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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: JAGED on November 17, 2008, 03:43:19 PM
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http://news.aol.com/article/apathetic-meh-enters-dictionary/250110 (http://news.aol.com/article/apathetic-meh-enters-dictionary/250110)
Apathetic 'Meh' Enters Dictionary
The dictionary's compilers said the word originated in North America, spread through the Internet and was now entering British spoken English.
Thanks to the internet, we are slowly becoming less separated by a common language!
I have to think this irks proponents of "the Queen's English..." :D
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lets get more lamewords into the dictionary!!!
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Bloody hell. That is bollocks.
I have to think this irks proponents of "the Queen's English..." :D
Bugger off, banana.
:aok
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what about merh?
meh is something in its own right.
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I invented "lawlz". I hope it makes it one day.
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hey complain all you want about a word or two, but at least they didn't try to pass a law in your country to allow/force colleges to teach Ebonics classes!!!!!!
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Word!
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hey complain all you want about a word or two, but at least they didn't try to pass a law in your country to allow/force colleges to teach Ebonics classes!!!!!!
Try is the operative word here... :D
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hey complain all you want about a word or two, but at least they didn't try to pass a law in your country to allow/force colleges to teach Ebonics classes!!!!!!
Oh you think thats bad, if you always wondered why tomatos were considered a vegtible in america, well heres your answer
Supreme Court astutely captured in an 1893 import duties case:
Botanically speaking, tomatoes are the fruit of a vine, just as are cucumbers, squashes, beans, and peas. But in the common language of the people, whether sellers or consumers of provisions, all these are vegetables which are grown in kitchen gardens, and which, whether eaten cooked or raw, are, like potatoes, carrots, parsnips, turnips, beets, cauliflower, cabbage, celery, and lettuce, usually served at dinner in, with, or after the soup, fish, or meats which constitute the principal part of the repast, and not, like fruits generally, as dessert.
The attempt to class tomatoes as fruit is not unlike a recent attempt to class beans as seeds, of which Mr. Justice Bradley, speaking for this court, said: "We do not see why they should be classified as seeds, any more than walnuts should be so classified. Both are seeds, in the language of botany or natural history, but not in commerce nor in common parlance. On the other hand in speaking generally of provisions, beans may well be included under the term 'vegetables.' As an article of food on our tables, whether baked or boiled, or forming the basis of soup, they are used as a vegetable, as well when ripe as when green. This is the principal use to which they are put. Beyond the common knowledge which we have on this subject, very little evidence is necessary, or can be produced."