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Reap/sow
Posted: Sun Feb 02, 2020 5:11 pm
by Guinevere
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... ak-english
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.”
Re: Reap/sow
Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2020 10:20 am
by MajGenl.Meade
Pizza's all round then.
Re: Reap/sow
Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2020 11:28 am
by Gob
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.
Re: Reap/sow
Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2020 12:28 pm
by MajGenl.Meade
“Queens [sic] English is the spoken tongue here”
To emphasise the point, the notice reads: ". . . and the the Queens English" etc.
Clearly not composed by practitioners of the English language. I suspect a third column!
Re: Reap/sow
Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2020 12:52 pm
by ex-khobar Andy
MajGenl.Meade wrote:Pizza's all round then.
Is it? Yes, I think many of them are.
Re: Reap/sow
Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2020 1:45 pm
by MajGenl.Meade
Well, I think we can clear ex-kA from having posted the notices. He's 360 degrees from doing that kind of thing!
Re: Reap/sow
Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2020 3:45 pm
by ex-khobar Andy
Irregardless, Meade, I'm not sure I like what you are inferring.
Re: Reap/sow
Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2020 4:28 pm
by rubato
MajGenl.Meade wrote:“Queens [sic] English is the spoken tongue here”
To emphasise the point, the notice reads: ". . . and the the Queens English" etc.
Clearly not composed by practitioners of the English language. I suspect a third column!
"Fifth column" is the expression your ossified neurons were seeking.
yrs,
rubato
Re: Reap/sow
Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2020 5:35 pm
by TPFKA@W
Re: Reap/sow
Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2020 6:45 pm
by BoSoxGal
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.
Re: Reap/sow
Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2020 12:18 am
by MajGenl.Meade
rubato wrote:"Fifth column" is the expression your ossified neurons were seeking.
yrs,
rubato
You are so dense!
Re: Reap/sow
Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2020 8:07 pm
by MGMcAnick
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
Re: Reap/sow
Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2020 9:39 pm
by rubato
MajGenl.Meade wrote:rubato wrote:"Fifth column" is the expression your ossified neurons were seeking.
yrs,
rubato
You are so dense!
Pure gold is dense.
yrs,
rubato
Re: Reap/sow
Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2020 6:44 am
by MajGenl.Meade
But you're better than gold, man!
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