feralucce
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posted on 11/11/2004 at 07:55 PM |
i'd like to see sources on that... for some reason, I have a hard time
seeing anyone in africa saying anything that is closely related to a) fo'
shizzle, b)hoopty, and c) honky motherfucker... ____________________ The earth turns on a tilted axis - just doing the best it can.
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Merry_Widow
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posted on 12/11/2004 at 01:30 AM |
Christ. I remember when they were trying to get ebonics taught as a
seperate language. It's a dialect, not a whole new language. It's like
jive...evolved...
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feralucce
Extreme Fanatic Posts: 1810 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 12/11/2004 at 06:01 AM |
But we do teach dialects in school... what I learned, while it followed the
same rules as neutral english... is completely different from what was
taught in missouri, or new england... ____________________ The earth turns on a tilted axis - just doing the best it can.
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Domkitten
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posted on 12/11/2004 at 06:35 AM |
Knock yourself a pro slick. Gray matter back got perform' us' down I take
TCBin, man'. ____________________ It's like kegel exercises for your throat.~Monolycus |
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W0rmW00d
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posted on 13/11/2004 at 05:45 AM |
i dont remember who said that the french dont speak good english where the
rest of mainland europe do but.......the french speak it to the same
standard as most of the rest of europe. hahaha. sometimes better, sometimes
worse. depends on the speaker really and how well they learned it. the
point is that it is taught tot he same high standard. though not in
comparison to the scandinavian countries. thats something special. they
speak english better than wodehouse.
and dialects in school? oh dear. when i learned english i was taught
grammar, which should be the same in any dialect on account of it being the
universal bond of language without which it is meaningless, the alphabet
and some words, obviously, but the rest you pick up. and no one should
TEACH dialect. it is almost a contradiction of what it is. of course as you
study literature you are exposed to different ways the english language is
used but, again, surely it is not something that one should teach the
studier to use.
tell the truth im on the vege of giving up on being shocked at hearing this
sort of thing. i might just deliver a standard message along the lines of
'i dont think that whatever is being talked about should happen. if you
want to know why then message me, if not take it as read that i have good
reasons.'
bloody....everything... ____________________ Eritis sicut Deus scientes bonum et malum.
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bettie_x
Extreme Fanatic Posts: 1570 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 13/11/2004 at 08:11 PM |
feral, that would be honky mafa or mofo. Or the more gutteral honk maFA. ____________________ Trapped in time. Surrounded by evil. Low on gas. |
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Anonymous
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posted on 17/11/2004 at 01:38 PM |
if they start teaching ebonics in school people mine as well start banging
there heads against walls before they can understand what the hell other
people are saying. They start that and every corner of every where is
going to have such new dialects and slang theres gonna be new languages
poping up every where! |
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Abbadon
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posted on 18/11/2004 at 04:05 PM |
Its not that the French can't speak English, its that they don't want to. ____________________ Light is changing to shadow, and casting a shroud over all we have known. |
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pale-face
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posted on 18/11/2004 at 08:34 PM |
and when thery try you get franglais
"J'atande at le bus stop" ____________________ fucking classy. |
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callei
Extreme Fanatic Posts: 759 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 19/11/2004 at 07:01 AM |
I thought that is what you got when Americans try to use thier highschool
french. *admits to being a french tutor in the past* Hi my name is callei
and I have helped distroy the french language by allowing Americans to
learn bits of it. I still twitch when i here any of the versions of "Voo
Lay Voo Kooshay Avek Mua".
"jay besion day Big Mac por favor". *falls over* (amd yes i have really
heard that in a classroom from teh mouth of a very serious student. ____________________ Real goths wear silver and crosses to keep the werewolves and vampires
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callei
Extreme Fanatic Posts: 759 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 19/11/2004 at 07:05 AM |
I thought that is what you got when Americans try to use thier highschool
french. *admits to being a french tutor in the past* Hi my name is callei
and I have helped distroy the french language by allowing Americans to
learn bits of it. I still twitch when i here any of the versions of "Voo
Lay Voo Kooshay Avek Mua".
"jay besion day Big Mac por favor". *falls over* (amd yes i have really
heard that in a classroom from teh mouth of a very serious student. ____________________ Real goths wear silver and crosses to keep the werewolves and vampires
away. |
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Wok
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posted on 19/11/2004 at 07:28 AM |
Do they still sell freedom fries in the USA? |
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RedQueen
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posted on 21/11/2004 at 01:29 PM |
Fuck, don't say "freedon fries." I hate that shit. I worked at McDonald's
right after 9/11 and I'd get all these red-neck retards in the drive-thru
asking for fucking "freedom fries." I had no idea what they were talking
about at first, and then once I knew I acted like I still didn't anyway.
