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January 4th, 2002, 12:53 AM
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Re: OT - Forum Decorum
I had to ask the same things a while ago, Growltigga.  Since then, i use this abreviated expresions quite often.
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January 4th, 2002, 11:24 AM
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Re: OT - Forum Decorum
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Originally posted by Shyrka:
I had to ask the same things a while ago, Growltigga. Since then, i use this abreviated expresions quite often.
Must be us Europeans just being out of the loop on this slang
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January 4th, 2002, 12:40 PM
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Re: OT - Forum Decorum
You think internet slang is bad, imagine poor Canadian me dealing with heavy English accents and Cockney rhyming slang when I spent a year in the UK! I went on a blind date with a Geordie lass and we literally could not understand each other. It was more of a blind and deaf date. As someone said, North America and the UK are two cultures, divided by a common language.
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January 4th, 2002, 01:01 PM
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Re: OT - Forum Decorum
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Originally posted by Saxon:
I went on a blind date with a Geordie lass and we literally could not understand each other.
That is not just a problem encountered by Canadians I'll have you know, I am from Kent (the Alabama of England) and when I first met a Geordie, I thought they were Polish
It was more of a blind and deaf date.
I take it this means you were unsuccessful then!!
As someone said, North America and the UK are two cultures, divided by a common language.
I would prefer to say two unrelated cultures, miles apart, one with better dietary habits and one of which speaks a bastardised Version of the other's language and as for culture??!!
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Re: OT - Forum Decorum
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Originally posted by Growltigga:
I would prefer to say two unrelated cultures, miles apart, one with better dietary habits and one of which speaks a bastardised Version of the other's language and as for culture??!!
sounds like petty jelousy in the face of our superior toilet paper.
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January 5th, 2002, 10:14 PM
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and as for culture........
he shoots he scores........
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January 9th, 2002, 11:14 AM
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Re: OT - Forum Decorum
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Originally posted by Puke:
sounds like petty jelousy in the face of our superior toilet paper.
having spent two years living in San Fransisco, I can assure you that north american toilet paper is no different to european bog roll
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