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It's useless to try and argue. I had the biscuit/cookie debate with my mates in Cardiff all the time and they couldn't explain why a chocolate chip cookie was a cookie but a tea biscuit was a biscuit. If you're going to be consistent, then a chocolate chip cookie would be a chocolate chip biscuit. But it's not. And they just won't see reason.


But they're entitled to their wrong opinion.
 
Cookies are generally chunkier, and always more chaotic; they have little fissures and hillocks running all over them, a randomised byproduct of the baking process. Biscuits, on the other hand, are generally regular, smooth, or even moulded. Additionally, biscuits are usually smaller than cookies.


To clarify; biscuits are generally eaten with something, like tea. Cookies can be eaten by themselves.


Finally, there's a different feel to the words that is appropriate to their types. "Biscuit" is a more civilised, precise word; "Cookie" is more... well.


COOKIE! OM NOM NOM NOM NOM
 
Fuck English, we're American. :P Simple as that. You expect the world's shittest melting pot to speak a correct language? Wrong you are, gentlemen :P


ALL YOU LANGUAGE ARE BELONG TO US.
 
I shall fetch a Mustang and ride it through every Middlesex town and way!


*revs engine* TO ARMS! *peels out toward Newark*
 
I actually have more respect for her Majesty, Elizabeth II and her grandchildren than for any President of the U.S. I have lived under.  I don't know enough of PM Blair, and what little I know of Prince Charles makes me want to know less.  I'm going to have to have a look-see at the Irish government before I can state any opinions about it.


As far as I'm concerned, I'm on the wrong side of the puddle and am planning on fixing that as soon as I can.  I may have to rework my social skills and change a few prases, but I can deal with that.  Not really sure about that 'beer' thing.  And what's the equivalent of the Society for Creative Anachronism around there?
 
Fuck English, we're American. :P Simple as that. You expect the world's shittest melting pot to speak a correct language? Wrong you are, gentlemen :P
ALL YOU LANGUAGE ARE BELONG TO US.
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Does this mean you speak americanese?
 
Samiel said:
Micheal Martin
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You have trouble spelling Hebrew names, I see. First "Samiel" and now "Micheal".


I think you're an anti-semite.
 
Eh, could be worse. He could just be making new ones up, like say Bobael, Joael, or some such. A letter or two difference isn't too much. Especially for names that didn't originally use the Roman alphabet.
 
Are you saying that making up fake names is WORSE than anti-semitism?


You're obviously an anti-semite yourself.
 
Actually, his name is spelled Micheál Martin, but it's difficult to get the accent in there. The pronounciation is different also, there's no hard "K" sound. Rather, the "Ch" is pronounced as one would say "Chord".


So not really a semetic word, at least not for a few hundred years. In fact, we've virtually no Jewish people in Ireland, the only one I know is a classmate of mine, and she's actually from England.


I'm not sure why, because we never had any historical argument with the Jewish people, they just never ended up here.


But that's pretty O.T... curse you Flagg!
 
Samiel said:
The pronounciation is different also, there's no hard "K" sound. Rather, the "Ch" is pronounced as one would say "Chord".
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Us Americans over in dese parts of the woyld.  We's pronuciate te word 'chord' sames as te word cord.  Wit a hard K sound, as in Kord.
 
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