English Language Sucks
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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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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$$ will be laminated. There are 10 kinds of people in the world: People who know binary and people who don't.
We warnt thar long, took the dogs out and got us a couple a critters and drank a little shine. I got a par a shoes from my cousin couple years back but I only war em to church.
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Dalek Dave wrote:
An Hotel
Ahem... It's "A hotel". We pronounce our H's here in the States :)
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in?
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Dalek Dave wrote:
An Hotel
Ahem... It's "A hotel". We pronounce our H's here in the States :)
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in?
Author of the Guardians Saga (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels)We don't say An Hotel in the UK either (unless we want to sound like an outdated, upper-class prat).
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Dalek Dave wrote:
Did you bring back Critters and Varmints?
Yassir. Theys some big varmints in these here parts.. EDIT: Ellie Mae's playin' with her critters down by the cement pond.
WE ARE DYSLEXIC OF BORG. Refutance is systile. Your a$$ 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.
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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!
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Dalek Dave wrote:
Says all those countries in the world that use English as an official language.
but how many say that British English is their official language ?
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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.
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:laugh: :laugh:
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Occur/Occurred Travel/Traveled :sigh:
Then it must suck for you to live in the U.S. since our bastardized language offends you. ;)
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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[^]
Woow! Too many times I've seen announcements in some establishments like :"Se habla español" XD But well, what do they really own that's not imported (and then hybridized and bastardized ;P ) from another country?
"Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--either way, you are right." — Henry Ford
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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.
Tom Delany wrote:
Ellie Mae's playin' with her critters down by the cement pond.
Better her critters then someone else's critters.
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50 lashings for you then off to bed you go. :)
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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[^]
Dalek Dave wrote:
English is not an official language in the USA!
you are right. the official language of the U.S. is Spanglish. It doesn't get any better than that. :laugh:
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Occur/Occurred Travel/Traveled :sigh:
*The* English *l*anguage *s*ucks.
cheers, Paul M. Watson.
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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.
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Er..yes and no Banana, if it followed "regular" English rules would be pronounced Baenaenah instead of Bahnahnah
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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[^]
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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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*The* English *l*anguage *s*ucks.
cheers, Paul M. Watson.
