Hey guys is there anyway you can stop hijacking this thread and instead use it for what is is meant for? eg "Problems and technical issues with Rosetta@home".

By writing pages and pages of replies not related to supporting Rosetta, you actually make it far more difficult for those trying to get help, or those trying to help others.

Clearly everyone that speaks English has a view on this language, and how it is used; however this support thread is obviously not the place to have that discussion.

jabadabadu

You could have named it the `incomprehensible gibberish thread`
I could feel quite @home here .

I heard those recordings when I was in graduate school 35 years ago. I'll try to find them. If I find them, I'll post a link or maybe a PM.

My point is that you seem to refuse to recognize that languages evolve and that what they evolve into is not necessarily better or worse than what they evolved from.

People speak what they hear around them

Rude expressions of decades ago were the slang of yesterday and the acceptable speech of today.

You personally may not think American English is proper, but that is an ethnocentric bias. As you read this, you would have no idea whether the writer was British, American, Canadian, Australian or South African, except there might be a few minor differences in spelling. So am I communicating in proper English? You would not know unless I voiced this communication.

You could have named it the `incomprehensible gibberish thread`
I could feel quite @home here .

I make the rules and anyone not posting gibberish will be banned with immediate effect. Call me a rude word and I'll spank you senseless. And I mean physically.

I heard those recordings when I was in graduate school 35 years ago. I'll try to find them. If I find them, I'll post a link or maybe a PM.

My point is that you seem to refuse to recognize that languages evolve and that what they evolve into is not necessarily better or worse than what they evolved from.

America is world famous for screwing up everything, especially the English language.

People speak what they hear around them

Rude expressions of decades ago were the slang of yesterday and the acceptable speech of today.

You personally may not think American English is proper, but that is an ethnocentric bias. As you read this, you would have no idea whether the writer was British, American, Canadian, Australian or South African, except there might be a few minor differences in spelling. So am I communicating in proper English? You would not know unless I voiced this communication.

You could have named it the `incomprehensible gibberish thread`
I could feel quite @home here .

I make the rules and anyone not posting gibberish will be banned with immediate effect. Call me a rude word and I'll spank you senseless. And I mean physically.

Come and get me you sheep...

America is world famous for screwing up everything, especially the English language.

and yet so many speak it....

By the way, talking about screw ups...aunty Liz sure made a mess of things. Bet your investment took a nice hit that day.

America is world famous for screwing up everything, especially the English language.

and yet so many speak it....

So many speak Punjabi too, doesn't mean those sort are intelligent.

By the way, talking about screw ups...aunty Liz sure made a mess of things. Bet your investment took a nice hit that day.

By dying? Oh, is royalty supposed to be everlasting?
The Royalty takes your money as well from the taxes.

We're run by a prime minister, the royalty [1] is to collect cash from American tourists. (That's terrorists in your pronunciation). Your being run by Male copy cat Trump in the past and now Female Trump.

What investment? I've never invested in anything.

Your government pension

[1] Where do you think the world royalty comes from? As in "a payment made to writers, people who have invented things, owners of property, etc. every time their books, devices, land, etc. are bought or used by others"

You could have named it the `incomprehensible gibberish thread`
I could feel quite @home here .

I make the rules and anyone not posting gibberish will be banned with immediate effect. Call me a rude word and I'll spank you senseless. And I mean physically.

Come and get me you sheep...

Sheep don't have opposable thumbs and cannot spank.

The Royalty takes your money as well from the taxes.

Your being run by Male copy cat Trump in the past and now Female Trump.

Your government pension

[1] Where do you think the world royalty comes from? As in "a payment made to writers, people who have invented things, owners of property, etc. every time their books, devices, land, etc. are bought or used by others"

HAHA good one.

Sheep don't have opposable thumbs and cannot spank.

Well ok. Baboon, Ape, Monkey......

Sheep !
Plenty of sheep here in Cumbria .
Highly intelligent in animal cunning if they want to break through a fence or demolish a wall to see if the grass realy is greener on the other side .

Sheep !
Plenty of sheep here in Cumbria .
Highly intelligent in animal cunning if they want to break through a fence or demolish a wall to see if the grass realy is greener on the other side .

Yeah right, even cats can do that.

What do you call a sheep tied to a post in Wales?

What do you call a sheep tied to a post in Wales?

Depends if its a , Lamp post , Fence post , Singh post , or a Love letter :-)

What do you call a sheep tied to a post in Wales?

Depends if its a , Lamp post , Fence post , Singh post , or a Love letter :-)

FFS, I got the joke wrong.

What do you call FOUR sheep tied to a post in Wales?

What do you call a sheep tied to a post in Wales?

Depends if its a , Lamp post , Fence post , Singh post , or a Love letter :-)

FFS, I got the joke wrong.

What do you call FOUR sheep tied to a post in Wales?

A leisure centre

That's lost on my American mind....