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[challenge entry] English


...is basically Esperanto, but with all the incomprehensible mumbo jumbo taken out, therefore a universal language.

From the The British Empire Strikes Back challenge. See all 91 entries (closed)

(, Thu 10 Jan 2013, 13:31, archived)
# you lose points for not mentioning tiffin
to say nothing of pimms
(, Thu 10 Jan 2013, 13:40, archived)
#
Do you want me to do the food & drink page too?
(, Thu 10 Jan 2013, 13:43, archived)
# indubitably
devilled kidneys and kedgeree definitely deserve a mention
(, Thu 10 Jan 2013, 13:44, archived)
# Haha - ace
"damnable heathens"!
(, Thu 10 Jan 2013, 14:12, archived)
# they don't like it up 'em
(, Thu 10 Jan 2013, 14:22, archived)
# You forgot the most basic rules though.
1 ENGLISH, slowly and loudly.
2 Shoot a few of 'em for being 'Willfully and persistently forrin'.
3 Teach the survivors to play cricket.
GOD BLESS HER MAJESTY!
HUZZAH!
(, Thu 10 Jan 2013, 14:42, archived)
# Always carry a black umbrella with which to poke Johnny in the chest, should he be a trifle deaf, or slow-witted.
(, Thu 10 Jan 2013, 15:20, archived)
# Also useful for if you tend to forget passwords.
No Hun would ever carry a brolly dontcherknow.
:D
/Major Allison Digby Tatham-Warter
EDIT:
www.pegasusarchive.org/arnhem/tatham_warter.htm
(, Thu 10 Jan 2013, 15:56, archived)
# haha
I have a phrasebook from 1881 that contains the following gems:

"I care little about his colour, provided he has not a bald face"
"Are there any fleas here?"
"I think that soup weakens the stomach, and therefore I never eat it"
"I have just come from Italy with my wife and the Marquis"
(, Thu 10 Jan 2013, 15:15, archived)
# Capital! Simply capital...
(, Thu 10 Jan 2013, 17:33, archived)