[Pastor Isaac Peters]

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I am happy to report that I have never been either white or
protestant.

Your medal is on its way to you via UPS Ground.

Also, if there is an only true language, it must be the
Syriac of the Peshitta Bible since scriptures in that language were
the ones I was told were true.

We don't care what Father Badtouch or any other false preacher told you was true.

[JUAN GARCIA, repulsive dago queer]

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I am happy to report that I have never been either white or
protestant. Also, if there is an only true language, it must be the
Syriac of the Peshitta Bible since scriptures in that language were
the ones I was told were true.

[ExGay Alex]

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America is referenced in a statement found in Ezekiel 38:13.

"Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all its villages, will say to you, 'Have you come to capture spoil? Have you assembled your company to seize plunder, to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to capture great spoil?'" (Ezekiel 38:13)

The "merchants of Tarshish, with all its villages," refers to the colonies of Western Europe and the nations that have subsequently arisen from them. This includes North America and the United States. Thus, the response to the invasion of Magog into Israel from Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish and its villages will be one of nonintervention. They will simply say, "Have you come to capture spoil?"

"Sheba and Dedan are not difficult to identify. They are located in the modern country of Saudi Arabia." Sheba and Dedan are said to be in alignment with "the merchants of Tarshish, with all its villages."

Note that merchants of Tarshish refer to the Phoenician maritime and trading community located in Spain during the general time of King Solomon, 3,000 years ago. Second, the merchants of Tarshish, during the last 500 years, developed into the modern mercantile nations of Western Europe like Spain, Holland, and Britain. Third, the phrase "with all its villages" or the variant rendering "with all its young lions," would be a reference to its trans-Atlantic colonies, which would include America. Thus, because America is the most dominant of these Western nations, this must be a reference to America.

Several scholars, such as Steuart McBirnie and David Allen Lewis agree. In the light of such conclusive scholarship, coming to light most significantly at this time when the nations indicated by Ezekiel to be involved in a great Middle Eastern war, we can now say with definite assurance that the merchants of Tarshish and "the young lions (colonies) thereof" must include the Western nations of Europe and the Americans, particularly the United States.

And I agree that listening to Canadians speak English is painful. All that "Let's go owwt, heh?" is so tiresome. To be sure, if I never hear another Brit say something is "brilliant" it will be too soon. As for such nonsense as saying "tea" when they mean a supper at which no tea will be served or "pudding" to mean a desert that is not pudding, well, this just proves that they are backwards and have spent too much time close to the French.

[Maestus]

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Right... I'm getting confused now, are you guys actually being serious about all of this? Or is this just a forum for trolling and joking around, because some of the stuff I see that you people believe on here, is hilarious.

"People used to have Dinosaurs as pets" - Unlikely as humans hadn't evolved at that point.

"T Rex is in fact a giant kangaroo, and was a herbivore" Ok, ill give you the bone structure is semi similar, but if you look at the teeth of a kangaroo, or any herbivore, they are flat, which is used to grind down vegetation.

If you look at the teeth of a T Rex or any other carnivore they are pointed for tearing and cutting through flesh.


But of cause you will give me a 1 line answer saying, "Jesus told me" and give me an "Infraction" because I am proving you wrong and it hurts your tiny brains.

[Dr. Isaiah Jones]

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Bamah refers to a place people from Ancient Israel would go and worship...

If god or jesus really meant Alabama, it would be written Alabama.

Also, Alabama doesn't have a H in it.

If you have a need for expressing your unsaved opinions about Alabama, click HERE!

[Maestus]

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Bamah refers to a place people from Ancient Israel would go and worship...

If god or jesus really meant Alabama, it would be written Alabama.

Also, Alabama doesn't have a H in it.

[Brother Alex]

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Also, please find the word, "America" in The Bible.

If you need more information about America in the Bible, click HERE!

One other thing, you talk about other countries like they are to be looked down on, yet, "Jesus" was from the middle east, and was a Jew.

Jesus is NOT a damn joo!

[Maestus]

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There is no such thing as British, and there is no such thing as American.

There are different branches of each language, for example Texan is different to lets say, Queens NYC, and in England, people from the Liverpool speak differently to people in Leeds.

Regarding the original poster, I have lived in England for 19 years, and have never heard anybody speak like that. You sir are ignorant.


