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| Porthos |
Essentialist Explanations about Englishhttp://ccil.org/~cowan/essential.html#EnglishRead the above link. Some of the material is funny. |
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| Deborah |
One of my favorites (as I think I recall posting somewhere else -- maybe antimoon?) is:
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| Porthos |
I don't recall you being on antimoon. Were you there before I came along perhaps or did you take on a different name? | ||||
| greg in noord-frankrijk |
Classique, mais assez rigolo :
Written English is essentially a variety of Old French invented by somebody who spoke only Saxon and read only Latin. English is essentially a language that no one speaks in France. English is essentially language's equivalent to a transvestite. According to generative linguists, all languages are essentially English. English is essentially the works of Joyce with the hard bits taken out. American English is essentially the language that everyone understands if you speak it loudly and slowly enough. |
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| Uriel |
Nope, she's always been Deborah. She only posts occasionally. Elaine used to post there once in a blue moon, too. (Well, technically we all did -- that's how we met in the first place!)
I liked these: Today's British English is what today's American English would have become if Americans hadn't had any fun either. --Glen Perkins American English is essentially your Queen's English as bastardized by colonists, or is it as colonized by bastards? --ilvi |
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| Deborah |
Uriel's almost right -- mostly I was Deborah on antimoon, but after I came under vicious, extended troll attack, I started posting as Zarafa and didn't let on who I was. But I've been mostly inactive there since langcafe started. |
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| Uriel |
Why, you sly minx, you! I don't ever remember a Zarafa, actually -- must have been on threads I didn't read.
I've always been "Uriel" on every site I post on -- call it a lack of imagination.  I'm just used to it, and use it over and over again. It's almost like my real name, anymore.
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| Pauline |
because it's similar wiht: girafa? |
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| Porthos |
I always thought it was your real name. What is your real name then? |
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| Benjamin [inactive] |
Wow — you've used that anymore construction again that Kirk got really excited about last time!! Can you please explain to me what it means again?
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| Deborah |
Sort of -- it's a transliteration of the Arabic word for giraffe. It was my bellydancing stage name. After awhile, someone -- I forget who -- on antimoon told me I (Zarafa) seemed familiar. |
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| Uriel |
These days, or at this point. |
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