German autobahns?

So, would you call a couple of jews walking down the road hand in hand,
a brace of kippas?

 

Christ, it must be a laugh a minute in Darwin.

 

Hmm... how far to go in adopting a furrin word but preserving it a bit.
For example, I try to pronounce some adopted words correctly, but when
I'm surrounded by a sea of mispronouncers (and drunkards) down the pub,
it's easy to slip into the way of the ignorant.
I expect Audi will go the way of the Himalaya.

 

if he doesn't post to ukrmn, he ain't all that.

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Nah, lawyers use words that are already in the language. Precedent is the
whole basis of our common law and even those who profit from obscuring it
have to obey the rules.

 

So you can't use a word until it's already been used?

 

Porsche. To 'e', or not to 'e', that is the question...

 

.... dictionary.

Tim

 

The very model of one?

 

I recall some of the northern stuff being undrinkable, but I did like
Black Sheep's Riggwelter.

 

Can't drink more than a couple of them, I find.

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I don't particularly give a damn. When/where I was growing up
the only Jews were in Shakespearean plays. When I got to Harry Messel's
Summer Science School in 1968 most of us went into central Sydney one
night; there was some sort of club we could have gone into but it had a
modest cover charge, that even I could have afforded. One of the party
demurred, thinking it too pricey. Me, as ever tuned into the Zeitgeist
asked, "What, are you Jewish or something?" The silence was icy...
It was only then that I considered his surname.

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KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".

 

I detect a distinct lack of the words "lack of" in your post.

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KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".

 

Yes, quite. We've done this before, and your repeated claims to have
killfiled me (which everyone knows to be false), only enable you to look
silly by continuing to make the same mistakes in English as you have always
made.

Your paragraph above is what we call a strawman, i.e. a false (and easily
defeated) argument, created so that upon defeating it, you can claim to
have defeated the argument behind it. No one is arguing for any sort of
'purity' of the English language. What we - or I, at any rate - point out
that whilst language is certainly a continually evolving phenomenon, change
does not come simply because a certain uneducated subset of the anglophone
public can't conjugate verbs correctly, or doesn't know the difference
between a noun and a pronoun.

Pointed English, right otherwise statement have past would I've called
correct be the to this the out in as.

Continuing on your merry little way might impress your peer group, but in
reality, only makes you look like someone for whom ignorance really is
'bliss'.
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Absolutely, Grimly and Subtle.

 

I've done that. Not in Darwin, obviously, but on the NE coast. Summer
only, equally obviously as the North Sea is never too warm. Just the
same - go out at low tide with a few mates and a few beers, find a comfy
rock and sit on it till the tide turns and access (or egress, I s'pose)
is granted. Firewood was good, as were fishing lines and smoking
materials of the herbal kind - but the whole thing was a sort of
surreal, isolated party. Great to see the sun come up over the sea as
the tide turns.

I-Spy was a bit limited, mind.

 

Hadaway with you, you lightweight. Perfect beer to accompany a Madras.

 

I *could* argue that, but won't bother as it's almost certainly true
compared to some round here.

Actually, I find beers with high hop flavourings get cloying after 2-3
pints and an like something slightly less hoppy. OP, for example.




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Beer rarely goes well with curry. Wine is much better.

 

Is that dancing with a surprised look on your face?

Damn right. But wine works well too.