Also, please find the word, "America" in The Bible.


One other thing, you talk about other countries like they are to be looked down on, yet, "Jesus" was from the middle east, and was a Jew.


But its ok, I can say all of this because, "God" made me this way, you can't punish me for he himself will punish me. If you don't like Gods creations I think you need to find a new religion.

[Larry Lee]

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Well, this is a hum dinger of a topic but one which, as a native-speaking American since I was a wee lad in my ma's womb, I cannot add muckle to this discussion, except to say I was only barely aware that English was even spoken anywhere, except for one little island lying somewhere to the west o' Europe.

Still, I can tell you about the pain it causes real Americans to hear Canadians blather. OHHHHHHHHHH! Make them stop! What they do to their vowels causes Jesus to grind His wallies.

[Brother Enoch]

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What you speak is American with a few typos, that's all. God's happy with that too.

True enough, now that I think about it. As Sister BelieverInGod points out, 'Canadian' does have some weird idiosyncracies (calling the letter Zee Zed, and adding a 'u' to words like color, favorite, honor etc. being the most annoying, personally). But I can easily understand American. When I watch the O'Reilly Factor I understand every last word. Whereas when my wife watches that awful Brit show Coronation Street, all I hear is unintelligible, screechy babbling.

There's no way American and British can remotely be considered the same language anymore. Long live Godly American!!

[Rev.shields]

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Real English is more widespread than "american" particularly since Britain had an empire and taught people their English. Although the usa influences other countries with their evil media control, it's only really used in the usa and japan.

[Lost Sheep McUinnean]

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Thanks for the input friends.

Here are some more examples of the superiority of American which is extinguishing English once and for all.

English: flyover, American: overpass
If God had intended cars to fly He would have intelligently designed engineers to intelligently design them with wings to able to do so. Until they manage this, then overpass is the only option with any logic.


English: dustman, American: garbage collector
The American term is transparent and logical. The English word..well, what the heck is that!? Someone covered in dust? A bedouin in a sandstorm?




English: wellingtons, American: rubbers
Rubbers. Of course! Footwear made from RUBBER! How accurate. But the English word!? Wellingtons? Where is the logic in that!? You can't put these on your feet!

English: nappy, American: diaper
A nappy would imply something you sleep in! American takes the Latin 'per' and cleverly takes the first syllable from that liquid human waste often ejected at speeds approaching Mach 2 and prefixes it to the Latin suffix to give a word that does what it says! A thing for Diarrhea!

English: queueueueu, American: line
It's a line dammit. That first word just has too many damn vowels. What is that - Hawaiian?



Just a few examples to serve as proof.

[BelieverInGod]

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What are you talking aboot, eh?

Timbits
Toque
Nanaimo bars
Mukluks
Our love of the letter U
Loonie
Double Double
2-4
Chinook
Chocolate bar
knapsack
"Zed"

You don't know how difficult it has been to Americanize my speaking. Every once in a while someone will look at me like I'm speaking a completely foreign language. I need to use American spell check to make sure I drop my 'u's in written correspondence because colour looks completely normal to me.

Although Canukistan is nowhere near as bad as British. I have a better chance understanding those click-click African languages.

[Ruth Elizabeth]

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A most interesting read Brother McUinnean. In my local library there is a very large book titled Webster's Dictionary of the American Language. A quick search reveals that this book was first published in 1828, proving that American has been formally recognised as a separate and distinct language for over 180 years.

Part of the problem may be that software such as Microsoft Word refers to English (US) rather than American. Perhaps Mr Gates could be persuaded, in the interests of patriotism, to change this.

Australia still uses British spelling, and habits die hard, so I hope I will be excused for writing colour, etc.

[Lost Sheep McUinnean]

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If American wasn't the proper English of modern times do you think those who distribute information around the world,Fox News for example, would use it. I mean it is only BBC and Al Jazeera that use ''The Queens English'' or as it is more commonly known..... homersexual speak.

Its end is nigh Brother.

Here's a typical moaning Brit outraged at his language smiting in the boudoir of American:

Americanisms swamping English, so wake up and smell the coffee | Mail Online

It happened early this month, shortly after the first cuckoo. I heard it, I swear I heard it. The first get-go of spring. It was on the BBC Breakfast programme on May 11: a presenter was wittering, and distinctly said that something-or-other had been clear 'from the get-go'.

