What do flat and flat share mean?

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    Aiya! Not only Claire is out-pedanting me now!


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    Quote Originally Posted by DanielandHayley:
    The English language has been bastardised into it's many variations, but it in it's proper form it is simply English. Full stop. (not 'period')
    Right on!

    And # is Hash not Pound sign!

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    Quote Originally Posted by PDLM:
    Aiya! Not only Claire is out-pedanting me now!
    Your work here is done...

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    Quote Originally Posted by DanielandHayley:
    The language spoken in Spain is Spanish
    Is it now? Catala speakers will crucify you for that statement. Valenciano speakers might shoot you. And the Basques will think you support their independence....

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    Quote Originally Posted by jimbo:
    And # is Hash not Pound sign!
    And not "Hex" either (on which our customer service people have to be specially trained before dealing with Singaporeans)

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    Haha-ha-hee...

    Sometimes... just gotta LOVE this forum

    Others' splatterings of language "variations" and lil' woopsy-typo-errors (pron. - > "errors", not "eras" ) that at once delight AND grate at the same time. [Yikes! Vice versa! Meant when word is "eras", should not be pronounced as "errors" (ol' gripe of mine) - SILLY typing before thinking!] C O N F U S E D

    Hail all ye Pedants, great and small!

    Quote Originally Posted by Skyhook:
    HERE, HERE !

    Anybody who thinks otherwise, is just being recalcitrant, if not a little ethnically confused...
    Last edited by emmie; 19-12-2008 at 03:27 PM. Reason: ;-/ ;-) Will creep away quietly now

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    Quote Originally Posted by er2:
    Is it now? Catala speakers will crucify you for that statement. Valenciano speakers might shoot you. And the Basques will think you support their independence....
    my point is that it is not 'Spanish Spanish'

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    Quote Originally Posted by DanielandHayley:
    ... just as the language spoken in Britain is English, not British English, or English English.
    What about the 'Estuary English' used by huge swathes of the population of southern England? I cringe every time I hear it. As a Brit, I often find US English less offensive and easier on the ear than some of the dialects used in the UK. Dare I say I even find some of their spellings more logical.

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    As we're having a Friday afternoon pedant contest...

    I thought it was hatch, as in cross-hatched, which is to shade a map, picture, etc. with close parallel lines ####.


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    Quote Originally Posted by shilo507:
    Dare I say I even find some of their spellings more logical.
    Dare you not! Away foul peasant.

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