OT: The ampersand invasion

Well, no one seems to be teaching them any other way.

One of the things I found really annoying in the US was the way that people hold forks at the table. They prefer to stab their meat onto the plate, and then cut it into small pieces. I once watched a couple at a nearby restaurant table, and there was no way I could find of holding my fork in the same way as the girl was holding hers, my hand just would not force itself into the same contortion.

Err... what's wokism go to do with shall/will?

If anything, I remember the old BBC-WS as being hyper cautious to the point of excessively boring.

Am 13/01/2023 um 17:22 schrieb Rod Speed:

It _has_ to do. Imagine if Italian or German citizens were allowed to write in their own dialect instead of Standard Italian or German. The English speaking world doesn't really have dialects that are so divergent from mainstream English, apart from "native" languages like Gaelic.

How old are these people who don't speak a word of English? They must be in their 90s for God's sake. And what? Their children and grandchildren don't speak a word of English either? Surely you're not vomiting one of those "White Australia" bollocks, are you?

Jeez, this doesn't even happen in Italy.

Wokeism is modernism anti - education and and anti conservative. Shall is conservatve and educated.

It *was*.

I recently had to terminate a support call because the (apparently) female on the other end, though clearly born and bred somewhere in London, was utterly unintelligible to me.

I can cope with Geordie, but not Sarflunnen, only 10 miles from where I was born.

Those were the broadcasts in "Special English"

Brian

In message <tpu0bg$1ul06$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me, Ottavio Caruso snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com writes

You've never been to Fraserburgh then ?

Brian

Am 14/01/2023 um 12:33 schrieb brian:

Yes, I lived in Fraserburgh about 22 years ago. All I remember is the stench of fish.

They are, most obviously with personal letters to each other.

That's very arguable with the UK.

Nope, quite a few are still in their 60s. And they can operate fine like that, essentially because there are so many of them so they can still talk to each other fine, and the kids can speak the dialect.

No, they all speak unaccented english very well, essentially because they arrived as little kids and had to be able to speak english in school.

What ?

Yes it does. Mate of mine married one of the Italian kids. Her parents have no english at all, all they can do when visited is wave in greeting and can't say a word to him in english. She is obvious fluent in Italian and when they and their kids visited Italy, the kids kept telling her to speak to the locals in Italian. She said that she couldnt understand what the locals were saying and thats why she used english.

This morning on the News, there was an interview with somebody suffering from the flooding in California. She referred to the 'Potentiality' for more damage. I assume she really meant the 'potential'.