Ah...makes more sense now... is it complicated how palatinisation affects the dialects or can it be understood without hearing them??

not sure what you mean here

To give an impression of how stupid we are assumed to be, I should quote my physics textbook, in a section on the kinetic theory: "if we cram more gas molecules into the box" "If we squash the gas molecules".......this textbook.....you would only be using it if you were 17 or 18, and really, the word _compress_ is not beyond any of us....

OMG! We got that explained in that way when we were... 12?

Grammarians have been moaning about how bad it is to use split infinitives in English for the past couple of centuries, even though the alternatives are often completely unnatural. Without success, luckily.

I love when Englishmen (it is always the English, isn't it?) complain about the uneducated speech. Well, I guess it all stems from Mr. Higgins in My fair lady

Oh.. those cruises cost so much...

solely due to the quality of the guides


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