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.... dialects? Camilla Send a noteboard - 21/05/2010 12:06:03 AM
There's an insinuation in that sketch that Received speech is the only "proper" English. It's not; it's just one of several dialects. I was just noting that I didn't accept much of what was noted because the semantics behind the phrases have shifted over 400 years and an ocean apart. Might as well ask why the hell do people still say "God save the Queen." Save her from what? A whole host of people who don't think of that as being a verb in the subjunctive mood?


How does it insinuate that received speech is the only proper? That is how David Mitchell talks. Surely his dialect does not invalidate his point?

You really do not need to tell me about dialects. I'm Norwegian.

But then again, whenever someone is "knocked up," do you go for the pregnancy test or ask if they are tired?


I really don't know what you are on about.


Edit: I just realised you are probably talking about the herbs/'erbs bit. I believe that was a comic dig, the main purpose of which being to taunt Americans with a comparison to the French.
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