Pointless But It Does My Head In

[zhao]

People who say "I'm going toilet" or "I'm going to see [inanimate propper noun]"

Really really drives me round the bend.

nah, faux FOB or intentionally wrong english is the best. and instead of letting it "drive you around the bend" (that doesn't sound so bad either? which bend? just a wee drive?), you should learn to appreciate it's silly charms. i was very tempted to put "make party" next to "graphic design" on my business card.

 

[Mr. Tea]

nah, faux FOB or intentionally wrong english is the best. and instead of letting it "drive you around the bend" (that doesn't sound so bad either? which bend? just a wee drive?), you should learn to appreciate it's silly charms. i was very tempted to put "make party" next to "graphic design" on my business card.

Try asking your gf if she wants to "make sex" or "do love" and get back to us with her reaction.

 

[Dr Awesome]

nah, faux FOB or intentionally wrong english is the best. and instead of letting it "drive you around the bend" (that doesn't sound so bad either? which bend? just a wee drive?), you should learn to appreciate it's silly charms. i was very tempted to put "make party" next to "graphic design" on my business card.

The difference is that it's done in ignorance, not wit nor jest. I have no problem breaking, stretching and abusing the English language but I have a decent command of it to begin with.

 

[grizzleb]

Unless they mean something like, changing their lifestyle to something lavatory based - "I'm going toilet"

 

[zhao]

Try asking your gf if she wants to "make sex" or "do love" and get back to us with her reaction.

OMG she is the absolute queen of this (her english is not very good so it's not intentional). but even someone as grammatically stringent as Dr. Awesome would have a hard time getting annoyed because it's sooooo adorable... like for instance she says "feets". no really she does. like "my feets are cold".

 

[nomadthethird]

OMG she is the absolute queen of this (her english is not very good so it's not intentional). but even someone as grammatically stringent as Dr. Awesome would have a hard time getting annoyed because it's sooooo adorable... like for instance she says "feets". no really she does. like "my feets are cold".

I like how in German, they say "Haare" which is hair, plural. So they say, "I like your hairs"...Ich mag deine Haare...

 

[zhao]

and in German apparently "do" and "make" are the same. so that switch is actually VERY common in this house. "make the dishes", etc.

and she confuses the past tense of read with wrote a lot. so she'll be like oh i wrote this interesting article today...

 

[Leo]

"I'm going toilet"

kind of like "going commando."

 

[nomadthethird]

and in German apparently "do" and "make" are the same. so that switch is actually VERY common in this house. "make the dishes", etc.

and she confuses the past tense of read with wrote a lot. so she'll be like oh i wrote this interesting article today...

Spass machen...probably the best idiom in German that relies on "make"...

 

[Leo]

and in German apparently "do" and "make" are the same. so that switch is actually VERY common in this house. "make the dishes", etc.

and she confuses the past tense of read with wrote a lot. so she'll be like oh i wrote this interesting article today...

hey zhao, just curious: do you need to know german in order to live in berlin, or can you get by ok on english? do you speak german? i've heard of so many artists who moved there at one time or another, can't imagine all of them speak/spoke the language.

 

[zhao]

hey zhao, just curious: do you need to know german in order to live in berlin, or can you get by ok on english? do you speak german? i've heard of so many artists who moved there at one time or another, can't imagine all of them speak/spoke the language.

i speak excellent German. (for a 3 year old)

no you can get by almost perfectly fine with only english.

 

[Dr Awesome]

OMG she is the absolute queen of this (her english is not very good so it's not intentional). but even someone as grammatically stringent as Dr. Awesome would have a hard time getting annoyed because it's sooooo adorable... like for instance she says "feets". no really she does. like "my feets are cold".

I once went out with an adorable French girl, who used to say "le" and "la" in pidgin English sex phrases.
To counteract this I consulted all the French speakers I knew and developed:
"est-ce que je peux embrasser votre antilope?"
Which would make her laugh something chronic.

 

[Mr. Tea]

Does it make me a terrible, terrible person that the thing I usually find most depressing about news stories on dead teenagers is the inevitably abysmal spelling and grammar in the selection of Facebook tributes the papers love to include? :slanted:

 

[paolo]

Nah, most teenagers deserve everything they get.

Incidentally, has anyone noticed how dead teenage girls and young women are always described as 'bubbly'?

 

[Mr. Tea]

Give it a few days, most dead people are pretty bubbly...

 

[grizzleb]

U WAZ A BEST FREND GURL U WILL B MISSED 4 EVA XX

Can't even take the time to fucking spell properly...sigh. Surely it's a mark of disrespect?

 

[Mr. Tea]

The Baby P tributes were the source of a distasteful but amusing meme on another messageboard I used to use.

"u r wiv da angel's now xXxXxXx"

Edit: a quick google suggests "angles" instead of "angels". Good grief.

 

[Slothrop]

Nah, most teenagers deserve everything they get.

Incidentally, has anyone noticed how dead teenage girls and young women are always described as 'bubbly'?

Kind of related to the idea that we should send more rubbish cowardly unpopular soldiers out to afghanistan, since it's always the good ones that seem to get killed...

 

[Mr. Tea]

Yeah, if you want to live forever you just have to be a complete shit. Unpopular people never die.

 

[grizzleb]

I'd love to see a brutally honest report on the death of a soldier. "he was smelly and he didn't like to help others"