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[-] [email protected] 33 points 10 months ago

bare in mind? Didn't they like, invent English?

[-] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago

We invented football too but it doesn't seem to have helped

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

You're the ones that decided to call it soccer to confuse Americans.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Invented English? Nah, mate, nothing homegrown there. We imported it - a strong base if Anglo-Saxon and a dollop of Norman French making it a bit more posh, with shoots of Brythonic, Latin and Old Norse poking through the cracks. All that before we went nicking words from all over the world that took our fancy.

By this pont we barely know how it all works - we're like monkeys driving a monster truck frankensteined together from an ice cream van, a golf cart, a tank and a Postman Pat toy; just mashing the controls hoping to make it go in vaguely the right direction.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Anglo-Saxon isn't a language beyond meaning Old English or Degenerated German, but otherwise sure.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

There is a good chance this is just a fake letter.
This guy was making them for fun a while back, and they surface from time to time.
I'm pretty sure the dashcam submission system is called Operation Snap, not Capture, too.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Operation Captured is Nottinghamshire police's system.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Many believe so, but the Nottingham Police merely perfected English.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Unfortunately, the original Englic has been lost, and replaced with the less precise English

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