English Language Sucks
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True - Nobody's perfect... :sigh:
Beidh ceol, caint agus craic againn - Seán Bán Breathnach
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Don't tell my folks I'm a computer programmer - They think I'm a piano player in a cat house...
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Da mihi sis crustum Etruscum cum omnibus in eo!
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Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects - Will Rogers, 1924 -
Indeed, but English is the standard, and many foreign words have been absorbed into it. However, the pronunciation, treatment and usage is idiomatically English.
------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] Trolls[^]
Dalek Dave wrote:
Indeed, but English is the standard
says who?
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We don't have a problem here in the Southern U.S. We got in the Pick-up and went Over Yonder but we're back now.
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www.jaxcoder.com[^] WinHeist - Windows Electronic Inventory SysTemMike Hankey wrote:
We got in the Pick-up and went Over Yonder but we're back now
Was that y'all over that a way? I woulda hollered at ya, but I reckon I didn't know it was y'all since y'all had yer shoes on and all.
WE ARE DYSLEXIC OF BORG. Refutance is systile. Your a$$ will be laminated. There are 10 kinds of people in the world: People who know binary and people who don't.
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If you think that's bad (and it is after all only an Americanism) try Welsh: the first letter of the word changes depending on the ending of the previous word in order to make it sound better. And be a lot harder to look up in any dictionary...
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
Initial mutations make Celtic languages entertaining!
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The same in "normal" English (a/an)... (Or rather the other way around)
Beidh ceol, caint agus craic againn - Seán Bán Breathnach
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Don't tell my folks I'm a computer programmer - They think I'm a piano player in a cat house...
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Da mihi sis crustum Etruscum cum omnibus in eo!
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Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects - Will Rogers, 1924Cymru : Wales Croeso i Gymru : Welcome to Wales. It's more like saying "A Gelephant" rather than "An Elephant". "Elephant" you could still look up in a English dictionary... You won't find "Gymru" in any Welsh dictionary, just Cymru and then it's mutations, including Gymru!
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
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Er...no. In English it is Travelled. Some foreigners, who speak a hybridised, bastardised and almost incoherent variation of English, do tend to mispell words, but the English, whose language it is, would never spell travelled with one L! Hope that helps.
------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] Trolls[^]
Dalek Dave wrote:
who speak a hybridised, bastardised hybridized, bastardized
FTFY
WE ARE DYSLEXIC OF BORG. Refutance is systile. Your a$$ will be laminated. There are 10 kinds of people in the world: People who know binary and people who don't.
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Mike Hankey wrote:
We got in the Pick-up and went Over Yonder but we're back now
Was that y'all over that a way? I woulda hollered at ya, but I reckon I didn't know it was y'all since y'all had yer shoes on and all.
WE ARE DYSLEXIC OF BORG. Refutance is systile. Your a$$ will be laminated. There are 10 kinds of people in the world: People who know binary and people who don't.
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Mike Hankey wrote:
We got in the Pick-up and went Over Yonder but we're back now
Was that y'all over that a way? I woulda hollered at ya, but I reckon I didn't know it was y'all since y'all had yer shoes on and all.
WE ARE DYSLEXIC OF BORG. Refutance is systile. Your a$$ will be laminated. There are 10 kinds of people in the world: People who know binary and people who don't.
don't need shoes to mosie...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997 -
Occur/Occurred Travel/Traveled :sigh:
I think this thread has gotten out of hand.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997 -
Dalek Dave wrote:
Indeed, but English is the standard
says who?
Says all those countries in the world that use English as an official language. Although, to be fair, English is not an official language in the USA!
------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] Trolls[^]
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I think this thread has gotten out of hand.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997 -
Mike Hankey wrote:
We got in the Pick-up and went Over Yonder but we're back now
Was that y'all over that a way? I woulda hollered at ya, but I reckon I didn't know it was y'all since y'all had yer shoes on and all.
WE ARE DYSLEXIC OF BORG. Refutance is systile. Your a$$ will be laminated. There are 10 kinds of people in the world: People who know binary and people who don't.
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Dalek Dave wrote:
A European
That's because European is pronounced with an initial "Yer" sound. If it was pronounced with an initial vowel instead of a Y it'd be An European. The spelling hasn't kept pace with the pronunciation.
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Cymru : Wales Croeso i Gymru : Welcome to Wales. It's more like saying "A Gelephant" rather than "An Elephant". "Elephant" you could still look up in a English dictionary... You won't find "Gymru" in any Welsh dictionary, just Cymru and then it's mutations, including Gymru!
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
I didn't mean it works in exactly the same way - just that the basic idea is the same and thus not unique for Welsh (Loved her movies by the way :) ). But I get your point... ;)
Beidh ceol, caint agus craic againn - Seán Bán Breathnach
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Don't tell my folks I'm a computer programmer - They think I'm a piano player in a cat house...
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Da mihi sis crustum Etruscum cum omnibus in eo!
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Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects - Will Rogers, 1924 -
Mike Hankey wrote:
We got in the Pick-up and went Over Yonder but we're back now
Was that y'all over that a way? I woulda hollered at ya, but I reckon I didn't know it was y'all since y'all had yer shoes on and all.
WE ARE DYSLEXIC OF BORG. Refutance is systile. Your a$$ will be laminated. There are 10 kinds of people in the world: People who know binary and people who don't.
We warnt thar long, took the dogs out and got us a couple a critters and drank a little shine. I got a par a shoes from my cousin couple years back but I only war em to church.
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www.jaxcoder.com[^] WinHeist - Windows Electronic Inventory SysTem -
Dalek Dave wrote:
An Hotel
Ahem... It's "A hotel". We pronounce our H's here in the States :)
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in?
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Dalek Dave wrote:
An Hotel
Ahem... It's "A hotel". We pronounce our H's here in the States :)
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in?
Author of the Guardians Saga (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels)We don't say An Hotel in the UK either (unless we want to sound like an outdated, upper-class prat).
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Dalek Dave wrote:
Did you bring back Critters and Varmints?
Yassir. Theys some big varmints in these here parts.. EDIT: Ellie Mae's playin' with her critters down by the cement pond.
WE ARE DYSLEXIC OF BORG. Refutance is systile. Your a$$ will be laminated. There are 10 kinds of people in the world: People who know binary and people who don't.
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Occur/Occurred Travel/Traveled :sigh:
The rule that I remember from early grade school is that the final consonant is doubled if the word is longer than three letters and ends with consonant, vowel consonant. So as Dave pointed out, travel -> travelled. The few exceptions I can think of involve a final y, which is not considered a consonant for the purpose of this rule.
