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 Post subject: the 'clash' is on...
PostPosted: 19 Sep 2008 11:56 pm 
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I have noticed there is a swing of phrasing coursing thru the threads that can be compared to perfidious albions usage-abusage of language + double entendre French where ya never know what is meant 'cuz even the writer is equally confused.

Here is a list of links dealing with anomalies with languages and the mis understandings which arise as a result of these occurrences... but 1st check out how to deliberately spin language like these examples

http://nan-blakstone-the-elevator-song- ... t/_/288568
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kfd9C2GC ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVvi86RB ... re=related

http://www.alternative-dictionaries.net/

then there is traditional pedantic stuff like these jems...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudo-anglicism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurojargon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faux_amis
http://french.about.com/library/fauxamis/blfauxam_a.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterran ... gua_Franca
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wobbly_lingo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wo ... an_English
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pidgin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoonerism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malapropism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colemanballs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondegreen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neologism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarism_(grammar)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulgarism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jargon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portmanteau_word
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Béarlachas
http://german.about.com/library/weekly/aa030199.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phono-semantic_matching
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colloquialism


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Personally Jake....I think you're starting to rant a bit.


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You have jumped to the wrong conclusion me thinks, you need to go back over the posts and re-read ...but a bit slower this time.


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Yes Jake...but you're starting to piss me off....all you are doing is winding me up...big time.... Get out-and-about-a-bit mate. You're worth it!


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