I'd piss off more to say that if they wanted to be correct they should
really say "Belgian Fries," since they were originally created in Belgium. ____________________ Today's liberals are tomorrow's conservatives. When my generation is the
conservatives, we'll be fine letting gays get married and creationism vs.
evolution in schools will be a laughable issue.
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MystryssRavynDarque
Extreme Fanatic Posts: 648 Registered: 24/9/2002 Status: Offline
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posted on 21/11/2004 at 01:58 PM |
Mmmm deep fried potato freedom. Makes your mouth water doesn't it ? ____________________ "People always say what we are looking for is a meaning for life…I don't
think that's what we're looking for. I think what we're looking for is the
experience of being alive." -Joseph Campbell |
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pale-face
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posted on 21/11/2004 at 02:59 PM |
the Belgian's take their fries seriously. i'v been there and they had whole
meals of deep fryed freedom. ____________________ fucking classy. |
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W0rmW00d
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posted on 22/11/2004 at 05:54 AM |
i think its adorable that liberty can be purchased. and in potato form.
i have heard more irate ranting about france than i have about iraq. it
seems incredible to me that there is more ire reserved for those who will
not support the war effort than those against whom the war is directed. ____________________ Eritis sicut Deus scientes bonum et malum.
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Psyche
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posted on 22/11/2004 at 02:59 PM |
Et tu, callei? Helping rednecks speak french is funny, though. Back home, I
took five years of high school french and what I remember most is not the
french I learned, but the sort of southern/valley girl dialect of my "peer
group" as Madame attempted to teach us "lessez les bon temps roullez (sorry
about my spelling) and they sang Lady Marmalade to one another and cracked
up because they knowed French.
My dislike of the French began and ended with Christophe Solei, the walking
stereotype. Since this wanna-be Napolean I have met many natives of France
who not only believed in personal hygene, but also manners. He was just one
of those guys you only think exist in Chevy Chase movies. He wore powder
blue track suits and velcro sneakers and shrieked like a pre-pubescent girl
if anyone so much as touched him. he bathed once a week and wore gallons of
Drakkar Noir to cover it up. My French teacher said this was cultural
because so much of France's water was polluted that bathing too often was
risky. I submit that Christophe fell into the Seine and that's WHY it's
polluted.
He refused to speak English with anyone, but his host family (where I got
all my bitchy gossip about his deplorable personal habits) and his
teachers. Since the year didn't count toward his actual advancement in
France, he spoke to his teachers only as much as required to not "fail" and
be sent home before he convinced my gullible friend Shannon to marry him
and get him a green card. SHOCKINGLY, he divorced her as soon as possible.
She gained 150 pounds and pretty much lost her will to live.
So, for a while I hated the French. Now, I have learned to place my hatred,
not on a country or a people (although calling the French a 'people' with
the many divergent ethnicities there is rather like calling Americans a
'people'), but squarely on Christophe's hairy fucking shoulders. ____________________ Sanity is both highly subjective and highly overrated. |
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Wok
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posted on 22/11/2004 at 06:52 PM |
Remember when some fools went and brought French wine just so they could
smash and destroy it? Damn, I thought that level of stupidity was
theoritically impossible outside of the Whitehouse. |
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pale-face
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posted on 27/11/2004 at 01:05 PM |
I wonder if the sewer rats got plastered. because that would be funny
seeing little rats stumbling around. ____________________ fucking classy. |
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Schizo
Extreme Fanatic Posts: 897 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 28/11/2004 at 04:53 AM |
Makes me think of the Dropkick Murphy song "Good Rats". (I think it's kind
of a local band, so I don't know if anyone else has heard of them.) It
refers to how back in the old days in Ireland, before sanitations had been
discovered, and Guiness beer was just starting out, the rats would get
drowned in the vats of beer. I guess once they cleaned things up, they
took care of the rat problem, people started complaining their Guiness
tasted different, so they had to add some beef flavoring (or so I heard) to
the mix to satisfy the customers who wanted that authentic rat taste. Or
so I heard. Anyway, the song goes "Come on, all ye good rats, we'll drink
you to heaven. You'll find the pearly gates in the froth on the floor."
It's a good, roistering, Irish-y band that somehow mingles punk with
bagpipes, and would fit in well in any dark, foul and noisome pub. ____________________ "You can tell by the scars on my arms and the cracks in my hips and the
dents in my car and the blisters on my lips that I'm not the carefullest of
girls." - Dresden Dolls, "Girl Anachronism" |
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