English Language Sucks
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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.
------------------------------------ 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[^]
Er..yes and no Banana, if it followed "regular" English rules would be pronounced Baenaenah instead of Bahnahnah
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." - John Quincy Adams
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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.
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It's a subject, not a title. :P
cheers, Paul M. Watson.
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It's a subject, not a title. :P
cheers, Paul M. Watson.
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Actually it is prescriptive. The input is labelled "Subject:". *ducks*
cheers, Paul M. Watson.
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At least they don't write "travveled" :)
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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Actually it is prescriptive. The input is labelled "Subject:". *ducks*
cheers, Paul M. Watson.
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Dalek Dave wrote:
bastardised and almost incoherent variation of English
You've been to the southern US, then... :)
I wasn't, now I am, then I won't be anymore.
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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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Er..yes and no Banana, if it followed "regular" English rules would be pronounced Baenaenah instead of Bahnahnah
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." - John Quincy Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering” - Wernher von Braun -
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."
Repeat after me: "c, p, t changes to g, b, d; d, b, g changes to double-d, f, dim". I still remember that from more than 50 years ago. But I never knew why Ceri Ellis didn't start with t, p, c. Weird innit?
I must get a clever new signature for 2011.
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Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:
British English
Or, to give it it's correct name, English. The clue is in the name. English comes from England. Any other variation should be prefixed, US English, Australian English, etc. But English is 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[^]
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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[^]
" In American English, the rule is that a single final consonant preceded by a single vowel in a two-syllable word is doubled only if the stress falls on the second syllable - hence, "traveled," "marveled," and "canceled" but "forbidden," "deferred," and "referred." There is at least one exception: "kidnaped" can be spelled "kidnapped" because "kidnaped" looks as though the "a" should be pronounced long." BE: jewel, jeweller, jewelled, jewellery AE: jewel, jeweler, jeweled, jewelry (Stolen from websites yapping about spelling.) BE/AE differences can be fun. Saw some comments on a news article on an American website where the posters were chiding the author because of spelling errors. To me, it looked like the author was either British or the spellcheck was set to BE, not the author was illiterate. :laugh:
There is water at the bottom of the ocean. My Mu[sic] My Films My Windows Programs, etc.
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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."
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I had an unending argument with my English teacher, for three years, that it should be a hotel unless we pronounce it 'otel. She insisted it was the way is is because that's how it should be.
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What, like: canal, Panama, manatee, sanatorium, tanager ...
I must get a clever new signature for 2011.
yep
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." - John Quincy Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering” - Wernher von Braun
