SYM Factions

Weasel · Post by **Weasel** » Tue Jun 11, 2002 7:30 pm

Re: Re: Re: Re: Ye Olde English Class

Originally posted by Mr Flibble

This could go downhill very quickly!

Well at least it's going down.

Georgi · Post by **Georgi** » Tue Jun 11, 2002 7:53 pm

Re: En Guarde!

Originally posted by Chanak
Certainly, madmoiselle. You are familiar with the saying, "the student cannot be greater than his teacher?" The daughter often takes after her mother...

So you're saying that American will always be inferior?

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Literature, not language...LOL!

Hey, if it's valid for the UK's examination boards...

History abounds with mavericks that decided to fly in the face of accepted norms and grammar, and do whatever they wished. In their day, they were pariahs. Today, they are the great masters of literature.

I will have to concede on that point.

@Weasel I was avoiding that comment.

Chanak · Post by **Chanak** » Tue Jun 11, 2002 8:09 pm

Parry!

@Georgi:

So you're saying that American will always be inferior?

Hitting below the belt, are we?

Hmmm...let me say that one's education reflects the classroom instruction that one received. The higher the quality, the more well-rounded the student. The lower the quality...well, you know where American English came from, now don't you?

I can always resort to this: Labour. Laborious? ???

Georgi · Post by **Georgi** » Tue Jun 11, 2002 8:27 pm

Re: Parry!

Originally posted by Chanak
Hitting below the belt, are we?

It simply seemed like the logical conclusion to draw from that remark.

Hmmm...let me say that one's education reflects the classroom instruction that one received. The higher the quality, the more well-rounded the student. The lower the quality...well, you know where American English came from, now don't you?

Indeed, without constant supervision, the student can get completely out of control...

And lazy, even, missing out letters all over the place...

I can always resort to this: Labour. Laborious? ???

But does that justify deriving the spelling of the verb from the adjective? That's just crazy talk!

Aegis · Post by **Aegis** » Tue Jun 11, 2002 8:30 pm

Re: Re: Re: Ye Olde English Class

Originally posted by Georgi

If feeling up pieces of wood is what gets you off...

Clever girl....

Georgi · Post by **Georgi** » Tue Jun 11, 2002 8:35 pm

Re: Re: Re: Re: Ye Olde English Class

Originally posted by Aegis
Clever girl....

*reads aloud from The Aegis Handbook* "When you can't think of anything clever to say in reply... be patronising and hope nobody notices the lack of witticism." *throws book in the dustbin*

Mr Flibble · Post by **Mr Flibble** » Tue Jun 11, 2002 8:39 pm

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Ye Olde English Class

Originally posted by Georgi

*reads aloud from The Aegis Handbook* "When you can't think of anything clever to say in reply... be patronising and hope nobody notices the lack of witticism." *throws book in the dustbin*

Ouch!

Mental note to self: be nice to Georgi and try to stay on her good side if there is one

dragon wench · Post by **dragon wench** » Tue Jun 11, 2002 8:41 pm

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Ye Olde English Class

Originally posted by Weasel
Well at least it's going down.

lmao!

Are you sure you shouldn't be checking out the newly refurbished home for the depraved ?

Chanak · Post by **Chanak** » Tue Jun 11, 2002 8:47 pm

@Georgi:

Indeed, without constant supervision, the student can get completely out of control...

Oh, I agree.

Especially when the teacher is too busy curling her lashes to pay attention to her class.

I see that we have regressed to ear-biting. Tsk-tsk. A pity.

But I digress. Really, is it a matter of semantics, or phonetics? Literature, or language? Cabbage, or rutabaga?

Drop the useless letters (they are sooo tiresome to include) that serve no phonetic purpose - no offense to your semantics

- and what you have is a more accurate representation, sans trifling blah-blah-blah.

labour n.? labour v. ? laborious adj.? ???

Georgi · Post by **Georgi** » Tue Jun 11, 2002 8:48 pm

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Ye Olde English Class

Originally posted by Mr Flibble
Mental note to self: be nice to Georgi and try to stay on her good side if there is one

But of course there is one. Just ask Ode... No, wait, he's probably the wrong person to ask.

Ask... Viv, yeah, she'll tell you

Aegis · Post by **Aegis** » Tue Jun 11, 2002 8:49 pm

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Ye Olde English Class

Originally posted by Georgi

*reads aloud from The Aegis Handbook* "When you can't think of anything clever to say in reply... be patronising and hope nobody notices the lack of witticism." *throws book in the dustbin*

If only I could be as blunt as you are...

Mr Flibble · Post by **Mr Flibble** » Tue Jun 11, 2002 8:52 pm

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Ye Olde English Class

Originally posted by Georgi

But of course there is one. Just ask Ode... No, wait, he's probably the wrong person to ask. Ask... Viv, yeah, she'll tell you

I'll take your word for it, for now.

Chanak · Post by **Chanak** » Tue Jun 11, 2002 8:59 pm

@Mr. Flibble:

Mental note to self: be nice to Georgi and try to stay on her good side

Mental note to myself: too late...

Georgi · Post by **Georgi** » Tue Jun 11, 2002 9:03 pm

Originally posted by Chanak
Oh, I agree. Especially when the teacher is too busy curling her lashes to pay attention to her class.

ROFL

But I digress. Really, is it a matter of semantics, or phonetics? Literature, or language? Cabbage, or rutabaga?

Drop the useless letters (they are sooo tiresome to include) that serve no phonetic purpose - no offense to your semantics - and what you have is a more accurate representation, sans trifling blah-blah-blah.

They aren't tiresome to include when that's how you know they're supposed to be.

Ok, ok, you win, our language is crazy too.

Posted by Aegis:
If only I could be as blunt as you are...

Then you would just have the witticism part to work on

Georgi · Post by **Georgi** » Tue Jun 11, 2002 9:08 pm

Posted by Mr Flibble:
I'll take your word for it, for now.

And there you see the advantage of being able to make people cower...

Originally posted by Chanak
Mental note to myself: too late...

LOL

You may have been arguing, good sir, but you have been nice all the same.

Chanak · Post by **Chanak** » Tue Jun 11, 2002 9:19 pm

@Georgi:

They aren't tiresome to include when that's how you know they're supposed to be.

ROTFLOL!

Yes. English is a difficult language for a non-native to master. It's also a difficult language for us natives to master!

***hug***

I do hope I haven't gotten on your bad side...

Edit: I have seen your post above. I feel better now.

I don't argue very often.

Georgi · Post by **Georgi** » Tue Jun 11, 2002 9:22 pm

Originally posted by Chanak
I do hope I haven't gotten on your bad side...

Oh, you'd know if you had...

*hug*

*sings: "Why can't the English teach their children how to speak..."*

Chanak · Post by **Chanak** » Tue Jun 11, 2002 9:41 pm

@Georgi:

Thanks.

Now that you're the official supplier for DW's house for the deranged, are you going to start researching psychological torture methods? By far the best, you know.

*sings off key at the same time: "Two Dimes Ain't no Quarter, You See"*

Georgi · Post by **Georgi** » Tue Jun 11, 2002 9:43 pm

Originally posted by Chanak
Now that you're the official supplier for DW's house for the deranged, are you going to start researching pyschological torture methods? By far the best, you know.

Don't tell anyone

but CE and I have been working on a little project...

Aah, listen to the beautiful harmonies...

Chanak · Post by **Chanak** » Tue Jun 11, 2002 10:01 pm

Uh-oh.

Don't tell anyone but CE and I have been working on a little project...

Mum's the word.

If both you and CE are involved with this, I imagine it will be exceedingly sublime and tremendously effective.