SaintLucifer said:
Correct usage of English denotes the wish of an individual to appear 'smart'?? Alas once again the dumbing-down of society progresses. We live in a world where individuals now utter the word 'like' every two seconds. We live in a world where it is considered cool to be incapable of speaking proper English as those wonderful black people seem to be so proud of doing. No doubt you like to address your familiars as 'dude' or 'dudette'. I have used the word 'whilst' since I was but a wee lad. Please view my avatar. Do you not recognise the colours behind my moniker? I did not thing you would. You would thus understand my 'British-sounding affectations' to be my true way of speaking. Mommy and daddy were born in Great Britain. I was born in Canada. That makes me a British-Canadian hence I speak my native tongue. Just because you are American does not give you the priviliege of slandering me over my use of a language created by my own people. Remember, those who left the motherland for the American Colonies were illiterate whilst (yes 'whilst') those who emigrated to Canada from the Empire were fully-literate. This is why Canada, although officially a much-younger nation, actually not only compares with your 'mighty' USA but it is clearly superior. True we have some nutcases who attempt to experiment with socialism here in Canada but one must remember socialism was an ideology exported to Canada from the USA. Socialism was never even heard of in Canada before some Americans decided to emigrate to my country bringing along with them their brand of socialism (do everything for me so I may sit down and do nothing) which came close to destroying my country. I would prefer you Americans keep your silly socialist tendencies away from Canada. This could be done by simply refusing to cross our shared border.
If I wish to speak my language as it was meant to be spoken I shall do so. If you are so very proud of being an illiterate then please continue living that way. May you continue spelling 'doughnut' as 'donut', clearly erroneous. Are you Americans even capable of understanding WHY you changed the spelling as above? Money. You did it to save money. In the early days printing was priced based on the number of characters to be fitted within a specific page. Your solution was simply to shorten words. With Americans it is and always has been about money. We Britons do not care for such irrelevancies when it comes to our language. We are proud of our language and continue to be. Remember, American-English is still English but a bastardised version of it. Odd that you would attack the language of the nation which built yours.
How do you say "pwned" in British?
News flash for you, Sister Kissyfur:
English as you claim to know it
is a bastardization of at least six different languages, including languages of Roman and Germanic origin. The Angles, the Saxons, the Vikings, the Celts, the Romans and various other early peoples all shit into a dictionary, and what came out was your esteemed and holy Word of Brittania. This is why English proper is one of the most difficult languages to completely grasp, and why there are seemingly contradictory spelling, grammatical and contextual rules in play. As a country your poofter ancestors was responsible for two things: Bubonic Plague and most of the programming on the History Channel.
Not sure if that was redundant, actually.
Second newsflash: Using "whilst" and "Thus" doesn't make you smart, any more than using "like" makes you stupid. Language is a fluid and everchanging medium, which becomes something new with every generation. Do you know what Shakespeare would say to you if he were alive today?
Of course you don't. The guy spoke Middle English, you wouldn't understand a fucking word of it. It'd probably be something like, "Please kill me, I'm six hundred fucking years old and I am not yet dead." But I digress.
So there's your english lesson for the day, San Luis Obispo. Fro m a Yankee bastard who speaks dang fine Merkin. You know Merkin, right? It's English with a smart bomb shoved up your Pommy ass...