Is Brexit actually going to happen?

[sunnysidedown]

I can code switch from my natural Salford urban working class idiolect to newsreader in a heartbeat, it's what you do to increase your social mobility, it should not be a fact of life of course, but it is.

This post certainly increases your social status as a wanker.

 

[Wookey]

you mean you've made the mistakes so frequently. i thought as a linguist and teacher, not to mention as a professional writers, you'd be able to differentiate between two words of similar appearance but different meanings.

We're also on a bulletin board, writing in real time with very little in the way of post-editing (clearly!) so that is how you can get away with your cavalier attitude to punctuation, you see. I could correct your posts all day long, but that would make me as tedious as you, and has nothing to do with the thread at all.

Asking Wilf why mentioning Anna Soubry's actions on domestic violence in the House could be construed as a way to minimise the harassment she faces on the streets was a pertinent question, considering Wilf had tried to claim that was exactly what he wasn't doing. Either he chose the right word, and was not being truthful, or he was being truthful and chose the wrong word. I wondered which.

 

[butchersapron]

Notice how the claim of linguistic expertise morphs into social-political expertise.

 

[Wilf]

Asking Wilf why mentioning Anna Soubry's actions on domestic violence in the House could be construed as a way to minimise the harassment she faces on the streets was a pertinent question, considering Wilf had tried to claim that was exactly what he wasn't doing. Either he chose the right word, and was not being truthful, or he was being truthful and chose the wrong word. I wondered which.

In which case, I'd like to thank you for wondering.

 

[Wookey]

Make sure that's its clear that they worked for you. For you.

I was his Editor and had to correct his usage regularly, which is pertinent to the point I am making that you can correct someone every time they do it wrongly, and they'll still keep getting it wrong. The fact I was his BOSS and he was my STAFF should not upset you, it's a commonly replicated power structure in what I like to call "the real world".

 

[Wookey]

In which case, I'd like to thank you for wondering.

Most welcome Wilf. I like your posts, otherwise I wouldn't be arsed asking.

 

[butchersapron]

Make sure everyone knows that you were his superior though . Make sure

 

[Wookey]

This post certainly increases your social status as a wanker.

Really, do elucidate on why the almost universal human practice of linguistic code switching makes me a wanker?

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

I was his Editor and had to correct his usage regularly, which is pertinent to the point I am making that you can correct someone every time they do it wrongly, and they'll still keep getting it wrong. The fact I was his BOSS and he was my STAFF should not upset you, it's a commonly replicated power structure in what I like to call "the real world".

What kind of cunt for a boss lets their staff repeatedly make the same mistake?

 

[Pickman's model]

We're also on a bulletin board, writing in real time with very little in the way of post-editing (clearly!) so that is how you can get away with your cavalier attitude to punctuation, you see. I could correct your posts all day long, but that would make me as tedious as you, and has nothing to do with the thread at all.

Asking Wilf why mentioning Anna Soubry's actions on domestic violence in the House could be construed as a way to minimise the harassment she faces on the streets was a pertinent question, considering Wilf had tried to claim that was exactly what he wasn't doing. Either he chose the right word, and was not being truthful, or he was being truthful and chose the wrong word. I wondered which.

yeh you'd correct my posts all day long then i'd have to go back and correct you and it'd be super tedious all round.

as for Wilf, he may have chosen the right word and been truthful, which would be my starting point.

 

[belboid]

Really, do elucidate on why the almost universal human practice of linguistic code switching makes me a wanker?

because this is Urban

 

[Wookey]

yeh you'd correct my posts all day long then i'd have to go back and correct you and it'd be super tedious all round.

as for Wilf, he may have chosen the right word and been truthful, which would be my starting point.

I think we might well have reached that conclusion naturally, had we been allowed to continue that discussion without your interruption that I was in no position to question him on what he meant.

 

[Pickman's model]

The first duty of the state, above trade, is the security of its citizens.

no it isn't, as anyone who has travelled down the walworth road would know

 

[Wookey]

because this is Urban

See, I will keep forgetting that - like a daily, repeated mistake that I just wont learn from.

 

[Pickman's model]

 

[chilango]

You called me middle class. Go fuck yourself.

The fact I was his BOSS and he was my STAFF should not upset you, it's a commonly replicated power structure in what I like to call "the real world".

Sorry Wookey you can't have it both ways.

 

[Pickman's model]

See, I will keep forgetting that - like a daily, repeated mistake that I just wont learn from.

you huff about other people's punctuation but your own is abysmal. any degree-waving linguist ought to be able to use apostrophes, let alone a professional writer and teacher. and it's not the first time you've missed one out. i suppose this is *another* of your blind spots.

 

[sunnysidedown]

Really, do elucidate on why the almost universal human practice of linguistic code switching makes me a wanker?

Linguistic birth marks should be left alone, not subjected to correctionist surgery.

And I said as a wanker ie, you were already one before you made that post.

 

[Pickman's model]

Linguistic birth marks should be left alone, not subjected to correctionist surgery.

And I said as a wanker ie, you were already one before you made that post.

yeh. anyone who can ask a question starting 'do elucidate' hasn't only just made it to wankerville but is an obvious long-term resident.

 

[Badgers]

Food Politics and Policies in Post-Brexit Britain

Brexit, for better or worse, means a major structural change in how people in the UK think about the food they eat. There is an opportunity to reformulate food policy for the better, but this could be easily squandered if not managed carefully.

Adequate food

 

[Pickman's model]

Really, do elucidate on why the almost universal human practice of linguistic code switching makes me a wanker?

do elucidate on why? what sort of gibberish is that? elucidate on? really? pisspoor.

 

[elbows]

last time I saw that weak chin on the tele he was extolling the virtues of democracy, in Singapore.

I groaned when I saw a headline about that, but he also used the speech to say they wouldn't follow the Singapore low tax, 'low regulation climate' model that gives so many parasitic scum eggs a stiffy.

Hunt says UK 'can learn' from Singapore

 

[Pickman's model]

I groaned when I saw a headline about that, but he also used the speech to say they wouldn't follow the Singapore low tax, 'low regulation climate' model that gives so many parasitic scum eggs a stiffy.

Hunt says UK 'can learn' from Singapore

you'd have hoped we'd have learned from singapore a long time ago

 

[Mr Moose]

So your chances in life come down to where you stick your tongue when you make vowel sounds. Seems fair.

Oh come on, Geordies were in vogue for at least one week. What more is it you want?

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

Food Politics and Policies in Post-Brexit Britain


Adequate food

I'm going to guess the government isn't about to suddenly start managing things carefully.

 

[Pickman's model]

I'm going to guess the government isn't about to suddenly start managing things carefully.

yeh it hasn't so far so why change now?

 

[Sprocket.]

So your chances in life come down to where you stick your tongue when you make vowel sounds. Seems fair.

Or where you are prepared to stick your tongue after employment!

 

[ska invita]

I'm going to guess the government isn't about to suddenly start managing things carefully.

Arent we getting pizzas delivered from Ramsgate?

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

Arent we getting pizzas delivered from Ramsgate?

Unfortunately the people who are contracted to do it haven't got an oven.

 

[Pickman's model]

Unfortunately the people who are contracted to do it haven't got an oven.

or delivery people