Dirk Bruere at Neopax wrote:

"Wictor@!" wrote in message
ws.com...
http://www.rathergood.com/val_halal/

I bet you Americans couldn't understand it without subtitles.

Sheesh. And people say *Americans* have mangled the English language.
Bah. For REAL English-mangling, you've got to leave it to the Brits. Of
course, that's far from the worst... I've seen some Scots on TV who
sounded like they were speaking something *entirely* different from
English.

--
Scott Lowther, Engineer

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that...' is wrong. Always. It's a law of Usenet, like Godwin's."
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"Scott Lowther" wrote in message
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Dirk Bruere at Neopax wrote:

"Wictor@!" wrote in message
ws.com...
http://www.rathergood.com/val_halal/

I bet you Americans couldn't understand it without subtitles.

Sheesh. And people say *Americans* have mangled the English language.
Bah. For REAL English-mangling, you've got to leave it to the Brits. Of
course, that's far from the worst... I've seen some Scots on TV who
sounded like they were speaking something *entirely* different from
English.


In some ways they are.
There is a definite and distinctive Scottish dialect.


FFF
Dirk

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"Dirk Bruere at Neopax" wrote in news:bk2bql$of3m1$1@ID-
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"Scott Lowther" wrote in message
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Dirk Bruere at Neopax wrote:

"Wictor@!" wrote in message
ws.com...
http://www.rathergood.com/val_halal/

I bet you Americans couldn't understand it without subtitles.

Sheesh. And people say *Americans* have mangled the English language.
Bah. For REAL English-mangling, you've got to leave it to the Brits. Of
course, that's far from the worst... I've seen some Scots on TV who
sounded like they were speaking something *entirely* different from
English.


In some ways they are.
There is a definite and distinctive Scottish dialect.


You gonna wipe out the ones that aren't pure, Djirkie?

the world is just one big zoo to you isnt it?


bertie

On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 19:26:32 +0100, "Dirk Bruere at Neopax"
wrote:


"Scott Lowther" wrote in message
...
Dirk Bruere at Neopax wrote:

"Wictor@!" wrote in message
ws.com...
http://www.rathergood.com/val_halal/

I bet you Americans couldn't understand it without subtitles.

Sheesh. And people say *Americans* have mangled the English language.
Bah. For REAL English-mangling, you've got to leave it to the Brits. Of
course, that's far from the worst... I've seen some Scots on TV who
sounded like they were speaking something *entirely* different from
English.


In some ways they are.
There is a definite and distinctive Scottish dialect.

There are several.

Nik

Nik wrote in
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On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 19:26:32 +0100, "Dirk Bruere at Neopax"
wrote:


"Scott Lowther" wrote in message
...
Dirk Bruere at Neopax wrote:

"Wictor@!" wrote in message
ws.com...
http://www.rathergood.com/val_halal/

I bet you Americans couldn't understand it without subtitles.

Sheesh. And people say *Americans* have mangled the English language.
Bah. For REAL English-mangling, you've got to leave it to the Brits. Of
course, that's far from the worst... I've seen some Scots on TV who
sounded like they were speaking something *entirely* different from
English.


In some ways they are.
There is a definite and distinctive Scottish dialect.

There are several.

Of whihc Njiky can pretedn to be at least five as a native speaker, eh Nazi
boy?

Bertie

Scott Lowther wrote:

For REAL English-mangling, you've got to leave it to the Brits. Of
course, that's far from the worst... I've seen some Scots on TV who
sounded like they were speaking something entirely different from
English.

Ever see Sexy Beast? The only character I could understand was Kingsley, but
then "****" is hard to **** up.

Or the undubbed Mad Max? Of course Gibson was really a Yank who mastered
Strine.