"May I have a beer" - strewth. You were well raised. "Gizza pot,
mate" does the job here.
I blame Sesame Street - gets to them even earlier!
Zed, not Zee.
Night, not.....
You get the idea.
A
You have not mentioned, in your otherwise well-constructed rant, the
corruption that TV prorammes like Friends and Simpsons has wrought
on the languge of our youth. It is not "may I have a beer", but
"can I get a beer".... aaaargh!
Chris
On Wednesday, Jul 23, 2003, at 09:33 Europe/London, andrew fildes wrote:
About time someone took on that task. More power to you.
Some suggestions -
Tell the Seppo's to stop turning nouns into verbs PLEASE!
'Gotten' vanished from real English in Elizabethan times.
There's no such thing as an English accent - that's how it's
supposed to sound!
You don't need subtitles - JUST MAKE A BLOODY EFFORT!
No-one could understand Brad Pitt in 'Snatch', OK?!
If e.e cummings could use 'arse', why can't you?
Macdonalds is cultural terrorism.
Oh, and Diesel was a person - the engines will run on cooking oil
if tuned properly.
Good grief.
That should do it for now - can think of others but I'm in too good
a mood to mention them.
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