Strategy Trade and List management Thread Part 5 (opposition supporters - READ posting rules before posting)

[Next Waiting]

Is this not the most rage inducing thing in the modern world? I just wanna kill something every time it appears.

 

[dogwatch]

You're fighting a forever losing battle xD

The proper use of the English language started dying years ago. Particularly in thanks to British and American kids, with their shitty slang words, and laziness in avoiding the use of big words, and full sentences. Probably also explains why the education system in both countries, is free falling in standards. In 50 years we will all be speaking in code at this rate.

People have been saying this for hundreds of years though. As King Harold can tell you those blasted Normans ruined the mother tongue back in the 11th century and it's been going on ever since (as well as for hundreds of years before).

One of the reasons English is so successful - apart from the fact that is was exported to North America - is its ability to absorb and adapt. A lot of the style, vocab and grammar that we learned at school is changing. Rapidly. And it's nothing to do with the education system. That's hard to stomach at times but the simple fact is that if it comes into common usage then it becomes our language. Resistance is mostly futile.

It's been both a boon and a bane. English has become Globish (as one author describes it) so we can travel and do business almost anywhere in the industrialised world as well as to lots of places in the third world and expect that people can conveniently understand and communicate with us. However at the same time we are the poorer for not having to learn their languages. Also many regional languages and dialects are dying out altogether. The tragedy of this is that language is the carrier of traditions, customs and ethnic identity. Lose the language and we lose that lore forever.

 

[dogwatch]

Is this not the most rage inducing thing in the modern world? I just wanna kill something every time it appears.

Well you're killing time. Isn't that enough?

 

[Next Waiting]

People have been saying this for hundreds of years though. As King Harold can tell you those blasted Normans ruined the mother tongue back in the 11th century and it's been going on ever since (as well as for hundreds of years before).

One of the reasons English is so successful - apart from the fact that is was exported to North America - is its ability to absorb and adapt. A lot of the style, vocab and grammar that we learned at school is changing. Rapidly. And it's nothing to do with the education system. That's hard to stomach at times but the simple fact is that if it comes into common usage then it becomes our language. Resistance is mostly futile.

It's been both a boon and a bane. English has become Globish (as one author describes it) so we can travel and do business almost anywhere in the industrialised world as well as to lots of places in the third world and expect that people can conveniently understand and communicate with us. However at the same time we are the poorer for not having to learn their languages. Also many regional languages and dialects are dying out altogether. The tragedy of this is that language is the carrier of traditions, customs and ethnic identity. Lose the language and we lose that lore forever.

But D dubblya, it's simply replacing a conjunction with an infinitive, as it should be. Is that too much to ask? You apologists are half the problem.....

 

[_Cerberus_]

Is this not the most rage inducing thing in the modern world? I just wanna kill something every time it appears.

Anything connected to Telstra internet these days.

Start streaming a movie? No worries, lets make it buffer every 10 minutes
Playing an online game? No worries, lets disconnect you randomly or make watch the loading screen take 100 years to get through.

I always rage inside when I see anything that remotely represents that circle.

 

[stefoid]

In 50 years time, pedants will be complaining about the kids not using LOL correctly

 

[Next Waiting]

People have been saying this for hundreds of years though. As King Harold can tell you those blasted Normans ruined the mother tongue back in the 11th century and it's been going on ever since (as well as for hundreds of years before).

One of the reasons English is so successful - apart from the fact that is was exported to North America - is its ability to absorb and adapt. A lot of the style, vocab and grammar that we learned at school is changing. Rapidly. And it's nothing to do with the education system. That's hard to stomach at times but the simple fact is that if it comes into common usage then it becomes our language. Resistance is mostly futile.

It's been both a boon and a bane. English has become Globish (as one author describes it) so we can travel and do business almost anywhere in the industrialised world as well as to lots of places in the third world and expect that people can conveniently understand and communicate with us. However at the same time we are the poorer for not having to learn their languages. Also many regional languages and dialects are dying out altogether. The tragedy of this is that language is the carrier of traditions, customs and ethnic identity. Lose the language and we lose that lore forever.

Can you imagine right, if Bevo said to Smith, it's alright Smithy if you don't stick those tackles. The game's evolving and in a hundred years no-one will remember and no-one will be sticking tackles. You're a trail blazer Smithy. You keep on not sticking those tackles...it'll catch on.

 

[Next Waiting]

Anything connected to Telstra internet these days.

Start streaming a movie? No worries, lets make it buffer every 10 minutes
Playing an online game? No worries, lets disconnect you randomly or make watch the loading screen take 100 years to get through.

I always rage inside when I see anything that remotely represents that circle.

It's a trigger for everything that's wrong in my life.

 

[Next Waiting]

Well you're killing time. Isn't that enough?

It's never enough.

 

[dogwatch]

But D dubblya, it's simply replacing a conjunction with an infinitive, as it should be. Is that too much to ask? You apologists are half the problem.....

Up with the English Liberation Front!

 

[Next Waiting]

Up with the English Liberation Front!

Yeah, go ELF!

 

[Next Waiting]

In 50 years time, pedants will be complaining about the kids not using LOL correctly

How dare thee.

 

[chez_ferret]

Up with the English Liberation Front!

I first read this as 'English, Liberatore, Bont'

 

[VitalDread]

I don't wish to be a grammar nazi, however, I would like to highlight a common error whilst also not identifying the perpetrator of this crime against the language.

"Would love to try and to snag 3 first rounds this year"

I find "try and" visually and grammatically disturbing so please refrain.

@ me next time hahaa

 

[St 07]

If we managed too get 3 first round draft picks, give Samuel Power an payrise

 

[Next Waiting]

@ me next time hahaa

Ah, but it's more fun this way.

And, not that I'm making any assumptions or anything, but the best way for readers to avoid this trap is to try to think (see what I did there) of "try" as "attempt". If "attempt and" doesn't feel/sound right, go with "to" and avoid the nazis ......

And, of course, I thank you for the opportunity to complain about something/anything.

 

[dogwatch]

I first read this as 'English, Liberatore, Bont'

Them too!!

 

[Next Waiting]

If we managed too get 3 first round draft picks, give Samuel Power an payrise

 

[glenashley]

Can't figure out what the issue is with West?

Father son aside, he was a gun junior and first round rated pick.

Normally if a junior fails to kick on, they're a tall who just beasted junior teams.

If not a jet, I would have expected him to be a serviceable player at a minimum

Maybe just bad timing with our strong mid setup?

 

[dergert]

 

[JTCWBFC]

Which one do we want?

 

[hatescaptcha]

Which one do we want?

Wouldn’t mind adding Robert Hansen Jr to the list - small forward with lightening pace.


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[Northernsoul74]

No Teal?

 

[TiAn_]

Like the little bit I’ve seen of Rye Penny.

 

[weltschmerz]

Teal can play lockdown on various sizes of forward, and has had a decent run in the midfield this year. He's definitely the one I'd have my eye on.