'You Say You Want a Revolution'?

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A person can spend years learning modern standard English at university and still
struggle to hold a basic conversation with native speakers in Newcastle.

Originally posted by wolfgang59
A person can spend years learning modern standard English at university and still
struggle to hold a basic conversation with native speakers in Newcastle.

Or understand the laconic dry wit of an Australian, brimming with self deprecation and irony.

Originally posted by wolfgang59
Yes I agree.
I defended her (him/it) on occasions but then we had an argument over grammar
(which she lost) and I was discarded to the "enemy" basket.

It is a pity that someone with worthwhile
things to say also has the time to spout nonsense.

And to save Duchess time: ...

The troll Wolfgang59 shows little reading comprehension ... blah blah ... sexist, bigot.

Sorry Wolfie , but the ...." shows little reading comprehension and is barely illiterate gang " is very exclusive and I, being an honourary member feel you do not have the necessary bad grammar and abysmal comprehension of the English language to join our select club .
By order of the chief secret hand shake buffalo .

Originally posted by wolfgang59
A person can spend years learning modern standard English at university and still
struggle to hold a basic conversation with native speakers in Newcastle.

Hold on a minute here , I can hold a conversation with a Geordie a lot easier than someone from deepest Cornwall . OOOOaaaar me lovely .

Originally posted by phil3000
Hold on a minute here , I can hold a conversation with a Geordie a lot easier than someone from deepest Cornwall . OOOOaaaar me lovely .

Since the advent of "Talk Like A Pirate Day" (19th September)
the Cornish brogue has become more fashionable and dare I
say more intelligible.

Whereas a Geordie still sounds like a Scotsman with his head kicked in.

There is a saying amongst linguists:
"Too many dialects spoil the panackelty"

Originally posted by Blood On The Tracks
Hmmm

You show an understanding of great pop/rock songs from the 70s

The extremely clever Don McLean song 'American Pie' used exactly the same couplet

' while Lenin read a book on Marx
The quartet practiced in the park'

Lenin = Lennon (didn't take much for McLean to sing 'Lennon'. )

Quartet = Beatles (often thought a reference to t ...[text shortened]... if John was reading a book on Marx!

(I would add Marx and park is a v poor rhyming couplet!)

Lennon read a book of marks

Originally posted by whodey
Catch up with the Nordics?

I'd be learning Arabic if I were you.

If you had've left an emoji at the end there, but ... No!!!

😞

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Hindus eh?

More like pretentious wanna be fuks.

(Well .... you do hold yourself to a high standard of understanding , no? )