Vivian on 8/10/2007 at 16:25
We call digestive biscuits digestive biscuits, you merchant banker. It's a brand. We also call cookies cookies, when we feel like filling our faces with inferior american swill.
ZylonBane on 8/10/2007 at 16:33
He was referring to rhyming slang, not cookies. Do try to keep up.
AxTng1 on 8/10/2007 at 16:44
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Don't even get me started on rhyming slang. That gibberish is incoherent by design.
True. But that's not a bad thing.
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It might have simply been used to maintain a sense of community; or to be used in the marketplace for vendors to talk amongst themselves without customers knowing what they were saying; or it may have been used by criminals (see thieves' cant) to confuse the police.
So like l33t sp33k really. It is now so well known that it no longer serves this purpose, and is only used to confuse Americans.
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Aren't you supposed to save those rants for when I'm actually, y'know... wrong?
We can't wait that long! :D
Vivian on 8/10/2007 at 16:50
And I was talking about cookies, you wannabe sophisticate. Since you blundered into it, rhyming slang IS incoherent by design, yes. Look it up.
Oop, AxTng1 already did. Anyway point still stands, anus-eyes.
SubJeff on 8/10/2007 at 17:48
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Aren't you supposed to save those rants for when I'm actually, y'know... wrong?
Dude, you're criticising rhyming as "gibberish" because if it's incoherent design.
That's the whole point.
AxTng1 on 8/10/2007 at 19:45
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Anyway point still stands, anus-eyes.
oo that harsh
ZylonBane on 9/10/2007 at 16:42
Quote Posted by Vivian
Since you blundered into it, rhyming slang IS incoherent by design, yes. Look it up.
Why should I look up something that I obviously already knew? :erg:
Vivian on 9/10/2007 at 16:55
Don't play the i-already-knew-that-on-the-internet game with me, uffo.
Carini on 9/10/2007 at 17:54
Last night while I was choking on a piece of pork chop and my life was flashing before my eyes I thought of one of these... Bought the farm.
ZylonBane on 9/10/2007 at 18:09
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Don't play the i-already-knew-that-on-the-internet game with me, uffo.
Okay fine, you got me. I said something that was 100% correct, but purely by accident. Happens a lot really. In fact, I don't even speak English. I'm just sitting here randomly punching keys. If my random output happens to form coherent sentences it's purely by luck, and I'm certainly not aware of it.
