Just been reading an Utrecht forum. Most are pretty happy, think he had great potential and would've happily taken him two years ago. Seem to appreciate he has stalled in his career and that he's a fairly low-risk signing as he came for free. Most seem to be saying, satisfied. Good reinforcement and if he can recapture his De Graafschap form, a great free transfer. One says they're not satisfied, because although SDR should be Van Der Gun's replacement, he is unsure of him. Says that two years ago he looked alright, but he was poor in England and now is a gamble.
Lighten up? Is there supposed to be something light hearted about getting tattoos done? Of course these guys can do what they want. I just think they do it to 'fit in' to the footballer mould.
Well I think getting tattoos is fun! Having a person create a piece of art specifically for you is great! Not sure about the 'footballer mold' (aside, I just found out that both spellings are acceptable for both that and the fungus, God our language is weird) as among the footballer age group (16-40) about a third of the population now have at least one. Being a football player doesn't really have anything to do with it, more just being a man of a certain age.
The dutch language had a huge overhaul in fairly recent history, changing the spellings of many words and altering confusing grammar structures. I would love our broken, rickety-ass language to get the same treatment.
Not really the same, that was an offshoot from migration, whereas in Dutch (and in Arabic actually) there was an organised period of standardisation.
Trouble with that is that our language is made up from most of the other European languages anyway so would be too difficult to do. Add to that the yanks doing their best to turn our language into nothing but slang as well as doing their best to down grade our spelling to suite their less intelligent people doesn't help. (Now that is a controversial statement if ever there was one but just remember it is an opinion not necessarily a fact)
Thanks for the disclaimer that such a bigoted statement is just your bigoted opinion rather than an actual fact.
I just fixed that up for you a little. Many words were simplified in spelling in Webster's including the u's taken out of all the French words borrowed into English but conversely many had letters added to their spelling. The alteration of all the French spelling to make the language more accessible to the hundreds of thousands of non-English speaking migrants that needed a standard language to adopt makes perfect sense. As English is a crazy hodge-podge it makes even more sense to standardise some aspects of it. "It's complicated so let's not simplify it" is a really bizarre argument.
Remember the game at home vs Blackpool when he was through on goal in injury time, could've scored, could've squared it, but over-ran the ball and lost it. I wonder if he had scored then whether his Saints career would've been very different....certainly I think people's opinion's of him would have been much higher
"Mold" is not an acceptable alternative in British English: http://grammarist.com/spelling/mold-mould/
One of the beauties of English is how flexible it can be, due to the number of different ways to say essentially the same thing, but in subtly different ways. I have a few French friends who dispair that this makes it difficult to truely grasp, but also believe that in some ways this makes it more beautiful and more expressive than French, which is more rigid. This is a result of the many influences of the English language. Because it has roots in both the latin-based languages and the germanic languages, there are very few word orders, when constructing sentances, that are truely incorrect or incomprehensible. This I like.
I like the variety of languages incorporated into English...lends itself to poetry and literature. As someone said, put words in any order and we could make a stab at understanding it. Couldn't standardise the language anyway as it belongs to the world.
Oh Beddy, you talked about modifying spelling to make it simpler.......with a spelling mistake......now that's either spectacularly clever, or.....umm....rather unfortunate!
