HM Queen Elizabeth II's State Visit to the USA

[Alan]

What are you on about?

A
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[Englishuser]

Hi Alan,

This is what I read in your post:

[Alan]

Please don't be ridiculous. The idea is to try to maintain accuracy on everything on the site. Clearly I mistyped the word 'self' in my original comment and you quoted that particular part that included the typing error. Naturally I corrected my original and also corrected that part you quoted. Fairness is not at issue.

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[Lost_Soul]

[Englishuser]

Hi Alan,

Don't you think you should allow me to correct my typo in Amy's quote, then? I have corrected it in my original posting(s).

EU

[Englishuser]

Hi lost_soul,

You suggested native speaker forum members should correct mistakes in other forum members' postings. Such an approach can indeed be beneficial to many among us, but in my opinion you should ask people if they want their posts corrected. 'Correctness' is a relative term anyway and sometimes even grammarians disagree about whether something is "grammatical" or not.

EU

[Alan]

Hi Edith Underwood,

What I think is that as usual you are making a huge mountain out of a tiny molehill.

Alan
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[Tom]

Hello

I think once we had this discussion here also.

King's and Queen's English
http://www.english-test.net/forum/ftopic13911.html

Tom

[Englishuser]

Hi Tom,

I am afraid I will have to disagree with you this once; I don't think we ever discussed The Queen's speeches in any previous thread. What we did discuss before was Her Majesty's accent and aristocratic British English accents in general.

EU

[Prezbucky]

I hear she enjoyed the fried chicken.

hehe

(Yes, I was aware that she was here. No, I don't know if fried chicken was on the menu.)
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[Englishuser]

Hi Alan,

No, it is not natural that you amend my posts. That's rewriting history. How would you feel if someone went to the National Archives in London to amend historical documents and records just because they contain some inappropriacies? I sincerely hope this site has been downloaded by the National Archives BEFORE you got to correct yourself so that people can see the typo centuries later and will realise that we were all capable of making mistakes in the early 21st century.

EU

[Alan]

Dear Extreme Umpire,

Thanks once again for providing me with yet another example of your delightful sense of humour.

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[Englishuser]

Hi Alan,

[Prezbucky]

cripes, guys

I see it's time for a beer (or Coke, or whatever floats your boat).

Are either of you (or anyone else in here, for that matter) Liverpool fans?
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[Prezbucky]

all right, what the heck? why not here?

Rather than start my own thread for this parody, I'll just drop it here. This thread needs some levity. hehe

This is my tongue-in-cheek Ode to the Big Four (American poets):

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I scratch myself, and bathe myself.
And what you know, I know.
And what you know I know, I know you know I know.

Behold the grass. Isn't it cool?
I hear it speak, and it speaks in the tongues of
Squirrels and of bugs;
They speak of the newness of yore,
And the antiquity of birth.
The squirrels and bugs converse with me
For I am the force animalia incarnate,
And also because I have a special animal-linguistic hearing aid.

I am sweat; I hear my own sweat purr,
Like a cat on the lap of a silk-pajama-wearing
Largesse-spreader, spreading fertilizer on the
Fertile soil-soul of the cat.

I am the cat. I celebrate the cat,
And she celebrates me.
She and I look at this single blade of grass and think,
"Wow... now this is something about which to write a hundred pages."

The sun rises, the sun sets
The renter rents, the landlord lets
O'er the globe, green grass grows,
Its birthright-height halted when the mower mows.
And the sun rises, the sun sets.

I never saw such grass but twice,
And that was on TV:
Bluegrass at Lambeau, fake grass'd Camp Randall
A fan was I, then grass-bereaved.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
To my kindred, here or on high:
A squirrel pooped on the lawn, and I --
I paid a migrant worker to recruit some flies,
And they made quick work of the mess.

--TPS

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Sources/inspiration:

"Song of Myself" -- Walt Whitman

"The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls" -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"(poem number) 49" -- Emily Dickinson

"The Road Not Taken" -- Robert Frost
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