Pelicanator, attacking something that someone says by implying a logical connection to an unrelated idea is ethically reprehensible at best. Please go away and never come back here.
RCMinor, the spelling “labour” is neither prissy, nor elitist, nor quaint, nor irrelevant — it’s the correct spelling in the country where our language originated. The fact that it differs here is a sign of poor education on this side of the Pond over the last four centuries. That said, your second point is dead on.
NebulousRikulau, “bureaucrat” does come from French — just like half of the other words in our language. That no one cued you in to the fact that it is now a part of English, and has a different connotation from the phrase “office worker,” is a failing on the part of one or more of your primary school teachers (as that’s about a fourth-grade vocabulary word). If you’re going to criticize someone’s grasp of the English language, I recommend that you become fluent first.
8ball, people who use “nadsuckers” to describe anyone sane really need to have their computers taken away so they can’t do themselves any more harm.
momzilla, “REAL” Americans don’t hate other people just because they happen to be different (unlike the “Tea Party” members), and do learn something about American history before they try to associate themselves with a historical event whose predicating ideology bears almost no resemblance to their own (again, unlike the “Tea Party” members).
Pelicanator, attacking something that someone says by implying a logical connection to an unrelated idea is ethically reprehensible at best. Please go away and never come back here.
RCMinor, the spelling “labour” is neither prissy, nor elitist, nor quaint, nor irrelevant — it’s the correct spelling in the country where our language originated. The fact that it differs here is a sign of poor education on this side of the Pond over the last four centuries. That said, your second point is dead on.
NebulousRikulau, “bureaucrat” does come from French — just like half of the other words in our language. That no one cued you in to the fact that it is now a part of English, and has a different connotation from the phrase “office worker,” is a failing on the part of one or more of your primary school teachers (as that’s about a fourth-grade vocabulary word). If you’re going to criticize someone’s grasp of the English language, I recommend that you become fluent first.
8ball, people who use “nadsuckers” to describe anyone sane really need to have their computers taken away so they can’t do themselves any more harm.
momzilla, “REAL” Americans don’t hate other people just because they happen to be different (unlike the “Tea Party” members), and do learn something about American history before they try to associate themselves with a historical event whose predicating ideology bears almost no resemblance to their own (again, unlike the “Tea Party” members).