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	<title>Comments on: The Friday Cool: Why I love the English language</title>
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		<title>By: Martin</title>
		<link>http://www.javenackerman.com/2009/01/the-friday-cool-why-i-love-the-english-language/comment-page-1/#comment-459</link>
		<dc:creator>Martin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:33:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;I would disagree with the concept that one language will rise to supremacy. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Say English wins out, even if just for a while. Even if someone technically speaks English there are so many sub-cultural dialects and sets of slang. Ebonics, the Queen&#039;s English, Irish brogue, New York Cab driver, etc. Hell, even the Marine&#039;s have their own dialect. I would give you a sample but grunts and pointing don&#039;t translate to the written word well and, beside, I have no poop to fling so my accent would be terrible. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;These slang dialects can be so different from each other that it can damn near impossible to communicate between groups without loosing much of the nuance and meaning of the words.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;As long as there is a human drive to maintain an &quot;us&quot; and a &quot;them,&quot; which barring an alien attack I don&#039;t think will change, people will introduce novel features into how they talk to help tell the difference between the two. The distance between these groups geographically, socio-economically, etc will probably correlate to the difficulty in communication.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I would disagree with the concept that one language will rise to supremacy. </p>
<p>Say English wins out, even if just for a while. Even if someone technically speaks English there are so many sub-cultural dialects and sets of slang. Ebonics, the Queen&#8217;s English, Irish brogue, New York Cab driver, etc. Hell, even the Marine&#8217;s have their own dialect. I would give you a sample but grunts and pointing don&#8217;t translate to the written word well and, beside, I have no poop to fling so my accent would be terrible. </p>
<p>These slang dialects can be so different from each other that it can damn near impossible to communicate between groups without loosing much of the nuance and meaning of the words.</p>
<p>As long as there is a human drive to maintain an &#8220;us&#8221; and a &#8220;them,&#8221; which barring an alien attack I don&#8217;t think will change, people will introduce novel features into how they talk to help tell the difference between the two. The distance between these groups geographically, socio-economically, etc will probably correlate to the difficulty in communication.</p>
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		<title>By: Ms. Huis Herself</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ms. Huis Herself</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:14:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;So, my aunt passed along to me &quot;Partridge&#039;s Concise Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English.&quot;  It&#039;s got such gems as &quot;buggerlugs,&quot; &quot;like a nun in a knocking-shop,&quot; and &quot;molly-dooker,&quot; (&quot;A not necessarily offensive term of address, mainly nautical,&quot; &quot;incongruous, inappropriate and utterly out-of-place,&quot; and &quot;a left-handed person.&quot;)  In the interests of ridding  my house of 365 things this year, might I pass it along to you?  Email or DM me your address &amp; I&#039;ll pop it in the mail, if you want it.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So, my aunt passed along to me &#8220;Partridge&#8217;s Concise Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English.&#8221;  It&#8217;s got such gems as &#8220;buggerlugs,&#8221; &#8220;like a nun in a knocking-shop,&#8221; and &#8220;molly-dooker,&#8221; (&#8220;A not necessarily offensive term of address, mainly nautical,&#8221; &#8220;incongruous, inappropriate and utterly out-of-place,&#8221; and &#8220;a left-handed person.&#8221;)  In the interests of ridding  my house of 365 things this year, might I pass it along to you?  Email or DM me your address &amp; I&#8217;ll pop it in the mail, if you want it.</p>
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