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    Default Re: Americanisation of Categories

    Quote Originally Posted by MPS16 View Post
    Yes lets call them



    The 1917-1918 war

    and

    The 1941 -1945 war.
    I was once in group with a US speaker who said, "In 1940, before the war". As we were in UK and he was about to talk about Dunkirk....
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    Default Re: Americanisation of Categories

    Quote Originally Posted by 20sent06 View Post
    Nice one!

    Well, I blame Noah Webster for messing up the English 'English' as it is... but hey ho, back to the point: Many of our categories have a definite American bias which suggests that the 'expert' here might hail from that part of the world... typically blind to the rest of the world just like their leader!


    Oh! I wasn't aware this was going to get political. Frankly, if I want to get into all that sort of thing I just slide on over to Facebook. There seems to be no shortage of political bickering over there.

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    Oh! I wasn't aware this was going to get political. Frankly, if I want to get into all that sort of thing I just slide on over to Facebook. There seems to be no shortage of political bickering over there.
    leave em too it, the English still think there better than every one else the empire died 100 years ago , what did they think when they forced there mix of several languages on every one else , english is a mixture of Celt,brethonic , Anglo Saxon, Norman. and who ever else popped over, in another 30 years we will have Asian influences, Americanisation will be the nearest form of so called English left.
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    Oh dear! Doesn't take much to bring things out from the woodwork, does it?

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    Concerning the 12th Century theory mooted earlier: The rulers and nobility spoke French; the Flemish traders had not quite perfected "Anglisch" and it was many centuries before the top brass lowered themselves to speaking any form of it. (this is why so many know that "hound" is English but do not realise that "dog" is French)

    "expert" may be defined as follows - an "ex" is a has-been and a "spurt! is a drip under pressure.....if you remember that, you'll know why things go wrong!


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    Default Re: Americanisation of Categories

    Quote Originally Posted by cambrensis View Post
    Oh dear! Doesn't take much to bring things out from the woodwork, does it?

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    Concerning the 12th Century theory mooted earlier: The rulers and nobility spoke French; the Flemish traders had not quite perfected "Anglisch" and it was many centuries before the top brass lowered themselves to speaking any form of it. (this is why so many know that "hound" is English but do not realise that "dog" is French)

    "expert" may be defined as follows - an "ex" is a has-been and a "spurt! is a drip under pressure.....if you remember that, you'll know why things go wrong!

    cant really see the point in your post but it does confirm what i say ,if you like a in depth study in english of english i could oblige or perhaps youd prefer the medium of welsh, are you rusty in Cymraeg ?the over tones of Latin perhaps, thats the price you pay for forsaking your country for gain,

    "spurt! is a drip under pressure. is that supposed to be funny a play on my shop name you have a good memory not used that for years, any time you want to play just let me know
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    Default Re: Americanisation of Categories

    Quote Originally Posted by 20sent06 View Post
    There seems to be an imbalance of Postcard Subject categories with a certain bias toward 'American' subjects like Cowboy and Roadside America (with endless sub categories) ... err, why? - is there such a big demand for these?

    In the Culture & Ethnicities (which should be just plain Ethnic in my opinion) there are subheadings for Asian, Black Americana, Native Americana and Other... where are all the other ethic groups?

    The subject categories need a big revamp in my opinion...
    Bumping my original thread as it is still valid and had got hijacked on the way... nothing has changed, however!!

    So, how about it eBid grownups - can you 'anglicize' the Post Card categories or not?

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    Default Re: Americanisation of Categories

    Quote Originally Posted by 20sent06 View Post
    Bumping my original thread as it is still valid and had got hijacked on the way... nothing has changed, however!!

    So, how about it eBid grownups - can you 'anglicize' the Post Card categories or not?
    They are not going to... all comments like this are ignored. eBid is still the best place for me to sell and is mostly ok but the interaction of the past is gone.
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    Default Re: Americanisation of Categories

    Quote Originally Posted by madelaine View Post
    They are not going to... all comments like this are ignored. eBid is still the best place for me to sell and is mostly ok but the interaction of the past is gone.
    Agree with you totally - yes, I too suffer it well!

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    Default Re: Americanisation of Categories

    hello new member so whats the topic americana?

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    Default Re: Americanisation of Categories

    Hi, welcome to eBid. Hope this focus on Americanization of post card categories does not turn you off from using the forums. The forums themselves seem to be quite UK centric for an international site. In general, bantering aside, eBid has a pretty good group of users (buyers & sellers).

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