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R. Dittmar
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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New Hinda
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Israel
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 Posted - 01/17/2007 : 04:46:21 AM
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Has anybody else seen Mike Judge's recent release on DVD?
http://www.washingtontimes.com/entertainment/20070111-094544-8381r.htm
Is Fox being politically correct? It seems pretty unlikely but, given how clever this movie is compared to so many other movies in theaters, it remains an open question.
So, in 2505, "American English has devolved to a patois of hillbilly and inner city?" People manage to be extremely eloquent in both. Some linguists theorize that the hillbilly dialects are the closest surviving thing to Shakespeare's English. |
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twitterpate
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Canada
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Posted - 01/17/2007 : 3:59:31 PM
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In 2005, English has devolved into a patois (or perhaps "Creole" would be a better technical term) of Germanic, Romantic, and Celtic tongues, with a recently added smattering of Arabic, Asian, African and North American Indian languages.
People still talk, though. |
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New Hinda
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Israel
469 Posts |
Posted - 01/18/2007 : 05:00:05 AM
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Originally posted by twitterpate
In 2005, English has devolved into a patois (or perhaps "Creole" would be a better technical term) of Germanic, Romantic, and Celtic tongues, with a recently added smattering of Arabic, Asian, African and North American Indian languages.
People still talk, though.
You forgot Yiddish, you shmuck!!!!Or does Yiddish come under "Germanic?" |
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Ericb
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
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Posted - 01/18/2007 : 06:59:27 AM
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Have Yiddish drived words in English made it out of the North America? Do Australians and Brits say "schmuck"?
"I reserve the right to look as well as be boring." - Robert Fripp |
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Culfy
Preeminent Apostolic Prelate of the Discipleship of Jabootu
United Kingdom
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Posted - 01/18/2007 : 1:19:43 PM
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Have Yiddish drived words in English made it out of the North America? Do Australians and Brits say "schmuck"?
"I reserve the right to look as well as be boring." - Robert Fripp
Well, schmuck is not in common use but it is occasionally used; eg. in a Blackadder episode; the title song described him as an "Elizabethan Schmuck"
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Greenhornet
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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Posted - 01/18/2007 : 1:50:28 PM
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"Nosh" is/was used in England. It's Yiddish.
"The Queen is testing poisons." CLEOPATRA, 1935 |
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twitterpate
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Canada
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Posted - 01/18/2007 : 3:40:03 PM
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| Certainly I should not have forgotten Yiddish - I should have replaced "Arabic" with "Semitic". The contributions of generations of Catskills comics to the English tongue should not be overlooked. I am a putz to have done so. |
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New Hinda
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Israel
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Posted - 01/19/2007 : 12:53:23 AM
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Certainly I should not have forgotten Yiddish - I should have replaced "Arabic" with "Semitic". The contributions of generations of Catskills comics to the English tongue should not be overlooked. I am a putz to have done so.
Yiddish is not a Semitic language. Hebrew is a Semitic language. Yiddish and Ladino are Indo-European languages. "Putz" comes from a German word, meaning "to clean" and "shmuck" in German means "jewel."
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Tork_110
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
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Posted - 01/19/2007 : 07:44:08 AM
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I started to read the article, saw Harry Knowles's name, and then moved on.
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Prankster
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Canada
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Posted - 01/23/2007 : 02:47:19 AM
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It's a good movie (though the fact that it's been obscured from public sight is leading a lot of people to build it up a little bit too much). But I think the main reason it had a problem with release is that it suggests that problems arise when stupid people mindlessly buy products because they're told to. Crazy talk!
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