The distribution of “Brexit day” posters that warned residents of a block of flats to speak only English is being investigated as a racially aggravated incident, police have said.
The printed posters, with the title “Happy Brexit Day”, were stuck to doors on all 15 floors of Winchester Tower in Norwich on Friday morning, the day the UK formally left the European Union.
Addressing residents, it said the “Queens [sic] English is the spoken tongue here” and hailed the moment “we finally get our great country back”.
It said those unwilling to speak English should leave the UK. The text read: “You won’t have long till our government will implement rules that will put British first. So, best evolve or leave. God Save the Queen, her government and all true patriots.”
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Pizza's all round then.
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Oh god, this old chestnut? No one knows who posted it, or why it was posted. It very well could have been posted in order to get the sort of knee-jerk, hand wringing response it has achieved.
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To emphasise the point, the notice reads: ". . . and the the Queens English" etc.“Queens [sic] English is the spoken tongue here”
Clearly not composed by practitioners of the English language. I suspect a third column!
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Is it? Yes, I think many of them are.MajGenl.Meade wrote:Pizza's all round then.
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Well, I think we can clear ex-kA from having posted the notices. He's 360 degrees from doing that kind of thing!
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Irregardless, Meade, I'm not sure I like what you are inferring.
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"Fifth column" is the expression your ossified neurons were seeking.MajGenl.Meade wrote:To emphasise the point, the notice reads: ". . . and the the Queens English" etc.“Queens [sic] English is the spoken tongue here”
Clearly not composed by practitioners of the English language. I suspect a third column!
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Sadly irregardless is now considered acceptable form - recognized as nonstandard form of regardless because so many people use it.
https://www.grammarly.com/blog/irregardless/
Language does evolve, not always for the better.
https://www.grammarly.com/blog/irregardless/
Language does evolve, not always for the better.
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You are so dense!rubato wrote:"Fifth column" is the expression your ossified neurons were seeking.
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The first time I remember hearing the "word" irregardless (my spell checker did not turn the word red.) was on one of Norm Crosby's routines. Norm was considered the king of the malapropism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnX-EPaAIdU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY6KyCu ... io=1&t=108
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY6KyCu ... io=1&t=108
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MajGenl.Meade wrote:You are so dense!rubato wrote:"Fifth column" is the expression your ossified neurons were seeking.
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Pure gold is dense.
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But you're better than gold, man!
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Gold – 19.3 x 103 kg/m. ...
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For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts