It's not my fault you move in small circles :-)
Would you be referring to the French officials trying to define their language? You do realise that they aren't actually your typical Frenchman, don't you?
clive
Is it utter bollucks. Industry is declining in almost every developed economy, period, no matter where it is.
The service sectors are behind our supposedly strong economy.
British industry has been in decline now for over thirty years.
As far as economic growth goes, yes the headline figures show we have better growth. But as for it being stronger? Certainly not in absolute terms.
It's somewhat more complicated than this, though.
A civil war? Nothing like we've seen in the last sixty years? Just out of interest, where have you been?
This isn't an issue here.
That, and those Englishmen who insist on being self-appointed arbiters of the English language.
Uh, yeah, it was a joke.
Eric Lucas
He's American, so he only knows what he sees in the US media.
But the yanks don't claim to speak American, they claim to speak English, which they clearly do not.
Personally I don't care who claims to speak English, as long as that is what they are doing, rather than speaking some other language which they invented themselves based on English.
Because of course Yanks are not self-superior at all, are they!
The message from snipped-for-privacy@italiancar.co.uk (SteveH) contains these words:
While that's true, it's /also/ the language of a number of other countries. We don't hold exclusive rights to it.
Well you could at least have written it in the style of Chaucer.
We own the rights to true English. There's many bastardised forms of it, though.
So your position is that, because you believe what your media tells you about American being self-superior, you are justified in acting that way, too? At least I have the evidence of my own eyes in this case...
Eric Lucas
Do you even comprehend the irony of your words? If you're going to claim to own it, please do at least learn how to write it correctly.
Eric Lucas
*sigh*
It's a perfectly correct sentence. In terms of ancient grammar it may be technically wrong, but it's a perfectly acceptable phrase to use.
It's our language and it will evolve in whichever way we want it to evolve. Please note, this doesn't mean that the 'English' you speak is actually 'English' in any way, shape, or form.
Your 'English' is a form of the language developed for your inferior intellect.
Ah, so you don't understand...
Apparently, judging by your writing. The English I write actually obeys some basic rules of grammar.
...and you even manage to be overbearing and pompous while not getting it. As far as I am aware, English has not evolved to the point where it is standard for the subject and the verb not to agree as to their number.
Eric Lucas
And the Limeys claim to own their little language, so what?
Talk to most Americans and they'll say they speak American English.
If you think you're referring to American English, you're looking up the wrong butt because American English is very similar to British English a couple of hundred years ago.
Oh, does that seem like a co-incidence?
"True English?" Is that like the Queens' English, then? Which is very close to the language spoken in Fort William, which I may add is in Scotland.
I don't know anybody who speaks "true English."
I can't decide what "paper" you read. Is it the laughably called "News Of The World" or the "Sun" to reach these narrow minded, jaundiced opinions of the world?
DervMan ( snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :
Strikes me there's a clue in the name...
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