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Post by themotile on Feb 14, 2005 11:53:44 GMT
however, the internet (who said anything about the WWW?) WAS invented here, it started as a network connection between military command computers in America, as a way to maintain control in the case of a nuclear attack, and it evolved from there. WHAT? Leonard Kleinrock invented the internet, the military had nothing to do with it. www.lk.cs.ucla.edu/ |
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Post by lanceradvanced on Feb 14, 2005 13:26:14 GMT
Whether we were conquered or not, whether our language comes from many different places or not, it is ours and the English language is our creation. Mebbe if the English actually had some respect for the language, people would listen, when they complaign about others "Poisoning" it... *eyerolls* It's becoming a running joke... Henry-Look at her, a prisoner of the gutter,
Condemned by every syllable she ever uttered.
By law she should be taken out and hung,
For the cold-blooded murder of the English tongue.
Eliza -Aaoooww!
Henry imitating her -Aaoooww!
Heaven's! What a noise!
This is what the British population,
Calls an elementary education.
Pickering -Oh, Counsel, I think you picked a poor example.
Henry -Did I?
Hear them down in Soho square,
Dropping "h's" everywhere.
Speaking English anyway they like.
You sir, did you go to school?
Man - Wadaya tike me for, a fool?
Henry - No one taught him 'take' instead of 'tike!
Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?
This verbal class distinction, by now,
Should be antique. If you spoke as she does, sir,
Instead of the way you do,
Why, you might be selling flowers, too!
Hear a Yorkshireman, or worse,
Hear a Cornishman converse,
I'd rather hear a choir singing flat.
Chickens cackling in a barn Just like this one!
Eliza -Garn!
Henry- I ask you, sir, what sort of word is that?
It's "Aoooow" and "Garn" that keep her in her place.
Not her wretched clothes and dirty face.
Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?
This verbal class distinction by now should be antique.
If you spoke as she does, sir, Instead of the way you do,
Why, you might be selling flowers, too.
An Englishman's way of speaking absolutely classifies him,
The moment he talks he makes some other
Englishman despise him.
One common language I'm afraid we'll never get.
Oh, why can't the English learn to set
A good example to people whose
English is painful to your ears?
The Scotch and the Irish leave you close to tears.
There even are places where English completely disappears.
In America, they haven't used it for years!
Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?
Norwegians learn Norwegian; the Greeks have taught their
Greek.
In France every Frenchman knows his language from "A" to "Zed"
The French never care what they do, actually,
as long as they pronounce in properly.
Arabians learn Arabian with the speed of summer lightning.
And Hebrews learn it backwards,
which is absolutely frightening.
But use proper English you're regarded as a freak.
Why can't the English,
Why can't the English learn to speak?
- My Fair Ladyor The English Language is the Result of Norman Men-at-Arms trying to make dates with Saxon Barmaids, and is no more Legitimate than any of the Other Results - Fuzzy Sapiens |
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Post by lanceradvanced on Feb 14, 2005 13:34:43 GMT
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Post by paco417 on Feb 14, 2005 13:48:06 GMT
you can thank us for the lightbulb, the telephone, the record player, the automobile (mass production of it anyway), nuclear power, the television (france did have a hand in its early concept though), oh yeah and al gore invented the internet. WHATEVER! come on lets stop the teddy chucking it's not worth the hassle is it! you will always get someone state we did this and we invented that or my nations better than yours. at the end of the day it's all B****cks! we each have a part to contribute on this amazing world, it's down to us to find out what that is! ok. rant over I'm going for a coffee and ciggy !(bad i know!).  |
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Post by paco417 on Feb 14, 2005 13:54:26 GMT
i know there have been times over the years where certain sections of our country Bleat about the native langauge being poisoned. Where? the whole idea of langauge is to communicate and if it means that langauge has to evolve then so be it! the english langauge has been changing for well over 10000 years and i guess it will keep on changing, depending if youre happy about that is your problem! not ever one elses. being an Englishman i have no problem if new words are added! hey if it enriches that language then great!.  |
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Post by Thorgrimm on Feb 14, 2005 16:33:46 GMT
Geez, i did not realise there were so many folks who have serious nationality issues on this board. I mainly posted this pic to show that the Martian Tripod was like the JW Tripod in body shape. Cylinder, you and DarkElastic need to reevaluate your ideas about many things. If you two changed your language to German and went back about 65 years you two would fit in great with Adolf and his gang. Lighten up for Christ's sake.  Thorgrimm |
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Post by ArmoredTrackLayer on Feb 14, 2005 19:04:39 GMT
Everyone must have been given a hot lead enima at the start of the new year. People around these parts are starting to become regular A S S HOLES. It wasnt always like this to you new guys, when I started here everyone was so nice and civilized, and all of a sudden "poof" everyone wants to kill each other. WHY? WHAT THE HELL IS EVERYONES PROBLEM? is it always a full moon where you live. lighten up and have fun cause your ruining it for the rest of us! GOD DAMN.
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Post by ArmoredTrackLayer on Feb 14, 2005 19:07:29 GMT
oh yeah and BTW, that comic cover looks like a reaaalllly bad hentai waiting to happen ;D
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Post by Topaz on Feb 14, 2005 20:09:52 GMT
Thorgrimm, ATL, thank you. I'm fairly new here and I was beginning to wonder if I'd just chanced upon the forum during a 'lull' in the fighting. Glad to know this isn't the norm!  |
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Post by malfunkshun on Feb 15, 2005 1:39:21 GMT
thats lame, stupid americans think they invented everything you can blame the degeneration of this thread on that original idiotic remark. thats usually how stuff like this gets started... one person says something stupid, and its a chain reaction. if we could all refrain from being stupid, these boards would be all about great debate and we could avoid this immature crap that pops up now and then. |
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Post by Bayne on Feb 15, 2005 2:29:53 GMT
[glow=red,2,300]Alrighty now...
No ones nation is better than anybody elses.
The language is mutable and ever changing, regional identity is expressed in regional accents and language. It could be argued that attempts to standardise language (by the English or the Americans) was a determined part of the discrimination of many subject cultures (my mum's a linguist who worked on studies involving the impact of language destruction on cultural identity and the deliberate attempts to stamp out Irish and idiginous languages in Australia to make the populations more maneagable so I know a thing or two about this). Nobody likes having their culture under assault.. so Americans should be ashamed of themselves for doing so and the English should suffer in the shame that they are only having done to them what they have done to others (shades of War of the Worlds here folks?) . Now that we are all reflecting on the fact that we are all guilty lets shut up about the subject.
Back to the comic... (and if we don't go back to the comic this thread will be locked!) it doesn't seem brilliant but does look good enough to be part of my collection.
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Post by Thorgrimm on Feb 15, 2005 2:47:30 GMT
The main thing i disliked about it was the slime covered tentacles, because as far as i can tell, H G described them as metallic. Yeah really bad Hentai seems to be what it is headed for.  Cheers Thorgrimm |
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Post by dudalb on Feb 18, 2005 23:02:51 GMT
Well, I won't be buying that comic book. The cover is an abomination.
Anybody else old enough to remember the old 60s Classic Illustrated version? That had a neat cover...
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