On 27/04/14 16:07, critcher wrote:
On 27/04/2014 11:16, Lee wrote:
On 27/04/2014 02:06, Arfa Daily wrote:
The words 'anything and 'everything' seem to have been almost erased
from the English language, to be replaced by 'anythink' and
'everythink' at best, and 'anyfink' and 'everyfink' at worst. Even TV
presenters - including the educated ones - can't get it right.

Slightly related, the one that annoys me more is the hard "G" on the
end, think I prefer the "K"



wot abaht "sikth" instead of sixth, is it a speech problem or more
likely a brain problem.


Its actually a sign of certain language speakers not native to England
having a real problem..I remember the hoots of laughter trying to get my
sisters french au pair to say 'squirrel' it always came out skirrel'.


The QU 'kw' sound is entirely absent from French.

And there was a really good 2 minutes on some Christmas science lecture
where two apparently identical words were spoken that no English person
managed to distinguish, yet two Hindi speakers immediately identified
one Hindi word and one utter nonsense.

the upward interrogative intonations that Australians use is an
Irishism, as Irish have the habit of adding 'is it not?' or 'to be
sure' at the end of a sentence as we add 'innit?' in order to emphasise
the sentence and it's a construction that has crossed from Gaelic
without the words it used to contain.

Likewise German uses a different order with subject object verb, that
can be carried over into English. Producing Yoda-spik. Of this tolerance
should not be practised.

(Note that the last sentence has neatly avoided all responsibility: It
is not a matter of what WE might do or not, it is a statement of an
inviolable principle. A clue to how the German mind has to work).

All these are amusing in their own way, BUT, they are not STANDARD
ENGLISH and its not good enough to say 'well let everyone have their own
standard' any more than, once the railways came along, it was good
enough for each station to set their clock to midday when the sun was at
its highest.

But there you go. Destroy standards and then impose different ones is a
good way to smash a culture from inside.


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