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« on: November 08, 2008, 04:10:28 AM »

I need to express my feelings here.
While and because not all of us are native English-speakers, we should try to communicate in plain English with correct punctation, spelling and rather avoiding slang. It is tiring to read the posts tHaT HaVe CaPiTAlss ,,,,:@!E$ and MiZtaaks that could be avoided. Please don't spoil the forum just because you are lazy or don't like the Queen.
It's not much fun for us foreigners to sum up our ignorance with somebody's else moods.

Alternatively, we can use our national languages, it could be fun to try to understand each other (except perhaps? Hungarian? Grin, for example "Lengyel, magyar, k?t j? bar?t, egy?tt harcol, s issza bor?t." ) Cool Cool Cool Cool

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« Reply #1 on: November 08, 2008, 04:16:54 AM »

Agree with your comments Bolger.

This is truly a global forum with the language challenges that this brings.

I'll try to be conscious of this although I cant guarantee that I will always remember - Sometimes we can better express ourselves using slang or colloquialisms. Wink
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« Reply #2 on: November 08, 2008, 04:27:26 AM »

I think nobody minds the occasional slang, which could be educative and/or fun, I just feel that we could try to keep our forum at least as elegant as ours 131s - don't we converse with them in slang sometimes ? Wink
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« Reply #3 on: November 08, 2008, 07:44:08 PM »

Ja sie zgadzam. Piszmy w swoim wlasnym jezyku i zobaczymy jak sobie milosnicy krolowej poradza. Troszke wiecej tolerancji moi drodzy!

Pozdrawiam,

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« Reply #4 on: November 08, 2008, 10:47:40 PM »

I absolutely agree with all written above.
by the way, best wishes from Serbia!
све најбоље из Србије!
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« Reply #5 on: November 08, 2008, 11:36:26 PM »

I totally agree with bolger, for us who had only school English its a bit difficult sometimes to understand all who has been written if its not plain English!

Eller kanske vi alla ska skriva p? v?ra egna spr?k om v?ra 131:or...

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« Reply #6 on: November 09, 2008, 01:51:38 AM »

Zgadzam się z wsztystkimi !

One point though, slang is a part of our life  like or 131's  and trying to eliminate it artificially will NEVER work. Everyday English is full of(what at least some time ago were) slang expressions which have become part common English. Avoiding these on the forum is pointless. However using exotic expressions (not found in unabridged Webster) is not communicating but just burping ...       

Language discussion is always to the point.  I have a question: anybody knows what these are:  (delco, carter, cardan, halda, schpere). Not one or two but all ... Or is it that those that do not, may not need these parts at all? 

More problematic are acronyms, LSD,RWD,FWD,AWD,LHD.RHD are fairly easy , but how about: SR,PS,PB,PW ?

Anybody wants to try explaining ?

Bottom line, you do not need to be upper class (stiff upper lip) to like the Queen and be elegant in expressing yourself.  It is a matter of respects I for yourself and others.

 
Miro;

PS "Lengyel, magyar, k?t j? bar?t, egy?tt harcol, s issza bor?t."  = Polak Węgier dwa bratanki i do walki i do szklanki = Pole and Hungarian are two brothers, to fight and to drink. 

PS PS: I do not feel a "foreigner".(' Shocked' );
 It is an international forum and as such nobody is a foreigner ! After all we all are 131 lovers. Foreigner is someone who likes "Golfs 'or  BMW's  Shocked         
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« Reply #7 on: November 09, 2008, 03:22:00 AM »

Pięknie Albercik, pięknie.
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« Reply #8 on: November 09, 2008, 08:50:34 AM »

whoo hooo my brother on law is a foreginer, ha ha ha he cant get his head around the 131 thing?? but hes got a really nice 1986 scirocco & he is only 21
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« Reply #9 on: November 09, 2008, 10:46:21 AM »

Fair dinkum, c'mon me ole china plates, try and keep the lingo at a level that my cobbers on here can get their noggin around!
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« Reply #10 on: November 09, 2008, 01:53:52 PM »

I diny nah wot yoo lot are takin aboooot!
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« Reply #11 on: November 09, 2008, 05:00:54 PM »

wl, if u thnk about it 4 a min, u'll c what i mean
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« Reply #12 on: November 10, 2008, 04:14:13 PM »

A nie m?wiłem, trzeba było iść "na Wsch?d, tam na pewno jest cywilizacja ..."
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« Reply #13 on: November 10, 2008, 04:19:41 PM »

Sid,

Your brother is no foreigner, he is an alien ... (LOL)
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« Reply #14 on: November 10, 2008, 07:23:29 PM »

thats deadly ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha i hope to never own a volkswagen, read this Paul !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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