Posting when the US is asleep

No 'awesome'
No 'cool'
No 'badass'
No ' lense'

... sheer heaven

Amen to that!

huh? im awake =]

Sure glad everyone in the UK is not as arrogant as you.

theague wrote in post #2837259
Sure glad everyone in the UK is not as arrogant as you.

Nah the rest are just whining Poms

Its all good each to his own, the brits help make this forum intellegent
I wouldn't mind a few more colours, favourites and all the fun words mum asks how to spell when doing newsletters

chris clements wrote in post #2837006
No 'awesome'
No 'cool'
No 'badass'
No ' lense'

... sheer heaven

Posting when the UK is asleep:

No "brilliant"
No "whinging"
No "Jessops"
No "Prices here suck why can't I live in North America"

I know where you're coming from, I live next door to America but come on... from our side of the fence it all looks normal.

BTW - lense is some weird spelling (to me) that isn't "American" per se, just a variant.

Main Entry: lens
Variant: also lense /'lenz/

Cool, you are one badass awesome dude, but why act like you've got a lens up your rear?

See ya at the checkout counter.... mine will be the one without the 22% moron tax (helps pay for morons that can't pay for themselves in a socialist society.)

theague wrote in post #2837259
Sure glad everyone in the UK is not as arrogant as you.

... just doing my bit to promote World Peace and raise the literacy bar

chris clements wrote in post #2837504
... just doing my bit to promote World Peace and raise the literacy bar

Looks more like you are trying to start a war

cosworth wrote in post #2837443
Posting when the UK is asleep:

No "brilliant"
No "whinging"

Thanks, I was trying to figure out how to spell that and couldn't remember.
There are bigger problems to worry about then all this stuff anyways

I like my wife's bumper sticker: "stop global whining".

A lack of English folks would rid us of the ubiquitous 'cheers' and 'mate' that plague their posts. .

Dude.

It is an unfortunate fact of life that of all the people in the world who actually speak English, Englishmen as a breed are the worst at it. It takes a foreigner to speak the Queen's English proper, innit.

'Lense' is the one that drives me nuts, but you'll see that on all the UK photog forums too.

People who live in glass houses shouldn't cast the first stone....

I can't quite work out if Chris is being tongue in cheek, supercilious or just wants to see some flame action....but I'll watch this thread with interest to see how this goes down with the humourless among the membership!

steved110 wrote in post #2838355
It is an unfortunate fact of life that of all the people in the world who actually speak English, Englishmen as a breed are the worst at it.

The Queens English is dead Stevie ... as inventors of the language we are also in a constant reinvention of it and that is why some may consider it isn't spoken as well as it could be. They look back to benchmark, but language constantly moves so it is futile to attempt to tie it down. As long as meaning is shared then all is well.

True, Condyk, and I'm not so retentive or hopelessly conservative that I mind seeing things move on. Much....

But I would not agree that the language as a whole is being re invented solely by Brits. i think Hollywood is doing that - we'll one day be speaking our isolated little English-based dialects, while there will be a broader church of 'correct ' language spoken and understood by the larger population as a whole....Oh, gosh, doesn't that keep on happening?

This could end up reading like the transcript of a Radio 4 phone in.....