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drydell
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Globutron
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| I love his soapboxes, he's just an amazing guy |
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Bibbitybop
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I'll play.
"I could care less" doesn't make sense on the surface, but when you realize I, as an American, could actually care less than I do right now, it means your British rhetoric will never convince me to care less than I actually do. It would take effort to bring me down to your level, and it is a display of "thumbing my nose at you" to simply care enough mention it to you.
"Holding down the fort" means that even if the whole [Mod Edit] place rises up in an earthquake or as a bulb on Lucifer's back, my mighty Yankee hand can press it down and control not only it, but also everything else around it.
Finally, don't talk [Mod Edit] about "herbs" unless your cities are legalizing it for cancer patients.
1776.
 Old Speckled Hen is some good stuff. |
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ChilgokBlackHole
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| Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 1:52 pm Post subject: |
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| How does this relate DIRECTLY to teaching / working in Korea? |
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NovaKart
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| Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 2:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Not much on this forum does, directly or indirectly. I once posted a thread on dutch ovens. It's just a place to have fun. |
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NYC_Gal
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| Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 4:06 pm Post subject: |
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| Ironically, colour and many of those words with the U were originally color, etc, until a bout of francophilia swept Britain. Many US spellings are actually old British ones. |
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Lunar Groove Gardener
Joined: 05 Jan 2005
Location: 1987 Subaru
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| Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 4:07 pm Post subject: |
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| I can't be arsed. |
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.38 Special
Joined: 08 Jul 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
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| Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 4:24 pm Post subject: |
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| Lunar Groove Gardener wrote: |
| I can't be arsed. |
I've been arsed, but I'm terrified of being dearsed. |
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Quack Addict
Joined: 31 Mar 2008
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 5:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Bibbitybop wrote: |
I'll play.
"I could care less" doesn't make sense on the surface, but when you realize I, as an American, could actually care less than I do right now, it means your British rhetoric will never convince me to care less than I actually do. It would take effort to bring me down to your level, and it is a display of "thumbing my nose at you" to simply care enough mention it to you.
"Holding down the fort" means that even if the whole [Mod Edit] place rises up in an earthquake or as a bulb on Lucifer's back, my mighty Yankee hand can press it down and control not only it, but also everything else around it.
Finally, don't talk [Mod Edit] about "herbs" unless your cities are legalizing it for cancer patients.
1776.
Old Speckled Hen is some good stuff. |
yeah...1776...nice red uni's...thanks for making it hard for us to shoot you! |
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Globutron
Joined: 13 Feb 2010
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| Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 10:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Ironically, colour and many of those words with the U were originally color, etc, until a bout of francophilia swept Britain. Many US spellings are actually old British ones. |
Been reading Bill Bryson?
His history on the American Language was pretty intriguing, and yes he mentioned this - the fact that in some corner of America you can hear ladies singing extremely old British folk songs that none of us have ever heard, because we made it and changed it. |
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NYC_Gal
Joined: 08 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 10:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Globutron wrote: |
| NYC_Gal wrote: |
| Ironically, colour and many of those words with the U were originally color, etc, until a bout of francophilia swept Britain. Many US spellings are actually old British ones. |
Been reading Bill Bryson?
His history on the American Language was pretty intriguing, and yes he mentioned this - the fact that in some corner of America you can hear ladies singing extremely old British folk songs that none of us have ever heard, because we made it and changed it. |
Just linguistics class years ago. I've an English beau so we're always joke-fighting over language, so I've stocked up on ammo
Here's a tidbit on aluminum:
http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/aluminium.htm
There's a family in Boston that preserves their English accent, and has done for centuries. |
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