Hey I like Tolkien too but if you start your post or article with "A most ______", "Concerning _______", or "Of _______", you're a huge dork and you deserve an atomic wedgie.
This thread is filled with people acting like totally common uses of the English language are rare snobby British shit.
Seriously saying “On ” or “In which” is weird to you? I grew up in a mostly POC inner city and I heard people say that shit.
ugh dont get me started on tech speak. "Productionize" "operationalize" "leverage" choke on a bag of ducks shithead
This is why I start all my writings with a 19th century "My Dearest Claribelle," and then I write about how "the men" are "sore for victuals that would remind them of home." A banjo is playing a 3/4 time tune in the background.
I just speak like a general all-around weirdo: while some say doughnut to showcase themselves above the donut-speaking plebs, I take it to maximum excess and say "doughnaught" which has zero historical relevance although its easy to convince people of such a false etymology (It's made of dough, and its in the shape of a naught [the number zero] )
Jeez if you feel this strongly about it just stop reading Current Affairs
I will only stop making fun of Nathan J. Robinson when he finally does the Berries and Cream dance
Ugh, as a Tolkien nerd, this is especially prevalent when people talk about his work. Like, you don't live in fucking Rivendell
you’re a huge dork and you deserve an atomic wedgie.
this is true even if I'm silent
Not related to this directly, but hearing my mum speaking English she uses posh phrases (second language) because she watches costume dramas. She constantly uses "one" as a pronoun, such as "one must" or "one could", which kind of works when directly translated Swedish, but it comes off as if you're a nanny tutoring noble brats in English.
A similar sort of thing happened with me when I was a little child because I was an extremely avid reader and would just start using words I read in books without knowing what they meant, apart from what I could gather from context and having no idea how to pronounce them (I called trebuchets 'true-buckets', guinea pigs 'goo-ee-nee pigs', and D'Artignon from the three musketeers "Doctor Artigan"), since my favourite type of books were fantasy books ever since I'd found a copy of the hobbit: I ended up speaking like bilbo baggins' diary entries and saying things like "it's most peculiarly strange! What ever shall we do?" in reference to me losing one of my wellington boots. I was a massive dork
Interesting. Does Swedish have formal pronouns kinda like Spanish does?
Swedish doesn't have that. It is more that indefinite pronouns like "man" or "en" are commonly used in places where it is technically correct to use "one" in English, but in English it sounds like you're from a Jane Austen novel. The only English people who refer to themselves as "one" or use "one" in such a way are either true bluebloods or taking the piss. It is fun to see my extended English working class family do a double take whenever she uses it.
Immediately questions everything I have ever written dispite being a Br*t.
