GCSE history hard?

Lol - that's the kind of English everyone should be made to talk

Good grief, no: grandiloquence divests its allure where such wanton gratuity condescends to be the norm; notwithstanding certain, more obvious demerits.

Good grief, no: grandiloquence divests its allure where such wanton gratuity condescends to be the norm; notwithstanding certain, more obvious demerits.

Spurious, but then again I don't teach "kindergarten", so I'll let this one slide.



Good grief, no: grandiloquence divests its allure where such wanton gratuity condescends to be the norm; notwithstanding certain, more obvious demerits.

From what I could deduce:

Extravagant language rids of its charm when such extravagance descends to the be the norm. Despite certain, more obvious inadequacies.

Or, even simpler:

If such excessive language becomes the norm, it's no longer alluring because it won't be "special" anymore. Despite certain, more obvious inadequacies.

I must ask this: isn't the point of learning a language so you can communicate with others?

Isn't the purpose of owning a car the ability to traverse from A to B, albeit faster?

Not necessarily faster, as much as economically cheaper and more efficient than taking care of a horse--or some other form of transportation--and because humans are physically incapable of towing & lugging pounds of baggage everywhere.

Profesh - have you heard of Arthur Quiller-Couch? Look into him - he would have hated your English; he would have understood it, like I do, but also thought you were a pretentious abuser of over-complex vocabularly and sentence structure.

GCSE History is very, very easy. (in my opinion, of course)

Unfortunately, the same cannot be said of its A-Level counterpart (in my opinion, of course; there are reportedly those who actually enjoy the subject).

Aha! So, the humble automobile can serve more than one purpose. Well, now, isn't that a turn up for the books?



Auden: look into my post archive; there you are liable to encounter (manifold) my responses to those individuals who would purport to alter the way in which I communicate, that it might conform to some perceived, wholly subjective 'norm'. The more astute among you will also note their concurrent lack of success.

As many of you appear so keen upon re-iterating, ad nauseam: this is merely "an internet forum". Subject to local jurisdiction, I shall (ab)use it to further my own purposes in whatever way I deem fit; excepting said jurisdiction, however, I owe no obligation to anyone. Feel free to exercise your prerogative, as I have done mine, and ignore; nevertheless, I would have you know that for every individual who takes umbrage at my byzantine verbal conglomerations, there shall be another who commends them in equal measure. Quid pro quo, I see no reason to change.

Now, might we cease with the digression, and for once endeavour to remain on-topic? I would be loathed to invoke the wrath of the moderators in lieu of such (albeit well-intentioned) impertinence.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but, sounding clever is not congruent with being clever (just incase you were in a false-pretense whereby you're omniscient because of your adept verb.reasoning skills). You've shown us your copious vocab - but what you've failed to do, is show that you can adjust your use of language, to accomodate for different audiences. How in God's name is a boy who has just finished his KS3 SATs going to make any sense of what you've been saying, without the aid of a thesaurus? And without trying to sound like a patronising bugger, the simple answer is he won't! So, I put your choice of overtly complex language down to a cry for attention and desire for praise (which you're obviously not getting anywhere else, so you thought that a student forum inhabited majorly with 15-18 year-olds would be the best place for you to achieve this). Instead of being intelligent and communicating with this lad on a level he can understand, thus, being of any help, you decide to "show your worth " as it were, by typing unnecessarily long-winded waffle which no-one really understands... [SARCASM]You're just too brilliant for words, Profesh. [/SARCASM]

Are you incapable of seeing the funny side?

I know you have a problem with snobs etc as you quite clearly made out with your statement about never having heard of Eton before (yeah, right)

as you prefer not to concern yourself with snobs/royalty - I refer you to my post made in answer to that in the Eton Students thread Whizzo