nanoboy
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In Australia, we speak 'big English'.
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In Australia, we speak 'big English'.
big is not synonymous with loud....
nanoboy
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big is not synonymous with loud....
Americans speak 'loud English'.
so we have 'little English' in Sweden, Russia and Germany; 'big English' in Australia; 'loud English' in America; and of course 'Spanglish', 'Singlish' and 'Engrish'.
Does that about cover it?
What do they have in England? 'Real English'?
And what about Wales?
Does that about cover it?
What do they have in England? 'Real English'?
And what about Wales?
I'm sorry to say that we have the Queen's English. Apparently owning the whole country is not enough for this rapacious woman, she even has to own all the words too
What is making me even more angry today are all the news reports about the restarting of the Large Hadron Collider - all the presenters have mentioned the Higgs bosun
as if it was a senior sailor rather than a fundamental particle! The word is boson, pronounced bo-zon!Alan
I thought the last time they started up the Large Hadron Collidor it created a black hole in the centre of the earth or something along those lines, and the universe was destroyed and this is an alternative one in which it never happened? Why are they doing it again!? Have they learned nothing from the thing that never happened in this universe before??
It's because they're in Switzerland. They speak three languages there, none of which is English (little, big, loud or otherwise). It was only the English-speaking numphies that reported universal inversion via a big black sucky nothingness.
Hix
It's because they're in Switzerland. They speak three languages there, none of which is English (little, big, loud or otherwise). It was only the English-speaking numphies that reported universal inversion via a big black sucky nothingness.
Hix
In some regions they do speak English, it's getting more popular.
It's because they're in Switzerland. They speak three languages there, none of which is English (little, big, loud or otherwise). It was only the English-speaking numphies that reported universal inversion via a big black sucky nothingness.
Hix
Switzerland has four official languages. Just sayin', like...
I'm pretty sure they don't speak Welsh there!
I would not know, I am from Stoke, people say it occupies its own universe.
The Large Hadron collider puzzles me. Is it a colldier for large hadrons? Or is it a large collider for normal sized hadrons?
the development of the Large Hadron Collider is an interesting story. As Hix noted, they don't speak English in Switzerland and the lead scientists had to build the thing from English instructions with the help of English-Swiss dictionaries. Unfortunately they confused colliders with colanders, and in the initial tests all the hadrons fell out the holes in the bottom. Red faces all round!
Word: Swish!
Definition: the sound of something passing over someone's head.
Definition: the sound of something passing over someone's head.
That whole conversation is hilarious!
Chlidonias,
Chlidonias,
The Large Hadron collider puzzles me. Is it a colldier for large hadrons? Or is it a large collider for normal sized hadrons?
There is a very interesting blog post on the Scientific American website from a practising scientist whose progress was nearly stymied when he did a school science project on the 'bigon' a newly discovered particle which was effectively a very large hadron. However he had not realised that the article he used was a hoax, until his teacher pointed out that its publication date was April 1st. It is not surprising that he now takes a dim view of such tomfoolery.
There are five things that any fule should kno about the LHC:
- the collider is very large
- the hadrons are exceedingly small
- the whole thing is enormously expensive
- but it's good value for money because the interweb was created to handle all its data
- its main discovery so far is the Higgs boson (pronouced bo-zon)
No Macaw, in Switzerland we don't really speak English, we learn it in school no more and no less.
"Speaking" for me is when people talk full-time a language (for example when they go in a store and buy something). But yes, the younger people can speak English.
"Speaking" for me is when people talk full-time a language (for example when they go in a store and buy something). But yes, the younger people can speak English.
karoocheetah
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Allegedly the younger people in England also can speak English but the evidence is unreliable and sporadic - another tenuous link to the not so small hades collander?