The Great Christmas Debate

@Olivier5,

I believe you, because quite a few from the USA and Canada go commando nowadays.

Did you enjoy your recent thanksgiving? Or are you more a maple syrup kinda guy?

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@Lordyaswas,

What do you care anyway? Already in love?

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@Olivier5,

Let's just say I like mysteries.

I've already worked out that you post up until about 4am, even 5am GMT, and then disapear til about noonish GMT.

Strange and very unusual hours for someone in Europe, but fits perfectly well for someone keepimg to relatively normal bedtimes in Canada or the USA (roughly an 11pm stop, then start again at 7am. based on 5 to 6 hours behind GMT.)

I'll now go back and check one or two other usual signs to confirm that you are probably Canadian, as I suspect you are.

Could be wrong though.

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@Lordyaswas,

Lordyaswas wrote:

Let's just say I like mysteries.

I've already worked out that you post up until about 4am, even 5am GMT, and then disapear til about noonish GMT.

Strange and very unusual hours for someone in Europe, but fits perfectly well for someone keepimg to relatively normal bedtimes in Canada or the USA (roughly an 11pm stop, then start again at 7am. based on 5 to 6 hours behind GMT.)

I'll now go back and check one or two other usual signs to confirm that you are probably Canadian, as I suspect you are.

Could be wrong though.

That's an interesting point, I'd be guessing French Canadian

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@glitterbag,

Keep the guessing game going, folks. While you're busy at it, you're not ganging up against another darn foreigner...

French I am, and always will be.

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@Lordyaswas,

Lordyaswas wrote:

I've already worked out that you post up until about 4am, even 5am GMT, and then disapear til about noonish GMT.

He could be unemployed, a lot of French are.

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@izzythepush,

Drat, and double Drat!

You could be right.

Nah....it's my theory that he is the product of a union between a strapping lumberjack and a peasant syrup tapper.

I shall call him Renard MacTavish for now....

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@Lordyaswas,

How about Blacque Jacque Shellacque?

http://static1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110208211440/looneytunes/images/6/68/Blacque.jpg

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As the history books rightly say- "The Spanish went to the Americas to look for gold, the French went to set up trading posts, but the English went to stay", that's why today the Americans speak a passable English.. Smile

Mayflower

"We name this land The New World and are here to run the show, nobody better mess with us!"

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/arrival2.jpg

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@Olivier5,

Olivier5 wrote:

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If only you had done that 30 posts ago your pant leg wouldn't be so yellow at the moment.

LOL... Don't you try and get into my pants, you English pervert

In actual fact I estimated it at 40% 30 posts ago. But you kept fuming.

You moved the goal posts 30 posts ago before you moved them several more times before you finally admitted your 50% figure was wrong and it is only 40% of 10,000 words. That's quite a bit different from where you just ended up.

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@parados,

30 posts ago or so I said: it's probably around 40%, and you squealed like a pig that no, it wasn't and that I was a fool.

Now YOU look like a fool... :-)

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@Olivier5,

Olivier5 wrote:

English is easy to learn. Half the words are French...

Half the French are likely tired of having to pretend to be bon vivants every day.

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@Olivier5,

Olivier5 wrote:

Keep the guessing game going, folks. While you're busy at it, you're not ganging up against another darn foreigner...

French I am, and always will be.

Then why are you having social intercourse with English speaking folk?

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Parados wrote:

it is only 40% of 10,000 words.

It is, really?

Many sources I checked say otherwise:

Wiki wrote:

According to different sources, nearly 30% of all English words have a French origin.This fact suggests that 80,000 words should appear in this list.

List of English words of French origin

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@Foofie,

We're just tired of your endless clichés about us. Anti-froggism has become the only acceptable form of racism among Anglo-Saxons. You wouldn't dare to say on a public forum that black people need to wash more, that Indian Americans are lazy or that the Jews think too highly of themselves, now would you? But the French can be abused at no cost, they'll take it in the chin right? Your attitude is racist, and no better than JTT's attitude towards America.

Same ****, different assholes...

And that's valid for Set and Izzy and Lordtwat and the rest of the assholes gang, with the difference that they are more 'constipated' than you are. Too PC probably.

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@Olivier5,

Olivier5 wrote:

30 posts ago or so I said: it's probably around 40%, and you squealed like a pig that no, it wasn't and that I was a fool.

Now YOU look like a fool... :-)

No, you still look like a fool because you revised it from 4o% of all the words in the English language to 40% of 10,000 words in the English language.

I'm surprised you didn't revise it to French is the source of 100% of the French words adopted by the English language and then claim that is what you said all along.

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A lot of it's down to how you classify a word. Take vaccination for example, it comes from the French word for cow, vache. That was because Edward Jenner used cowpox to vaccinate against small pox.

That doesn't make the word French. Prior to Edward Jenner the French didn't have a word for vaccination, they had a word for cow. Vaccination is an English word using a French root, it doesn't come from French.

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@timur,

timur wrote:

Parados wrote:
it is only 40% of 10,000 words.

It is, really?

Many sources I checked say otherwise:

Wiki wrote:
According to different sources, nearly 30% of all English words have a French origin.This fact suggests that 80,000 words should appear in this list.

List of English words of French origin

It was 40% of the 10,000 most commonly used words that was defaulted to in order to defend the almost half statement that was claimed originally.

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@izzythepush,

Vaccination comes from Latin vacca. Try again.

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@parados,

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you revised it from 4o% of all the words in the English language to 40% of 10,000 words in the English language.

"40% of the commonly used words" was what I predicted, and "41% of the 10,000 most used words" was the data I found. The proportion is remarkable stable as one move to less frequently used words, so I am confident that "40% of commonly used words" is accurate but I don't have the data, and neither do you because of course you never cared enough to LOOK for data. All you want is a pissing contest.

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