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  • C. F. Leon
    Detective
    • May 2012
    • 399

    #766
    Originally posted by Tani View Post
    People who cannot read and then cannot hold conversations with people on the internet.

    Reading comprehension is down so low it's baffling how anyone understands anything anymore.
    I don't know how it is in the UK, but public schools are much more concerned with pushing their political or social agendas nowadays than actually EDUCATING the students. Critical Thinking especially is completely ignored, as is Basic English, Math, Philosophy and Science.

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    • Herlock Sholmes
      Commissioner
      • May 2017
      • 23397

      #767
      My apologies to the USA but….why do the Police refer to dogs as canines?
      Herlock Sholmes

      ”I don’t know who Jack the Ripper was…and neither do you.”

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      • Pcdunn
        Superintendent
        • Dec 2014
        • 2347

        #768
        Originally posted by Herlock Sholmes View Post
        My apologies to the USA but….why do the Police refer to dogs as canines?
        Same reason they call women "females"??
        Pat D. https://forum.casebook.org/core/imag...rt/reading.gif
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        Von Konigswald: Jack the Ripper plays shuffleboard. -- Happy Birthday, Wanda June by Kurt Vonnegut, c.1970.
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        • Kunochan
          Cadet
          • Nov 2023
          • 42

          #769
          Originally posted by Herlock Sholmes View Post
          My apologies to the USA but….why do the Police refer to dogs as canines?
          I've always been fascinated with the weird, formal, stilted, polysyllabic English that American cops are trained to speak. I think they think it gives them an air of authority. It just makes them sound foolish.
          Kunochan
          Too Soon: An Irreverent Jack the Ripper Blog

          "The Jack the Ripper murders were not committed by Jack the Ripper, but by another gentleman of the same name."

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          • Doctored Whatsit
            Sergeant
            • May 2021
            • 848

            #770
            And cars are vehicles

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            • Ms Diddles
              Chief Inspector
              • Aug 2019
              • 1767

              #771
              Originally posted by Doctored Whatsit View Post
              And cars are vehicles
              With a strongly pronounced "H".

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              • Doctored Whatsit
                Sergeant
                • May 2021
                • 848

                #772
                Originally posted by Ms Diddles View Post

                With a strongly pronounced "H".
                Yes, vee -hickles.

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                • c.d.
                  Commissioner
                  • Feb 2008
                  • 6767

                  #773
                  Originally posted by Kunochan View Post

                  I've always been fascinated with the weird, formal, stilted, polysyllabic English that American cops are trained to speak. I think they think it gives them an air of authority. It just makes them sound foolish.
                  I don't know if I would say foolish exactly. It does seem affected and rather than foolish it makes them seem cold and impersonal and lacking human emotions and empathy so as to make it seem they are immune and above it all.

                  c.d.

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                  • Kunochan
                    Cadet
                    • Nov 2023
                    • 42

                    #774
                    Originally posted by c.d. View Post

                    I don't know if I would say foolish exactly. It does seem affected and rather than foolish it makes them seem cold and impersonal and lacking human emotions and empathy so as to make it seem they are immune and above it all.

                    c.d.
                    Yes, I like your characterization better.
                    Kunochan
                    Too Soon: An Irreverent Jack the Ripper Blog

                    "The Jack the Ripper murders were not committed by Jack the Ripper, but by another gentleman of the same name."

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