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While I'd hesitate to cast nasturtiums on the Chantywrastlers' intelligence I really can't see how they could have failed to understand post 111.

Or, conversely, how they could possibly have understood more than a few words of post 112.

Go look for yourself.
(And if you should happen to feel the need to yikes it you'll make an owd soak verra happy)

Which thread, Tefkat?

This one Mark.

So does that mean if I use words like "deipnosophist" or "antediluvian" my post will be removed?

http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=fash

bleth·er Pronunciation Key (blthr)
v. & n.
Variant of blather.

http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=blather

Got it.

A good example of two different Moderators making different decisions, which is exactly what you're going to get when you post up stuff that isn't obviously undrstandable by someone who's ploughing through thousands of these things at 4am trying to earn enough money to see them through their PhD. Look at it from their point of view!

Like I said, we're going to guarantee inconsistency unless you force us to make the rules consistent, but the latter will inevitably mean more censorship. This is a great example of that inconsistency in operation - thanks for bringing it up.

Hi Tefkat,

You'll probably be fine with those, all of the moderators are graduates after all. They're just not necessarily graduates of languages and dialects.

One was just wond'rin, Canny Hinny, as a puir aad non-graduate, in what way one hed managed tae "Contravene t'Hoose Rools" lyek?

could you at least tell the mods that links to non-english sites within the BBC are ok ?

That's not English, Tefkat. The words aren't the English dictionary. That's how.

Isn't that obvious?

"could you at least tell the mods that links to non-english sites within the BBC are ok ?"

Yeah, sure. Which post is wrong? I think the policy changes over the weekend may have confused things a bit, and an example would be handy to use as a pointer.

isn't there an easier way of getting straight to the new stuff without bookmarking after every read?

Which English Dictionary aren't they in?

Ben

Yeah, use the POPUPCONVERSATIONS tag (see <./>GuideML-POPUPCONVERSATIONS</.&gt though this only works over individual sessions. Nice tool if you can leave your machine on, though (ie at work...).

Bookmarks are in the to-do list, though.

Look, I was bought up to speak The Queen's English. As far as I'm concerned Cockney's a furrin langwidge. But that's the point. You're banning all non-English languages - even British ones. But you can't ban English words THAT ARE IN ENGLISH DICTIONARIES just because yon graduates haven't heard them before.

And you're gonna penalise people for poor spelling?
Isn't that elitist?
Someone brought this up before but it bears repeating: What about dyslexics? I'm dyslexic myself, as are 4 of my 5 kids and even so I've sometimes found it hard to decipher parts of some researchers' posts.
And is there no place on this site for the great unwashed - who weren't privileged enuf to receive as thorough a grounding in the English language as the mods?

Ack!

"Which English Dictionary aren't they in?"

Well, 'aad' isn't in the concise OED, and nor is 'puir'. Are we talking about the same Posting? (I was talking about 369, just for convenience.) So technically 369 isn't in English, it's in some strange phonetic equivalent, in the same way that semaphore isn't English, even when spelling English words.

I don't have a colloquial phoetic dictionary - do you?

>> That's not English, Tefkat. The words aren't the English dictionary. That's how <<

Err Mark. Hello? Post 366. Dictionary.com quote their sources as being English dictionaries.
Those were the only two words I used that a Londoner might no understand. The others were merely miss-spellings, the meaning of which would have been obvious if read out loud by anyone with more than two brain-cells to rub together.

I've not got time to go through thr backlog but here are some examples of Non-English BBC sites

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cymru/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/arabic/news/

Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases (ISBN 0 85983 103 5) is an English dictionary.....