Any chance of a topic about language and linguistics?

[MardyBra]

Hello lovely MNHQ
We often have lively debates about language change and usage and many of would dearly love a topic where we can mull over these things without posters who not interested in such topics accusing us of being irrelevant or snobbish. Any chance of looking into it?

See this thread for details

Oooh yes PLEASE.

Pacific I love Sesquiotic, it's great! Have you seen mashed radish as well? It's another good one, I think you'll like it.

Missed this thread before. Would be in mucho support of this.

Thanks for the reminder - we'll see where we're up to with this.

Oh thanks, alex, I'll have a look later tonight.

Hello

Right then, yes, we're happy to do this. Are you all OK with Cunning Linguists, or do you want something less rude? If that's not a silly question.

Perfectly rude as it is, thanks rowan ??

Rude is good for me!

Hurrah. Rude is fine.

Rude?? It's not rude, it's a perfectly acceptable use of language. If some people choose to put a rude interpretation on it, then it can't be helped...

Rowan, you of a dirty, dirty mind, you
I have no idea what you mean...?

Thank you so much for the topic

Hope it's not too late to add my support to this idea, it's wonderful and I hope will be furnished with overflowing bookshelves and dusty old velvet chesterfields and faded William Morris curtains.

Happy to keep the cake tin and cheap sherry topped up...

Hello lovely MNHQ. Any progress yet?

This thread is the sort of thing we'd love to have more of: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/1979541-If-I-was-to-time-travel-how-far-back-could-I-go-and-still-have-a-conversation-with-someone-in-my-high-street?msgid=44655438.

It would be a shame is we lost it as it is in Chat.

Hello! Tech is doing this as we type. We'll let you know when it's up and ready.

Wonderful!

Oh how exciting!

Wha-hey!

Thank you, MNHQ and Tech!

Cunning Linguists is incredibly rude and as such eminently suitable. I'd love to open a translation agency with that name .

Thanks Rowan and Tech. [fleurs] [flores] [Blumen] [fiori] [floroj]

Ach, now you're just showing off, Mardy, tsk

How do you know I didn't use Google Translate? [clignotte] [er...struggling]

What?! A show-off AND a cheat?!

And now you've scared Rowan!

Et voila!

With thanks to ShamTech

I started the first ever thread

A very, very amazing one - NOT