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wapchimp Joined: Jun 09, 2002 Posts: > 500 From: Land of the chimps PM, WWW
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lol. I didn't know it was about the P900
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SonyBoy Joined: Aug 31, 2002 Posts: 84 From: NY, USA PM |
LOL!!
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kimcheeboi Joined: Dec 19, 2003 Posts: > 500 From: Abducted by hot blondes to Les PM |
whats crackin, peeps? we be chillin at my place tonight!
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Dj Boyi Joined: Oct 05, 2002 Posts: > 500 From: Liberty City PM |
If nobody wants it.. put it on eBay. |
kimcheeboi Joined: Dec 19, 2003 Posts: > 500 From: Abducted by hot blondes to Les PM |
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Dj Boyi Joined: Oct 05, 2002 Posts: > 500 From: Liberty City PM |
If nobody wants it.. put it on eBay. |
kimcheeboi Joined: Dec 19, 2003 Posts: > 500 From: Abducted by hot blondes to Les PM |
its an american thing...
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Dj Boyi Joined: Oct 05, 2002 Posts: > 500 From: Liberty City PM |
Speak English Boy
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imanuk Joined: Mar 05, 2004 Posts: 241 From: Stafford, UK PM, WWW
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Ok, so is there any difference between US/UK P800 and P900 that requires a whole thread to discuss? Not having seen any Potato(e) refernces on it I doubt there can be anyhting to discuss... |
wapchimp Joined: Jun 09, 2002 Posts: > 500 From: Land of the chimps PM, WWW
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I think this started as a serious query/thread.
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imanuk Joined: Mar 05, 2004 Posts: 241 From: Stafford, UK PM, WWW
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@orangeman - many do.
A more pedantically phrased question would have helped steer it in the hoped direction. But I'm not sure what that direction is? |
scotsboyuk Joined: Jun 02, 2003 Posts: > 500 From: UK PM, WWW
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Perhaps, someone can save us from the giddy, grammatical hieghts we are sure to soon be assailing, by closing this thread?
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gelfen Joined: Nov 22, 2003 Posts: > 500 From: Melbourne, Australia PM |
americans don't speek english
seriously though, i would expect the main differences to be in the area of spelling - centre vs. center, colour vs. color, replacing english z with american s in certain words (e.g summarize/summarise), and other grammatical atrocities.
on a side note, current linguistic theory is that the american accent is something akin to how british commoners spoke during elizabethan times. this of course raises certain questions - has the american spoken word devolved to that of an illiterate society? or has it become more authentically down-to-earth "english" than the english?
on another side note, the american constitution defines the national language as that which a majority of the population speaks - which means that in the next few decades spanish could well supplant english as the national language of the USA.
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kimcheeboi Joined: Dec 19, 2003 Posts: > 500 From: Abducted by hot blondes to Les PM |
GRAMATTICAL ATROCITIES?!?!?
i doan know what you talking bout or something man.
You're using your culture as a 'measuring stick'; don't do that. That's equivalent to 'criticising' the Mandarin dialect because it is different than Cantonese.
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gelfen Joined: Nov 22, 2003 Posts: > 500 From: Melbourne, Australia PM |
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On 2004-05-07 03:37:00, KiMcHeEbOi wrote:
GRAMATTICAL ATROCITIES?!?!?.....
...i doan know what you talking bout or something man.
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case closed.
sucked in - gotcha!
i'm not using my culture as a measuring stick, just the knowledge of my native tongue. in point of fact the american spoken word is becoming a dialect of english, sufficient enough are the differences in expression and verancular (especially if spoken "english" and "american" continue to diverge - although this is becomming less likely in today's world of global communications). the written word still remains fairly closely aligned, with many of the differences brought about by differences in pronunciation.
oh - and the differences between mandarin and cantonese are fairly profound compared with what we are discussing here.
suffice it to say that poor grammar, especially among those who should know better, is a bug-bear of mine.
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