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dolarabee
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 14, 2003 12:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

miriel361 wrote:
Yes, I am aware of what it means, which is why I was so surprised to hear it being used as an adjective as in 'Well, it's a wanky world."

Same here. While living the UK, I heard all these expressions (wanker, in need of a wank, wanking, etc.) but never 'wanky'. Oh, well, there's always a first time.

LuckyObsidian wrote:
This board is fantastic, nowhere else could such discussion occur and grammer be dissected regarding sentances with THAT word! Brilliant!

Isn't it just? Very Happy

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PostPosted: Thu Feb 12, 2004 10:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Concerning the horse and stables... I think that the use of commas would make the sentence more easily understood. Not many readers take the trouble to read a single sentence a couple of times to decipher whatever it happens to be. As a foreigner who just so happens to speak English, I find that sentence slightly confusing as well.

Yes, English does evolve... all languages does... even here we have "Malaysian English" and "Singapore English." It's sort of English heavily dosed with all the Chinese, Malay and Indian to make it dinstinctively "Malaysian" or "Singaporean." Needlessly said, you'd probably won't manage to make much sense out of it if I chose to speak them here.

Weirdly enough, although British English is taught in school and written down, we in general speak American English as it is much easier to understand. I mean you Brits no offence, but the brogue is thick enough to make me have to listen very carefully and at certain times, ask them to repeat whatever they have said...It's kinda hard to make out.

Then again, this multi-racial country has received some rather noticable migration of "mat sallehs" (Caucasians) enough to make it commonplace.

Oh, well... maybe it's just me.

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