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Dan Fogelberg's ([info]llama_treats) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2008-11-25 10:03:00
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Entry tags:community: techsupport, defensiveness ahoy, dictionaries are for losers, get your ampersands here, grammar and spelling, language

Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead.
A rocket scientist over in [info]techsupport seems to think that Americans invented the English language and that people in the UK and Australia don't speak English.

Good times.


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[info]pariforma
2008-11-25 05:55 pm UTC (link)
I say we go back to using "thou" and "thee" for the singular and save "you" for the plural. Also, "man" will henceforth mean "human person irrespective of gender" and "were" (as in "werewolf", yes) will mean "human being of the male sort". Solves everything!

(Yes, I am a nutjob on this point.)

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[info]spacelogic
2008-11-26 02:32 am UTC (link)
I'm with thee all the way.

(Can we also restore "ain't" to its correct place as a contraction of "am not" and look at the gender-neutral pronoun thing?)

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[info]ecchaniz0r
2008-11-26 02:39 am UTC (link)
*APPROVES OF THIS LIEK WHOA*

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[info]magnolia_mama
2008-11-26 02:44 am UTC (link)
Oh, let's take things one step further and bring back dual pronouns too!

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[info]mary_mac
2008-11-26 06:51 pm UTC (link)
Dude, the midlands of Ireland never gave up 'ye'. Which confused the hell out of our nice Czech exchange students, back in the day, who were suddenly confronted with people from Athlone who used 'ye' after they'd spent a week getting to grips with the Northern use of 'youse'.

Could get behind the man and were thing, personally.

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[info]pariforma
2008-11-26 10:06 pm UTC (link)
Okay, I say we all get together and publish a newsletter on this: Teh Journal of Wanka Linguistic Reform.

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