• ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.ukOPEnglish
      11·
      2 months ago

      Invented English? Nah, mate, nothing homegrown there. We imported it - a strong base if Anglo-Saxon and a dollop of Norman French making it a bit more posh, with shoots of Brythonic, Latin and Old Norse poking through the cracks. All that before we went nicking words from all over the world that took our fancy.

      By this pont we barely know how it all works - we’re like monkeys driving a monster truck frankensteined together from an ice cream van, a golf cart, a tank and a Postman Pat toy; just mashing the controls hoping to make it go in vaguely the right direction.

      • UrbonMaximus@feddit.ukEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        By your definition, every language is like that then. The only “pure” languages are spoken in countries with small populations. And even then they still get external influences, and I doubt it would be spoken as it was 1000/2000/3000 years ago…

    • GreatAlbatross@feddit.ukEnglish
      9·
      2 months ago

      There is a good chance this is just a fake letter.
      This guy was making them for fun a while back, and they surface from time to time.
      I’m pretty sure the dashcam submission system is called Operation Snap, not Capture, too.

  • breakingcups@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    2 months ago

    Wonder what would happen if 20 simultaneous complaints were submitted about the chief constables and councilmembers, say, roughly every week?

  • Mr_Blott@feddit.ukEnglish
    22·
    2 months ago

    I live near a Tour de France route and single file is the way to do it, because we leave at least 1.5m by law when overtaking cyclists

    You can tell the fucking insufferable English CUNTS because they cycle two-abreast “bEcAUSe iT’s SAfeR”

    Mate, people will sit behind you until it’s safe to overtake and leave you that 1.5m, cycling side by side makes overtaking impossible on mountain roads and makes you an UTTER CUNT

  • mindbleach@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    15·
    2 months ago

    ‘If you were not the twat shouting at other people for using the road, please bring this telling-off to their attention.’