Our eyeballs tend to raise skywards upon hearing ubiquitous whines in the press complaining of the damage that text-speak abbreviations are doing to our beloved language (when recent studies suggest the opposite to be true).
Archive for the ‘language’ Category
Bring it
March 22, 2011
Broken Qatar string
December 3, 2010
Qatar’s pronunciation is perplexing and its profuse spelling permutations perpetuate pointless posts and pernickety posturing from patronising pedants. Try saying that after a few pints.
Milking it
October 22, 2010
The point here is that it was neither cryptic nor bizarre. Benítez wasn’t havering or slavering; he was simply falling into the trap that people communicating in a language other than their own have done billions of times since man gained the ability to talk.
Rubbadubbing
January 4, 2010
Interestingly, the Fat Controller officially became “Sir Topham Hatt” for American audiences at this point, and has never had to deal with references to his weight in the U.S.A. Whether this was for reasons of political correctness or to emphasise the series’ Britishness is unclear.
Suivez the leader
October 23, 2009
Unless you prove early on in the chat that you can claim some kind of competence, your chance of avoiding a pidgin English discussion is about as likely as Balloon Boy’s parents avoiding a custodial sentence.
The Universal Language
September 15, 2009
“We’re going to Durban” or “we’re going to Pietermaritzburg” just don’t cut it. OK, so there aren’t any games due to be held in Pietermaritzburg, but you know what I mean.
An Udderly Appropriate Name…
August 25, 2009
these days, you’ll also hear Francophones proudly proclaiming that they’re as adept at murdering “chinois” or “anglais” as Castilian bovines.
