Why english is a very important language in the world?

@JTT,

I know this will thrill you to no end that I have peaked at one of your replies, but catch your breath and realize it is an anomaly.

I'm mildly curious about your seeming secondary passion...language.

Obviously your primary passion is the damnation of America to the 7 th circle of Hell.

You actually seem to know something about the subject (language that is), which I find to be interesting as I have concluded that

1) You are pathetically trying to emulate Noam Chomsky

or

2) There is a bizarre connection between linguistic acumen and rabid anti-Americanism.

Perhaps you might like to break free from your usual hackneyed screed and let me know which of my conclusions is most accurate.

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@Finn dAbuzz,

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that I have peaked at one of your replies

You're big today on the euphemisms, aren't you, Finn? Surely it wasn't a language thread that caused that.

Nevertheless, I'm sure that will go some distance towards allowing your wife to understand why your finn fires so quickly.

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@JTT,

So clever JTT.

Too bad your wit and linguistic acumen is overwhelmed by your banal desire to condemn all things American, and your compulsion to be seen as a nasty ****.

Yes, it should have been "peeked" rather than "peaked."

Good Lord, JTT caught me!

Obviously, I don't fear an exchange with you enough to bother to proof my replies.

Interestingly enough, it is you who has set himself up as the A2K speaker of truth, and so we might expect you to bypass the cheap shot, and respond with substance.

But no, JTT is wonderful at vomiting nonsense about American perfidy, and castigating anyone who appears to disagree with him, and yet he is unable to engage beyond screed or scorn.

I'm happy to take you off "ignore" and engage if you can restrain yourself from frothing propaganda and provide a response that isn't dependent upon a typo, and your perceived cleverness in identifying it.

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@Finn dAbuzz,

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and respond with substance.

To your Post: # 4,618,570, Finn. That would be/would have been impossible. There was nothing of substance in that one to respond to.

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Obviously, I don't fear an exchange with you enough to bother to proof my replies.

No, just enough to put me on ignore.

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nd so we might expect you to bypass the cheap shot

Had your funny bone removed, did you, Finn?

Is this the second and last anomaly or am I to be treated to more of your substance filled posts? If you can manage one, who knows what might transpire.

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@Finn dAbuzz,

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if you can restrain yourself from frothing propaganda

"that South American Strongman ... "

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@Finn dAbuzz,

Finn dAbuzz wrote:

Yes, it should have been "peeked" rather than "peaked."

I don't mean to intrude, and I'm not trying to be nasty or anything, but the word you are looking for is "piqued".

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Whenever there's a serious, splenetic, vituperative argument going on in A2k, it seems that JTT is there in the thick of it.

Why is this so? Are you fightin' Irish, JTT?

Wink

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@Quincy,

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I don't mean to intrude, and I'm not trying to be nasty or anything, but the word you are looking for is "piqued".

No, Finn wasn't looking for 'piqued', Quinc. This was what Finn wrote.

"I know this will thrill you to no end that I have peaked at one of your replies,"

His post is right at the top of the same page as your post.

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@McTag,

Who was that fellow in the 'Can/May' thread, McTag?

If you had some balls you would be involved in these issues with Finn or Gob, but no, every once in every third or fourth blue moon you sneak in a little jibe, then run for cover until some further distant blue moon.

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@McTag,

Quincy's post was before mine, McTag. Why no rush on your part, [usually accompanied by your tripping over your own errant brand of nonsense on language], to point up his "mistake"?

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@JTT,

Now you're being unnecessarily nasty, while I was being quite pleasant.

Which gives the clue to the answer to my question.

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@JTT,

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If you had some balls you would be involved in these issues with Finn or Gob, but no, every once in every third or fourth blue moon you sneak in a little jibe, then run for cover until some further distant blue moon.

Ha! I just state the truth, which can usually be quite briefly put, and leave the field for others to muddy.

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@Quincy,

No, it's not.

I didn't "pique" at JTT's comment.

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@JTT,

Hey Noam, I've no doubt you are capable of wry humor as you are clearly clever and sharp, but you are also bent in the C.S. Lewis sense of the word, and I've experienced enough of your caustic bile to not give you such an undeserved benefit of the doubt.

Deny it if you will, and you will, but you and I both know that you want me to engage with you in this forum.

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@Finn dAbuzz,

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Deny it if you will, and you will, but you and I both know that you want me to engage with you in this forum.

In order for you to be once right, I deny it, Finn. Why in the world would I want you to engage on a discussion of language? I've never seen you write anything but drivel when it comes to language. The odd time you've made sense on other things.

If you feel that you have something to contribute to this or any thread, please, by all means, post.

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@JTT,

JTT wrote:

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I don't mean to intrude, and I'm not trying to be nasty or anything, but the word you are looking for is "piqued".

No, Finn wasn't looking for 'piqued', Quinc. This was what Finn wrote.

"I know this will thrill you to no end that I have peaked at one of your replies,"

His post is right at the top of the same page as your post.

My bad, I mis-read it Razz

As you were gentlemen!

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@Scott Jackson,

Because most of the people in the world speak English and we need to communicate with them

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@Scott Jackson,

Because it was invented by the people, for the people, and as such, English is the strangest language one ever did see. If only language was like mathematics.

(And no, a guinea pig is not a pig from guinea.)

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