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History Forum / General / British History / March 2007Roger -- A Remarkable English Word -- With A Rich History
_Roger_, as a proper name. _Roger_ as a noun. _To Roger_, as a verb. English is a Remarkable, Flexible & Most Interesting Language. Another Thing We Owe To The Brits... Bless 'Em. DSH Lux et Veritas et Libertas > _Roger_, as a proper name. > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Another Thing We Owe To The Brits... f.ck that - it was the Roman and "German" roots that made the language have such a large vocabulary. It shouldn't even be called "English" anymore -- it should be called American, with modifiers like British American, Australian American, Canadian American and Irish American. > Bless 'Em. > > DSH > > Lux et Veritas et Libertas . > > _Roger_, as a proper name. > [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > > . You can tell when Hines has made a gross mistake, multiple posts in the same thread and starting threads previously posted by others on other ngs. >> _Roger_, as a proper name. >> [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > f.ck that - it was the Roman and "German" roots that made the language > have such a large vocabulary. And French, Tamil, and any other language that the British came across that had a word the could use. Someone once wrote that English (the language) didn't borrow words from other languages, but rather lie in wait and pounced on them like a sneak thief. > It shouldn't even be called "English" anymore -- it should be called > American, with modifiers like British American, Australian American, > Canadian American and Irish American. I'd give that an 8 on the troll meter, quite good I've tried to set folloups to smn, if not oh well :()  SignatureRich Enfield NS Canada Usnet ads see ftp://ftp.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/advertising/how-to/part1 >>> _Roger_, as a proper name. >>> [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > I'd give that an 8 on the troll meter, quite good Thank you. > I've tried to set folloups to smn, if not oh well :() >>_Roger_, as a proper name. >> [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > It shouldn't even be called "English" anymore -- it should be called > American, That would be because you chaps speak and write it so well I suppose ? Je pense que non ! > with modifiers like British American, Australian American, > Canadian American and Irish American. and Alabama American and Maine/Massachusetts American and Bronx American...maybe we could just call it Ya'all American...hummm ...Ken >>>_Roger_, as a proper name. >>> [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > and Alabama American and Maine/Massachusetts American and Bronx >American...maybe we could just call it Ya'all American...hummm The largest English-speaking population is in India. Peter Skelton >>>>_Roger_, as a proper name. >>>> [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > > The largest English-speaking population is in India. Probably why they get all those outsourced call centre jobs! One of my minor nits is getting a call from some credit card company from a guy with a rather pronounced New Delhi accent identifying himself as "Doug" or "Richard". - nilita, wasn't born yesterday ...%) >_Roger_, as a proper name. > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > >Another Thing We Owe To The Brits... Who has been rogering you? Eugene L Griessel Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature. Jacob Bronowski In soc.history.medieval Eugene Griessel <eugene@dynagen..co..za> wrote: >>_Roger_, as a proper name. >> [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] >> >>Another Thing We Owe To The Brits... >Who has been rogering you? Certainly no human... Signature--- Paul J. Gans > In soc.history.medieval Eugene Griessel <eugene@dynagen..co..za> wrote: > [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > -- > --- Paul J. Gans I got the impression from reading the definitions that "rogering" was politically correct, being merely a slang term for an ordinary and morally acceptable function of the male. The term derives from the even older slang term for penis. Makes you wonder where Jolly Roger came from as a description of a human skull and crossed femurs. There was silent uncomfortableness now; 'twas not a good turn for talk to take, sith if ye queene must find offense in a little harmless debauching, when pricks were stiff and c.nts not loathe to take ye stiffness out of them, who of this company was sinless; behold, was not ye wife of Master Shaxpur four months gone with child when she stood uppe before ye altar? Was not her Grace of Bilgewaterroger'd by four lords before she had a husband? Was not ye little Lady Helen born on her mother's wedding-day? And, beholde, were not ye Lady Alice and ye Lady Margery there, mouthing religion, whores from ye cradle? >> In soc.history.medieval Eugene Griessel <eugene@dynagen..co..za> wrote: >> [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] > not ye Lady Alice and ye Lady Margery there, mouthing religion, whores > from ye cradle? Jack? Have you been reading Lady Chatterley's Lover under the bedcovers ... hmmm? ... ;) - nilita > >> In soc.history.medieval Eugene Griessel <eugene@dynagen..co..za> wrote: > [quoted text clipped - 36 lines] > > - nilita That's the last part of "1601" supposedly written by Samuel Clemens, a former Mississippi river pilot and California/Nevada newspaper editor. http://jeffdemarco.com/1601/ and http://jeffdemarco.com/1601/1601.html > _Roger_, as a proper name. > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Lux et Veritas et Libertas TRIM THE HEADERS! Here are the rules for cross-posting: ******************************************************* BEGIN QUOTE 1. As a general rule, only send your post to one newsgroup. Pick that one carefully according to the criterion of relevance, content, readership and the discrete subject matter of your specific post. It is virtually always a mistake to post to eight or ten newsgroups, as some spammers are wont to do. 2. However, if your post genuinely crosses over lines of separation between categories --- and after you have carefully considered your logic --- post with confidence. Generally, this should be a relatively infrequent occurrence. Posting to more than three newsgroups simultaneously would almost always be a bad show and charges of spamming will be thrown at you. 3. Followups can be set to one group, if desired. If the content of a subsequent post in the thread does not justify multiple posting --- cut the followups accordingly to include only the relevant groups. 4. If you cut groups off the distribution of the followups --- tell your audience clearly in your first paragraph what you are doing. People are not mind-readers and will not know what you are up to unless you tell them. 5. Following these quite simple guidelines will ensure you that you reach the audience you desire and do not cast your net too widely. END QUOTE ******************************************************* You won't believe it, but those sensible rules were posted nine years ago by DSH himself (http://tinyurl.com/2o4yra), evidently before the brain injury occurred. >>_Roger_, as a proper name. >> [quoted text clipped - 50 lines] > ago by DSH himself (http://tinyurl.com/2o4yra), evidently before the > brain injury occurred. Irony upon irony....So DSH the most significant breaker of these rules once advocated them loudly but now instead inspires others to expound them, who by the way break them by posting them to numberous groups, thus becoming as bad as Hines. > >>_Roger_, as a proper name. > [quoted text clipped - 55 lines] > them, who by the way break them by posting them to numberous groups, > thus becoming as bad as Hines. Yes, you are, in case you didn't notice that piece of irony. |
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