<p>Bulldog, you marry hookem and I’ll marry Mal. Joint wedding much?</p>
<p>This thread makes me thirsty for ginger ale. And I don’t think I even like ginger ale.</p>
<p>LOL ^ Agreed
Yale marriage!
It would be in-front of the main library
No, in-front of Beinecke Library
We are very rare!!</p>
<p>^ ahaha, same here. Mal, you seem really…err…I just hope that you don’t get rejected.</p>
<p>Lol it’s ok. I’m totally getting rejected.</p>
<p>Why so
you are supposed to keep the spirit up</p>
<p>Because if I say I’m be accepted… I’ll be rejected. If I say I’m rejected I’ll be accepted and can pass that off as sarcasm. If I AM rejected, I was honest and modest- as well as a poet when I didn’t even know it.</p>
<p>Either way, I’m sending Admissions a case of Ginger Yale with my appeal or thank you letter :P</p>
<p>I started to file the trademark for Ginger Yale too haha.</p>
<p>Ginger Yale is my baby… I’m going to pass it out if I run for Yale College Council too.</p>
<p>I am thinking of Yale College Council too
omg CC</p>
<p>We need all of CC to get in and support us haha</p>
<p>Just know if you run against me… I will be forced to annihilate you. You have no idea what my joke slander posters can do ;p</p>
<p>Well I for one would never run against you, you have mine and Bulldog’s support. I’ll never get on the real cheerleading team but I’ll happily cheer for you. <em>thinks of things that rhyme with Mal</em></p>
<p>Haha thanks! There are plenty of positions though and lots of RC’s :D</p>
<p>What’s an RC?</p>
<p>^ He’s most likely referring to “Residential Colleges”, the uber dorms at Yale.</p>
<p>…on a side note… vocabulary for describing higher education is problematic.</p>
<p>College/University/School/House all have different meanings within and between the US and UK</p>
<p>It’s true. “School” never means college/university over here.</p>
<p>^ Also when you guys say pants you mean underwear. And trousers for what we call pants.</p>
<p>Or so A Bit of Fry and Laurie would make it seem.</p>
<p>Yep that’s another one. And what you call sidewalk we call pavement. And our biscuits are different to yours. And then there’s the whole chips/crisps/fries thing. And grill/broil/fry. It’s a confusing business.</p>
<p>^ I’ve heard pavement for sidewalks in the NE…it usually does mean the surface of the road though…</p>
<p>It’ll be interesting to see whether our AmE/BrE grow closer together, rather than becoming more divergent with the introduction of mass media.</p>
<p>Already in America the accents of regions are slowly being replaced replaced with the Midwestern via TV (because Midwestern sounds so darned general).</p>
<p>I suspect it’s the same in England, where people are losing regional quirks (although certain people in London…“Me bruv took me to a right propa mackDees, and some lady wuz like wuts appenin, and ah said…”…It sounds like junk) in favor of sterilised BBC English.</p>
<p>Hmm that’s interesting. Though I’m from Gloucester where most people have a West Country accent (like ooh arr farrrmers… look up ‘The Wurzels’ and their Combine Harvester song) and I moved to Manchester, the regional accents are still very noticeable. Maybe over the next 100 years or so they’ll all phase into one though.</p>
<p>^ Yeh.</p>
<p>And the Welsh still speak Welsh/sound a little bit off as a result.</p>
<p>English interests me the most out of all IE languages, because 1.It’s mine, lol 2. It’s the current world language (hey, China, thanks for adopting it in 1990 - ahahah) 3. It’s one of the only languages that never weirdly split into dialects. </p>
<p>Like, English is essentially the result of French invasions/local Germanic (probably similar to Nordic languages). England/Finland/Iceland/Deutscheland/Netherlands…(Land is there for that reason)…once had Old Norse as a common tongue, and only a few of their populations (Norwegians/the Swedish) have retained intelligibility. A German speaker hearing Icelandic today would be like “Uh, w tee eff?” if they only examined it in passing.</p>
<p>Even Persian can’t say the same, Farsi/Dari have developed significant enough grammatical differences (as have Urdu/Hindi, but that’s because Urdu has been changed on purpose) that they have to be called registers of Persian (Hindustani)</p>
<p>But not English, it changes in comparison to itself (Beowulf is much more like Dutch than modern English). English just rises to the top and pwns everyone.</p>
<p>Lord, who knows what will happen to Wales… the Welsh are in their own little world over there. Craziness.</p>
<p>You’re right, English is really cool. But I think for interest’s sake I’d like if every country had their own language and actually stuck to it more. It seems I can go just about anywhere and can always find someone who speaks English, except in the very small villages in places like Italy and Spain where they’re very traditional and refuse to speak English to English people. But the younger generations in those places are fascinated by foreigners and are learning English these days as well… so maybe the languages will die out eventually.</p>
<p>Rule Britannia, eh?</p>