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**Val_Killmore** · 30-03-2012, 10:57

Originally Posted by pmaitra

Marvellous idea, because of these 'inbred tractor drivers' rely on definitions of uncountable nouns and don't pick up language from the streets.

The plural of chicken is chickens. Do you need help understanding why?

**pmaitra** · 30-03-2012, 10:59

Originally Posted by Val_Killmore

The plural of chicken is chickens. Do you need help understanding why?

Ma'am, please read my earlier comments in this thread. I am too old to sit on a merry-go-round.

**Markintime** · 30-03-2012, 11:04

Originally Posted by 1001Tossers

English convention certainly does not say that.

You really need to go over to the Teachers Forum and thrash it out with those harlots.

Why would you put a colon before quoted speech? What grammatical rule dictates that that should occur? Certainly not rules for colon usage.

The only time a colon is used for a direct quotation is when the piece being quoted is of some length and then it is used on a separate line, indented and without inverted commas.

**Markintime** · 30-03-2012, 11:06

Originally Posted by pmaitra

Markintime,

There are different rules and US English varies from state to state, and I have given examples thereof.

Biscuit in the UK is a cookie in the US and then there are so many differences.

The US influence is strong and inevitable. This is because computers and the internet are mainly sourced from US developers and one cannot live without computer related things these days.

I still believe one must preserve English for posterity's sake.

If you want to really keep it very pure, go the German way, and you have a limited span, or go liberal like with English, and your language spreads all over the world. Actually, even the Germans have reformed (Die neue deutsche Rechtschreibung), circa 2007, when I got my ZDfB. My understanding of English has vastly improved thanks to German.

Anyway, did you knock her up or not?

Steven, you need to re-check on the correct usage of 'product' and 'produce' when you are using them as nouns, as per UK English.

Is it computer-related or computer related, or are they just friends?

**Markintime** · 30-03-2012, 11:08

Originally Posted by pmaitra

Ma'am, please read my earlier comments in this thread. I am too old to sit on a merry-go-round.

I think his callsign is a pun on the actor's name so 'Ma'am' may become 'Sir'! Testosterone would certainly account for the unnecessarily aggressive reply.

**Bouillabaisse** · 30-03-2012, 11:09

Originally Posted by pmaitra

I still believe one must preserve English for posterity's sake.
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I disagree. The beauty of English as a language is that is so adaptable to it's circumstances. If you try to pickle it it will die. Punctuation rules, or conventions, are more important because they are the way you convey meaning to a text that would come out when spoken.

You can see tha adaptability and changes in English by comparing British, American and Indian English. There are phrases and ways of pronouncing phrases in American and Indian English that are more "correct" than British English, in that they are the older versions.

**Val_Killmore** · 30-03-2012, 11:11

Originally Posted by Markintime

I think his callsign is a pun on the actor's name so 'Ma'am' may become 'Sir'! Testosterone would certainly account for the unnecessarily aggressive reply.

It's Chickens bitches!

**Markintime** · 30-03-2012, 11:12

Plus we all get aroused by suspenders!

**Joe_Private** · 30-03-2012, 12:53

Originally Posted by pmaitra

Ma'am, please read my earlier comments in this thread. I am too old to sit on a merry-go-round.

Am I to take it that the M25 is full of car, and that I wake up to the sounds of bird, most of which are perched in tree?

**1001Tossers** · 30-03-2012, 13:09

Originally Posted by Markintime

Plus we all get aroused by suspenders!

Is that the American Suspenders or the British Suspenders?

The American ones being used by men to hold their socks up.
As American women say: "One good Yank and they are off"