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Recht
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| Message 17 of 64 10 May 2009 at 1:54pm | IP Logged |
Jar-ptitsa wrote:
Recht wrote:
Jar-ptitsa wrote:
BUT in Britain there exist other languages e.g. Welsh, which are British but
completely spearated of English, and
therefore you can't say "British" but must precise "Britsh English". |
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Everyone knows we were talking about British English, and not Welsh. You could just as
easily say "Make sure you're talking about American English and not American
Cherokee". Let's not try and nitpick every single post to death, ok? |
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I'm not try and nitpick every single post to deaht. Everyone doesn't know
"British"= English because it is NOT the
same, but in Britain are some more languages, for exmaple welsh and Scottish gaelic,
Cornish, also the dialect
/language Scots. It's insluting for those people if you say British = English!!!! IT
IS NOT THE SAME and everyone
doesn't know it because it's wrong.
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Jesus Christ, yes you are. If you would read the thread, read the responses, and
proceed logically from them, you'd realize that "American" and "British" were
obviously ABBREVIATIONS for "American English" and "British English". Everyone who
actually took the time to sit back and think for a second would realize that. No one
was possibly talking about Welsh, so stop making things so difficult.
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Triglot
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| Message 18 of 64 10 May 2009 at 2:00pm | IP Logged |
Recht wrote:
Jar-ptitsa wrote:
Recht wrote:
Jar-ptitsa wrote:
BUT in Britain there exist other languages e.g. Welsh, which are British but
completely spearated of English, and
therefore you can't say "British" but must precise "Britsh English". |
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Everyone knows we were talking about British English, and not Welsh. You could just as
easily say "Make sure you're talking about American English and not American
Cherokee". Let's not try and nitpick every single post to death, ok? |
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I'm not try and nitpick every single post to deaht. Everyone doesn't know
"British"= English because it is NOT the
same, but in Britain are some more languages, for exmaple welsh and Scottish gaelic,
Cornish, also the dialect
/language Scots. It's insluting for those people if you say British = English!!!! IT
IS NOT THE SAME and everyone
doesn't know it because it's wrong.
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Jesus Christ, yes you are. If you would read the thread, read the responses, and
proceed logically from them, you'd realize that "American" and "British" were
obviously ABBREVIATIONS for "American English" and "British English". Everyone who
actually took the time to sit back and think for a second would realize that. No one
was possibly talking about Welsh, so stop making things so difficult. |
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No, I am NOT. I have read all the threa d and all the responses and have proceeded logically from them. I'm not
making thigns so difficult at all. I've my opinion and it's allowed, and british is NOT English, but English + Welsh
+ Scottish, this is fact. It's very important to make clear such things, or you can include all the infos whihc are
not connected or not truly relevant and it would be muddle up or wrong.
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| Recht
Diglot
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| Message 19 of 64 10 May 2009 at 2:11pm | IP Logged |
Jar-ptitsa wrote:
Recht wrote:
Jar-ptitsa wrote:
Recht wrote:
Jar-
ptitsa wrote:
BUT in Britain there exist other languages e.g. Welsh, which are British but
completely spearated of English, and
therefore you can't say "British" but must precise "Britsh English". |
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|
Everyone knows we were talking about British English, and not Welsh. You could just as
easily say "Make sure you're talking about American English and not American
Cherokee". Let's not try and nitpick every single post to death, ok? |
|
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I'm not try and nitpick every single post to deaht. Everyone doesn't know
"British"= English because it is NOT the
same, but in Britain are some more languages, for exmaple welsh and Scottish gaelic,
Cornish, also the dialect
/language Scots. It's insluting for those people if you say British = English!!!! IT
IS NOT THE SAME and everyone
doesn't know it because it's wrong.
|
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Jesus Christ, yes you are. If you would read the thread, read the responses, and
proceed logically from them, you'd realize that "American" and "British" were
obviously ABBREVIATIONS for "American English" and "British English". Everyone who
actually took the time to sit back and think for a second would realize that. No one
was possibly talking about Welsh, so stop making things so difficult. |
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No, I am NOT. I have read all the threa d and all the responses and have proceeded
logically from them. I'm not
making thigns so difficult at all. I've my opinion and it's allowed, and british is
NOT English, but English + Welsh
+ Scottish, this is fact. It's very important to make clear such things, or you can
include all the infos whihc are
not connected or not truly relevant and it would be muddle up or wrong. |
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What is so hard about this for you?
Quote:
"American" and "British" is not a good analogy at all. Americans can understand
British who can understand Australians who can understand Kiwis and South
Africans. |
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OBVIOUSLY he is talking about English, especially since EARLIER IN THE THREAD I
referenced "American English" and "British English". Only a moron could confuse it. If
we're going to specify everything to the umpteenth degree, how about we say "American
English spoken on Planet Earth", because perhaps there exists an America which speaks
English in some far away galaxy.
