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Well this is nice, seems I am totally normal after all. Not getting much support on the button issue, but I'm sure that's just because the language issue is so hot right now.

I don't get irritated by the trivial things other people do, but I'm bothered by my own sloppy speech.

I say "gonna"
hafta
wanna
s'posed'ta
coulda

I contract "I will not" to something like "um'not" and instead of just contracting "we are ready" to "we're ready" I will also contract "boxes're ready" "wheels're ready" and so on.

I say "goin'"
lookin'

I run words together like "can we" as "canwee"

I use the word "got" instead of some form of to have.

I'm sure there are many other habits of speech that I would change if I were more mindful of them.

Ubetcha, I kind of like the sound of Ubetcha! Knowing it's an irritable word, its use will continue with abound!

They were all pasted together.

This sort of thing doesn't bother me as much because I understand why we do it. We try to communicate in as efficient a manner as possible so naturally we trim things down and jam words together. Not quite on the level as germans yet, I'd say. It's more about the use of certain words or style of speech in an attempt to identify with a group.

Ooopsies. You botched that one.

Try and or try to?

This is a slang bitchfest, not a grammer nazi convention,I must insist you take your grievances elsewhere!

Running off the good guys was Plan A

Using slang, ebonics and Appalachian dialects to finish off the twáts. Plan B

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Humor covers a multitude of sins. As one of the funnier characters here,you will need to dial back the humor if you wish to succeed. I could also suggest typing in angry caps, ranting nonsensically about obscure topics and alienating friend and foe alike for any hint of disagreement with any position you hold. This is the way.

Language changes.

Here are the opening lines of The Canterbury Tales, written between 1387 and 1400:

Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote,
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote,
And bathed every veyne in swich licóur
Of which vertú engendred is the flour;
Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth
Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
Hath in the Ram his halfe cours y-ronne,
And smale foweles maken melodye,
That slepen al the nyght with open ye,
So priketh hem Natúre in hir corages,
Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages,
And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes,
To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes;
And specially, from every shires ende
Of Engelond, to Caunterbury they wende,
The hooly blisful martir for to seke,
That hem hath holpen whan that they were seeke.

Who knows what our language will look like 634 years hence?

That was Middle English.

We're transitioning into End State Gibberish.

Middle English looks like gibberish now.

Maybe we’re the ones speaking gibberish.

I do better with Middle English than Jive.

I’m still hoping someone can explain the “ Biminouses” post.

I'll have to guess he meant "by my initials".....

Go to a pub in Yorkshire, I had my wife as a translator. Took a tour of a castle in Edinburgh and the guide might as well have been speaking Maori. English is a flexible language.


mike r

The light came on, thanks.

Was at McDonald's in Dryden, sitting next to a table of old men. After a time, it dawned on me that they were speaking English.

I was seeing if anyone would catch that..