Random Raves VI: Put on a Happy Face

[Ulyaoth]

I won $50 today bowling.

 

[azzaman333]

Almost 100 teleports on dustbowl.

 

[classical_hero]

Today was a public holiday. I needed it to recover from the cold I have.

 

[Rossiya]

I'm displeased at the title of this thread. For one, "rave" doesn't even mean anything positive in England. And "put on a happy face" implies that one isn't happy at all - instead merely acting so.

 

[Kozmos]

I got my weekends planned three weeks in advance and most of them is smashing parties. It's going to be Le-gen-dary.

 

[Ulyaoth]

Most English speakers aren't from England so who cares what they think.

 

[Virote_Considon]

True English speakers are from England so who cares what everyone else thinks.

 

[Ulyaoth]

Yeah, sure, whatever, if you call all those french spellings and stupid uneducated names for things(seriously, it's called an elevator, not a lift, and a toilet, not a loo or whatever the hell it is you call it, what are you, peasants who've never seen technology before?)

 

[salty mud]

No, it is a lift.

The front of a car is a bonnet, not a hood.

The back of a car is the boot, not the trunk.

A 'faucet' is a tap.

'Fall' is obviously Autumn.

I could go on.

 

[Huayna Capac357]

We use autumn and faucet over here too. And occasionally lift.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

Linguistic chauvanism is one of the dumbest things ever.

 

[Supr49er]

We're finally getting some long-needed rain.

 

[Thunder_Gr]

Language is for communicating with eachother. If everyone understands what a lift is and what Fall means then the purpose is achieved. If not, there is always a chance to learn.
Besides, all languages in the world have more than one ways to say the same thing.

So, smile! Your language problems have been solved

 

[Rossiya]

Language is for communicating with eachother. If everyone understands what a lift is and what Fall means then the purpose is achieved. If not, there is always a chance to learn.
Besides, all languages in the world have more than one ways to say the same thing.

So, smile! Your language problems have been solved

But how the hell is a noun meaning "to fall over" or a verb meaning "to slip, drop" ever come to mean autumn? It's ridiculous.

Yeah, sure, whatever, if you call all those french spellings and stupid uneducated names for things(seriously, it's called an elevator, not a lift, and a toilet, not a loo or whatever the hell it is you call it, what are you, peasants who've never seen technology before?)

Are you being ironic here? Most people here call toilets "toilets"... If you don't like "French spellings", who don't you spell the world "beautiful" as something more suiting to your American tastes? "Byooteefull"? Is that unsophisticated enough for you?

What is it with these colonials...

 

[Ulyaoth]

Lol, calling our spellings unsophisticated. Why not just speak French then if you love it so much? And what do the english call the season we call 'Spring' then in their infinite oh so sophisticated wisdom?

 

[salty mud]

Errm... Spring.

What are you trying to prove?

 

[Rossiya]

Lol, calling our spellings unsophisticated. Why not just speak French then if you love it so much? And what do the english call the season we call 'Spring' then in their infinite oh so sophisticated wisdom?

Um, we call "spring" "spring" funnily enough. As for us speaking French, you're just being stupid.

 

[Ulyaoth]

Errm... Spring.

What are you trying to prove?

I'm making a point of why you have such issue with Fall but not with Spring

 

[azzaman333]

Because autumn > fall.

 

[salty mud]

There is no issue to be had with 'Spring...' we both call it Spring. But Autumn is the correct word - I'm sure it was in the English language well before 'Fall' and therefore is more correct.