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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Watch your mouth! #160946 07/14/2006 5:11 AM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,788 Seattle, Washington, USA Father Steve Carpal Tunnel Father Steve Carpal Tunnel Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,788 Seattle, Washington, USA National Language Purity and Preservation Act of 2006 Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Watch your mouth! #160947 07/14/2006 11:53 AM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,891 belMarduk Carpal Tunnel belMarduk Carpal Tunnel Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,891 Sounds like our language police. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Watch your mouth! #160948 07/14/2006 12:31 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,027 Switzerland wsieber old hand wsieber old hand Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,027 Switzerland Strange... I think swearwords can be perfectly pure from a linguistic standpoint. Or what do you think? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Watch your mouth! #160949 07/14/2006 7:22 PM Joined: May 2005 Posts: 456 SE US Aramis addict Aramis addict Joined: May 2005 Posts: 456 SE US Pure something [heck?]. Hopefully there are no Malaysian ditzy* newscasters who say things like "monthly down-payment" to fill their jails. *Spell-check balked but 'ditsy' just looks weak. ÅΓª╥┐↕§ Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Watch your mouth! #160950 07/14/2006 8:38 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York Quote: *Spell-check balked... Aramis, meet Ænigma. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Watch your mouth! #160951 07/14/2006 10:45 PM Joined: Aug 2002 Posts: 2,154 British Columbia, Canada Zed Pooh-Bah Zed Pooh-Bah Joined: Aug 2002 Posts: 2,154 British Columbia, Canada "Do you freeze in mid-sentence and unscramble your corrupted grammar lest the sharp-eared pundits of the language house haul you up for the willful murder of the gerund?" the paper asked. Wow! I'm trying to imagine my local papers including a sentance as impressive as this one. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: willfully murdering gerunds #160952 07/15/2006 4:18 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York I loved that, too, Zed. But I wonder if Malay even has gerunds? Not that that's the point but. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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