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- Fri May 23, 2008 6:21 pm
- Forum: General Banter
- Topic: Puzzled
- Replies: 163
- Views: 20486
Prufrock mate, your :wink2: still wrong. The English language goes through cycles of slang fashion which are the norm for a while then quickly forgotten about as the next batch of slang hits the population. We don't use the same slang that the 60s popular culture used, just as in 30 years time they...
- Fri May 23, 2008 5:55 pm
- Forum: General Banter
- Topic: Puzzled
- Replies: 163
- Views: 20486
Prufrock: English is fast taking over as the number one world language. It's always been in the top three together with Spanish and Mandarin Chinese; now, with the immigration element, more people than ever are learning it. Why should such a powerful language with a long history of gradual movement...
- Fri May 23, 2008 5:25 pm
- Forum: General Banter
- Topic: Puzzled
- Replies: 163
- Views: 20486
Prufrock: English is fast taking over as the number one world language. It's always been in the top three together with Spanish and Mandarin Chinese; now, with the immigration element, more people than ever are learning it. Why should such a powerful language with a long history of gradual movement...
- Fri May 23, 2008 4:31 pm
- Forum: General Banter
- Topic: TW Caption Competition Part 2
- Replies: 4327
- Views: 512398
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44678000/jpg/_44678559_terry2_getty416.jpg Terry puts the ball down, then steps up, only to see S Club 7, Take That, Mark Owen and Jussi Jaaskelainen bending over in their underwear in the crowd, just before striking the ball. If that doesn't win it for me. Not...
- Thu May 22, 2008 7:16 pm
- Forum: General Banter
- Topic: Puzzled
- Replies: 163
- Views: 20486
Re: Puzzled
Don't want to start a big grammar debate, but language evolves, i f the majority of people start writing in textspeak then that will become the language Not whilst I have breath in my body good sir. you can try to fight it good sir, but i suggest you will be fighting a losing battle.language is abo...
- Thu May 22, 2008 6:31 pm
- Forum: General Banter
- Topic: Puzzled
- Replies: 163
- Views: 20486
Prufrock - what you are getting at is 'organic' change. The slight change of spellings, usage of specific words declining etc.. Text speak and the Internet are actually imposing rapid change on our language, at a rate that has never been seen before. We've never had such an inclusive or, ahem, demo...
- Thu May 22, 2008 6:04 pm
- Forum: General Banter
- Topic: Teenager faces prosecution for calling Scientology 'cult'
- Replies: 243
- Views: 25464
Why, exactly? A biologist, lots of good stuff published regarding genetics/phenotype relations in regard to evolution. Good writer, clear concise arguments. He asks a simple question - why can't theists give evidence for their beliefs ? What makes him a prick? Exactly? My sole contribution to the t...
- Thu May 22, 2008 5:59 pm
- Forum: General Banter
- Topic: Teenager faces prosecution for calling Scientology 'cult'
- Replies: 243
- Views: 25464
Religion should be a source for good in this world and it can be a great comfort to those who have faith. It can also become dogma and misused by men for other evil purposes. Acts are committed in the name of religions which are clearly contrary to the tenets of those religions. People lose or gain...
- Thu May 22, 2008 5:51 pm
- Forum: General Banter
- Topic: Puzzled
- Replies: 163
- Views: 20486
Re: Puzzled
I'm noticing more and more that some people use small case letters after a full stop (point). Why is this, and why do names and the expression "I" (but not me) get the same treatment? I've wondered about it for a while but last night I noticed all the Chelsea players names on shirts followed this s...
- Thu May 22, 2008 2:53 pm
- Forum: General Banter
- Topic: Teenager faces prosecution for calling Scientology 'cult'
- Replies: 243
- Views: 25464
Why, exactly? A biologist, lots of good stuff published regarding genetics/phenotype relations in regard to evolution. Good writer, clear concise arguments. He asks a simple question - why can't theists give evidence for their beliefs ? What makes him a prick? Exactly? My sole contribution to the t...
- Thu May 22, 2008 2:37 pm
- Forum: General Banter
- Topic: Teenager faces prosecution for calling Scientology 'cult'
- Replies: 243
- Views: 25464
whether or not a strict definition of racism would encompass discrimination on the grounds of religion, if a muslim lad were to be abused because he was asian the general public and the mass media would describe it as racism, semantics are hardly the point here. If he was abused because he was Asia...
- Thu May 22, 2008 2:30 pm
- Forum: General Banter
- Topic: Puzzled
- Replies: 163
- Views: 20486
- Thu May 22, 2008 2:22 pm
- Forum: General Banter
- Topic: TW Caption Competition Part 2
- Replies: 4327
- Views: 512398
- Wed May 21, 2008 10:45 pm
- Forum: Other Footy
- Topic: Champions League Final
- Replies: 115
- Views: 14311
- Wed May 21, 2008 6:45 pm
- Forum: General Banter
- Topic: I knew them when they were nowt. Support Bands.
- Replies: 83
- Views: 12191
the man who loved the sound of his voice more than any other man. ever. good guy though, one of the few remaining old school teachers still there when i left. Aye, seen him at a few old boys dinners. I'd descibe him more as a Master more than a teacher. Not a patch on Harry J however (depending on ...
- Wed May 21, 2008 6:28 pm
- Forum: General Banter
- Topic: I knew them when they were nowt. Support Bands.
- Replies: 83
- Views: 12191
the man who loved the sound of his voice more than any other man. ever. good guy though, one of the few remaining old school teachers still there when i left. Aye, seen him at a few old boys dinners. I'd descibe him more as a Master more than a teacher. Not a patch on Harry J however (depending on ...
- Wed May 21, 2008 6:05 pm
- Forum: General Banter
- Topic: I knew them when they were nowt. Support Bands.
- Replies: 83
- Views: 12191
Don't know if the Bridgewater Hall has ever hosted rock concerts, but the accoustics are truly amazing. Mind you, it is the home of The Halle, so it would have to be pretty good. I remember when it was newly completed and they ran a test on tv to see if you could actually hear a pin dropping onto t...
- Wed May 21, 2008 5:56 pm
- Forum: General Banter
- Topic: Teenager faces prosecution for calling Scientology 'cult'
- Replies: 243
- Views: 25464
it cured Tom Cruise's dyslexia. What more do you want?? them not to ruin the lives of many in order to make a quick profit? and your evidence of this is? And in comparison to the numbers whose lives have been "ruined" by other religions, Scientology has "ruined" how many? May also I point you direc...
- Wed May 21, 2008 5:43 pm
- Forum: General Banter
- Topic: Teenager faces prosecution for calling Scientology 'cult'
- Replies: 243
- Views: 25464
the point of this rant, and it is a subject that makes my blood BOIL, is that if somebody wants to beleive alien souls were trapped in a volcano, in my view that is fine, i dont see it any more ridiculous than beleiving God created everything in 7 days, people are entitled to beleive that and nobod...
- Wed May 21, 2008 4:23 pm
- Forum: General Banter
- Topic: Teenager faces prosecution for calling Scientology 'cult'
- Replies: 243
- Views: 25464