Yeah, and the Brits should be made to divest themselves of all Germanic and French words, such as "kindergarten" and "entrepeneur"; they have to use British-only expressions now, such as "playpen for kids of mums and dads who have to work all day" and "small businessman."
Leave means leave! No half-baked 'we're mostly out-ish but we still want to pick the cherries.'
Originally posted by @suzianne You know, since you guys are leaving the EU, the French should charge you for all those Us you stole to put in English words. 😛
They (and you!) should be charged for the entire words you stole, u's and all - and then the USA should be charged extra for the vandalism is committed on all those innocent u's!
Originally posted by @moonbus Yeah, and the Brits should be made to divest themselves of all Germanic and French words, such as "kindergarten" and "entrepeneur"; they have to use British-only expressions now, such as "playpen for kids of mums and dads who have to work all day" and "small businessman."
Leave means leave! No half-baked 'we're mostly out-ish but we still want to pick the cherries.'
All of those small words are Germanic... back to Celtic for you!
Originally posted by @moonbus Yeah, and the Brits should be made to divest themselves of all Germanic and French words, such as "kindergarten" and "entrepeneur"; they have to use British-only expressions now, such as "playpen for kids of mums and dads who have to work all day" and "small businessman."
Leave means leave! No half-baked 'we're mostly out-ish but we still want to pick the cherries.'
Actually they used to be called nursery schools and I suppose tradespeople, which worked perfectly well.
As for 'Brexit' (to which I assume you refer?), you oversimplify a complex situation, and are looking at it from only one side of the equation.
Originally posted by @indonesia-phil Actually they used to be called nursery schools and I suppose tradespeople, which worked perfectly well.
As for 'Brexit' (to which I assume you refer?), you oversimplify a complex situation, and are looking at it from only one side of the equation.
Looking at it from this side of the channel ... I fondly recall a newspaper headline (can't remember now whether it was the Sun or the Daily Mail or some other): the channel was so heavily fogged that the ferries couldn't sail. The headline read "Continent Cut Off By Fog."
Now, I ask you, if the Pacific were so heavily fogged that airplanes couldn't reach Hawaii (just hypothetically), would any sane person conclude that North America was cut off?
Of course not, it was Britain which was cut off. And will be.
Spelling lesson
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