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BS: If you have a spare 10min.(History of English)

20 Jul 12 - 05:49 PM (#3379355)
Subject: BS: If you have a spare 10mins....
From: Gurney

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3r9bOkYW9s&feature=player_embedded


20 Jul 12 - 05:50 PM (#3379356)
Subject: RE: BS: If you have a spare 10mins....
From: Jack the Sailor

What is it?


20 Jul 12 - 06:09 PM (#3379367)
Subject: RE: BS: If you have a spare 10mins....
From: Ed T

Ten minutes are up-nothing happned.


20 Jul 12 - 06:10 PM (#3379369)
Subject: RE: BS: If you have a spare 10mins....
From: Jack the Sailor

LOL, Same here!


20 Jul 12 - 06:23 PM (#3379372)
Subject: RE: BS: If you have a spare 10mins....
From: Jack the Sailor

Its a cartoon. A ten minute history of English. It is 11 minutes and 21 seconds long.


20 Jul 12 - 06:37 PM (#3379378)
Subject: RE: BS: If you have a spare 10min..(History of Engish)
From: Gurney

Sorry, Ed and Jack. I'll make the title more aspergers-friendly next time.
It is a short and light-hearted history of the language we use on this site.


20 Jul 12 - 06:57 PM (#3379382)
Subject: RE: BS: If you have a spare 10min..(History of Engish)
From: Ebbie

I enjoyed it.


20 Jul 12 - 08:11 PM (#3379405)
Subject: RE: BS: If you have a spare 10min..(History of Engish)
From: Don Firth

About twenty-five years ago, I read a substantial tome entitled The Story of English, by Robert MacNeil -- the same MacNeil as in the MacNeil-Lehrer Report on PBS.

That bit of video covered the same material in about eleven minutes and twenty-one seconds.

Very good!

Don Firth


21 Jul 12 - 12:37 AM (#3379479)
Subject: RE: BS: If you have a spare 10min..(History of Engish)
From: katlaughing

LMAO! Thanks!


21 Jul 12 - 01:21 AM (#3379482)
Subject: RE: BS: If you have a spare 10min..(History of Engish)
From: Jack the Sailor

Sorry to you Gurney but I don't know you well and I wanted you to tell me that you were not trying to sell me Amway.


21 Jul 12 - 03:13 AM (#3379489)
Subject: RE: BS: If you have a spare 10min..(History of Engish)
From: Les in Chorlton

Exlnt & great fun. Bill Bryson's History of English is a really good read

L in C#


21 Jul 12 - 03:53 AM (#3379498)
Subject: RE: BS: If you have a spare 10min..(History of Engish)
From: Dave Hanson

In't English BRILLANT.

Dave H


21 Jul 12 - 05:20 AM (#3379513)
Subject: RE: BS: If you have a spare 10min..(History of Engish)
From: Will Fly

Great vid.


21 Jul 12 - 04:25 PM (#3379656)
Subject: RE: BS: If you have a spare 10min..(History of Engish)
From: gnu

Entertaining. Thanks.


21 Jul 12 - 04:48 PM (#3379670)
Subject: RE: BS: If you have a spare 10min..(History of Engish)
From: Dave the Gnome

I gave it 10 minutes and missed the last 1 minute and 21 seconds.

Damn you to hell, all you who deal in lies!

:D (tG)


22 Jul 12 - 05:17 AM (#3379797)
Subject: RE: BS: If you have a spare 10min.(History of English)
From: alanabit

Thanks for posting. I really enjoyed that!


22 Jul 12 - 08:41 PM (#3380102)
Subject: RE: BS: If you have a spare 10min.(History of English)
From: GUEST,leeneia

Thanks for the link, Gurney.


22 Jul 12 - 09:17 PM (#3380123)
Subject: RE: BS: If you have a spare 10min.(History of English)
From: Beer

I know this is going to sound strange but I just saw this thread for the first time. I have been on the MUD for the last week on a regular base and i have not seen this thread which was posted yesterday. Is it just me or have you also wondered about this as well?
Man, am I loosing it.
Adrien


23 Jul 12 - 09:56 AM (#3380351)
Subject: RE: BS: If you have a spare 10min.(History of English)
From: GUEST

Excellent. And Clive Anderson was the obvious choice for narrator; he uniquely combines sardonic humour with the ring of authority!