Not to mention the french classic Raymond Queneau, which novels are filled with playful phonetical versions of words or phrases.

Instant autodafe at the hands of the forum imbeciles.

I don't understand why there's so much attention for an obvious drunk post. Let the guy be.

@fairfox, seek help and get better, man.

Look inward and you will understand far more than you likely wish to know. o.O

And here I am upvoting you. What has this world come to?

Thanks, I was almost certain that your writing style shifted some years ago, and it’s nice to get the confirmation that I did not suffer from faulty memory ;)

I think your new style, half-norm half-spazzy, is even more crazy… I already like it!

*hugs*

Not really, both Chaucer and Shakespeare were writing in the typical way of the era. Especially Shakespeare who was writing plays for an audience that went the gamut from working class to royalty. He wrote in a way that was easy for individuals of the day to understand. The reason why we think of it as being hard to understand is that he was referencing a lot of things which are no longer common knowledge and using words and spellings that are no longer accepted speech.

For example, I don't think I know anybody who would know how to respond if I bit my thumb at them unless they've read materials from Shakespeare's day. And I can't recall why it is that biting your thumb at somebody is an insult.

It is a combination of flipping the bird and calling someone a coward or disgrace.

Thanks. Most of these gestures are fairly just symbols for genitalia, there's a few though that have some history or subtle cultural component.

After thinking about it a little more I think it might be related to an old Roman law. To avoid conscription into the army some men would cut off their thumb, because if you didn't have a thumb you couldn't have a strong grip on a sword. This loophole was closed fairly quickly by simply executing people who did it. So that might be the origin of that particular insult as a euphemism for cowardice.

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Wouldn't be the first time, that would make it similar to that other oddball one that's not based on genitalia, the V symbol that's so offensive in some areas.

Let's not forget that, unlike the republic, the Roman empire was *not* worth dying for.

Say's who? Klingon is an accepted language and talk like a pirate day is an accepted style amongst cliche circles, and I think GOG community has made it clear on FairFox's speech.

Even Wookie is now an accepted language, again amongst cliche circles of course:

http://www.wookietranslator.com/

Sigh, Klingon is not an accepted language in most situations. Neither are wookie and pirate speech. They're accepted in niche communities that mostly are all doing the same thing. Furthermore, in most of those cases, the individuals came to the community because of this.

This isn't accepted so much as tolerated and I wouldn't expect to see much in the way of people posting otherwise as the mods here have made it rather clear that this is tolerated. It shouldn't be tolerated as it arguably breaks at least 2 of the forum rules, but whatevs.

Giving us the ability to mark certain users with ignore would probably make most people happy as those that don't care can burden themselves to decipher the posts and determine if it's worth responding to and those of us that don't, can block it and not see the pointless forum spam.
TBH, I'm not even sure that the community has made it clear. I know I've posted that I don't like it and I've seen somebody else get slapped by a mod for calling her out on it.

This is an international forum, we shouldn't have purposefully bad English being posted as it's hard enough to read some of the posts here where the poster is a non-native speaker and just isn't able to do any better. That I respect.