bleedin pony, innit?
We all know that English is going to wrack and ruin, and that the road to its destruction was paved by descriptivist linguists and skulking lexicographers. And the media are doing their part preaching to choir:
It had four wheels and cost a lot of money but, sadly for one impatient teenager, the similarity ended there.
A teenager was greeted by a display cabinet instead of a taxi because her Ali G-style slang confused a series of phone operators.
The girl hurriedly dialled directory inquiries to book a taxi from her home in London to Bristol airport, using the cockney rhyming slang Joe Baxi.
Yesterday when the “story” broke, there were along a score or so of ghits. Today, we’re up to 2,670 ghits. More blogging and bloviating. But there is some debunking is going on, too, at Five Chinese Crackers (link), Obsolete (link), and Chimp Media Monitor (link) blogs. A likely origin seems to be a press release (link).
posted by zmjezhd at
9:05 AM
2 Comments:
I find it incredible that anyone would believe this story.
Thanks for the story and the links. I had never heard "churnalist" before, but it is so wonderfully apt and descriptive that I will definitely be using it often.
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