I think it is about time we came up with an English version of this phrase. Just to spare the ironing.

party_pants said:

I think it is about time we came up with an English version of this phrase. Just to spare the ironing.

yeah but English is the de facto lingua franca des nos jours.

dv said:

party_pants said:

I think it is about time we came up with an English version of this phrase. Just to spare the ironing.

yeah but English is the de facto lingua franca des nos jours.

LOL. Yes.

Historical: “a mixture of Italian with French, Greek, Arabic, and Spanish, formerly used in the eastern Mediterranean.”

One that I have trouble with is “vice versa”, given the meanings of “vice”.

And what’s with the two dots over the i in naïve?

party_pants said:

I think it is about time we came up with an English version of this phrase. Just to spare the ironing.

What are you on about?

Just use common language please, so we can all understand it.

The Rev Dodgson said:

party_pants said:

I think it is about time we came up with an English version of this phrase. Just to spare the ironing.

What are you on about?

Just use common language please, so we can all understand it.

Similar to South Africa’s Fanakalo.

Tamb said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

party_pants said:

I think it is about time we came up with an English version of this phrase. Just to spare the ironing.

What are you on about?

Just use common language please, so we can all understand it.

Similar to South Africa’s Fanakalo.

Never ‘eard of it.

If everyone just used cockney it would make life much easier.

The Rev Dodgson said:

Tamb said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

What are you on about?

Just use common language please, so we can all understand it.

Similar to South Africa’s Fanakalo.

Never ‘eard of it.

If everyone just used cockney it would make life much easier.

It;s a common language among the many languages of southern Africa.

The Rev Dodgson said:

Tamb said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

What are you on about?

Just use common language please, so we can all understand it.

Similar to South Africa’s Fanakalo.

Never ‘eard of it.

If everyone just used cockney it would make life much easier.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGMTCfjnP6Y

Tamb said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Tamb said:

Similar to South Africa’s Fanakalo.

Never ‘eard of it.

If everyone just used cockney it would make life much easier.

It;s a common language among the many languages of southern Africa.

Sounds useful.

Any connection to Pidgin, or completely different?

captain_spalding said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Tamb said:

Similar to South Africa’s Fanakalo.

Never ‘eard of it.

If everyone just used cockney it would make life much easier.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGMTCfjnP6Y

Like that one.

The Rev Dodgson said:

Tamb said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Never ‘eard of it.

If everyone just used cockney it would make life much easier.

It;s a common language among the many languages of southern Africa.

Sounds useful.

Any connection to Pidgin, or completely different?

Same idea but different continent.

I don’t have a problem with “lingua franca”. It’s not as if you hear it ten times a day like “unprecedented”. It’s being flogged to death.

We need a word or words to describe an situation which is a unprecedented multiplied.

I know, unprecedented is an absolute but…

If 2020’s Word of the Year is not ‘unprecedented’, there’s something wrong. First it was used for bushfires, now coronavirus, and who knows what else the year is gonna throw at us.

Divine Angel said:

If 2020’s Word of the Year is not ‘unprecedented’, there’s something wrong. First it was used for bushfires, now coronavirus, and who knows what else the year is gonna throw at us.

it’ll be unprecedented whatever it is.

Divine Angel said:

If 2020’s Word of the Year is not ‘unprecedented’, there’s something wrong. First it was used for bushfires, now coronavirus, and who knows what else the year is gonna throw at us.

This should have been word of the year in 2016

dv said:

Divine Angel said:

If 2020’s Word of the Year is not ‘unprecedented’, there’s something wrong. First it was used for bushfires, now coronavirus, and who knows what else the year is gonna throw at us.

This should have been word of the year in 2016

I thought that Donald Trump was an unpresidented act. or was that wishful thinking?

roughbarked said:

dv said:

Divine Angel said:

If 2020’s Word of the Year is not ‘unprecedented’, there’s something wrong. First it was used for bushfires, now coronavirus, and who knows what else the year is gonna throw at us.

This should have been word of the year in 2016

I thought that Donald Trump was an unpresidented act. or was that wishful thinking?

Fingers crossed

Ian said:

I don’t have a problem with “lingua franca”. It’s not as if you hear it ten times a day like “unprecedented”. It’s being flogged to death.

We need a word or words to describe an situation which is a unprecedented multiplied.

I know, unprecedented is an absolute but…

Such a word would be an unprecedented decimation of the language.

Divine Angel said:

If 2020’s Word of the Year is not ‘unprecedented’, there’s something wrong. First it was used for bushfires, now coronavirus, and who knows what else the year is gonna throw at us.

Yeah, and drought with flooding rain, temperatures, reef bleaching………

Unprecedented use of unprecedented

dv said:

Divine Angel said:

If 2020’s Word of the Year is not ‘unprecedented’, there’s something wrong. First it was used for bushfires, now coronavirus, and who knows what else the year is gonna throw at us.

This should have been word of the year in 2016

:)

How we wish we were unpresidented.

Ian said:

Divine Angel said:

If 2020’s Word of the Year is not ‘unprecedented’, there’s something wrong. First it was used for bushfires, now coronavirus, and who knows what else the year is gonna throw at us.

Yeah, and drought with flooding rain, temperatures, reef bleaching………

Unprecedented use of unprecedented

According to my favourite musicians from the 60’s (who by some miracle are still alive) “each moment is different, from any before it”, so it is literally true that literally everything is unprecedented.

If you accept the starting premise that is.

The Rev Dodgson said:

Ian said:

Divine Angel said:

If 2020’s Word of the Year is not ‘unprecedented’, there’s something wrong. First it was used for bushfires, now coronavirus, and who knows what else the year is gonna throw at us.

Yeah, and drought with flooding rain, temperatures, reef bleaching………

Unprecedented use of unprecedented

According to my favourite musicians from the 60’s (who by some miracle are still alive) “each moment is different, from any before it”, so it is literally true that literally everything is unprecedented.

If you accept the starting premise that is.

Didn’t know ISB were such deep thinkers.

Ian said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Ian said:

Yeah, and drought with flooding rain, temperatures, reef bleaching………

Unprecedented use of unprecedented

According to my favourite musicians from the 60’s (who by some miracle are still alive) “each moment is different, from any before it”, so it is literally true that literally everything is unprecedented.

If you accept the starting premise that is.

Didn’t know ISB were such deep thinkers.

You didn’t?

They are my favourite 20th century philosophers.

Here’s another..

The local ABC electric wireless mentioned a new respiratory clinic in connection with The Thing.

But they pronounced it respRATory. Where’s their spirat?