The Great Big Chav Megathread... ALL discussion of Chavs here.

[Robbie Loving]

Originally posted by Swan_Vesta

Thanks to Sky, or so they claim. So thanks Sky, Thanks for another stupid made up word to be leapt upon by those who are unable to construct a proper sentence.

 

thanks to Soccer AM:heyhey:

[dishwasher]

Wasn't it Iain Dowie (Crystal Palace manager) who coined the word 'bouncebackability' and Soccer AM that took up the cause with an on-line petition?

 

Other new inclusions, so I'm told, include Brand Nazi and Property Porn.

 

Have I been missing something?

[PopT]

When I was a kid in Sheffield 50 years ago all kids were referred to as 'chavvies'.

 

 

Happy Days!

[Hook]

Originally posted by Swan_Vesta

Thanks to Sky, or so they claim. So thanks Sky, Thanks for another stupid made up word to be leapt upon by those who are unable to construct a proper sentence.

 

You aren't aware that language constantly changes then, and because people invent new words or 'nonce' words it doesn't make them stupid.

 

Pray, tell me what you think of Shakespeare, because he's responsible for a HUGE number of words in our language that he simply invented when he was writing. He made up words to fit his stories and we use them in everyday writing all the time now, was Shakespeare stupid and unable to construct a proper sentence?

 

There's a huge number of reasons why people use a word that isn't in the dictionary and hasn't been codified, and in this case Iain Dowie simply post-modified bounceback to fit his arguement, probably in a moment of passion and it's been used by other people. If they use it, the language has a need for it pure and simple.

 

And as a small correction, there's no such thing as right and wrong in the English Language, there's standard and non-standard, and therefore there can be no sentence that is no properly constructed.

 

ARRRGH! It really drives me crazy!

[bellis]

Originally posted by poppins

Don't think so, although i still don't get it either, or (them).

 

Yuppies are just hard working conservative young people that seem to like GOOD but casual clothes, but are NOT trouble makers in the least.

 

you forgot about wilmot brown he was a right one just ask kathy

[Deavon]

OK, own up. Which one of you wrote

 

this?

[redrobbo]

Not me Deavon. Unsubstantiated garbage. I plead not guilty.

[Deavon]

'course not redrobbo.

 

Although I suspect that anyone who could write:

 

"Once an industrial supercity, now a major contender for sh*thole of the decade."

 

might not be spending much time on the city forum.

 

Makes me laugh though to see how vitriolic someone can be about our fair town.

 

(Speaking of vitriolic... maybe it was 'arrrrrrgh'? )

[Don_Kiddick]

Get hold of a copy of George Orwells 1984 & read the small section on how language was set to 'evolve' in the future,

 

what a scary scary premonition! It's happening to us now.

[THCAyle]

erk,i know its bad on devonshire green but thats about it