English Language Sucks
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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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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!
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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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" 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:
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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 -
Tom Delany wrote:
Ellie Mae's playin' with her critters down by the cement pond.
Back in the day I wouldn't mind playin' with Ellie May's critters any ol' place! :-D
Joe Simes wrote:
Back in the day I wouldn't mind playin' with Ellie May's critters any ol' place!
Yeah. Too bad she did not age very well (unlike us of course :-\ )...
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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Hardly surprising though seeing as how the only point of Welsh as a language is to annoy and confuse the English. Something it is very good at.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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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.
Or why Tacsi (Taxi) isn't pronounced with a "j" on the end, like Siapan (Japan) (Don't tell anyone, but I think all the Welsh spelling was done by a six-year-old) :laugh:
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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moon_stick wrote:
Isn't it one of those words where it can be spelt both ways like cancelled / canceled?
Yes, but again it's Cancelled in British English. The US variation has one less L.
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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Occur/Occurred Travel/Traveled :sigh:
All languages have their quirks. Try conjugating many verbs in Spanish (there's a reason that have reference books for this. Then there is the whole 'b', 'v' thing.)
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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[^]
The rule I was taught in school was that, if a word ends in a single consonant and is to be be modified by adding 'ed' or 'ing', the consonant is doubled. In recent years I've found this rule to be ignored by humans and machines alike. For shame... :sigh:
Will Rogers never met me.
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Occur/Occurred Travel/Traveled :sigh:
Next, try German.
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