Vocabulary question.

[gavroche]

In school, kids keep saying: " I swear down". Where does the "down" comes from?

 

[gavroche]

The Canadiens are more purists of the French language than the French. They will invent new French words so they don't use English/American ones.

 

[Oldbloke]

No, but I did hear that the French do not have a word for 'entrepreneur'.

It is entrepreneur/entrepreneuse,voila!

 

[Oldbloke]

Is it true that Académie française invented "le bouledozeur" to keep the French language pure?

No idea; they missed the weekly screening on canal of premier league football under the title "Match of Ze Day"

 

[Fab Foodie]

Cyclist who pretend to speak French.

Porquoi?

 

[MichaelW2]

He didn't weep. He rolled his eyes with dismay at the slack use of the Judean language since the Roman's had arrived.

Romanes eunt domus

 

[MichaelW2]

Do you think those responsible for verbing nouns should be jailed?

Shot will suffice

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qmVnr7rsWrE

 

[MichaelW2]

My pet hate is people asking a waiter, "Can I get a................"
I feel like shouting, "No, he will get it for you!"

I feel like shouting "No, he will get it for yourself!"

 

[LeetleGreyCells]

In school, kids keep saying: " I swear down". Where does the "down" comes from?

My son said this once. So ever since in our house, I have been 'swearing left/right/up/diagonally/top-left, bottom-right, etc.' depending on how the mood takes me.

 

[Dirk]

It is entrepreneur/entrepreneuse,voila!

Whoosh!

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Shot will suffice

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qmVnr7rsWrE

He should have shot himself much earlier for wrongly describing HHH as an acronym.
An acronym is pronounced as if it were a word, for example: radar, tardis, NATO etc.

 

[Oldbloke]

I'm all for brevity, but the use of the word 'enjoy' as a sentence bugs me.

Waiting staff are the worst offenders.

Usually prefixed with "there you go"

 

[PK99]

why is abbreviation such a long word

I much prefer abreving a word.

 

[Domus]

Romanes eunt domus

Hey, leave me out of it.

 

[SteveF]

Language evolves over time we should be more accommodating and less pedantic, life is 2 to two too short to worry overly about such things..