As languages evolve, what is, is not necessarily what will be or what was. Perhaps the answer to this conundrum lies within the aforementioned statement?
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I was chatting to my physio yesterday and he was telling me that in most inner cities in France is a 'new' lingo....
wife = femme is maf -ie backwards.
It's being going on for 10 years now- and there is a new generation of children who can't speak French- only this backwards language. They're having to employ inner city teachers who can speak both languages to teach them French in the schools!!!
What with combining that lino with 'rap' the poor kids are having real problems communicating!!"Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple
Location....Normandy France
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Surely if you were to say 'talk with' this implies that you are both speaking the same thing at the same time, such as when a class recites a piece of prose or a prayer,etc.
I would generally say that I was talking to a person.
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Originally posted by zazen999 View PostNice pic thoughA simple dude trying to grow veg. http://haywayne.blogspot.com/
BLOG UPDATED! http://haywayne.blogspot.com/2012/01...ar-demand.html 30/01/2012
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Originally posted by OllieMartin View PostAn eloquent response. So "speak with" and "talk with" are just stylistic preferences? We need to be sure about this, because if I try this with my dad and he comes back with "Yes, if you're an American", I'm going to wind up looking a complete fool.If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing to excess
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Originally posted by Brengirl View PostIn other words if you wish to talk to somebody you say I wish to talk with you. Get my drift?
You say stuff lak "Ere me now bredren" word.A simple dude trying to grow veg. http://haywayne.blogspot.com/
BLOG UPDATED! http://haywayne.blogspot.com/2012/01...ar-demand.html 30/01/2012
Practise makes us a little better, it doesn't make us perfect.
What would Vedder do?
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Were is Flum. ? Flum will know.
“If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.”
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." Ralph Waldo Emerson
Charles Churchill : A dog will look up on you; a cat will look down on you; however, a pig will see you eye to eye and know it has found an equal
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Having been unfortunate enough to have actually lived in Luton for a whole year of hell I have to point out HW that you are pronouncing Luton incorrectly it's actually "loooo-un":0Hayley B
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