Originally Posted by Stewing:
“When I did school back in the dark ages..compulsory subjects were french Latin and Classical greek for which I am eternally grateful.I also speak Arabic,Swahili,Xghosa,Zulu,Greek,Italian and now want to learn Russian...learning languages is really excellent.It is part of the old Empire pomposity that us Brits just expect the entire world to speak English.....and in UK today the standard of English even on TV is dire.....apart from Stephen Fry,Jermey Paxman and Will Self...and a few others..... and they say "Me and Joe"..I was taught "Joe and I "..never put yourself first ....”
goodness me, Mr Pompous, pompity, pompity,pomp.
The big argument for me, who hates all these americanism, textings-speak is, if everyone's using it, and its in the dictionary, that's our langage now, that's how its developed ..... so put up, I hate it!