beeble
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Joined: 5/25/2005 From: UK Status: offline
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LookieNoNookie wrote: It's like "whilst"....I fucking HATE that!!!!!!! "Whilst"....did we all just land in some Eurocentric time warp wherein which we've chosen to denigrate our own language protocols? WTFF is WHILST? beeble wrote: While I agree that `whilst' and its friend `amongst' are among the most pointless words in the English language, they've been around essentially forever. The O.E.D. has citations for `whilst' going back to 1375 and `amongst' is only 25 years younger. There really aren't many words in English that have been used for that long. LookieNoNookie: If I recall....in 1375, leeches were common medicine for headaches. (Just 'cause someone did a thing 800 years ago....don't make it viable). :) Well, make your mind up. You started off by complaining about people `denigrating our langauge protocols'. Well, the use of `whilst' *is* one of our own language protocols and has been for 740-odd years. It's not something we `just' started doing. And, please, what's with the random insertion of `Eurocentric'? I don't see anything specifically European about the `denigration of language protocols', either in general or in this specific (alleged) case, so I can only assume that it's intended as a derogatory remark. It's not acceptable to use `Asian' or `black' or `Jewish' in that way so why do you feel it's OK to use `European'? By the way, spelling is also one of our language protocols. It's `denegrate'. Also, `wherein' or `in which' but not `wherein which'. beeble.
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