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    German for Starters

    what about a jelly donut?
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    english idioms

    Here's one I picked up: "Tough titty said the kitty, but the milk's still good" it basically means 'deal with it'
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    World Language Extinction by 2060?

    I agree entirely. Despite the fact that modern education standards will try to keep the english language the same, people will invariably try to put their own perspectives on it. Many individuals in this thread seem to be blindly championing the sapir-whorf hypothesis in its strongest form...
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    British vs. American English

    There are actually a pretty large number of different accents and dialects in america. You have what I call the foghorn accent: "pahk the cah by the hahbah so we can go see the red sawx at fenway pahk" (park the car by the harbor so we can go see the red socks at fenway park) The new yorker...
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