British in this context is an abbreviation for British English, and American for
American English.
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Triglot
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| Message 20 of 64 10 May 2009 at 2:42pm | IP Logged |
Recht wrote:
Jar-ptitsa wrote:
Recht wrote:
Jar-ptitsa wrote:
Recht wrote:
Jar-
ptitsa wrote:
BUT in Britain there exist other languages e.g. Welsh, which are British but
completely spearated of English, and
therefore you can't say "British" but must precise "Britsh English". |
|
|
Everyone knows we were talking about British English, and not Welsh. You could just as
easily say "Make sure you're talking about American English and not American
Cherokee". Let's not try and nitpick every single post to death, ok? |
|
|
I'm not try and nitpick every single post to deaht. Everyone doesn't know
"British"= English because it is NOT the
same, but in Britain are some more languages, for exmaple welsh and Scottish gaelic,
Cornish, also the dialect
/language Scots. It's insluting for those people if you say British = English!!!! IT
IS NOT THE SAME and everyone
doesn't know it because it's wrong.
|
|
|
Jesus Christ, yes you are. If you would read the thread, read the responses, and
proceed logically from them, you'd realize that "American" and "British" were
obviously ABBREVIATIONS for "American English" and "British English". Everyone who
actually took the time to sit back and think for a second would realize that. No one
was possibly talking about Welsh, so stop making things so difficult. |
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No, I am NOT. I have read all the threa d and all the responses and have proceeded
logically from them. I'm not
making thigns so difficult at all. I've my opinion and it's allowed, and british is
NOT English, but English + Welsh
+ Scottish, this is fact. It's very important to make clear such things, or you can
include all the infos whihc are
not connected or not truly relevant and it would be muddle up or wrong. |
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What is so hard about this for you? |
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I don't understand: why for me? It's nothing hard for me about this.
Quote:
Quote:
"American" and "British" is not a good analogy at all. Americans can understand
British who can understand Australians who can understand Kiwis and South
Africans. |
|
|
OBVIOUSLY he is talking about English, especially since EARLIER IN THE THREAD I
referenced "American English" and "British English". Only a moron could confuse it. If
we're going to specify everything to the umpteenth degree, how about we say "American
English spoken on Planet Earth", because perhaps there exists an America which speaks
English in some far away galaxy.
British in this context is an abbreviation for British English, and American for
American English. |
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Possibly but prbably not.
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| Recht
Diglot
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United States
Joined 5803 days ago
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Speaks: English*, GermanB1
| Message 21 of 64 10 May 2009 at 2:47pm | IP Logged |
Jar-ptitsa wrote:
Recht wrote:
Jar-ptitsa wrote:
Recht wrote:
Jar-
ptitsa wrote:
Recht wrote:
Jar-
ptitsa wrote:
BUT in Britain there exist other languages e.g. Welsh, which are British but
completely spearated of English, and
therefore you can't say "British" but must precise "Britsh English". |
|
|
Everyone knows we were talking about British English, and not Welsh. You could just as
easily say "Make sure you're talking about American English and not American
Cherokee". Let's not try and nitpick every single post to death, ok? |
|
|
I'm not try and nitpick every single post to deaht. Everyone doesn't know
"British"= English because it is NOT the
same, but in Britain are some more languages, for exmaple welsh and Scottish gaelic,
Cornish, also the dialect
/language Scots. It's insluting for those people if you say British = English!!!! IT
IS NOT THE SAME and everyone
doesn't know it because it's wrong.
|
|
|
Jesus Christ, yes you are. If you would read the thread, read the responses, and
proceed logically from them, you'd realize that "American" and "British" were
obviously ABBREVIATIONS for "American English" and "British English". Everyone who
actually took the time to sit back and think for a second would realize that. No one
was possibly talking about Welsh, so stop making things so difficult. |
|
|
No, I am NOT. I have read all the threa d and all the responses and have proceeded
logically from them. I'm not
making thigns so difficult at all. I've my opinion and it's allowed, and british is
NOT English, but English + Welsh
+ Scottish, this is fact. It's very important to make clear such things, or you can
include all the infos whihc are
not connected or not truly relevant and it would be muddle up or wrong. |
|
|
What is so hard about this for you? |
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I don't understand: why for me? It's nothing hard for me about this.
Quote:
Quote:
"American" and "British" is not a good analogy at all. Americans can
understand
British who can understand Australians who can understand Kiwis and South
Africans. |
|
|
OBVIOUSLY he is talking about English, especially since EARLIER IN THE THREAD I
referenced "American English" and "British English". Only a moron could confuse it. If
we're going to specify everything to the umpteenth degree, how about we say "American
English spoken on Planet Earth", because perhaps there exists an America which speaks
English in some far away galaxy.
