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Thread #95717 Message #1866260
Posted By: Paul Burke
23-Oct-06 - 04:33 AM
Thread Name: BS: Is Scouse a language or just noise?
Subject: RE: BS: Is Scouse a language or just noise?
If u rote inglish the way its spoken, yood rite it mostly rong.
English hasn't got a (unique) alphabet, it shares the Roman alphabet with various others, so perhaps English isn't a language.
As for a "set grammar", grammar changes- does that mean that every now and again English stops being a language, and becomes a dialect? Punk 2 Asians likewise.
I've nothing against Liverpool; I once parked there for a couple of hours without losing any wheels at all. But they never got over Americans telling them that their accent was cute back in the 60s.