English (or lack thereof).

[Idle Swede]

Originally Posted by shandy

This is an interesting thread. I am from the Uk but now live in Canada. One of the many reasons I left was that the language is being dumbed down at an alarming rate.

Wow, I wish i could say I moved from Sweden because the language was "dumbed down".

In my case it was the 2 climates.

Financial & Weather.

[daveathall]

Originally Posted by shandy

Accents are being replaced by either a lazy south east/Cockney accent or some mishmash of a Derbyshire/Madchester accent that Middle class university students seem to have adopted.

Not in Yorkshire it hasn't.

[Alcan]

One of my pet peeves is "Walla!". Do you think the person typing it might be referring to the French word voilà, used to call attention to or express satisfaction with a thing shown or accomplished, without actually realizing it is a word in a different language?

[Watchwearer]

Bravo! The schools are turning out a bunch of semi-literate technocrats; and the Internet, which should be a priceless font of knowledge, isn’t helping.

[Maleg]

You extracted a 15 year old thread from the archives for this comment?

[brandrea]

Originally Posted by Maleg

You extracted a 15 year old thread from the archives for this comment?

They’re was know internet back than?

[INC]

Originally Posted by Maleg

You extracted a 15 year old thread from the archives for this comment?

For a postcount? For sure.