From the what?

Actually, I know all about the get-go or, worse still, the git-go. It's an ugly Americanism, meaning 'from the start' or 'from the off'. It adds nothing to Britain's language but it's here now, like the grey squirrel, destined to drive out native species and ravage the linguistic ecosystem.

The British have been borrowing words from America for at least two centuries

We have to be realistic: languages grow. The success of English comes from its adaptability and the British have been borrowing words from America for at least two centuries.

Old buffers like me have always complained about the process, and we have always been defeated.

In 1832, the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge was fulminating about the 'vile and barbarous' new adjective that had just arrived in London. The word was 'talented'. It sounds innocuous enough to our ears, as do 'reliable', 'influential' and 'lengthy', which all inspired loathing when they first crossed the Atlantic.

But the process gathered speed with the arrival of cinema and television in the 20th Century. And in the 21st it seems unstoppable. The U.S.-dominated computer industry, with its 'licenses', 'colors' and 'favorites' is one culprit. That ties in with mobile phones that keep 'dialing' numbers that are always 'busy'.

My dictionary (a mere 12 years old) defines 'geek' as an American circus freak or, in Australia, 'a good long look'. We needed a word to describe someone obsessively interested in computer technology. It seems a shame there was never any chance of coining one ourselves.

Nowadays, people have no idea where American ends and English begins. And that's a disaster for our national self-esteem. We are in danger of subordinating our language to someone else's - and with it large aspects of British life.

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Yet no one seems to care. The stern old type of English teacher has died out and many newspapers cannot now afford 'Prodnoses', the last-line-of-defence sub-editors who used to guard the language with a thick pencil.

Sometimes, the language can be improved by the imports. The British would never be able even to define the deficit had we not adopted the American billion (a thousand million) to replace our old hardly used billion (a million million).

I accept that estate agents find it easier to sell fancy apartments rather than boring old flats. And it's right that our few non-passenger trains should carry freight not goods, because that's a more accurate description of the contents.

But the process is non-selective and almost wholly one-way. And it works very strangely. Almost all the parts of a car have different names in America, yet there is no sign of hood replacing bonnet, or the trunk supplanting the boot.

Meanwhile, the most improbable areas of activity are terminally infected. Take the law. Ask any lawyer and they will explain: witnesses in British courts do not testify, they give evidence; nor do they 'take the stand' to do this, they go into the witness box. They do things the American way in media reports of court cases, though - day after day.

We are witnessing a transatlantic takeover in politics as well. This month, Britain acquired a National Security Council. Last year, it gained a Supreme Court. There is talk that the House of Lords will be renamed the Senate.
It also used to be understood that, while American politicians 'ran' for office, British politicians always 'stood'. I liked that: it implied a pleasing reticence. Now in Britain both words are used interchangeably and in this month's General Election candidates stood and ran at the same time. No wonder they kept falling flat on their faces.

Then take sport, where Britain's national tastes are totally different from those of the Americans. I happen to belong to the .0001 per cent (approx) of the British population who count as baseball fans. This makes it even more offensive to me when politicians parrot phrases such as 'three strikes and you're out' although they haven't got the foggiest idea what it means.

Technical baseball terms are everywhere. We constantly hear about people 'stepping up to the plate'. For some weird reason, cricket coaches are especially fond of this one. And ideas keep coming from the baseball position of 'left field'. Wouldn't silly mid-on be more appropriate?

And so, hi guys, hel-LO, wake up and smell the coffee. We need to distinguish between the normal give-and-take of linguistic development and being overrun - through our own negligence and ignorance - by rampant cultural imperialism.

We are all guilty. In the weeks after 9/11 (or 11/9, as I prefer to call it), British journalists, and I was one of them, solemnly reported that the planes had been hijacked by men waving box-cutters, even though no one in Britain knew what a box-cutter was. Very few of us bothered to explain that these were what we have always called Stanley knives.

But it is time to fight back. The battle is almost uncertainly unwinnable but I am convinced there are millions of intelligent Britons out there who wince as often as I do every time they hear a witless Americanism introduced into British discourse.

Stand up and say you care. Feel free to write with your favourite horrors. Come out of the closet. Or better still, the cupboard

Get used to it little lady!