English Manglage

[Daddles]

hey guys (and gals), Get back in the shed, youse have way too much time on you're hands

Oi. Yesterday, I cleaned up the decking on the new boat, glued on the gunwales and took the oars from square to round. Heading outside to put in the seat ... as soon as I can get away from this confounded board

Cheers
Richard

[RETIRED]

Oi. Yesterday, I cleaned up the decking on the new boat, glued on the gunwales and took the oars from square to round. Heading outside to put in the seat ... as soon as I can get away from this confounded board

Cheers
Richard

SEAT!!!!!!! Thwart surely?

[bitingmidge]

SEAT!!!!!!! Thwart surely?

Perhaps he was going to seat the thwart in epoxy??

P

[fxst]

But he only thwart about putting in the seat I guess
Pete

[Daddles]

Hey, educated woodies. Will wonders never cease. I only used the 's' word to avoid confusing among the great non-nautical.

Richard

bugga, another stuff up spotted

[bitingmidge]

Or wath he thwarted in thecuring the theat perhapth?

P

[zenwood]

Manglage has been a topic of complaint for many years. One of my favourites is George Orwell's Politics and the English Language:

http://www.resort.com/~prime8/Orwell/patee.html

which points out that bad language can actually have political consequences (shall I mention George W here?). Moderating this is the fact that language evolves, which is why it's hard to understand Shakespeare, and even harder to understand Chaucer, and perhaps explains why I.T. professionals have invented their own new language to deal with a new technology. A good article about this is Steven Pinker's Grammar Puss:

http://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/articl...wrepublic.html

which highlights just how amazing it is that teenagers invent their own language fashions, along with the 'rules' that govern their use.

Another good commentary on management-speak is the comic strip The Adventures of Action Item!, see

http://www.fatalexception.org/action_item.html


Happy reading, co-linguaphiles!

[Daddles]

Who let this bloke in, he's trying to drag the thread back to the topic. , is that allowed?

Richard

[Iain]

Why is LISP spelt (spelled) with a S?
(Ita Buttrose (Butroathe) will provide the correct answer).

[zenwood]

Who let this bloke in, he's trying to drag the thread back to the topic. , is that allowed?

Richard

Making up for putting the bathroom question in the boats forum:eek:

[adrian]

I was going to add somethink but I couldn't of wrote anythink worth sayin(k)g.

[Driver]

Why is LISP spelt (spelled) with a S?
(Ita Buttrose (Butroathe) will provide the correct answer).

It's ironic that quite a few people who suffer from speech impediments have names (like Ita Buttrose) that seem to emphasise the problem.

There used to be (maybe he's still around) a very astute political commentator on British TV. He had difficulty pronouncing the letters 'R' and 'L". To get round the problem he - like many others with this particular speech impediment - used to turn the letter 'R' into a 'V' and the letter 'L' into a convoluted 'W'. No big deal, you may think.

Problem. His name was Brian Waldron. This came out as B'vyan Wawud'von. Clive James said he was the only person on British TV who couldn't actually pronounce his own name.

I had a mate at school who had exactly the same impediment. Name of Andrew - or, in his case, And'voo.

[Iain]

This came out as B'vyan Wawud'von. Clive James said he was the only person on British TV who couldn't actually pronounce his own name.

I had a mate at school who had exactly the same impediment. Name of Andrew - or, in his case, And'voo.

I have a fwend in wome called..............................., jewish wapscallion, fwow him to the gwound centurion

[zenwood]

Here's another kind of speech impediment: Spoonerisms -- or tips of the slung:

http://www.generationterrorists.com/...oonerisms.html

[keith53]

I have a fwend in wome called..............................., jewish wapscallion, fwow him to the gwound centurion

I think the fwend's name was Biggus Dickus...

Had any crewsuffixions today,,, centewrion?