718170321131838315.post-89134171101135009392013-08-04T21:01:07.425+01:002013-08-04T21:01:07.425+01:00The post box at the end of my road still has old V...The post box at the end of my road still has old Vicky's name on it ;)Xeloushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05678230259156258183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2718170321131838315.post-35220048186257649232013-08-01T10:23:17.168+01:002013-08-01T10:23:17.168+01:00Yeah, we should "touch base" and discuss...Yeah, we should "touch base" and discuss all this "wrong-headed" language use and how it should be punished. My current thinking is mandatory viewing of the entire collection of Jonathan Meades documentaries on <br />http://www.youtube.com/user/MeadesShrine/videos<br />That'll fix their vocabulary.<br /><br />Another point, you wrote:<br />"We don't have kings or queens of England, its the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland"<br /><br />Right, fairly minor point here, but as far as the status of king or queen (feel a bit nondeferential when I don't capitalise those titles) is concerned, the differences between the different countries in the UK are not nonessential and thus cannot just be abstracted away. For instance, the current queen is Queen Elizabeth II of England but Queen Elizabeth I of Scotland. That's why post boxes are different in the two countries: the English ones have the official cypher EIIR, the Scottish ones do not.<br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2718170321131838315.post-67240824115612703362013-07-31T10:10:41.140+01:002013-07-31T10:10:41.140+01:00Rant away, its why I'm here :)
We should &quo...Rant away, its why I'm here :)<br /><br />We should "do lunch" sometime, lol... Sorry couldn't resist.<br /><br />Xeloushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05678230259156258183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2718170321131838315.post-55284220822134866872013-07-30T11:26:07.829+01:002013-07-30T11:26:07.829+01:00I left the UK in 97. Since then there has been a m...I left the UK in 97. Since then there has been a massive change in the language. I see "24/7", "wedding band", "dairy" (as in "I don't eat dairy", "9/11" (ok it has become a name and doesn't really mean the 11th of the 9th any more), and shock horror even "math" instead of "maths". I seriously switch off when I hear these in UK tv or read these in UK papers. I actually read some linguistics at uni in the 90s and I was trained in decscriptive linguistics (as opposed to the old fashioned prescriptive discipline). I really should find these changes interesting but I detest them with a passion. If any child of mine said "do the math" I would flip. Seriously, I would flip.<br /><br />Sorry for that rant. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com