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WCDT strips 4206 to 4210 (24th - 28th February 2020)
Morituri:
I'll have you know there's nothing common about this language. To begin with, English has a vocabulary the size of three reasonable languages. Which, of course, it got by stealing words wholesale from dozens. English also uses positional grammar, like most languages; but admits of a ridiculous variety of word orders, also stolen from every reasonable language on earth, for slightly different kinds of emphasis or mood. English uses eleven to thirteen different vowels, depending on your dialect, which is absolutely ridiculous. And we write them using only five letters. Speaking of which, our phonology and orthography got a divorce a few centuries back, and are now hardly speaking to each other.
Common.... I swear, that's the sort of thing people can say if they've never seen the way ordinary languages work.
Oh, and in response to your question... New England use? Yeah, 'Custodian' is probably a building-maintenance job. In the Midwest, the same job is a 'Janitor' and on the West coast of the US, it's a 'Sanitation Engineer.' None of these actually stick very close to their region of origin; people move around and take their verbal tics with them.
Tova:
--- Quote from: Morituri on 28 Feb 2020, 16:15 ---I'll have you know there's nothing common about this language.
--- End quote ---
Common as in, "shared by different countries," not common as in "garden-variety", Morituri.
Yeah. Language. Sheesh.
jwhouk:
The more appropriate English term (at least in the US) would be "sabbatical."
Perfectly Reasonable:
Isn't that what Hanners just did?
When I saw "Agatha the giant robot bear" I did a Google search. And there is such a beast. But then the comments stopped making sense entirely -- so I realized I had missed an update.
English was nearly squeezed out of existence. So now it attacks preemptively.
And Beeps has definitely abdicated responsiblity to Roko.
"You don't have to run the place. Just tell us what to do."
Is it cold in here?:
Bubbles is tied down starting a new business now and that's more than full time, but I can't help imagining her leadership qualities being applied to energizing the charity.
Maybe she knows other veterans in search of purpose. There may even have been others like her. May they please not be named Blossom and Buttercup.
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