“On time” departure
Jun 7, 2019, 2:09 am
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“Exceptionally full” means full, but in our experience this is not usually the case for this particular flight. Tomorrow it won’t be full, and nor was it yesterday.
Language evolves, sometime fast and sometimes slowly, and if you’re a native speaker say what you want and ignore the curmudgeonly old pedants.
Language evolves, sometime fast and sometimes slowly, and if you’re a native speaker say what you want and ignore the curmudgeonly old pedants.
Jun 7, 2019, 3:22 am
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Curmudgeonly old pedants do not use smilies.
Jun 7, 2019, 4:11 am
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Jun 7, 2019, 4:17 am
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Jun 7, 2019, 4:24 am
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Jun 7, 2019, 4:45 am
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Not to mention that American English retains good old Anglo-Saxon words like 'fall' and 'slaughterhouse' which in British English have been replaced by the frenchified "autumn" and "abbatoir." Snobbery on this subject is just so tiresome, and people really need to realize that there's more to language beyond what their prescriptivist secondary school teacher taught them.
Jun 7, 2019, 4:54 am
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Not to mention that American English retains good old Anglo-Saxon words like 'fall' and 'slaughterhouse' which in British English have been replaced by the frenchified "autumn" and "abbatoir." Snobbery on this subject is just so tiresome, and people really need to realize that there's more to language beyond what their prescriptivist secondary school teacher taught them.
What is very funny is when an American English speaker starts berating British English for being linguistically stuck in the mud and refusing to update for modern times. That's sort of getting it the wrong way around.
Jun 7, 2019, 5:03 am
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I blame the Americans for the introduction of 'outside of'.
I blame the English for 'quite unique'.
I blame the French for most other things.
I blame the English for 'quite unique'.
I blame the French for most other things.
Jun 7, 2019, 5:41 am
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Isn't that what British English has done? That is to say, it has refused to be prescriptive and instead has evolved over time with changing fashions and usages - while American English is, relatively speaking, more like a fossilised 17th-century language?
What is very funny is when an American English speaker starts berating British English for being linguistically stuck in the mud and refusing to update for modern times. That's sort of getting it the wrong way around.
What is very funny is when an American English speaker starts berating British English for being linguistically stuck in the mud and refusing to update for modern times. That's sort of getting it the wrong way around.
For the avoidance of doubt, I don't think either of them is 'better.'Of course the Scots 'outwith' is vastly superior.
However, since the English seem reluctant to use it, I'm not sure what you'd propose as an alternative when used as a preposition.
Last edited by Mordac; Jun 7, 2019 at 5:57 am
Jun 7, 2019, 5:47 am
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BA English has often involved self-congratulatory announcements about arriving early, only to sit on the tarmac for 20 minutes +, and parking late.
Jun 7, 2019, 6:59 am
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