Re: "Could care less is" a personal peeve of mine, too.
Camilla Send a noteboard - 20/05/2010 03:45:40 PM
it's a message from the Queen!
Holding (down) the fort I'd not thought of, but he makes another good point there. And do Brits really say, "herb" the right way, instead of as if it only had three letters? Because that would really be rather amusing; the one place where most Americans (but not this one) drop their "h"s and even the people NOTORIOUS for doing so don't. No, we are not French, and neither are the Brits, and I quite agree it's past time we both started speaking accordingly. If we MUST speak a language that routinely employs letters no one ever uses, it's also past time we brought back the thorn, if only so people will stop pronouncing "Ye Olde Shoppe" "Yee... " instead of "the.... "
Most British people say "herb" with an h. I can't tell you all of them do, as there are some odd cookies around, but most...
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- 20/05/2010 03:16:38 PM
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- 20/05/2010 03:32:14 PM
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"Could care less is" a personal peeve of mine, too.
- 20/05/2010 03:43:08 PM
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Re: "Could care less is" a personal peeve of mine, too.
- 20/05/2010 03:45:40 PM
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Mine also
- 20/05/2010 04:08:23 PM
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Oh, and for the record: the use of "table" as a verb in politics still confuses me for about 5 sec.
- 20/05/2010 04:38:35 PM
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What a grating accent
- 20/05/2010 10:41:38 PM
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- 20/05/2010 10:41:38 PM
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what grammatical conventions?
- 20/05/2010 11:11:10 PM
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Subjunctive, reflective pronouns, things like that
- 20/05/2010 11:26:09 PM
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His main two points had nothing to do with all that, though...
- 20/05/2010 11:39:28 PM
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I know. I just merely said I disliked the accent and that the divergent dialects were just that
- 20/05/2010 11:59:25 PM
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How does that apply at all?
- 20/05/2010 11:43:49 PM
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Different rules for different dialects
- 21/05/2010 12:03:31 AM
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.... dialects?
- 21/05/2010 12:06:03 AM
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Yes, dialects
- 21/05/2010 12:20:09 AM
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Re: Yes, dialects
- 21/05/2010 12:24:25 AM
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Perhaps
- 21/05/2010 12:54:49 AM
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Re: Perhaps
- 21/05/2010 12:56:18 AM
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It really depends
- 21/05/2010 01:03:13 AM
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Re: It really depends
- 21/05/2010 01:05:21 AM
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