Living the Martial Arts Journey

[lklawson]

Well ....I speak English and I'm not very aware.

I have it on good authority that, as a U.S. citizen, you speak American, not English.

Oh and regarding the quote, I thought it might have been some Victorian rubbish. I didn't recognize that it went all the way back to Plato until I clicked on Mograph's link. Then I read a little further and found out that my first instincts were right after all. It was written satirically in 1907 so technically an Edwardian spoof of pompous Victorian attitudes.

I think I had a high school teacher back in the 70's who used that quote, and I'd totally forgotten it. Now I'm a teacher, so I guess you could say the same things about teachers these days. Except the part about loving luxury. No way. Not on what they pay me, anyway.

Uphill. Both ways...

Peace favor your sword,
Kirk

 

[Flying Crane]

Against the wind. Barefoot. Carrying my brother on my back. Best day of my life was when I found barbed wire to wrap my bare feet in for extra traction on the ice.

Peace favor your sword,
Kirk

And your brother did the same.

 

[Xue Sheng]

Why are parts of this making me think of this

 

[Steve]

I have it on good authority that, as a U.S. citizen, you speak American, not English.

I can't tell if you're joking, or you really believe this. I hope you're joking.

 

[Xue Sheng]

I have it on good authority that, as a U.S. citizen, you speak American, not English.

We just don't have that outrageous accent

 

[Steve]

Why are parts of this making me think of this

There's a scene from Deadpool that is NSFW that it reminds me of. The scene where he meats Vanessa. I love that movie. Monty Python, too.

 

[lklawson]

I can't tell if you're joking, or you really believe this. I hope you're joking.

Two nations separated by a common language.

 

[Steve]

Two nations separated by a common language.

A joke then. Whew.

 

[lklawson]

A joke then. Whew.

Brtis don't know how to to speak proper American. They say weird words instead of the correct terms like "flashlight" or "elevator." Someday, maybe, they'll learn to speak proper American.

Peace favor your sword,
Kirk

 

[Xue Sheng]

Brtis don't know how to to speak proper American. They say weird words instead of the correct terms like "flashlight" or "elevator." Someday, maybe, they'll learn to speak proper American.

Peace favor your sword,
Kirk

To paraphrase Steve Martin in his monolog about the French….

Those British don’t have the courtesy…to speak American

 

[mograph]

We just don't have that outrageous accent

Again with the Python.

 

[Xue Sheng]

Again with the Python.

 

[Buka]

We just don't have that outrageous accent

Just wanted you to know that I read that with full, Monty Python, French accent.
And it was glorious.

 

[geezer]

I have it on good authority that, as a U.S. citizen, you speak American, not English.

Peace favor your sword,
Kirk

Correct again, sir!

In fact, I used to say this all the time but got too much pushback, so now I compromise by describing my dialect as Standard American English. It would be easier to just say "the American Language" just like what it says on my desk dictionary.

 

[Yanli]

And of course, none of that was ever true about us, while we walked 10 miles to school, uphill, through 4 feet of snow. Both ways.

Hey, I had to walk 15 miles down a icy hill, both ways lol.

 

[Xue Sheng]

Hey, I had to walk 15 miles down a icy hill, both ways lol.

Wish I had it so good...I had to walk to and from school, uphill to school both ways, on shear ice, during a blizzard while fighting off wolverines with only a used napkin....

 

[lklawson]

Wish I had it so good...I had to walk to and from school, uphill to school both ways, on shear ice, during a blizzard while fighting off wolverines with only a used napkin....

Lucky.

We were fighting werewolves. ...packs of them.

Peace favor your sword,
Kirk

 

[Xue Sheng]

Lucky.

We were fighting werewolves. ...packs of them.

Peace favor your sword,
Kirk

Well I also had to wrestle grizzly bears WHILE fighting off wolverines with a used napkin...ad all I had for shoes was broken flip flops ... but tell that to kids today...and they won't believe you

 

[Dirty Dog]

Lucky.

We were fighting werewolves. ...packs of them.

And then the Tarrasque showed up.

 

[Xue Sheng]

And then the Tarrasque showed up.

In my case it was an Indominus Rex, a T-rex, 4 Velociraptors and a chipmunk wielding a switchblade