British in this context is an abbreviation for British English, and American for
American English. |
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Possibly but prbably not. |
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probably not? Can you explain why on Earth someone would mean a language that is NOT
English (i.e. Welsh or Cornish) when they said "British", when they were responding to
a thread which had discussed "American English" and "British English"?
Read the thread again, maybe read it two times. "British" and "American" are
abbreviations. It's implied that they are speaking about English, and most people
don't have trouble realizing that.
It makes utterly no sense, and you're making a big deal about absolutely nothing.
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Tetraglot
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| Message 22 of 64 10 May 2009 at 2:50pm | IP Logged |
Jar-ptitsa wrote:
Recht wrote:
Jar-ptitsa wrote:
Recht wrote:
Jar-
ptitsa wrote:
Recht wrote:
Jar-
ptitsa wrote:
BUT in Britain there exist other languages e.g. Welsh, which are British but
completely spearated of English, and
therefore you can't say "British" but must precise "Britsh English". |
|
|
Everyone knows we were talking about British English, and not Welsh. You could just as
easily say "Make sure you're talking about American English and not American
Cherokee". Let's not try and nitpick every single post to death, ok? |
|
|
I'm not try and nitpick every single post to deaht. Everyone doesn't know
"British"= English because it is NOT the
same, but in Britain are some more languages, for exmaple welsh and Scottish gaelic,
Cornish, also the dialect
/language Scots. It's insluting for those people if you say British = English!!!! IT
IS NOT THE SAME and everyone
doesn't know it because it's wrong.
|
|
|
Jesus Christ, yes you are. If you would read the thread, read the responses, and
proceed logically from them, you'd realize that "American" and "British" were
obviously ABBREVIATIONS for "American English" and "British English". Everyone who
actually took the time to sit back and think for a second would realize that. No one
was possibly talking about Welsh, so stop making things so difficult. |
|
|
No, I am NOT. I have read all the threa d and all the responses and have proceeded
logically from them. I'm not
making thigns so difficult at all. I've my opinion and it's allowed, and british is
NOT English, but English + Welsh
+ Scottish, this is fact. It's very important to make clear such things, or you can
include all the infos whihc are
not connected or not truly relevant and it would be muddle up or wrong. |
|
|
What is so hard about this for you? |
|
|
I don't understand: why for me? It's nothing hard for me about this.
Quote:
Quote:
"American" and "British" is not a good analogy at all. Americans can
understand
British who can understand Australians who can understand Kiwis and South
Africans. |
|
|
OBVIOUSLY he is talking about English, especially since EARLIER IN THE THREAD I
referenced "American English" and "British English". Only a moron could confuse it. If
we're going to specify everything to the umpteenth degree, how about we say "American
English spoken on Planet Earth", because perhaps there exists an America which speaks
English in some far away galaxy.
British in this context is an abbreviation for British English, and American for
American English. |
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Possibly but prbably not. |
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Okay, off-topic... why stop nitpicking every post when it's so entertaining to read?
^_^ (joke joke, no nitpicking needed)
On the whole I do tend to agree with Jar-ptitsa, my opinion... but I do believe that
in some far off galaxy Flemish might actually be a different language than Dutch...
who cares? (apart from ET maybe... but he went home I thought)
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Triglot
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| Message 23 of 64 10 May 2009 at 2:53pm | IP Logged |
Recht wrote:
probably not? Can you explain why on Earth someone would mean a language that is NOT
English (i.e. Welsh or Cornish) when they said "British", when they were responding to
a thread which had discussed "American English" and "British English"? |
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This thread had not discussed American English and britsh English only but Flemish and Duhtc.
Quote:
Read the thread again, maybe read it two times. "British" and "American" are
abbreviations. It's implied that they are speaking about English, and most people
don't have trouble realizing that. |
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I've read it. I dont; like abbreviations and for me if it's not clearly written maybe it seems many of possibilities.I
hadn't trouble realizing that in this thread but it can be very quick that a perosn doesn't realizing it. For exmaple
"I'm Italian" if the person's Amercian has to be "I'm Italian-American" or it's confsuing.
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| It makes utterly no sense, and you're making a big deal about absolutely nothing. |
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what makes utterly no sense? Sorry for those ones.
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Triglot
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| Message 24 of 64 10 May 2009 at 2:57pm | IP Logged |
ennime wrote:
On the whole I do tend to agree with Jar-ptitsa, my opinion... but I do believe that
in some far off galaxy Flemish might actually be a different language than Dutch...
who cares? (apart from ET maybe... but he went home I thought) |
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Yes, it's a possibility that there exists a parallel universe. It's why I replied possibly but probably not because we
don't know and anyway they wouldn't infomr us.
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