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noewhan
03-09-2009, 05:33 AM
Does anybody else here really dislike the crap nature of the English language?
Wtf? Can't we evolve our words? Why have a silent K in knife?
(Screw it, from now on I'm spelling NIFE. Who gives 2 rats about the K?)
I'm sick to death of spelling mistakes. And I always seem to create one. I get even more sick when some pedantic old-English prat goes on about spelling.
So many people died for this crap language. It's become a confusing, contradicting, up itself language.
Korean makes more sense!
ex_anser_ovo
03-09-2009, 06:51 AM
It is one of the most difficult languages to learn.
Also, it wasn't really designed to convey the proper context necessary to get a point across. So many arguments result from the fact that one can only assume what the other means by what they are saying.
ajafrv247
03-09-2009, 03:08 PM
ah,my old sparring partner noewhan.
noewhan
04-09-2009, 06:03 AM
Also, it wasn't really designed to convey the proper context necessary to get a point across.
Oh my. Even our language is a lie (kinda).
ex_anser_ovo
04-09-2009, 07:49 AM
I just think the English language tries to do too much with as few sounds as possible.
And it backfires.
Sometimes when I look up a word, it has tons of subtly different meanings depending on where it is used. And you have to use other words to give that word the right context. But those other words have tons of uses as well.
And many of all these words sound exactly alike, but mean totally different things. :confused:
martg
04-09-2009, 02:37 PM
Does anybody else here really dislike the crap nature of the English language?
Wtf? Can't we evolve our words? Why have a silent K in knife?
(Screw it, from now on I'm spelling NIFE. Who gives 2 rats about the K?)
I'm sick to death of spelling mistakes. And I always seem to create one. I get even more sick when some pedantic old-English prat goes on about spelling.
So many people died for this crap language. It's become a confusing, contradicting, up itself language.
Korean makes more sense!
Be careful, you will attract the grammar nazis that roam the internet looking for prey :p
truth finder
04-09-2009, 02:41 PM
Be careful, you will attract the grammar nazis that roam the internet looking for prey :p
So true, they will read a 1000 word post and in there reply say nice post but i think u will find u spelt abnormality wron...lol
Be careful, you will attract the grammar nazis that roam the internet looking for prey :p
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truth finder
04-09-2009, 02:49 PM
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armoured_amazon
04-09-2009, 02:56 PM
I love the English language, especially in literature.
curtaincat
07-09-2009, 01:53 PM
EUROENGLISH - OFFICIAL LANGUAGE OF EUROPE
The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of Europe, rather than German, which was the other possibilty. As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5-year phase-in plan that would be known as "EuroEnglish":
In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favor of the "k". This should klear up konfusion and keyboards kan have one less letter. There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with " f ". This will make words like "fotograf" 20% shorter.
In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of the silent "e"s in the language is disgraseful, and they should go away.
By the 4th yar, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with"z" and "w" with "y". During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaing "ou" and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leteres. After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no more trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech ozer.
Ze drem of a united urop vil finalii kum tru.
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ps, i know this has been around for at least 5 years, but i still find it funny !!!