Brilliant = Awesome

[JackT]

We seem to have enough Polish immigrants in this country now, perhaps another one is "brylant" or some other obscure Eastern European word.

Incidentally, we don't have an alternative word for the Internet, given that a Brit -- Sir Tim Berners-Lee -- was supposed to have invented it (even if he was working in the US for an American firm). He now works at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Sir Tim is nicknamed the "[God] father of the Web". Getonup, like a web machine. ow.

Actually, I think it's more accurate to say he invented the World Wide Web. I could swear he was working for CERN when he did that, but I could just be misremembering.

[Mr. Brian]

Actually, I think it's more accurate to say he invented the World Wide Web. I could swear he was working for CERN when he did that, but I could just be misremembering.

That's what Google is for.

[Fish Hook Girl]

Actually, I think it's more accurate to say he invented the World Wide Web.

I thought that was Al Gore.

[Frank The Bunny]

I thought that was Al Gore.

Well, we sure know it wasn't Ted Stevens

[Mr. Brian]

I thought that was Al Gore.

That thing about Al Gore saying he invented the internet is such an overblown out of context statement perpetuated by blowhards like Rush Limbaugh and the like for political attack purposes. He was just trying to say that as a congressman he helped champion and fund programs that were eventually to become what we now know as the internet. It's been widely debunked yet people still believe he said such a thing.

http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp

Vint Cerf, known as the father of the internet, has defended Gore's awkward statement.

[guitarplayer on here too]

:eek: Wee Jimmy Krankie is not representative of anyone except him/herself. You're not still watching them are you???

He he, a bit of stereotyping there (along with "Tidy". eg Gavin & Stacey). That's the problem with stereotyping. The best one at the moment is the second series of Heroes on BBC2 with Peter Petrelli being discovered in the city of Cork in southern Ireland and meeting dodgy Irish thugs with guns who run a pub. And of course, this is all played out by American actors trying to do really heavy Belfast-type accents.

[tonywojo]

We seem to have enough Polish immigrants in this country now, perhaps another one is "brylant" or some other obscure Eastern European word.

Incidentally, we don't have an alternative word for the Internet, given that a Brit -- Sir Tim Berners-Lee -- was supposed to have invented it (even if he was working in the US for an American firm). He now works at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Sir Tim is nicknamed the "[God] father of the Web". Getonup, like a web machine. ow.

Bardze bardze dobze!

[moondance]

No one worth knowing says "brill".

PS Were you also taught to punctuate like the rest of the world?

I have heard Mac say it! So there!

Linguistically yours.

[Kounelaki]

I have heard Mac say it!

How can you be sure?

[kook]

:eek: Wee Jimmy Krankie is not representative of anyone except him/herself. You're not still watching them are you???

I was waiting for that.

[kook]

He he, a bit of stereotyping there (along with "Tidy". eg Gavin & Stacey). That's the problem with stereotyping. The best one at the moment is the second series of Heroes on BBC2 with Peter Petrelli being discovered in the city of Cork in southern Ireland and meeting dodgy Irish thugs with guns who run a pub. And of course, this is all played out by American actors trying to do really heavy Belfast-type accents.

Most Irish people can't do a Cork accent.

[kook]

"Awesome" is far more annoying.

True. I once heard someone talk about an awesome sandwich FFS.

[moondance]

How can you be sure?

He wasn't mumbling and I could understand him completely. I think he was talking to an American. He speaks more clearly when he knows he's talking to someone who doesn't understand English!

[Kounelaki]

He wasn't mumbling and I could understand him completely. I think he was talking to an American. He speaks more clearly when he knows he's talking to someone who doesn't understand English!

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