From Now On I Will Call my Email "Boy"

[steepholm]

Well, there we have it. The King's English (1931) is proof that the BBC really did have a sinister plot to make everyone speak English like... well, the BBC. Luckily, in a past designed by Heath Robinson it was never going to work.

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All of British Pathe's films are now apparently available on Youtube, which may turn out to be a time sink deeper than did ever plummet sound. Reel 2 doesn't seem to be included, however, so we'll never know whether the Frenchman was convinced.

Comments

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

I work in a newsroom. It seems very clear to me that things started going downhill when they did away with the boys, the tea-ladies and the contraptions for whizzing paper round the room. (In fact, I've seen a documentary film of my office from the 50s, and they had the whizzy things. We have to carry our own paper now, it's very sad.)

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

We have to carry our own paper now, it's very sad.

That is sad! What are unpaid interns for?

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

Good point! Getting on this first thing Monday morning.