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I was recently speaking to a French friend of mine in her mid thirties. She was saying that the culture for bad French is just as bad as bad English. Apparently, of the seven or eight tenses, French kids are only using about three. Also, they are writing like things as they sound, to the extend that J'ai becomes, G, for instance. She was appauled!

hehe - I always use predictive text...no slang there (innit boi!)

Marvell wrote:

Lady of Mystery wrote:But like, Lord Freddie, oh my god you are just SO behind the times

And if you heard that, she upspoke at the end.

AQI. Antipodean Questioning Intonation. I feel insulted when someone does that to me. It's as if they're checking that I know what simple concepts mean. Once, I can live with, but after a couple, I start saying things like, "Yes, I know what X means". If it continues, I start asking if the person doing it thinks I'm an idiot who needs everything explaining.

It's the culture and the cr*p films and television from across the pond which people immerse themselves in.
When British people watched Eailing comedies and the news was read by a man in a dickie bow, then the nation spoke properly.

Even the news is resorting to this moronic 'dumbing down'.
I heard the expression 'banged up' used by a BBC newsreader.

Radio 1 news is terrible. These 20-something journalists are so desperate to appear hip & trendy that they insist on using what they perceive as "the language of the kids". It really makes me want to go and live in Transylvania or something.

And they use sound affects...on the bloody radio news. So if it's a report on newspapers (for instance) there'll be a noise effect of a newspaper being flicked through.


And when did the people of Britain really need a back beat behind the news to keep them interested? A bloody dance beat behind a news report...otherwise people might tune out. Incredible.

Lord Freddie wrote:It's the culture and the cr*p films and television from across the pond which people immerse themselves in.
When British people watched Eailing comedies and the news was read by a man in a dickie bow, then the nation spoke properly.

Even the news is resorting to this moronic 'dumbing down'.
I heard the expression 'banged up' used by a BBC newsreader.

Don't get me started. ITN should stand for It's Terrible News. Everything has to have a negative or frightening slant on it when they report it.

I dread the day when we get the first chav newsreader in a burberry hat.

"Word, dis am de news and ting, innit."

It's not far off, trust me......

Lord Freddie wrote:These Emo kids or whatnot are just goths with skateboards.

You did not just say that! Please do not associate Emo with skateboarding.

There's a numbr of catergories of teenagers today! But at the end of the day, it is mosher and scally.

When wanting to beat somebody up, a scally will not differentiate (sp?) between an emo or goth. If they don't wear a tracky, or as it seems today, stripey top and tracky pants, they need a beating.

Same with most mosher people. If they see somebody in a track suit, they're a scally end of.

It's quite sad. I, on the other hand, like all sorts of music etc. and I actually thing about all this a lot. Somedays I migh wear tracky pants, somedays jeans or shorts, somedays and adidas top, some days an iron maiden top.

Narrow minded people do my head in!

If you want fashion tips young man, look up THE SWEET, SLADE and ALVIN STARDUST on youtube. Or Bob Downe for that matter.

I'm giving you this advice for free.

Me bad at Onglish? Thats unpossible!

I cant stand text speak. It takes about 4 times longer to read because of the translation time! Ok, i might use 'u' instead of 'you' in a text, but i lose track of what im talking about if shorten words or use codes! Same as when somebody yells down the phone because its noisy on their end.... but thats a different story entirely.

Everyone should use Mozilla Firefox 2 which has a built in spell checker.

trickyricky wrote:Me bad at Onglish? Thats unpossible!

I cant stand text speak. It takes about 4 times longer to read because of the translation time! Ok, i might use 'u' instead of 'you' in a text, but i lose track of what im talking about if shorten words or use codes! Same as when somebody yells down the phone because its noisy on their end.... but thats a different story entirely.

I think it's funny that you use correct commas and things, but totally fail to capitalise I or use apostrophes.

Citrus wrote:Everyone should use Mozilla Firefox 2 which has a built in spell checker.

It uses that bastardised American English though. (See I even spelt bastardised wrong there, apparently.)

Unless you right click in the text box, select languages en_GB and then it remembers the dictionary.

At the end of the day there is just no excuse for lazyiness.

It is one thing to have the minor spelling mstake, or missing space ( for me, as my space bar is temporamental (sp? ) but whole senntences full of b*****ks just isnt on, especially when talking like that when asking for advice.

I would never be bothered to use a spell checker unless it was for a formal form, but we are Englisg so logically our English should be good enough to be able to talk the language!!

In refernce to dress, you dont haeto go Goth or Scally, or geek. From the age of 17 I was shopping at the likes of Zara or the equivalent back then, whats wrong with dressing decent.. a smart pair of jeans.. a tidy shirt, t-shirt or top and some classy shoes or smart trainers.Im not saying people should dress a certain way, but first impressions count, and Goths make an obviously depressing statement, while scallys shout ' Wanna fight ya scumbag b*****d!! '.