[OT] What's happening here in Turkey...

[Richmond]

On 06/09/2013 05:56 PM, Paul Maguire wrote:
> I just deleted an almighty response after remembering that I was to beware the troll.
>
> Instead, I'd like to consider the interesting cultural phenomenon of 'internet gentlemanly language eccentricity'. It's something I am witnessing more an more, every day. The basic gist is that many people seem to be using a heady mixture of Victorian English crossed with medievalism - Doctor Who-style. What I am encountering is lots of expressions like 'methinks', 'jolly good', 'good sir', 'spiffing', 'kind gentleman' etc. etc. It's rife and viral.

Jolly-Hockey-sticks, well spotted old bean.

And what, pray tell, is wrong with a thorough enjoyment of the language 
instead of being dry as a bone?

It's the mode don't ye know?

Wait till the chaps start using sixties and seventies slang such as 
"really mint" and then you can really start complaining.

>
> It runs in parallel with the fashion for beards, brogue shoes, flicky public-school haircuts, tweed, and names that sound like parts of middle England. It's like Monty Python meets Blackadder.

Bl**dy good combination by the sounds of it.

>   And it must be stopped.

And why, forbye?

Do I detect some sort of inverted snobbery going on here. If you think 
that I am going to apologise that I went to a public school you've got
another thing coming.

I went to a public school and, quite frankly, hated most of my time 
there, and was the victim of prolonged sadistic bullying. That didn't
stop me, however, getting a decent education and getting a place at a 
decent University (Durham).

For a start, those "levellers" who feel that chaps and chappesses who 
went to public schools should apologise, roll in the mud, put on some
"amour de bou" fake working-class accent forget that most of us did not 
go to public schools for choice; it was the pater and the mater who
made that decision.

The fact that most Mummies and Daddies who did not send their little 
sprogs to public school was only because they couldn't stump up
the moolah, or the sprogs were too thick to pass a scholarship exam, or 
they suffered from Tony Benn disease is conveniently overlooked.

To which it is time to cry "Top Hole, Old Bean" and make the best of the 
advantages God, one's filthy rich parents or a scholarship gave one!

>
> Clearly not as disturbing as what is happening in Turkey

Not nearly as disturbing.

>   and the responses of certain LC list members methinks.

And what is so disturbing about the responses of certain LC list members?

At least one LC list member seems to be writing as if he is the standard 
bearer of a stuffy, boring constitutional monarchy
and is afraid of letting his mind wander to the increasing disadvantages 
of living in a surveillance society.

Complacency is our worst enemy.

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