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[–] ThomasCrappersGhost@feddit.uk 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

….from the people that butchered the English language.

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Can English be butchered? It's already a wildly inconsistent frappe of Frisian, Latin, Greek, and French.

[–] ThomasCrappersGhost@feddit.uk 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I won't stand behind the American dialect as some kind of paragon of linguistic virtue, but it's hardly butchering the language if we're already cool with cockney and whatever the hell it is bogans are speaking.

[–] ThomasCrappersGhost@feddit.uk 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I was being mildly amusing/tongue in cheek.

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] ThomasCrappersGhost@feddit.uk 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No worries mate. Can be hard to detect tone in text.

Plus I should think a certain type of person will say this seriously.

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

Thanks for being understanding. I'm still acclimating to Lemmy's civility.