Help my language please !!!

[elmcitymaven 9,712]

Yay! May all the Evil Yankees have career-ending injuries this weekend. Amen.

Blessed are the Sox amongst players, and blessed are the fruits of their labours.

Now go in peace, my child.

[Trompe le Monde 1,107]

Yay! May all the Evil Yankees have career-ending injuries this weekend. Amen.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if that happened? Of course they'd just buy a bunch of over-priced replacements. For now, I'll settle for them being in second place in the American League East - can the Sox at least knock them out of the wild card position?

[elmcitymaven 9,712]

Wouldn't it be wonderful if that happened? Of course they'd just buy a bunch of over-priced replacements. For now, I'll settle for them being in second place in the American League East - can the Sox at least knock them out of the wild card position?

It would be just like the Sox to do just that, and then choke at some other, even more crucial moment.

I just looked up and saw a Yankee (gag) on TV and I nearly fainted dead away. It's too early in the morning to show such nasty, vile things on telly.

[Trompe le Monde 1,107]

You know, I am still smarting from that TERRIBLE call that prevented my beloved Tigers from having a perfect game. This would never happen to the Yankees - he would have got the correct call and we would have heard for at least a month how special it was, how historic, how much it matters to our nation and our pride.

[elmcitymaven 9,712]

You know, I am still smarting from that TERRIBLE call that prevented my beloved Tigers from having a perfect game. This would never happen to the Yankees - he would have got the correct call and we would have heard for at least a month how special it was, how historic, how much it matters to our nation and our pride.

Well, it's the Tigers. It ain't the Yankees, who can buy magical protectiony powers that ensure that calls like that are made correctly.

[Captain Oates 911]

My husband hates that us English say "in/to Hospital" (i.e. "I had to go to hospital") because the Americans say "at/in the hospital" (i.e. "I visited her at the hospital").

I do get some enjoyment out of him now speaking British though. So when clients call him, he often corrects them on their English, and uses me to back it up.

A missionary ! Wow I wish I could convert someone - just one....

Going to visit my son - not visit with my son...wonderful

and when I get there I will orally communicate with him... or I could just talk to him..

Even this is bordering on 'usage' so isn't all that bad.

ok time to ensatisfy myself with a meal and depacket a biscuit and inbibize a coffee

..then a prohealthic woodsy walk in the canyon so I can oldage myself another few years

Well, it's the Tigers. It ain't the Yankees, who can buy magical protectiony powers that ensure that calls like that are made correctly.

Yo GF !

thought you were in the boozer in Toronto fighting off lustorial exes

[elmcitymaven 9,712]

Yo GF !

thought you were in the boozer in Toronto fighting off lustorial exes

Yo BF! Not yet.

[VisaJourneyLady 33]

In turn, my brother says "air commas" to describe the infamous air quotes that you do when quoting someone in speech.

Well using the word quote for this: " is an Americanism. The British term is 'inverted commas', so your brother is half right.

[John and Camie 39]

The Americans are slaughtering my lovely English language and it's making me weep.

Come on, now. The English language is not all tea and biscuits on the other side of the Atlantic, innit?

[Captain Oates 911]

Come on, now. The English language is not all tea and biscuits on the other side of the Atlantic, innit?

Whistle atter think on ovver that un. Ilkley moor baht 'at is quite intelligible. Bandy ole bat couldn't stop a pig in a ginnel should be easily understood. Gone to ligger down. Eighteen carats ? No it's toffee. Clatter thine lug oil. Barnaby reyt.

Actually there are no invented words in dialect and they can nearly all be traced back to Danish/Icelandic/Norwegian which is a big a shock to dialect speakers who thought they were using sloppy slang

Google language tools (English to Danish) has 'clap thine lug hole' (smack your ear in Yorkshire dialect) as 'klappe din lug hul'

Try it if you don't believe !

The spawn of the Vikings lives on in a desert in Washington State

Edited June 6, 2010 by saywhat

[Captain Oates 911]

ps the lug was a cheat as google cant translate it - but I am looking for the ref as I reckon it is 'ear' in modern or old danish or dialect danish - I will report back. Any Danes there to help ?

http://www.viking.no/e/england/e-yorkshire_norse.htm

Edited June 6, 2010 by saywhat

[twowls 217]

Whistle atter think on ovver that un. Ilkley moor baht 'at is quite intelligible. Bandy ole bat couldn't stop a pig in a ginnel should be easily understood. Gone to ligger down. Eighteen carats ? No it's toffee. Clatter thine lug oil. Barnaby reyt.

Actually there are no invented words in dialect and they can nearly all be traced back to Danish/Icelandic/Norwegian which is a big a shock to dialect speakers who thought they were using sloppy slang

Google language tools (English to Danish) has 'clap thine lug hole' (smack your ear in Yorkshire dialect) as 'klappe din lug hul'

Try it if you don't believe !

The spawn of the Vikings lives on in a desert in Washington State

What?!?!! There are no invented words in dialect?? You mean British English? EXPAND. Sorry for yelling.

[Captain Oates 911]

What?!?!! There are no invented words in dialect?? You mean British English? EXPAND. Sorry for yelling.

No such thing as British English

There is only English and other forms such as American English and pidgin English etc http://www.june29.com/hlp/lang/pidgin.html

But Yorkshire Dialect has no new or invented words that I can find - many of their unique words are Scandinavian words that never entered the standard English of the South.

It's quite unintelligible to outsiders including the Southern English - a bit like this :

And so, General, I want to thank you for your service. And I appreciate the fact that you really snatched defeat out of the jaws of those who are trying to defeat us in Iraq." --George W. Bush, to Army Gen. Ray Odierno, Washington, D.C., March 3, 2008

[Captain Oates 911]

THIS ONE IS ACTUALLY ON TOPIC AND IS A GOOD EXAMPLE:

"I want to thank the dozens of welfare to work stories, the actual examples of people who made the firm and solemn commitment to work hard to embetter themselves."—Washington, D.C., April 18, 2002 (Thanks to George Dupper.)

Edited June 6, 2010 by saywhat

[twowls 217]

No such thing as British English

There is only English and other forms such as American English and pidgin English etc http://www.june29.co...ang/pidgin.html

But Yorkshire Dialect has no new or invented words that I can find - many of their unique words are Scandinavian words that never entered the standard English of the South.

It's quite unintelligible to outsiders including the Southern English - a bit like this :

And so, General, I want to thank you for your service. And I appreciate the fact that you really snatched defeat out of the jaws of those who are trying to defeat us in Iraq." --George W. Bush, to Army Gen. Ray Odierno, Washington, D.C., March 3, 2008

Gotcha. And indeed, the example you offered is utter nonsense. Please don't reiterate your point.

THIS ONE IS ACTUALLY ON TOPIC AND IS A GOOD EXAMPLE:

"I want to thank the dozens of welfare to work stories, the actual examples of people who made the firm and solemn commitment to work hard to embetter themselves."—Washington, D.C., April 18, 2002 (Thanks to George Dupper.)

Oh ow, too late. All I have to say is... www.dubyaspeak.com. They record the damage. I suggest the pages with audio. You won't be sorry. I mean, sorrier than you already are.