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Hi Englishuser,
Don't you think that the days of royalty are numbered? Why would anyone apart from historians be interested in those titles?
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| #63 (permalink) Thu May 31, 2007 21:00 pm What mistake bugs you the most in your language? |
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That's the QEII, I think.
Ol' Liz must be upset that it wasn't named appropriately:
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, Ruler of the Seas, Head of the Realm, Conqueror of France, Scourge of Evil, Founder of Bliss, Suppressor of Strife, Mother of Britannia II.
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| #64 (permalink) Thu May 31, 2007 21:05 pm What mistake bugs you the most in your language? |
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Hi Tom,
Do you mean that QEII herself is the person most likely to be interested in preserving those old fashioned and award titles? Maybe Englishuser is a member of the royal family too?
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| #65 (permalink) Thu May 31, 2007 21:07 pm What mistake bugs you the most in your language? |
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no, I was just poking a little fun.
I bet she's down-to-earth enough not to mind being abbreviated to QEII.
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| #66 (permalink) Thu May 31, 2007 21:10 pm What mistake bugs you the most in your language? |
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...or Elizabeth, or Queen, or Your/Her Majesty.
I would imagine she doesn't require her secretary to say, "Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth The Second's office. How may we help you?" upon answering the phone.
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| #67 (permalink) Thu May 31, 2007 21:15 pm What mistake bugs you the most in your language? |
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You wouldn't say that 'natives' sounds somewhat old-fashioned and offensive in that sentence?
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Well, that's your opinion. Other experts have told me they disagree with you,
and I believe these experts in English know the language at least as well as you do. |
Excuse me, but I'm trained as an English expert. Just because someone is hypersensitive and attaches meanings and connotations to a word that aren't really there, it doesn't mean they're right.
Remember the last time you hauled out "experts" as big guns to shoot my argument down. I was on an English experts' list with some of the very people whose books you quoted, I contacted them personally, and they backed up my judgment. |
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| #68 (permalink) Thu May 31, 2007 21:17 pm What mistake bugs you the most in your language? |
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Hi prezbucky,
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| I would imagine she doesn't require her secretary to say, "Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth The Second's office. How may we help you?" upon answering the phone. |
You could give BP a ring... 
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| #69 (permalink) Thu May 31, 2007 21:20 pm What mistake bugs you the most in your language? |
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Hi Jamie,
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| Excuse me, but I'm trained as an English expert. Just because someone is hypersensitive and attaches meanings and connotations to a word that aren't really there, it doesn't mean they're right. |
Of course it doesn't. How did you become an English expert?
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| Remember the last time you hauled out "experts" as big guns to shoot my argument down. I was on an English experts' list with some of the very people whose books you quoted, I contacted them personally, and they backed up my judgment. |
Is Queen Elizabeth II on your list?
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| #70 (permalink) Thu May 31, 2007 21:24 pm What mistake bugs you the most in your language? |
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Hi Englishuser,
What makes you think the Queen is "an expert of the English language"? How do you define "English expert" anyway? Do you think there is a difference between an "English expert" and an "English language expert"?
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| #71 (permalink) Thu May 31, 2007 21:28 pm What mistake bugs you the most in your language? |
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Hi Torsten,
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| What makes you think the Queen is "an expert of the English language"? |
What do you think?
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| How do you define "English expert" anyway? |
Perhaps a native speaker of English or a non-native speaker of English with an overall IELTS Band Score of 9 who studied the English language at university up to a post-doctoral level?
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| Do you think there is a difference between an "English expert" and an "English language expert"? |
Yes. |
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| #72 (permalink) Thu May 31, 2007 21:29 pm What mistake bugs you the most in your language? |
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| Englishuser wrote: |
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| Excuse me, but I'm trained as an English expert. Just because someone is hypersensitive and attaches meanings and connotations to a word that aren't really there, it doesn't mean they're right. |
Of course it doesn't. How did you become an English expert? |
Years of hard work in graduate school. |
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| #73 (permalink) Fri Jun 01, 2007 9:46 am What mistake bugs you the most in your language? |
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| English is not my native language but i am fluent.. i hate it when people pronounce "the" as "zzze" .. i emphasized on the "z" as i hate that sound... "the = ze" grr.. and anything,, like these, that, those.. lol.. dunno if you understand what i'm saying. |
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| #74 (permalink) Fri Jun 01, 2007 9:49 am What mistake bugs you the most in your language? |
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Hi Gronny,
What about capitalizing the personal pronoun I -- is that something you like doing?
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